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Environment & Sustainability

Renewable fuels alone can't stop climate change

A&S Communications

In discussions about climate change, many people seem to think the only real problem is replacing fossil fuels, and once that’s done nothing much really needs to change. “That’s not only false, it’s a really dangerous way of thinking,” said Karen Pinkus, professor of Romance studies and comparative literature in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Classics

Renowned Vatican Latinist joins classics faculty

A&S Communications

'I had the unique experience of writing (and speaking) Latin day and night for a decade,' Dan Gallagher says.

Music

CU Winds completes tour of Haiti, Dominican Republic

Cornell Chronicle

Fifty student musicians traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on a tour that was “genuinely transformative."

Rocky landscape of Mars
Astronomy

Scientists puzzled over lack of carbonate on Mars

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists can’t quite reconcile the carbon dioxide amounts on Mars today from epochs gone by.

English

A scholar's voice

Cornell Research

Atop a cabinet, leaning against a wall of Dagmawi Woubshet’s office, is an enlarged framed cover of the May 17, 1963, issue of TIME magazine. Its portrait of writer James Baldwin stares into the room. Woubshet, associate professor of English, gestures to it several times as he talks about his research.

Creative Writing

NYT reviews debut novels for A&S alums

Arts & Sciences Communications

Two Arts & Sciences alumni were honored with reviews of their debut novels in the Jan. 29 New York Times Book Review.The novels of Sana Krasikov ’01, winner of the 2009 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and Lydia Peelle ’00, author of the short story collection “Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing,” were both reviewed in the recent issue.

The Beauty of Cornell: "In the middle of nowhere, but in the middle of everything"

In this last "Cornell Love" post, junior Jendayi describes two of her favorite places on Cornell's campus - one of which is quite literally off the beaten path! By: Jendayi Brooks-Flemister '18

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.