In his first work of fiction, Shimon Edelman, professor of psychology, has published his first fiction e-book. “Beginnings” is an eclectic collection of narratives, poems and essays.
A Sept. 7 conference on campus titled “Speaking to Power in Latin and Greek Literature” brought scholars from around the world to honor Cornell classicist Fred Ahl.
Lois Spier Gray, an iconic ILR School professor who committed her life to advancing social justice and workers’ rights, died Sept. 20 in New York City.
Events on campus include percussionist Ji Hye Jung, author Jon Savage, the Cornell Farmers' Market, a film about Internet prodigy Aaron Swartz and the Ten Minute Playfest at the Schwartz Center.
The wave-like behavior observed in electron cloud fluctuations challenges the widely held belief that van der Waals interactions, ubiquitous in the natural world, are particle-like in nature.
New interdisciplinary research on photocathodes by physics graduate student Siddharth Karkare has the potential to dramatically improve accelerator performance.
Visionary animated filmmakers Timothy and Stephen Quay visited campus for an exhibition of their film sets and decor, screenings of their work and classes with art and film students.
Chemist and Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, a self-proclaimed atheist, discussed science and God with a Christian MIT nuclear scientist March 30. Their differing worldviews had some surprising similarities. (April 3, 2012)