Conference to celebrate 50 years of Dan Schwarz's teaching

The English department will host alumni, faculty and students to celebrate a half-century of teaching at Cornell by Daniel Schwarz, March 23-24.

Medieval and Renaissance scholar speaks March 19

Historian Karen Sullivan of Bard College will speak about “Tales of Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Adventures on the Second Crusade” March 19.

Grant seeks to diversify participation in biology, biomedical graduate studies

A new initiative aims to increase participation rates and enhance the success of under-represented ethnic minorities and students who are deaf or hard of hearing in biological and biomedical graduate fields at Cornell.

Alumna Julie Schumacher to give reading March 15

Julie Schumacher, MFA ’86, award-winning author of “Dear Committee Members,” talks about creative writing programs, academia as source material and her Cornell mentors in advance of her reading on campus March 15.

Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together

Research from Cornell and the University of Chicago has revealed a technique to “sew” two patches of crystals seamlessly together to create atomically thin fabrics.

Soup & Hope speaker uses love of languages to push for social change

José Armando Fernandez Guerrero draws from his past and his love of linguistics to begin to help those speaking an indigenous language receive an education.

Staff News

Undergrad researcher helps combat antibiotic resistance in cholera

Andrew Rosenblatt ’20, student in the lab of Tobias Doerr, assistant professor of microbiology, is working to make cholera less resistant to treatment by a broad range of antibiotics.

Levine keeps the 'Norton Anthology of World Literature' fresh

As the 19th-century editor for the “Norton Anthology of World Literature,” Caroline Levine has radically revised the collection’s structure and selections.

Novel semiconductor-superconductor structure features versatile gallium nitride

A research group led by Debdeep Jena of electrical and chemical engineering has successfully constructed a semiconductor-superconductor heterostructure that could help change electronics.