In his new book “Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe,” mathematician Steven Strogatz explores the history, big ideas and applications of a subject that is essential in everything from how smartphones operate to the latest innovations in medicine.
Professor of music and Bach scholar David Yearsley provides a portrait of Anna Magdalena Bach in his new book, fleshing out a member of the Bach family considered “history’s most famous musical wife and mother.”
Research co-authored by assistant professor of physics Brad Ramshaw sheds new light onto the unusual properties of the high-temperature superconductor strontium lanthanum copper oxide.
Chiara Galli, one of six members of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships inaugural cohort, researches the U.S. asylum process, specifically the experiences of unaccompanied minors.
Graduate students in six fields of study have designed an evolution lesson on speciation for undergraduate non-majors that applies active-learning techniques. The lesson was published in CourseSource.
George Lowery, the Cornell Chronicle’s managing editor, whose sharp pen, affable personality and spirited laugh became the heart of the busy news organization, died Dec. 10 in Ithaca. He was 60 years old.
Christopher Morrison Pierce, M.S. ’19, a doctoral candidate in physics, and Brennan Hyden, a doctoral candidate in plant breeding, have been chosen for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.
Max Spivak ’07, MBA ’14, MILR ’15, and his wife Kate Spivak have launched a company, Laally, to manufacture and sell Kate’s invention, a breastfeeding supplementation device called the Bridge.