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Poetry

Interwoven - coal, colors, and other stories

Cornell Research

“I write in books, not in individual poems,” says poet Lyrae N. Van Clief-Stefanon, English. “A group of poems that make up a book will have an over-arching through line, all these threads that I’m holding together.”

Awards & Honors

Physics professor to receive prestigious award in Prague

A&S Communications

David Mermin, the Horace White professor of physics emeritus, has been named the recipient of this year’s Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 Prize.

Interdisciplinary

Scholars, artists convene to discuss black girls, women

Cornell Chronicle

In politics and activism, popular culture and social media, “black girls and women are hyper-visible,” according to associate professor of Africana studies Oneka LaBennett. They are portrayed “as ‘at risk’ and as cultural trendsetters, yet simultaneously rendered invisible in public policy discourses.”

Interdisciplinary Conference

ISS supporting faculty research projects, conference

Cornell Chronicle

From analyzing how labor policies contributed to rapid economic growth in Europe in the 1950s to testing the therapeutic value of virtual reality technology, Cornell social science research projects are receiving assistance from the Institute for the Social Sciences’ (ISS) Small Grants Program.

Linguistics

Team measures effects of sentence structure in the brain

Cornell Chronicle

When we learn to read, we say one word at a time. But how does the brain actually put words together when we read full sentences?

Government

Why are lower-income Americans apolitical?

Jamila Michener explores the relationship between lower-income Americans and participation in politics.

Sociology

Trump can’t win on immigration if he scraps climate change funds

The Hill

Filiz Garip, professor of sociology, writes in this Hill op-ed that de-funding climate change programs will undercut Donald Trump's goals for immigration, and explains why.

English

Book redefines disinformation in American democracy

Cornell Chronicle

Disinformation has been a constant force in American history, according to a new book by Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters.

Physics

Spring Hans Bethe Lecture to explore 'Dark Universe'

Cornell Chronicle

In this spring’s Hans Bethe Lecture at Cornell, physicist Joshua Frieman will introduce the Dark Universe, give an overview of what we have learned about it, and describe new experiments and observatories that aim to illuminate its enigmas.

Society for the Humanities

Mellon president proposes humanities tackle slavery

Cornell Chronicle

“When the world turns to the normally bodacious problems we call ‘grave challenges,’ shouldn’t the perspectives of humanists and artists be included to enhance what is known and how it is known?”

Interdisciplinary

Conference will explore bodies and conversion

Cornell Chronicle

“Transforming Bodies,” an interdisciplinary conference April 21-22, will explore the centrality of bodies to concepts and practices of conversion in the early modern world.

The "Hogwarts Effect"

This week, sophomore Yousef Anwer describes how his interdisciplinary experience at Cornell has been utterly magical... By: Yousef Anwer '19, Economics major, Law and Society minor

Physics

Group works toward devising next-gen superconductor

Cornell Chronicle

The experimental realization of ultrathin graphene – which earned two scientists from the University of Manchester, U.K., the Nobel Prize in physics in 2010 – has ushered in a new age in materials research.

Astronomy

For Saturn moon, possible 'restaurant' at bottom of the sea

Cornell Chronicle

Galactic hitchhikers take note: The restaurant at the end of the universe may be closer than we think. After probing data from NASA spacecraft Cassini’s flight through the watery plume of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, scientists from the Southwest Research Institute, Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab and Cornell confirm the presence of molecular hydrogen.

Center for the Study of Inequality

Conference explores social mobility and inequality, April 20-22

A&S Communications

As part of its ongoing effort to advance and disseminate knowledge on equality of opportunity, the Center for the Study of Inequality will host the “Social Mobility in an Unequal World: Evidence and Policy Solutions” conference April 20-22. The conference is free but RSVPs to inequality@cornell.edu are required.