New Cornell certificate helps create the ethical data science workplace of the future

M. Elizabeth Karns has partnered with eCornell to launch a new Data Ethics online certificate program to give data science practitioners tools to build ethics into every project phase and data science workplace.

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Mayfest chamber music festival returns to Ithaca May 20-24

The music department's annual springtime festival of world-class chamber music will feature performances by exceptional guest artists from around the world.

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Major progress made in construction of Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope

Once it is assembled in Chile, the telescope will deliver a high-throughput, wide-field of view that will be able to map the sky rapidly and efficiently at submillimeter to millimeter wavelengths.

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Travel grants help graduate students conduct research across the globe

The Graduate School awarded more than 100 Research Travel Grants over three rounds of funding in 2021-22. Grants provide financial support for research students to conduct thesis or dissertation research away from campus.

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Graduate student selected for DOE program

Zepyoor Khechadoorian’s project in high energy physics will be the measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, working with Fermilab advisor Chris Polly.

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Four elected to National Academy of Sciences

An agricultural economist, a theoretical physicist, a plant biologist and a physiologist have each been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced May 3.

Mechanism ‘splits’ electron spins in magnetic material

Cornell researchers discovered a strategy to switch the magnetization in thin layers of a ferromagnet – a technique that could eventually lead to the development of more energy-efficient magnetic memory devices.

Misperceptions can threaten scientific advancement

Misperceptions of marginalized and disadvantaged communities’ level of concern regarding COVID-19 and other issues could undermine cooperation and trust needed to address collective problems, according to new Cornell-led research.

Mall exhibit opens with ancient Greek concert

The Sculpture Shoppe, an exhibition of plaster reproductions of classical Greco-Roman art from the Cornell Cast Collection, opens May 5 at the Ithaca Mall with a live performance of modernized ancient Greek songs.