CCMR symposium to explore nanoscale spin

Recent advances in measuring and controlling nanoscale spin systems is the theme of this year’s Cornell Center for Materials Research symposium, May 20.

Einaudi Center announces spring grants

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded 11 seed grants and 11 small grants to faculty from five Cornell colleges in its spring 2014 grant competitions.

Social sciences project to study creativity, entrepreneurship

The next two-year theme project of the Institute for the Social Sciences is "Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship."

First cohort of International Faculty Fellows chosen

Faculty members Andrea Bachner, Victoria Beard, Saurabh Mehta and Daniel Selva will start three-year terms this summer as Cornell’s first cohort of International Faculty Fellows with the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Thomas Seeley waxes poetic on bees

Biologist Thomas Seeley read passages from his book 'Honeybee Democracy' at a Literary Luncheon hosted by President David Skorton and Robin Davisson, who, with Seeley's help, recently took up beekeeping.

In a superconductor, everything happens at once

Observations of a high-temperature superconductor show a "critical point" where significant changes occur.

Economics focuses on undergraduate experience

The Department of Economics has hired an undergraduate student experience coordinator and created a new undergraduate economics lounge. The changes will improve connections between more than 500 undergraduate majors.

New battery test center adds zip to New York economy

Replacing the gasoline economy with better batteries may be accelerated thanks to unique battery testing capabilities at Cornell, and anchored by a new testing and prototyping center that the university helped to establish.

Thinkers tackle atomic war, climate change in diacritics

The new issue of diacritics, the review of contemporary criticism published since 1971, focuses on climate change, the threat of nuclear war and the legacy of Jacques Derrida.