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Visualization of enhanced catalytic activity
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

First-ever visualization of enhanced catalytic activity reported

Cornell Chronicle

Just as two heads are better than one when trying to solve a problem, two metals are better than one when trying to catalyze a chemical reaction.

Frank Drake with astronomy students
Astronomy

Pioneer in the search for ET looks back, ahead in talk

A&S Communications

As director of the Arecibo Observatory, Frank Drake sent the first message to extraterrestrials using radio waves in 1974.

College Scholar Program

College Scholar studies connection between sound and nature

A&S Communications

Joshua Sadinsky '19 combines the passion and tenacity of a concert pianist with a heady love for nature.

History & English

Historian offers lessons from antiquity for today’s democracy

A&S Communications

"Dignity beats demagoguery, humility is nobler than arrogance, building bridges is better than building walls.”

Latina/o Studies Program

Students, faculty, staff celebrate at 25th Latino Unity Dinner

A&S Communications

"We are stronger together as a single community."

Education Innovation

Teach Better podcast spotlights education innovation

Cornell Chronicle

The economics department is transforming its undergraduate curriculum with help from an Active Learning Initiative grant.

Education Innovation

Education innovator advocates for transdisciplinary ‘StudioLab’

A&S Communications

In a new transdisciplinary pedagogy that encourages active learning, McKenzie has combined the kinds of conceptual, aesthetic, and technical learning found in seminar, studio, and lab spaces into an approach he calls “StudioLab.”

Poster for Criminalizing Immigrants conference
Center for the Study of Inequality

Conference explores impacts of the criminalization of immigration

A&S Communications

Today, 245 million people live outside of the countries where they were born, many escaping economic conditions, political suppression, or wars. But despite their circumstances, many are unwelcome in their new countries.

Government

When the wise men failed

New York Times

A government professor reflects on an important 1967 meeting between President Lyndon B. Johnson and some of his most trusted foreign policy advisers.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Postdoc receives NIH Pathway to Independence award

A&S Communications

Vikram Gadagkar MS ’10, PhD ‘13 was recently awarded a prestigious five-year Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Education Innovation

Class creates app highlighting Underground Railroad sites

Ithaca and the surrounding area are full of sites that are important to the history of the Underground Railroad.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

An iodabenzene story

How can a theoretical chemist tell us something about what it means to be human?

Performing & Media Arts

Syrian political satire premieres at Cornell

A&S Communications

"Hamlet Wakes Up Late," a biting political satire of Shakespeare's tragedy by renowned Syrian poet and playwright Mamduh Adwan, will have its English-language premiere this month at the Schwartz Center. The production, translated by Margaret Litvin and directed by Rebekah Maggor, assistant professor in the Department of Performing & Media Arts, will feature original music, dancing, action-packed scenes, humor and extravagant costumes. Performances are Nov.

Alumni

Alumnus Marvin Carlson honored for lifetime achievements

A&S Communications

Carlson’s reason for coming to Cornell for his doctoral degree reads a little like the storyline from “The Wizard of Oz.”

English

Meet the English major juggling classes and firefighting

A&S Communications

Raymond Bally ‘19, like every other first year student at Cornell, lived on North Campus freshman year. But a month after moving into his freshman dorm, someone handed him a quarter-card about volunteering to be a firefighter in Cayuga Heights.