Katherine Howe writes about young women under pressure with a parallel story of an accuser at the Salem witch trials in her first young adult novel, “Conversion,” inspired by actual events.
Professors N'Dri Assie-Lumumba and Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo have each received the 2010 Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York State African Studies Association. (April 15, 2010)
Physics graduate students have grand ideas for what they might find once their detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), goes back online later this year.
More than 200 books published by the Negro Universities Press, reprinting rare historical materials on the black experience, have been donated to the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.
In the last five years, the number of observed osprey in the Cayuga Lake basin have increased sevenfold, including a new nest this year near Cornell’s campus.
Ph.D. student Leliah Krounb is studying how to turn human waste into soil nutrients in Kenya by using pyrolysis – thermal combustion in the absence of oxygen.
Events this week include a panel offering local perspectives on the Vietnam War; "Dunkirk' and "Justice League" at Cornell Cinema; a Cornell Symphony Orchestra concert; and Tesla coils at Science Cabaret.
Andrew R. Chraplyvy and Robert W. Tkach, who have been research partners for more than two decades, will receive the $100,000 award for their research into optical fiber nonlinearities. (July 9, 2009)