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And we have lift-off

A&S Communications

… Physics major helps space tourism company get off the ground. … And we have lift-off …

RESEARCH

Do "know-it-alls" really know it all?

Time Magazine

People who consider themselves experts in a given topic are more likely to claim knowledge of made-up “facts” about that topic, a new study shows.Researchers conducted a series of experiments to assess how likely people were to believe fictions presented as fact. In one of the experiments, for example, the researchers had 100 people rate their level of knowledge for personal finance by describing their familiarity with 15 different financial terms.

RESEARCH

Astronomers bring a new hope to find 'Tatooine' planets

Cornell Chronicle

Sibling suns – made famous in the “Star Wars” scene where Luke Skywalker gazes toward a double sunset – and the planets around them may be more common than we’ve thought, and Cornell astronomers are presenting new ideas on how to find them.

ADMISSIONS

Finding the right fit at Cornell

A&S Parent

… As education reporters note each year, March and April are frenzied months for the parents of high school … out March. With some, I hold back, unsure about adding to the conversation.They are the tightly wound, and their talk is oddly anxious and hubristic: “Of course, …

application season

"We are looking for students who would benefit from what this place has to offer.”

A&S Communications

… student successful in a college as complex as ours are also very complex,” said Robin McNeal, associate professor in the … “Faculty members like myself are pretty good at this.” Every application is reviewed On a typical brisk February … competitions, “indicators that he’s achieved at a very high level,” Kim said. Chad’s essay is well written, …

OUTREACH

Department outreach fuels passion for math

A&S Communications

For many teenagers, math is just a necessary component of earning a high school diploma. For others, though, math is a passion, a destination in itself.

ENGLISH

Woubshet finds poetry amid loss in the early era of AIDS

Cornell Chronicle

Growing up in Ethiopia in the early 1980s and coming to the United States as a young teenager in 1989, Dagmawi Woubshet witnessed unprecedented expressions of mourning and loss in both countries in response to the AIDS crisis.

PIONEERS

Two researchers awarded Department of Defense grants

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists William Dichtel and Jiwoong Park have received Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards. The highly competitive program supports research teams working in more than one traditional science or engineering discipline to accelerate breakthroughs in basic research.This year, the DOD awarded 22 MURI grants totaling $149 million over the next five years.

CREATIVITY

Along with science, Cornellians produce science fiction, too

Cornell Chronicle

Next time you’re in a cocktail party discussion about science fiction, you’ll have a lot to brag about. The university has produced more than its share of notables in the field, including several mainstream names.

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

To hunt and eat, bats listen for signals in prey mating calls

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers find that bats listen in on katydid mating calls to locate their next meal.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Polls produced by students reveal shifting attitudes

Cornell Chronicle

Polls produced by Cornell students reveal shifting liberal attitudes.

RESEARCH

The Humble Pig

… and accessible. Even more improbably, he pulled it off. Click here to read an interview with Essig. …

PIONEER

The College Years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a Founder of Queer Theory

A&S Communications

The advent of queer theory “caused a shock wave which has affected all intellectual disciplines,” as Didier Eribon, a leading French intellectual, once said. A look back at the undergraduate years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘71, a founder of queer theory, reveals a unique glimpse of where that shock wave first began.

MUSIC

Graduate student Tonia Ko composes a soaring career

Cornell Chronicle

Graduate student Tonia Ko’s career as a young composer and artist has hit a new level, with several recent international honors, concert commissions and performance premieres, including a piece performed on bubble wrap.Ko, 26, was one of nine recipients of the 63rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards, held May 18 in New York City. The winners ranged in age from 14 to 26.

PSYCHOLOGY

Re-examining the 'first impressions' adage

Cornell Chronicle

… of others. Implicit impressions are assumed to be very difficult to revise. … of others. Implicit impressions are assumed to be very difficult to revise. The answer, according to …