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PHYSICS

First self-assembled superconductor structure created

Cornell Chronicle

A team of chemistry, physics and engineering researchers has created a self-assembled, three-dimensional gyroidal superconductor.

GOVT 3434: Chinese Empire and the Cambodian Experience

By: Austin McLaughlin '18 Arriving back in chilly, cloudy Ithaca for the spring semester was in stark contrast to the 95-degree sunny days in Cambodia. Altogether, I spent 14 days in Siem Reap and 5 in Phnom Penh. I didn't get a tan, but I did leave with an enriching experience.

Soup & Hope

First Soup & Hope speaker raps with authenticity

Cornell Chronicle

“How many of you have cried today? How many of you cried yesterday? … How many of you haven’t cried in a year?”

Pscyhology

Here's looking at you, kid: Filmmakers know how we read emotions

Cornell Chronicle

Filmmakers choose their shots to get us close to their characters.

Why I Love Cornell: The Magic of the Arts Quad

Welcome back! As our Ithaca campus comes alive again for the spring semester, we here at the Arts & Sciences blog will begin posting weekly material once again. Good luck to all the seniors who recently submitted applications - as you wait for college decisions, enjoy senior Maddy Finkelstein's post about the beauty of Cornell's campus - even in the winter!  By: Maddy Finkelstein '16

Sustainability

Seizing energy from the rooftops

Cornell Chronicle

Thanks to nearly 300 solar panels installed on both buildings in mid-December, the sun’s rays hitting the roof on Cornell’s Human Ecology Building and Klarman Hall now produce energy.

Humanities

College launches "New Century for the Humanities" celebration

A&S Communications

The College is launching a semester-long celebration of the arts and humanities culminating in the dedication of its new humanities building, Klarman Hall.

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Classics

Classics professor studies ancient scientific and technical texts

Cornell Research

Courtney Roby, assistant professor of classics, had some big questions as she was working as an electrical engineer. See how she found the answers in classics.

New Students

Colleges welcome inaugural first-year spring class

A&S Communications

Welcome to our 56 new spring admission students, who arrived last week for orientation. The students hail from high schools across the country, as well as Australia, Singapore, and other international schools.

Klarman Hall
Humanities

Klarman Hall: a new light-filled space for the humanities

Cornell Chronicle

… Klarman Hall, the newest home for some of our humanities departments, is the brand-new showpiece of Cornell's central campus. … finished moving from Morrill Hall into their new offices this week, and Department of Comparative Literature core … academic departments have access to a 44-seat media room (for courses such as professor Kathleen Long’s Monsters A-X: …

Student experience

First Posse shares their 'incredible gifts'

A&S Communications

When Jocelyn Vega ’17, Anthony Halmon ’17 and Mary Khalaf ’17 arrived here three years ago as members of Cornell’s first Posse Scholar class in 2013, they knew they would become role models for groups of students to come.

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Capitalism

New interdisciplinary initiative explores capitalism

… New interdisciplinary initiative explores capitalism …

MUSIC

Randel honored by American Musicological Society

A&S Communications

Professor Emeritus of Musicology Don M. Randel was named an honorary member of the American Musicological Society (AMS) during its recent annual meeting in Louisville. This award is to given to scholars “who have made outstanding contributions to furthering the Society’s mission and whom the Society wishes to honor.”

HISTORY OF ART

History of Art prof edits new volume on South Asian artist

A&S Communications

Iftikhar Dadi, associate professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, is the editor and a contributor to the recently-released “Anwar Jalal Shemza” (Ridinghouse, 2015).

ALUMNI

Mutolo unveils hydrogen future for carbon present

Cornell Chronicle

Paul Mutolo ’94 harnesses the hydrogen future, bringing it to bear on the carbon present: For his TEDx Chemung River talk in November, Mutolo, director of external partnerships at Cornell’s Energy Materials Center, imagined a world where cars no longer use oil. “There would be no smog in our cities. There would be no wars over oil-rich regions.