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Entrepreneurship

Students spend summer incubating their business ideas

A&S Communications

While most Cornell students headed home for the summer – off to internships, work or play – a group of entrepreneurial undergrads and graduate students are staying in Ithaca for intensive business development as part of the new Life Changing Labs (LCL) summer incubator.

Liberal Arts

Senior uses double major to find meaning in small details

A&S Communications

Chinelo Onyilofor ’15 has found that her studies in chemistry and art history have taught her the art of looking for small details, whether she’s finding the hidden meaning in a painting or an answer to solve a chemical synthesis.After she graduates this weekend, Onyilofor, a double major in the College of Arts and Sciences from Annapolis, Maryland, plans to travel for a year before going to graduate school to pursue a doctorate in organic chemistry.

COLLEGE SCHOLARS

College Scholars study climate change, local food

A&S Communications

When Irene Li ’15 isn’t hunkered down surveying the latest research on the local food movement and social change, she’s in a Boston kitchen, meeting growers or dreaming up new items for her food truck and restaurant.Li, one of three sibling owners of Mei Mei Kitchen in Boston, is a College Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences, who will return to her family business after graduating.This year’s class of College Scholars presented their final projects April 17.

RESEARCH

Book on thought unites neuroscience, humanities

A&S Communications

A new book tackles questions of thought and meaning.

RESEARCH

Physics grad student describes women behind the Large Hadron Collider

Discov-HER.com

Margaret Zientek, one of nine PhD students from Cornell working at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, is featured in this story about women making their way in this male-dominated environment.“I am working on a search for dark matter particles,” she says

DIVERSITY

Cornell welcomes most diverse freshman class

Cornell Chronicle

First-year students arriving on campus this week are members of Cornell’s most racially diverse incoming freshman class since the university began keeping records on race in the early 1980s.

STUDENT LIFE

Prefreshman Summer Program preps students

A&S Communications

Ruby Rhoden ’17 expected her arrival at Cornell would be like landing on a new planet, with everything from the social environment to the academics substantially different from where she came from.

HISTORY OF ART

Unfinished ‘map’ of cultural images online

Cornell Chronicle

Aby Warburg – whose early 20th-century emphasis on the power of recurrent images was eerily prescient of contemporary thought – died before he could finish his “Mnemosyne Atlas,” consisting of large panels of collages tracing the history of art.

"Research instilled in me a passion for science and exploration."

Roger Michaelides '15 Majors: Physics & Science of Earth Systems Hometown: Libertyville, ILWhy did you choose Cornell?I choose Cornell because of its exceptional physics and geology programs, diverse student body and academic programs, and its world class planetary science research groups.  After growing up in the midwest, Ithaca'a local geology and natural preserves were also very appealing!

"The groundwork for an open and hungry mind."

Patrick Molligo '15 Majors: German Studies & EconomicsHometown: Manhasset, NYWhy did you choose Cornell?