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.
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.
Entrepreneurial silent-film star Irene Castle, who filmed for Ithaca's Wharton Studios, enabled new fashion possibilities that came to epitomize 1920s style. A multimedia exhibit runs through Aug. 15.
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.
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)
Sweet meets heat in “We Cayenne Change the World,” a rich, velvety chocolate ice cream, with a burst of cayenne pepper. Get an extra scoop, as it won Cornell’s annual Food Science 1101 final project.
New interdisciplinary research on photocathodes by physics graduate student Siddharth Karkare has the potential to dramatically improve accelerator performance.
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.