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Book cover: The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria

Classics

Book brings elusive Greek technical writer into focus

2/20/2024 A&S Communications

Hero of Alexandria's writings on things like pneumatics, pure geometry and catapults have influenced many others through the ages and his principles touch early modern inventions including the player piano and the fire engine.

Early-career awards

Four early-career faculty win 2024 Sloan Research awards

2/20/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Anna Y.Q. Ho, Chao-Ming Jian, Rene Kizilcec and Karan Mehta are among 126 early-career researchers who have won 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Lindsay France/Cornell University Writer J. Robert Lennon, the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, has previously played around with genre elements – from mazy, existential mysteries to dystopian satire – but his new novel, “Hard Girls,” is his first straight-up thriller.

Literatures in English

Lennon chases down literary thrills in new series

2/20/2024 Cornell Chronicle

J. Robert Lennon’s “weird hike through the wilderness” of publishing has led him to a new and unexpected place: writing his first thriller, “Hard Girls,” published Feb. 20 by Mulholland Books.

Person speaking at a podium — Sreang Hok/Cornell University Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and at Columbia Law School, delivers the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture in Sage Chapel.

MLK Lecture

MLK lecture: Encourage democracy, fight suppression

2/21/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Kimberlé Crenshaw ’81, a legal scholar, reflected on the ways Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s influence shaped her personal, academic and professional journey.

Creative Writing Program

Faculty poet Valzhyna Mort reads her poem, “In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks”

2/23/2024 Alumni Affairs & Development

"I wrote this poem when I couldn't write a different poem," Mort says. "And this inability to write made me feel homeless in language and in poetry."

Several people pose in front of a sign that says "HACKATHON" — Abigail Younger Members of "The Freshmen," the grand challenge winners at the hackathon, stand with judges, deans and mentors.

Computer science

Freshmen win top prize at digital ag hackathon

2/23/2024 Cornell Chronicle

More than 120 students took part in the Digital Agriculture Hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture and Entrepreneurship at Cornell.

Physics

Spring 2024 Bethe Lecture bridges physics and computer science

2/26/2024 A&S Communications

During three events March 13-15, Lenka Zdeborová will explore how principles from statistical physics provide insights into challenging computational problems.

Person holding a newborn — Hollie Santos/Unsplash

Molecular biology and genetics

Babies use their immune system differently but efficiently

2/27/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Scientists have long believed that a newborn’s immune system was an immature version of an adult’s, but new research shows that newborns’ T cells – white blood cells that protect from disease – outperform those of adults at fighting off numerous infections.

Several people on a rocky beach in warm clothing, collecting trash — Sarah J. Thornington/Provided One recent Engaged Opportunity Grant project will support shore clean-up efforts in Massachusetts.

Community engagement

New grants support student involvement in community projects