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Alumni visits

Alum Dan Cohen ‘05, ‘Arrival’ and ‘Stranger Things’ producer, visits April 21

A&S Communications

Dan Cohen ’05, a producer whose latest projects include the Oscar-nominated sci-fi movie “Arrival” and the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things,” will talk with students about his career and screen one of his films along with the short film that inspired another during an April 21 visit to campus as the 2017 Arts & Sciences Career Development Center’s Munschauer Speaker.

Africana studies

Africana symposium honored Locksley Edmondson

A&S Communications

Edmondson has been a major contributor to the articulation of Africana studies at Cornell.

History

Contested terrain: Historian probes Earth’s polar regions

Global Cornell

Dawn Berry is a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Cornell, and former postdoctoral fellow in foreign policy, security studies, and diplomatic history at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.How did you become interested in foreign policy relating to the Arctic and Antarctic, and why are these regions important?

Humanities research

Mellon grant supports open access to humanities texts

Cornell Chronicle

For the second year in a row, Cornell University Press has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant worth nearly $100,000 to fund the open access initiative, Cornell Open.“This is exciting news for the press and for the university,” said Laura Spitz, Cornell’s vice provost for international affairs. “Open access to humanities scholarship aligns with the mission of a global and engaged Cornell.”

Entrepreneurial students

Students from across campus pitch business ideas

A&S Communications

Students representing 11 startup companies with products ranging from organic skin care products to concussion detection devices pitched their businesses to a panel of judges March 20, vying for the 2017 Student Business of the Year, given by Entrepreneurship at Cornell. 

Asian studies

Students share tales of global climate change on Capitol Hill

Cornell Chronicle

"Making the climate change issue more personal, rather than hammering a person with ‘facts,’ is our first step in getting acceptance of it as a global problem."

Career exploration

Alumni triple gifts for summer experience grants

A&S Communications

The funding helps students with unpaid internships afford housing, travel and transportation costs.

Research

Breakthrough telescope to be built in Chile

Arts & Sciences Communications

Cornell scientists will lead a team building a telescope that will offer insights into the Big Bang and the ways that stars and galaxies form.

Sociology

Study: Conservatives, liberals read different scientific books

Cornell Chronicle

Sociologist Michael Macy found connections between people's political views and their interest in various fields of science.

A group of students observe an object on the floor
Astronomy

Yuri's Night opens campaign to fix up Fuertes Observatory

A&S Communications

For 100 years, Cornell’s Fuertes Observatory has been wowing students – and the Ithaca community – with galactic wonders.

Outreach

Gecko design wins annual Math Awareness Month T-shirt contest

Arts & Sciences Communications

For more than 25 years, the Department of Mathematics has been engaged in outreach and building solid partnerships with local teachers and schools, such as the annual T-shirt design contest held at Ithaca High School in honor of April's Math Awareness Month.

Chemistry

A New Polymer for Low-Cost Fuel Cells

Fuel cells convert energy cleanly and efficiently, but fabrication costs are prohibitive. This Cornell Research article talks about a breakthrough polymer invented at Cornell that could change that.

Physics

New electron microscope sees more than an image

Cornell Chronicle

The electron microscope, a powerful tool for science, just became even more powerful, with an improvement developed by Cornell physicists. Their electron microscope pixel array detector (EMPAD) yields not just an image, but a wealth of information about the electrons that create the image and, from that, more about the structure of the sample.

History

A&S senior wins Carnegie Endowment fellowship

A&S Communications

“I hope to make my mark in helping to shape global dialogue." says Rachel Mitnick '17.

Economics

Social networks on Capitol Hill influence legislation, funding

A&S Communications

The old adage, “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know” has long fueled the parental drive for children to attend Ivy League schools. But it turns out where you went to school is less important than who else went to the same school – at least, if you’re in Congress.