Cornell will mark the launch of its access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archives with a talk by columnist and Rwandan genocide expert Philip Gourevitch '86, Nov. 3.
Cornell professor Jonathan Culler was recently elected to chair the board of directors of the New York Council for the Humanities, which supports public humanities programming across New York state.
More than 100 economics majors read “The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life” over winter break. The department also offered credit to students to write papers about the book.
Physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, will present the lecture, “Three cheers for ‘Shut up and Calculate!’in Fundamental Physics" on Sept. 25.
The “New Day at the MTA” conference, co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Empire State Development Corporation, explored solutions for an aging transit system that moves 8.6 million people a day.
Cornell engineers are the first to study thermal transport in 2D hybrid perovskites – a new class of materials with promising applications for photovoltaics and thermoelectronics.
Katja C. Nowack, Cornell assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected by the Department of Energy to receive significant funding for research over five years.
Rachel Bean, professor of astronomy, is among a team of 27 scientists who won a share of the $3 million 2018 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics Dec. 3.
At Cornell’s largest-ever winter graduate recognition ceremony, President Martha E. Pollack congratulated more than 540 graduates and encouraged them to continue to explore different perspectives through reading.
A $30 million gift from Margaret and Richard Riney has endowed and named the Cornell Margaret and Richard Riney Canine Health Center at the College of Veterinary Medicine to improve the health and well-being of dogs.