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Warrior Scholars

Warrior-Scholar Project helps veterans adapt to demands of the classroom

Cornell Chronicle

Thirteen students came to campus July 20-28 for The Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP), an immersive college preparation experience for current and former enlisted service members.

Astronomy

TESS satellite uncovers its ‘first nearby super-Earth’

Cornell Chronicle

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system – and an international team of astronomers has characterized the super-Earth, about 31 light-years away.

Physics

Physicist offers a new take on 160 year old math problem

The Riemann hypothesis -- an unsolved problem in pure mathematics – is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, with a $1 million prize to the person who solves it.  But that’s not why it fascinates mathematical physicist Andre’ LeClair, for whom this is perhaps the most important open question in mathematics. 

Government

Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise.

The Washington Post

Political scientists Peter Enns and Jonathon P. Schuldt explain in this Washington Post op-ed that although President Trump believes race-baiting will help him gain a second term, their data suggests this approach won't work. 

First-generation students

A&S Summer Scholars get first introduction to campus

A&S Communications

“It will be a whole new thing living on my own."

Innovation in teaching

Study addresses low female participation in STEM classrooms

A&S Communications

Increasing class size has the largest negative impact on female participation in these fields.

Student entrepreneurs

Incubator helps students move businesses forward during summer

A&S Communications

Student business leaders gathered for pitch practice and feedback, then worked on their own at various locations across campus.

Student experiences

Grants fund students’ summer research experiences

A&S Communications

From hanging out with dart frogs to studying gene expression, students used Summer Experience Grants to explore careers.

Government

Doctoral students win awards for research

A&S Communications

Two government graduate students — one studying the rise of populist radical right parties and the other the politics of domestic violence — have recently been honored with fellowships and other awards for their research.

Performing & Media Arts

Theatre alumna debuts as director with DC movie, ‘The Kitchen’

A&S Communications

Andrea Berloff '95 is scheduled to be on campus for a Nov. 15 screening at Cornell Cinema.