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Rising senior studies socio-economics of choosing a major

Emma Korolik '17 is focusing her senior honors thesis on how race, gender and socio-economic status affect students' choice of a college major.

Program enhances grad student, postdoc dialogue skills

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars learned skills for communication in academic settings and building relationships across differences in an Intergroup Dialogue Project summer course.

Gift supports ILR School's Kheel Center archives

A prominent union leader's daughter has bequeathed a $100,000 endowment to the ILR School's Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives.

Want more sex? Split the household chores

Couples who share housework report a notable benefit beyond sparkling dishes and clean floors: more action in the bedroom. That's according to recent research by Sharon Sassler, professor of policy analysis and management.

Understanding freedom and law via psychoanalysis

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.

Things to Do, Aug. 1-19

Events on campus include exhibition hockey at Lynah Rink, free summer concerts, viewing at Fuertes Observatory and an artist reception at Cornell Plantations.

New volume honors classics professor Fred Ahl

“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.

Cornell in Turin students get good view of Euro unrest

Through the Cornell in Turin summer program, students examined such hot-button issues as Brexit and the migrant crisis in the class Population Controversies in Europe and the U.S.

Rawlings engages veterans through ancient texts on war

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.

Six Cornellians set to compete in Summer Olympics in Rio

Six Cornell student-athletes, past and present, will represent four different countries when the 2016 Olympic Summer Games kick off Aug. 5 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Microscope becomes gauge to measure forces within crystals

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.

Deadline to nominate staff for three awards is Sept. 9

Through Sept. 9, faculty and staff can nominate staff members for two employee awards – an individual excellence award and a management award – and a new President’s Award for Innovation in Diversity and Inclusion.