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Alumni

Cornellians honored with Oscar nods

A&S Communications

"Arrival" and "Hacksaw Ridge" feature Cornell alumni in key production and writing roles.

Curriculum

Faculty discuss curriculum changes in Arts & Sciences

Arts & Sciences Communications

“The curriculum belongs to the faculty, 100 percent,” declared Interim President Hunter Rawlings at a faculty forum Jan. 23 in the Rhodes Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.

Chemistry

Group uses its own 'toolset' to probe chemical responses

Cornell Chronicle

Using a novel chemical procedure developed in her lab, Yimon Aye and her group are helping to blaze a trail in the emerging field of precision medicine by targeting and modulating single proteins to achieve desired responses.

In Memoriam

Linguist Herbert L. Kufner dies at 88

… Linguistics … Linguistics professor Herbert L. Kufner, Ph.D. ’56, died on …

Society for the Humanities

Mellon grant extends collaborative seminar series

Cornell Chronicle

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved $1.1 million to extend the Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities (AUH) interdisciplinary seminar series at Cornell for four years.

Physics

Uncovering new insights into quantum materials

Cornell Research

Kyle Shen, associate professor of physics, creates and investigates artificial and unconventional materials with unusual electronic and magnetic properties. His research into these new materials and their potential applications is explored in this Cornell Resarch story.

Cornell Cinema Theater
Cornell Cinema

'Skin,' LGBT festival highlight Cornell Cinema spring events

A faculty panel will join in a discussion of “I Am Not Your Negro," a new documentary by Raoul Peck.

In Memoriam

Wolfgang Holdheim, law and literature pioneer, dies at 90

Holdheim was an expert on the theory and practice of narrative and is remembered for his warm generosity toward his students.

Digital humanities

New Digital CoLab applies tech to humanities research

Cornell University Library

The new dedicated workspace in Olin Library will host workshops, training sessions and events relating to the evolving field of digital humanities.

Microbiology

New host-microbe institute connects campus researchers

Cornell Chronicle

Research areas cover beneficial and pathogenic interactions between hosts (plants and animals) and microbes (bacteria, viruses and fungi).

Government

Americans are united on retaliating against Russian cyberattacks

Sarah Kreps, associate professor of government, and co-author Debak Das, a graduate student in government, write in this Washington Post piece about their research into Americans' thoughts about the need for retaliation against Russia for alleged cyberattacks.

Comparative literature

Studying the relationship between humanities, climate change

Cornell Research

Karen Pinkus, professor of Italian and comparative literature, is deeply concerned about the environment and believes that the humanities can bring a critical research component to solving the problems of climate change.

Graduate student research

Grad students talk about research opportunities

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story explores the many avenues that graduate students pursue in their research projects and the multitide of Cornell supports available to them.More than 5,000 graduate students work at Cornell, studying in more than 80 fields.

In Memoriam

James W. Gair, linguistics professor emeritus, dies at 88

James Wells Gair, left, and longtime collaborator, linguist W.S. Karunatillake/Photo providedJames Wells Gair, Ph.D. ’63, professor emeritus of linguistics who throughout a long and distinguished career produced groundbreaking work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec. 10 in Ithaca. He was 88.

Africana Studies

Prof. Boyce Davies to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Arts & Sciences Communications

Carole Boyce Davies, professor of Africana studies and English, will receive The Caribbean Philosophical Association’s 2017 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award at the association’s international conference, June 22-24 in New York City.