Radiation therapy has been proven effective for the treatment of cancer, but its side effects can be severe depending on the patient and the location of the tumor.
Andrew Bass, professor of neurobiology and behavior, has been named Senior Associate Dean overseeing math and sciences for the College of Arts & Sciences. He will assume the role on Jan. 1, when the term ends of Barbara Baird, Horace White Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Four Arts & Sciences students are part of the delegation of faculty, staff and students attending the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) this week in Bonn, Germany.
Faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences are exploring questions about recent events in their research and scholarship, and students have the opportunity to engage with their expertise through numerous courses this Spring relevant to our current national climate.
Roger Moseley, associate professor of music, has been presented with the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society (AMS) for his 2016 book “Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo.”
On Nov. 17, the Cornell Astronomical Society and Department of Astronomy invite the community to celebrate Fuertes’ centennial. “A Century of Observing at Fuertes” features Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy, and Mike Roman BS ’06, PhD ’15 reflecting on the observatory’s history and its long-term impact. The talk will be held at 7:30 pm in the Appel Service Center, across from Fuertes Observatory, and is free.
This week, junior Jady looks back at her time at Cornell thus far, and shares how she was able to make the vast campus her own through classes, clubs, and friends. By Jady Wei '19, Economics and Government double major, Law & Society minor
Professor Gerard Aching encouraged students to think of the ways that empathy (or the lack of it) has impacted people’s actions throughout history and affects our individual actions toward others during a Bethe Ansatz talk Nov. 1.
