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Physics

The fun - and merit - of collaborative physics

Cornell Research

Like all researchers, Itai Cohen, Physics, has a lot of questions. But unlike many, his questions make big, topical leaps. From fruit flies to mosh pits, from origami to cartilage—Cohen dreams of preventing stampedes in Mecca, understanding the complex neuromechanics of fruit fly flight, and making self-folding robots from a single sheet of atoms. How can all this happen in one lab? Well, the answer is: it doesn’t.

History

Campus group creates a different kind of writing community

A&S Communications

“My name’s Ishmael, what’s yours?” -- or would “Call me Ishmael” better open a narrative about whaling? Tone, diction, style: these are the kinds of questions Cornell’s Historians Are Writers! (HAW) grapple with in their meetings.

History of Art & Visual Studies

Online photo collection documents African-American life

Cornell Chronicle

Hundreds of seldom-seen photographs documenting the journey of African-Americans from the slavery era to the 20th century are now digitized and freely accessible to students and scholars around the world.

Astronomy

Fuertes Observatory's new museum goes 'back to the future'

Cornell Chronicle

Many of the vintage observatory instruments were collected in the 19th century by Estevan Fuertes, founding dean of Cornell’s civil engineering department.

Classics

Cornell in Rome program to celebrate 30 years in March

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell in Rome will celebrate its 30th anniversary with an event featuring tours, receptions, lunches, and panels on art, architecture and the humanities.

Astronomy

How do planets form and evolve?

Cornell Research

From our earliest history, humans have contemplated the cosmos. Before we had an inkling of the nature of our own solar system, we wondered at the composition of our sister planets. And long before we knew there were planets orbiting other stars, we wondered if we, earth-bound beings, were alone in the universe.

Information Science

Computational tools for the humanities

Cornell Research

In academic fields from physics to genetics, researchers rely on computers for everything from data analysis to modeling. One area of scholarship that has gone largely untouched is the humanities, where today’s researchers are far more often hunched over stacks of books than scanning graphs and charts on a screen.

Psychology

Learning, memory, and the sense of smell

Cornell Research

Walk by a bakery, and you’ll smell fresh-baked bread. But would you smell it, if you’d never learned what bread was? “Not necessarily,” says Thomas A. Cleland, Psychology.

History

Historians launch Immigration Syllabus website

Cornell Chronicle

… History … Latina/o Studies Program … The 2016 presidential election and recent … historians, has launched the  #ImmigrationSyllabus  website. “The current immigration debate ignores … immigrant past, Garcia says, including politicians, public commentators, critics, and journalists. “We hope our …

From the president

President Rawlings issues statement on immigration executive order

The university has created a new resource page for faculty, staff and students concerning the Jan. 27 presidential executive order on immigration. Interim President Hunter Rawlings also sent the following message to the Cornell community Jan. 29:

WVBR: One of Cornell's 1,000+ Clubs (and Arguably its Best)!

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Psychology

Memory limits give rise to open-ended language abilities

Cornell Chronicle

A hallmark of human language is our ability to produce and understand an infinite number of different sentences. This unique open-ended productivity is normally explained in terms of “structural reuse”; sentences are constructed from reusable parts such as phrases. But how languages come to be composed of reusable parts in the first place is a question that has long puzzled researchers in the language sciences

Cornell library

New proposals sought for digital grants

A&S Communications

With so much research and exploration being conducted online, having material available digitally is vitally important to faculty and students.

History

Historian re-examines Caribbean history in new book

A&S Communications

Ernesto Bassi says few other places in the world were as geopolitically complex as the Caribbean in the mid-18th to mid-19th century,

Music & Medieval Studies

New book takes sound studies into the cosmos

A&S Communications

“We can hear the universe” declared researchers at LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) announcing the first detection of a gravitational wave last year.By capturing a sonic translation of two black holes colliding more than a billion years ago, scientists had finally achieved what ancient scholars had long dreamed of: translating the “music of the spheres” into sound humans can hear.