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Psychology

In brain evolution, size matters -- most of the time

Cornell Chronicle

The findings uncover a principle that may also help explain human evolution.

Astronomy

Preserving our 'pale blue dot' is focus of first Sagan lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Lord Martin Rees, who has probed deep into the cosmos, studied gamma-ray bursts and galactic formations, spoke May 8 at Cornell’s David L. Call Alumni Auditorium on issues closer to home: the preservation of our “pale blue dot.”

Alumni

Alum has starred in off-Broadway’s Perfect Crime for three straight decades,

Cornell Alumni Magazine

This Cornell Alumni Magazine story highlihts the three-decade run of alum Catherine Russell in "The Perfect Crime."

Students walking on city street
Africana Studies

Class gathers oral histories of Caribbean residents in Brooklyn

Cornell Chronicle

The oral history project and field trip were supported by an Engaged Opportunity Grant.

Chemistry

Yimon Aye awarded young investigator cancer research prize

Cornell Chronicle

Yimon Aye, a Howard Milstein faculty fellow and assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences with a secondary appointment at Weill Cornell Medicine, is one of six winners of this year’s Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research, which supports New York-based scientists exploring innovative avenues in the fight against cancer.

Student leaders

Meet Olivia Corn ’19, leader of CU’s College Republicans

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Photo by Lisa Banlaki FrankA&S student Olivia Corn, leader of the Cornell Republicans, is profiled in this Cornell Alumni Magazine story as she heads the organization at a monumental time in U.S. politics.

Alumni

Designer Adam Lippes ’95 creates clothes that are ‘luxurious yet approachable’

Cornell Alumni Magazine

A&S aum and designer Adam Lippes '95 is profiled in this Cornell Alumni Magazine article, which explores the approach he took during New York Fashion Week to showcase his line of clothing that's popular with celebrities.

Sociology

The wide world

Cornell Alumni Magazine

This Cornell Alumni Magazine story explores the work of Cornell's Social Dynamics Laboratory, which uses online networks to study human behavior at a once-unimaginable scale.

Alumni entrepreneurs

Island spirits

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Alum Jason Brand '93 talks about his decision to retire from Wall Street and open his own business in Hawaii in this Cornell Alumni Magazine story. 

Archaeology

Archaeologists discover elaborate 'cosmopolitan' paintings of ancient Egypt

An article in the International Business Times features research by Caitlin Barrett, associate professor of classics, about paintings depicting the Nile River in the garden of a large ancient villa in Pompeii.Barrett says that the paintings could hold secrets on how the early Roman Empire was influenced by ancient Egypt.

Community outreach

Undergrads share lab know-how with high school students

A&S Communications

In her lab in the basement of Uris Hall, Lindsay Rait ’17, experiments with rats as she studies the role of the brain’s hippocampus in contextual memory. One day a week, she welcomes Lehman Alternative Community School junior Mohammed Williams into the lab, where he soaks up information about her research methods and also explores whether a career in research might be the right pathway for him.

Performing & Media Arts

Student-made films to screen at Schwartz Center

A&S Communications

From stories of budding romances to a vampire huntress out for revenge, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will screen films written and directed by students from Advanced Filmmaking (PMA 4585) and photographed by students from Cinematography (PMA 4420).The free screenings will take place at 7 p.m. May 15 in the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Awards & Honors

Einaudi Center announces first group of dissertation program awardees

Einaudi Center

Twelve Cornell graduate students have been selected for the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPDP), the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies announced.

Entrepreneurship

A&S students win Big Idea Competition with brain trainer, finance course

A&S Communications

Big Idea finalists were chosen from a pool of 85 entries.

Classics

Doctoral student receives prize for archaeological research

A&S Communications

Liana Brent, a PhD candidate in Classics, has been honored with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome for her project, “Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, Reuse, and Violation in Roman Italy.”