Visiting historian to teach course on Civil War this spring

Marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, prize-winning author Douglas Egerton will share his expertise on this critical period in U.S. history as Cornell’s Merrill Family Visiting Professor.

New archive from Jewish Babylonian exile released

The first extra-biblical archive from the exiled Judean community in Babylonia in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. has been published as part of a series edited by Cornell professor David I. Owen.

High-temperature superconductor 'fingerprint' found

Theorists and experimentalists working together at Cornell may have found the answer to a major challenge in condensed matter physics: identifying the smoking gun of why “unconventional” superconductivity occurs.

Students survey urban aesthetics in Southeast Asia

Students in architecture, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture and Asian and religious studies spent several days together this fall exploring conditions in Southeast Asian cities.

Classicist Fontaine on the Roman way of curing mental illness

Michael Fontaine's studies underscore that many of our current concerns are rediscoveries of themes from Rome and Greece. He has been tracing these parallels in a field not often studied in classics departments: modern psychiatry.

January graduates saluted at intimate ceremony, reception

A Dec. 20 Recognition Ceremony sent forth the January graduates, the first of Cornell's sesquicentennial year.

'Text overlap' clutters scientific papers, arXiv analysis finds

Computerized text analysis of scientific papers in the arXiv repository shows that many authors use text from previous papers of their own and others, not always with attribution.

Weill Cornell students advise pre-med undergrads

Cornell Weill Medical College students are advising undergraduate pre-med students in Ithaca through the the Weill Ithaca Network.

New teaching model a 'game changer'

The College of Arts and Sciences’ Active Learning Initiative has changed the curricula in biology and physics and implemented the use of new classroom technologies.