Top officials from the U.S. and China will meet in Anchorage on Thursday and Friday for the first high level summit after President Biden took office. Cornell University experts, Allen Carlson and Robert Hockett, are available to discuss the political and economic implications of the summit.
Derrick R. Spires, associate professor of English, was awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for his book “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.”
As Cornell settles into the first semester of in-person instruction in over a year, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies is excited to introduce four new program directors and share some of their plans for the academic year.
Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor in the astronomy department and director of the Carl Sagan Institute, will give the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture at the American Astronomical Society virtual meeting.
Fumbling to find flashlights during blackouts soon may be a memory, as quantum computing and AI may quickly solve an electric grid’s hiccups so fast, humans may not notice.
Rather than making people less political, religion shapes people’s political ideas, suppressing important group differences and progressive political positions, according to sociologist Landon Schnabel.
Sara Bronin, an architect and attorney who studies how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed and connected places, comments on new census data showing significant population loss in the country’s largest cities.
A new research field – “environmental technology, or envirotech” – is emerging during an age when food systems span the globe, waste pollutes the natural world and natural disasters seem to have higher impacts on communities.
