The 2021 Future Professors Institute encouraged students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty and staff to think about how they can make academia a more welcoming and inclusive space for students of all backgrounds and abilities.
A Cornell-led collaboration has used state-of-the-art computational tools to model the chaotic behavior of Planckian, or “strange,” metals. This behavior has long intrigued physicists, but they have not been able to simulate it down to the lowest possible temperature until now.
Gustavo Flores-Macias says that the USMCA passed in the U.S. Senate only tweaks the existing trade framework, and new benefits to the U.S. economy will be limited and industry specific
C. Richard Johnson will speak about the field of computational art history and discuss preserving and authenticating the works of Vermeer and Rembrandt Nov. 9.
Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 2018 for pioneering “optical tweezers” that use laser light to capture and manipulate microscopic particles, died Sept. 21 at his home in Rumson, N.J. He was 98.
Bryn Rosenfeld, assistant professor of government at Cornell University and an expert on the politics of Russia and Eastern Europe comments on the news that the Russian Prime Minister and his cabinet resigned on Wednesday.
Plant biologist Michael Scanlon received a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program to continue his research on the process of shoot development in maize.
Events at Cornell include a tribute to Toni Morrison; Festival24 at the Schwartz Center; "Rocketman" at Cornell Cinema; the Cornell International Fair; and a lecture on engaging students with global food security.
