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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Anticancer agents in regulation of metabolites

Cornell Research

New anticancer agents are in great demand due to the heterogeneous nature of cancer and the development of resistance to existing drugs.

Performing & Media Arts, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

PMA play reading explores future of climate change

Performing & Media Arts

What would the Earth look like if we banded together to counter the destructive forces of climate change? Writers Aoise Stratford and Toby Ault bridge science and art in the multimedia experience “Virtual Landscapes,” which offers audiences the opportunity to contribute to the play-in-progress.

Physics

Stressing metallic material controls superconductivity

Cornell Chronicle

“Sometimes stressing can produce amazing results,” said physics professor Katja Nowack.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Foiling cancer aggression with nontoxic metals

Cornell Research

Justin J. Wilson, a professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is expanding on existing chemotherapeutic treatments by investigating the biomedical application potentials of other heavy transition metals, particularly compounds of the element rhenium, in order to develop a more targeted approach to halting cancerous cell division.

Rural Humanities

Alumnus shares lessons learned from the campaign trail

A&S Communications

Ryan Quinn '18 said empathizing with and listening to people with different viewpoints is a key part of any political campaign.

American Studies

Atkinson Forum hosts Fisk Jubilee Singers Oct. 26

A&S Communications

For 16 years, Cornell audiences have enjoyed lectures, performances and events sponsored by the Atkinson Forum in American Studies. This year, the Fisk Jubilee Singers will visit campus for a concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Alice Statler Auditorium.Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. and the concert is free and open to the public.

Alumni

Homecoming 2019: A beautiful time to be in Ithaca

Alumni Affairs & Development

Friends Alexandra Gutierrez ’20 and Elizabeth Farkouh ’21 had a full day on October 5, the Saturday of Cornell Homecoming 2019.

Government

Adam Schiff discusses impeachment inquiry, national security

Cornell Chronicle

Around the globe and from within, the nation now faces the most vigorous challenge to the idea of liberal democracy since World War II, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff said during an Oct. 10 visit to Cornell.

Music

Book reveals life and times of Anna Magdalena Bach

Cornell Chronicle

Anna Magdalena Bach has been called “history’s most famous musical wife and mother.”

Society for the Humanities

Conference spotlights ‘Energy Humanities’

Society for the Humanities

On the brink of ecological collapse, how do we think, write and speak about the various forms of energy we encounter? The Society for the Humanities’ annual fall conference, Oct. 18 and 19, will examine the human relationship to energy in its myriad forms.

What Makes Us Human?

Podcast describes efforts to ‘decolonize the screen’

A&S Communications

“The public is not hearing the stories that show a culture that is present and ever-changing," says Kiowa filmmaker and PMA professor Jeffrey Palmer.

Government

Pundits: Illiberalism poses threat to democracy

Cornell Chronicle

Liberal democracies occupy a tiny sliver of the human experience, and their hold on the West is crumbling, the conservative journalist and author Andrew Sullivan warned Oct. 3 at Cornell.Sullivan joined Ezra Klein, editor-at-large of Vox.com, at the Law School’s Landis Auditorium in the second installment of The Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series, titled “Is Illiberalism Corroding Our Democracy?”

Chemistry & chemical biology

Symposium bridges cancer research across Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

The second annual Intercampus Cancer Symposium, Oct. 11 at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, will highlight the wide range of cancer research taking place at Cornell’s Ithaca campus and at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

Physics

Researchers raise the temperature for exciton condensation

Cornell Chronicle

New Cornell-led research is pointing the way toward an elusive goal of physicists – high-temperature superfluidity – by exploring excitons in atomically thin semiconductors.

Economics

NYU prof. shares insight on game theory economics

A&S Communications

The economics department will welcome Ariel Rubinstein for its annual George Staller Lecture Oct. 28. “Ariel Rubinstein is one of the world’s most prominent economic theorists, with seminal work in game theory,” said Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics. “What makes him special is the philosopher’s touch that he brings to his writings.”