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Saturn's rings
Astronomy

To keep Saturn’s A ring contained, its moons stand united

Cornell Chronicle

For three decades, astronomers thought that only Saturn’s moon Janus confined the planet’s A ring – the largest and farthest of the visible rings. But after poring over NASA’s Cassini mission data, Cornell astronomers now conclude that the teamwork of seven moons keeps this ring corralled.

Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett standing together in black and white
Media studies

NPR’s “The World According to Sound” comes to Klarman Hall

A&S Communications

Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, co-creators of the 90-second NPR radio show, “The World According to Sound,” will be on campus to offer a presentation at 7 p.m., Oct. 25 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Anthropology

For anthropologist, doll exchange is not child's play

Cornell Chronicle

Hirokazu Miyazaki doesn’t usually get his research ideas from his son. But last year, after reading a children’s book about an exchange of dolls among Japanese and American schoolchildren in the 1920s, then-10-year-old Xavier asked his father to investigate.

Mathematics

Mathematician Roger H. Farrell dies at age 88

Cornell Chronicle

Roger H. Farrell, professor emeritus of mathematics, died Sept. 28 at Hospicare in Ithaca. He was 88.Farrell, who joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell as an instructor in 1959, spent his entire career at Cornell.

Chemistry

Advance in lipid imaging could impact cancer treatment

Cornell Chronicle

A cellular biology “mystery” is closer to being solved, thanks to sleuthing in the lab of Jeremy Baskin, assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

How We Love

This is an episode in the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Classics

New club offers opportunity for students to practice speaking Latin

A&S Communications

Sodalicium Loquentium Latine, Cornell’s new spoken latin club, held their inaugural meeting in September, bringing together individuals interested in learning and practicing speaking Latin. They discussed Ovid’s “Amores” in Latin and English.

Linguistics & sociology

New lecture series addresses connections between language, inequality

A&S Communications

An Oct. 20 lecture will kick off a new series on language and inequality co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Inequality and the departments of linguistics and sociology.

Summer in Tanzania

Continuing on with the theme of "Summer Adventures," senior Shanna tells us about how she spent this past summer in Singida, Tanzania conducting global health research. By Shanna Smith '18, Biological Sciences and French double major

Interdisciplinary

Workshop takes transdisciplinary approach to great ape communication

A&S Communications

On Oct. 20-21, Cornell will host a trans-disciplinary workshop on apes, language and communication, “The Eloquence of the Apes,” featuring renowned primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Cornell researchers across multiple disciplines.

Fireworks over the Cornell Crescent at the football field
Homecoming

Homecoming Roundup 2017

A&S Communications

Arts & Sciences faculty, staff and students will gather for networking and celebrate discovery, writing and mathematics during weekend events.

Physics

Octopus inspires 3-D texture morphing project

Cornell Chronicle

A group led by Rob Shepherd, assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is using the cephalopod as inspiration for a method to morph flat surfaces into three-dimensional ones on demand.

Economics & psychology

A ‘playful’ Nobel Prize winner laid groundwork for his field at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Richard Thaler, professor of economics at Cornell for nearly two decades, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Oct. 9 for work he began at Cornell.Joining the Cornell faculty in 1978, Thaler was a young assistant professor who had decided to try to make a go of research on a new scholarly concept, behavioral economics, that married psychology and economics. He went looking for a job that would allow him to pursue it.

Jewish Studies Program

Harbingers and Echoes of the Shoah

A&S Communications

Concentration camps existed before World War II and still exist, as Andrea Pitzer will explore in her Oct. 17 lecture, “Harbingers and Echoes of the Shoah.”

Africana Studies

Munday speaker focuses on intersections of race, inequality, criminal justice

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, will deliver this year’s Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture.His talk, “A Revitalized Black Public Sphere and the Future of American Democracy,” will take place at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Africana Studies and Research Center.