Three graduate students chosen for DOE program

The fellowship provides world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources at DOE national laboratories.

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Cornellians named Schwarzman, Goldwater and Udall scholars

Three students and a recent graduate have won national scholarships that will prepare them for future global leadership and careers in STEM and public service. A fifth student received an honorable mention.

Two doctoral students selected as Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows

Doctoral students Chijioke Onah (English language and literature) and Nic Vigilante (music) were selected as two of 45 inaugural Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Innovation Fellows.

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Mayfest chamber music festival returns to Ithaca May 19-23

Cornell's international music festival welcomes longtime friends and new collaborators for five world-class concerts May 19-23.

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Love for Dead & Co. transcends generations

Current students share their love for the Grateful Dead and their excitement for Dead & Company's return to Barton Hall on May 8. 

Neutron star’s X-rays reveal ‘photon metamorphosis’

Quantum electrodynamics can explain the puzzling first observations of polarized X-rays emitted by a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field, according to a Cornell astrophysicist.

Four from Cornell elected to National Academy of Sciences

Johannes Lehmann, Colin Parrish, Bik-Kwoon Tye and Michelle Wang are Cornell’s 2023 electees to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the academy announced May 2 at the close of its 160th annual meeting.

Cornell Center for Social Sciences names spring grantees

New grants from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) will fund research ranging from exploring why people spread polarizing content online to assessing health care access in rural New York.

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Self-folding origami machines powered by chemical reaction

A Cornell-led collaboration harnessed chemical reactions to make microscale origami machines self-fold – freeing them from the liquids in which they usually function, so they can operate in dry environments and at room temperature.