Mellon Mays fellows score grad school admissions

Six of 10 Mellon Mays undergraduate fellows graduating from the College of Arts and Sciences are headed directly to graduate school.

Sociology department launches Active Learning Initiative project

Five large introductory lecture courses will be transformed to include a larger share of activities that engage students to learn by doing rather than passive listening.

Students pepper OADI honors banquet with passion

Cheers of encouragement, heartfelt love and exuberance punctuated each award presented at the annual Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ Honors ceremony May 4, at the Statler Hotel ballroom.

Married physics researchers share lab, students and the joy of discovery

Married researchers Jie Shan, professor of applied and engineering physics in the College of Engineering, and Kin Fai Mak, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, are experts on atomically thin materials and share a lab in the Physical Sciences Building.

Math competition draws upstate girls to Cornell

Thirty-four teams from 18 schools in upstate New York competed April 29 in Girls’ Adventures in Math, a team-based math competition for girls in grades 3-8. 

From tattoos to circumcision, inscription as metaphor

Andrea Bachner, associate professor of comparative literature, has written “The Mark of Theory: Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories.” 

Conference to explore theater in translation

“Drama Across Borders: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Theater in Translation” will be held May 11-12.

Mayfest features Chiaroscuro Quartet, May 18-22

The Mayfest chamber music festival brings “a shock to the ears of the best kind” to Ithaca audiences from classics to modern jazz May 18-22.

Two on faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

Chemistry professor Hector Abruña and plant geneticist Susan McCouch have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, which recognizes distinguished achievement in original research.