Andy Arnold '13 spent six months in Kenya researching elite runners to learn how a group of people from a small corner of East Africa could rise to become the most dominant athletes in the world.
Cash in your frequent flier miles and book a cruise to far-flung, exotic exoplanets. Cornell astronomers Lisa Kaltenegger and others offer two dozen perfectly placed exoplanets with potential for life.
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.
“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.
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.
A Cornell-led research team has proposed a way to measure the forces between the particles that surround defects in colloidal crystals, which could help predict the behavior of materials under stress.
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.