Four Cornell faculty members are among 213 national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists and business leaders elected new fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Millions of people around the world hushed on Feb. 18 to hear NASA engineer Swati Mohan ’04 calmly call the play-by-play of Perseverance rover landing on Mars.
Faculty profiles: Jawad Addoum, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management; Julia Chang, Department of Romance Studies; Matt D'Amore, Cornell Law School; and Karen Levy, Information Science and Cornell Law School.
Events this week include classic horror films at Cornell Cinema, a reading by four alumni writers; and an exhibit and artists' talk tracing utopian progress through architecture.
Recent multidisciplinary research at Cornell, led by Dr. Michelle Delco from the College of Veterinary Medicine, reveals that the application of a proprietary peptide may protect cartilage from osteoarthritis.
Adul Samon came to campus for a six-week Precollege program this summer to study biology and take a personal essay course. Adul was one of 12 boys who, along with their soccer coach, were trapped in a flooded underground cave in Thailand in 2018. Their dramatic rescue was recently made into the film Thirteen Lives.
“Firing the Canon,” a College of Arts and Sciences sesquicentennial exhibit, explores how Cornell’s prized collection of plaster casts was “embraced, defaced and dethroned.”
Three pairs of early career scientists have been named the inaugural Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech. They will work jointly under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance brain technologies.