Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and a 2014 winner of the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for achievement in science and engineering, died April 23 in Ithaca. He was 91.
In 1893 in Franklin Hall (now Olive Tjaden Hall), the Physical Review debuted as the inaugural publication of the American Physical Society (APS). The APS is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Physical Review and has selected 50 “milestone” research papers spanning a wide range of important results. Fittingly, a few of those papers feature Cornell researchers.
How can we speak from the vantage of animals, vapors, cells, corporate or collective persons? What resources might writers of lyric poems and novels have to imagine alternative perspectives?On May 2, associate professors of English Joanie Mackowski and Elisha Cohn will explore how to write beyond the human at “In a Word.” The conversation, at 4:30 p.m. in G70 Klarman Hall, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.
Patrick LynchPhysicsCollege Station, TXWhy did you choose Cornell?When I started college, I had no idea which major I wanted to study. Cornell offered a wide breadth of studies and didn't make me commit until I was a sophomore. This was good for me, since I arrived at Cornell interested in the liberal arts but graduated with a degree in physics.
Jose Armando Fernandez GuerreroLinguistics & Anthropology & College ScholarTijuana, Baja California, MexicoWhat Cornell memory do you treasure the most?
