Swati Sureka is U.S. winner of Keasbey Scholarship

Swati Sureka '15, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won a Keasbey Scholarship to pursue graduate study in the United Kingdom for two years.

Three alumni win million euro Brain Prize

Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89, Karel Svoboda ’88, and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, have won the Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work with two-photon microscopy. All three graduates worked in the laboratory of Watt Webb.

Things to Do, March 20-27

Events this week include a dance festival and hip-hop symposium at the Schwartz Center, Cornell Cinema's Elegant Winter Party, a Messenger Lecture by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña and Dragon Day.

Milky Way's center unveils supernova 'dust factory'

Sifting through the center of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have made the first direct observations – using an infrared telescope aboard a modified Boeing 747 – of cosmic building-block dust that survived an ancient supernova.

Book on Mexican art reveals echoes of colonial history

A recent book by associate professor María Fernández, exploring Mexico’s visual culture over the past four centuries, has received an award as a work of Latin American art history.

Charter Day panelist preview: musicologist Judith Peraino

Cornell professor of musicology Judith Peraino will speak at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, Sunday, April 26, 9-10:30 a.m., at Alice Statler Auditorium.

Second International Faculty Fellows cohort chosen

A medical doctor fighting the spread of HIV around the world, international legal and foreign relations scholars and a labor scholar are among the second cohort of International Faculty Fellows.

Fruit flies correct midair rolls in milliseconds

Cornell researchers have discovered that fruit flies stabilize themselves during flight using a control reflex that’s among the fastest in the animal kingdom.

Alumni entrepreneurs, investors to return for 'Celebration'

Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s annual Celebration conference will be held Thursday and Friday, April 16-17, on campus with a number of successful alumni returning to discuss what they have learned through their ups and downs.