A revolutionary instrument that will expedite the discovery of new, artificial forms of matter will be funded by a $4.13 million gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.
Stress from having to keep a secret - one’s sexual orientation, for example - can cause lapses in physical stamina, intellectual acuity, executive function and even email etiquette, according to a study by Cornell and Berkeley psychologists.
Two graduating seniors with records of excellence in undergraduate research, athletics and community service, Samantha Olyha and Emily Shearer, are heading to Oxford as Cornell’s 2014 Marshall Scholarship recipients.
A new book by English Professor Fredric V. Bogel argues for a new kind of literary analysis to be used in addition to the approaches that have come to dominate the field in the last 50 years.
