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Cornell Library

Library ‘portal’ to connect campus with people worldwide

Cornell Chronicle

Inside the high-tech portal, which is made from a shipping container, users will come face-to-face with someone in a different portal elsewhere.

Cornell Library

Cornell Press finds new home at Cornell Library

Cornell Chronicle

Starting Jan. 1, 2018, Cornell University Press will report to Cornell University Library.“We look forward to working closely with the first university press in the nation,” said Gerald Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian. “Both the library and the press share a similar vision to promote a culture of broad inquiry and support the university’s mission to discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge and creative expression.”

Physics

Newly developed techniques shed light on key protein’s regulatory ability

Cornell Chronicle

Fundamental processes that occur along strands of DNA, including RNA transcription and DNA replication, commonly encounter obstacles – or “roadblocks” – that can impede progress and ultimately result in mutations and/or DNA damage.

Music

Andy Sheng ’20 wins Cornell Concerto Competition

Cornell Chronicle

Pianist Andy Sheng ’20 is the winner of the 14th annual Cornell Concerto Competition, held Dec. 10 in Barnes Hall Auditorium. He performed the first movement of Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 and will perform the piece as a featured soloist with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra in a concert March 11, 2018, in Bailey Hall.

Alumni

Alumnus helps celebrities navigate the spotlight

A&S Communications

Alum Sam Naimi '17, who double majored in feminist, gender, & sexuality studies, and English literature, talks about his experience working full time in the entertainment industry.

Astronomy

Online exhibit celebrates Golden Record and supports scientific discovery

A&S Communications

A new online, interactive exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of NASA’s Voyager spacecrafts’ Golden Records is raising funds for three organizations, one of them Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute (CSI). “A Message from Earth” represents a “collage of the contemporary human condition,” according to exhibit organizer WeTransfer’s press release.

Psychology

Intriguing Human Behavior

Cornell Research

Imagine you are watching an NBA basketball game, and you are asked to bet on the outcome of the game. Are you likely to put your money on the team with the player who appears to be unstoppable- the one who just made his last three shots and is just about to shoot again? What if that same player goes for the shot and misses, but the referee mistakenly calls a foul when there was none and allows the player a free throw. Would you expect the player to make the shot?

Matthew Church
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

How a Theorist Thinks

Cornell Research

Matthew Church, a PhD student in chemistry and chemical biology, confesses in this Cornell Research story that he came to Cornell because he fell 

History

It was the Year, 1774

Cornell Research

"While other historical works on the revolution tend to skip over the year 1774," says Mary Beth Norton, "noboday has ever paused to look seriously at the events of the year 1774, to see how the American population, which previously has been quite united in opposition to Britain, divides over various issues."

Neurobiology & Behavior

eLab students pitch business ideas at NYC event

Cornell Chronicle

At this year’s eLab Pitch Night in New York City, 14 teams comprising 50 Cornell eLab students pitched their entrepreneurial ideas in hopes of securing mentors, advisers and supporters for their teams. The event, held Dec. 1 at Wilmer Hale’s World Trade Center offices, gathered Cornell students, alumni and those with an interest in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Science & Technology Studies

Doctoral student works to empower NYC high schoolers

A&S Communications

Each Wednesday Ellen Abrams, a Ph.D candidate in science & technology studies, leads a class of high school students in New York City through workshops and discussions about writing, history and current events, as she works to introduce them to the landscape of higher education.

Oxford, England: Cultivating Knowledge for the Sake of Knowledge

This week, senior Arlinda takes us to England, where she was able to expand her study of philosophy through courses and professors at the University of Oxford. By Arlinda Shehu '18, Philosophy and Psychology double major

Humanities

PMA professor pens new holiday tradition

Performing & Media Arts

When Michael Barakiva, artistic director of Ithaca’s Hangar Theatre, decided to bring Charles Dickens’ classic novella A Christmas Carol to the stage, he turned to Aoise Stratford.

International research

Einaudi Center announces grant recipients

Cornell Chronicle

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded five seed grants and four small grants to Cornell faculty members to support their international research. Recipients come from seven departments in six Cornell colleges.Seed grant recipients

Neurobiology & Behavior

Study: Bigger honeybee colonies have quieter combs

Cornell Chronicle

When honeybee colonies get larger, common sense suggests it would be noisier with more bees buzzing around.But a study recently published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiologyreports that bigger honeybee colonies actually have quieter combs than smaller ones.