Arts and Sciences

Cornell International Education Week Nov. 13-17

Cornell joins universities around the country in celebrating global learning during International Education Week, Nov. 13 to 17.

Gavriel Shapiro memoir chronicles leaving the Soviet Union

A new memoir by Gavriel Shapiro, professor of comparative and Russian literature, recounts his struggle to leave the Soviet Union.

Faculty weigh in on ‘Tyranny’ book at community read

Faculty members discussed the book “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” Oct. 30.

Conference to explore impact of immigrant criminalization

“Criminalizing Immigrants: Border Controls, Enforcement and Resistance” will be held on campus Nov. 9-10.

Education innovator advocates for transdisciplinary ‘StudioLab’

A new transdisciplinary pedagogy encourages active learning via conceptual, aesthetic and technical learning.

Where did those electrons go? Decades-old mystery solved

A group led by physics professor Kyle Shen proposes an answer to a decades-old question regarding a class of materials known as "mixed valence" compounds, which display exotic physical properties.

First-ever visualization of enhanced catalytic activity reported

A group led by chemistry professor Peng Chen reports the first quantitative visualization of enhanced catalysis activity at the metal-metal interface of a single-molecule bimetallic nanocatalyst.

Pioneer in the search for ET looks back, ahead in talk

Frank Drake ’51 talked about searching for evidence of intelligent life in the universe for 57 years in a campus visit Oct. 19.

Historian offers lessons from antiquity for today’s democracy

Barry Strauss discussed the success of populist parties and politicians around the world in an Oct. 25 Phi Beta Kappa lecture.