Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will lecture on “The Evolving Political Economy of Central Banking” April 19.
A state of electronic matter first predicted by theorists in 1964 has finally been discovered by Cornell physicists and may provide key insights into the workings of high-temperature superconductors.
Two teams from Ithaca High School took first and third place in Cornell's annual high School Programming Contest, which drew 19 teams from acrosss the state.
Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will speak on “The Morality of Fundamental Physics” April 21 in a public lecture as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at 7 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Physicists from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania join forces to forge a link between smectic liquid crystals and martensite steel, both of which have an unusual, elegant microstructure.
The new interdisciplinary Crime, Prisons, Education and Justice minor in the College of Arts and Sciences offers students an engaged learning experience through the Cornell Prison Education Program.
Allison M. Macfarlane, a geologist and former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, will lecture on nuclear energy post-Fukushima on campus April 25 at 3:30 p.m. in 700 Clark Hall.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, international religious leader, philosopher, bestselling author and 2016 Templeton Prize Laureate, lectures on “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence” April 20.
Women and underrepresented minority faculty members have been publishing opinion pieces and other articles in the mainstream media, thanks to support from the Public Voices Fellowship.
