Claudia Goldin ’67 wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Goldin’s research has revealed the reasons for gender gaps in labor force participation and earnings. She is the third woman to win the economics Nobel, and the first to win it individually rather than sharing the prize.

October India conference features government, corporate leaders

N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys Limited, will offer the keynote address during an India Conference at Cornell Oct. 13-15.

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Performance and conference honor Viramontes

Held Oct. 20-21, “Lest Silence Be Destructive" will feature readings, discussions and the first public performance of a musical album based on the work of Helena María Viramontes.

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Author Jemisin builds ‘the world from scratch’

Fantasy author N.K. Jemisin spoke Oct. 4 at the Bartels World Affairs Lecture, hosted by the Einaudi Center, in a talk focused on how to investigate our world and beliefs about it, and how to use what we learn to imagine and construct a better future.

Poet and scholar of digital media to deliver annual Digital Humanities Lecture

Tung-Hui Hu will talk on “The Grid vs. the Set: Early Attempts at Classifying Data” October 18.

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Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Novelist and short-story writer Manuel Muñoz, M.F.A. ’98, has been awarded a $800,000 “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Chemistry professors win Cope Prize

The Cope Scholar Award recognizes contributions to organic chemistry.

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Kessler Fellows gain startup experience at internships

The 18 students in the College of Engineering's Kessler Fellows program recently completed funded summer internships at a startup of their choice. Four interns went into depth about their experiences.

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Coming home: Gayogohó:nǫˀ language programs expand reach

Four Cornell-funded projects are expanding efforts to preserve and highlight the Gayogohó:nǫˀ (Cayuga Nation) language and culture, in western New York and throughout the country.