Climate change in Vietnam spurs students to speak up

Ten students from across Cornell spent two weeks of their winter break on a journey through Vietnam, listening to farmers and community members and seeing the effects of climate change firsthand.

Patrizia McBride explores montage and storytelling

In a "Chats in the Stacks" at Olin Library on Feb. 15, German studies professor Patrizia McBride discussed her latest book, "The Chatter of the Visible."

Brito, Lambert, Yapici, Lancaster receive Sloan Fellowships

Cornell assistant professors Ilana Brito, Guillaume Lambert, Kyle Lancaster and Nilay Yapici have been awarded Sloan Foundation Fellowships, which support early career research and education.

International collaboration results in play about borders

A play titled "Root Map," developed in Cornell's Bodies at the Border distance learning class, is an international collaboration of academics and artists from around the world.

Aye, Shepherd win Young Investigator awards from Navy

Yimon Aye and Rob Shepherd have both been awarded Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program awards, given annually to early-career academic scientists and researchers to support their work.

Invitational lecture to explore Freudian psychoanalysis

Tracy McNulty, Cornell professor of French and comparative literature, will explore the analytic act and its legacy through clinical examples and a reading of Freud's "Moses and Monotheism."

Ted Lowi, renowned political scientist, dies at 85

Theodore Jay Lowi, the charismatic Cornell professor of government whose seminal books became standards in political science discourse, died Feb. 17 in Ithaca, New York. He was 85.

Mathematical models predict how we wait in line, traffic

Jamol Pender, assistant professor in Cornell’s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, collaborated with Cornell colleagues to determine how we choose which line to wait in.

Biology students highlight community service projects

Students shared their experiences with local community service as part of the Office of Undergraduate Biology's Service Leaders Showcase Feb. 9 in Corson Mudd Hall.