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CHEMISTRY

Chemistry undergrad spends summer studying signaling pathways

9/9/2015 A&S Communications

Michael Disare ’17 spent the summer as one of five undergrad researchers in Cornell’s Aye Lab, working with methods that are completely novel.Disare and his colleagues at the lab work on studying signaling pathways in cells, and how specific molecules, like oxidants, affect those pathways. “It’s the crossroads between chemistry and biology,” he says. “It’s almost like using chemistry as a tool for studying biology.”

Connor Foster '15

"Hopefully one day I can help to change people's lives for the better."

Connor Foster '15 Major: Biological SciencesHometown: Woodbridge, CTWhy did you choose Cornell?

PHILANTHROPY

Taylor gift will enrich humanities, social sciences

9/10/2015 Cornell Chronicle

Stanford ’50 and Joann Taylor’s $5.2 million gift will support postdoctoral fellowships and the Society for the Humanities.

Inauguration

Panel on democracy, inequality will cap inauguration

9/10/2015 Cornell Chronicle

Our new president invites students to participate in this important discussion TODAY at 3:00 pm.

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Prof. Derek Chang Intertwines Upbringing With Studies

9/11/2015 Cornell Daily Sun

As Prof. Derek Chang, history and Asian American studies, sees it, race is at the heart of American society. For Chang, racial tensions underlie problems throughout American history.Focusing on black-white relations in the American south and Chinese-white relations on the West Coast, Chang said he looks for similarities and differences in the way different regions treat race.Read more about his work in this Cornell Daily Sun piece.

Linguistic Research

Hidden impatience revealed in linguistics study

9/11/2015 A&S Communications

Someone’s asked you a question, and halfway through it, you already know the answer. While you think you’re politely waiting for your chance to respond, new research shows that you’re actually more impatient than you realize.

In Memoriam

William Provine, history of science scholar, dies at 73

9/9/2015 Cornell Chronicle

William Provine, the Andrew H. and James L. Tisch Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Cornell, died Sept. 1 due to complications from a brain tumor at his home in Horseheads, New York. He was 73.Provine, a professor of the history of biology in the departments of History and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was born Feb. 19, 1942, in Nashville, Tennessee.

INTERNSHIPS

Grants help students take unpaid internships

9/14/2015 A&S Communications

Twenty-two Arts & Sciences students were able to afford unpaid internships with a new grant.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Roper Center opinion archive comes to Cornell

9/14/2015 Cornell Chronicle

The public opinion archive holds data dating from the 1930s.

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Peter Katzenstein sees no new Cold War

9/15/2015 Cornell Chronicle

An international studies professor says the U.S. is not entering a new Cold War with Russia, but rather a Cold Peace.

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