Juliana Hu Pegues wins ASA book prize for ‘Space-Time Colonialism’

The prize recognizes the best first book in American Studies released during 2021.

Around Cornell

New Muses Project injects diversity into classical music choices

The New Muses Project is a platform that provides recommendations of composers based on a person’s current preferences, with a focus on composers that have been historically excluded from the canon.

New serotonin findings could help treat depression, anxiety

The research from the Boyce Thompson Institute focuses on neurotransmitter serotonin, which carries messages between nerve cells and is thought to play a role in several mental health conditions.

Words matter in food freshness, safety messaging

Changing the wording about expiration dates on perishable food items – which is currently unregulated and widely variable – could help reduce food waste, according to a new Cornell-led study.

Keeping electricity affordable on wireless charging highways

Efficient pricing will be crucial to minimize energy costs for private operators who provide on-the-highway wireless charging for electric cars – and for consumers who will use this service.

After two-year hiatus, Insectapalooza is ‘Glad to Bee Back’

Cornell entomology students and faculty are pulling out all the stops for the 17th annual festival, which returns after pandemic-related cancellations the last two years.

Crowd gathers to wish ‘happy birthday’ to Fuertes telescope

The Fuertes Observatory and its Friday night open houses, where visitors can marvel at the starry sky through “Irv,” the Irving Porter Church Telescope, were bright spots in a dark pandemic freshman year for Gillis Lowry ’24.

At 88, Greenberg still on cutting edge with new course

At 88 years old, professor Don Greenberg ’55 is still on the cutting edge: He’s launched a new undergraduate and graduate course for students in both architecture and computer science, “Design in the Age of Digital Twins.”

Staff News

‘Blood Novels’ explores material, metaphor in Spanish realist fiction

Blood plays an important role – as both plot element and metaphor – in novels by Spain’s most prominent writers of the 19th century, according to literary scholar Julia Chang.