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Computer Science & Psychology

Research gives robots a second chance at first impressions

Cornell Chronicle

At the intersection of psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics, researchers seek to understand how people understand others, whether human or robot.

Astronomy

Explosive nitrogen created craters that pock Saturn moon Titan

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists solve mystery of steep ridges around Titan's methane lakes.

Government and politics

Experts to discuss 2020 polling on ‘Pundits on the Line’

Cornell Chronicle

Expert analysts from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research will join Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs on a conference call to discuss polling and the 2020 election.

LGBT Studies

Lily Wong lecture kicks off year-long collaboration

A&S Communications

Sex workers play a key role in mobilizing social activism in Asia, as Lily Wong will discuss in her lecture on Sept. 10, “Sex Work, Movement Politics, and Affect Labor in the Sinophone World.” Wong will also discuss LGBT activism in Taiwan and cultural belonging in the Sinophone world. The lecture will draw on Wong’s book, Transpacific Attachments, and the entwined histories of Taiwan’s queer activism, sex-work rights movement, and labor justice movements. 

Mathematics

Strogatz named finalist for Royal Society prize

A&S Communications

A book by Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.  

Chemistry

Professor awarded grant for alkali metal research

Cornell Research

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David B Collum's lab recently received a $2.79m grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund his research on alkali metals reactivity and selectivity. These metals play a vital role in academic and industiral laboratories' development of medical compounds.

Astronomy

Stars and population stats

Cornell Research

… Astronomy … A new Cornell Research feature  takes a look at astronomy research associate … the instruments collect once they are deployed. “When the radiation from stars hit the surrounding ISM, the gas heats …

Research

Interdisciplinary Team Gets $2M grant for Bioenergy Conversion

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers $2 million to study the combination of inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles and bacterial cells for more efficient bioenergy conversion.

Psychology

Do I know you? Where have we met?

Cornell Research

Associate Professor of Psychology, David Smith's research aimed at understanding how the brain stores information has implications ranging from recognizing teachers in the grocery store to neurodegenerative diseases.

Classics

Townsend Lectures to focus on home in the ancient Mediterranean

Princeton classics professor Barbara Graziosi will deliver the three-part Townsend Lectures on the theme of “Homecoming and Homemaking in the Ancient Mediterranean.” The lectures will begin at 4:30 p.m. in 165 McGraw Hall. The talks are free and the public is invited.