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Alumni

Alum tours the world with Japan drumming group

Cornell Alumni Magazine

This Cornell Alumni Magazine article tells the story of Leo Ikenaga ’12, a member of Kodo, an elite, 30-member Japanese musical group. The group is primarily focused on the dynamic drumming style known as taiko. Ikenega was introduced to taiko at Cornell, where he was a member and became musical director of Yamatai.

Asian studies

Students conduct research in Asia with assistance from travel grants

A&S Communications

Students found they had a lot in common with the people they met during their summer work.

Alumni

Veteran banker and A&S alum leads America’s oldest zoo

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Philadelphia Zoo president and CEO Vik Dewan ’76, an alum of the College of Arts & Sciences, is profiled in this piece in the most recent Cornell Alumni Magazine. Leader of the zoo since 2006, the story says that Dewan, an economics and government major, has spearheaded many innovations during his tenure, including an ever-expanding system of enclosed trails.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Jumping spiders mimic ants to defy predators

Cornell Chronicle

Humans aren’t the only actors on the planet. To avoid being eaten, the ant-mimicking jumping spider pretends to be an ant, according to Cornell research published July 12 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

English

University of Leeds student receives Fulbright for research at Cornell

A&S Communications

Rebecca Macklin, a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Leeds, has received an All Disciplines Fulbright Award to undertake research at Cornell University.

Studying language, culture

Summer in Madrid program transforms students

A&S Communications

Students return from the six-week trip with the confidence of knowing they can make their way in a Spanish-speaking country.

Student research

Connecting video games and creative writing

A&S Communications

Student says video games "have a vast capacity for expression and emotion, and a huge potential for humanistic inquiry."

Archaeology

How Hobby Lobby damaged history

Sturt Manning, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology in the classics department, writes in this CNN opinion piece that Hobby Lobby's decision to buy more than 5,000 artifacts from the ancient Near East in December 2010 is "tragic."

Faculty honors

New professor wins book prize

A&S Communications

Sabrina Karim received the prize for her book, Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Crowdfunding campaign supports biology field study

A&S Communications

Gopher tortoises and blue jays… a vintage Army-issue shovel… sun and rain and wind: the hundreds of students who have gone on field courses through the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology over the last 50 years have memories as diverse as the ecosystems they studied.

Physics

Secrets of superfluid helium explored

Cornell Chronicle

When Cornell physicists Robert Richardson, David Lee and Douglas Osheroff received the 1996 Nobel Prize for their discovery of the superfluid state of liquid helium, it was only the beginning. Now a new team of Cornell researchers, building on that work, have found new complexities in the phenomenon, with implications for the study of superconductivity and theoretical models of the origin of the universe.

Sociology

Work: Aspirations, inequalities, markets

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on Kim Weeden, the Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of the Social Sciences and director of the Center for the Study of Inequality, whose work focuses on inequality and opportunity in the United States and other industrialized countries.

Psychology

Mouse tracking may reveal ability to resist temptation

Cornell Chronicle

The devil on your right shoulder is telling you, “Go ahead, grab that candy bar! You know you want it!”Meanwhile, the angel on your left is gently saying, “The apple is a much healthier option, isn’t it?”

Collaborative research

Out of the blue: Medieval fragments yield surprises

Cornell Chronicle

Analyzing pigments in medieval illuminated manuscript pages at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source(CHESS) is opening up some new areas of research bridging the arts and sciences.

Physics

Energy-efficient accelerator was 50 years in the making

Cornell Chronicle

With the introduction of CBETA, the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator, Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists are following up on the concept of energy-recovering particle accelerators first introduced by physicist Maury Tigner at Cornell more than 50 years ago.