Rising senior studies socio-economics of choosing a major

Emma Korolik '17 is focusing her senior honors thesis on how race, gender and socio-economic status affect students' choice of a college major.

Gift supports ILR School's Kheel Center archives

A prominent union leader's daughter has bequeathed a $100,000 endowment to the ILR School's Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives.

Understanding freedom and law via psychoanalysis

Tracy McNulty, chair of comparative literature and professor of French and comparative literature, teaches interdisciplinary courses on as the origins of language, myth and symbolic thought.

Things to Do, Aug. 1-19

Events on campus include exhibition hockey at Lynah Rink, free summer concerts, viewing at Fuertes Observatory and an artist reception at Cornell Plantations.

New volume honors classics professor Fred Ahl

“Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry,” a book in honor of classics professor Frederick Ahl and edited by two of his former students, has just been released.

Rawlings engages veterans through ancient texts on war

Using ancient Greek texts on war and honor to teach critical reading skills, President Rawlings led one of the class sessions in the 2016 Warrior Scholar Project July 27.

Students find Japanese cultural practices 'magical'

Jane-Marie Law, associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies, led 14 students on a 12-day trip to Japan in June after a semester-long class on Zen Buddhism.

Mary Beth Norton to lead American Historical Association

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, has been elected president of the American Historical Association. Her one-year term as president will begin in January 2018.

The next 25 years: arXiv looks to the future

On its 25th anniversary, the arXiv repository of scientific papers plans improvements based on user requests.