Cornell representatives attended in the first board meeting in Chile of the institutions planning to build the world's largest submillimeter wavelength telescope.
A new endowed fund and an annual award for Ph.D. students finishing their dissertations on poetry have been established in memory of recent Cornell alumnus and poetry scholar Alan Young-Bryant.
Philosopher Jill North, a proponent of wave function realism, has published an essay titled “The Structure of a Quantum World," included in a new book of essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics.
Assistant professor of music Roger Moseley argues that Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in E flat, Opus 31, No. 3, is an auditory depiction of the composer's deafness.
Cornell faculty members Sam Beck, Nelson Hairston, Alicia Orta-Ramirez and Thomas Ruttledge have been chosen for the 2013 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards.
The fact that women are much less likely than men to choose science, technology, education and math majors in college, can be traced to gender differences in occupational plans in high school, reports a new Cornell study.
Actor, director and writer Alan Alda will visit campus May 21-24 to lead a workshop for scientists on communicating science, with a public lecture May 22.
