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INAUGURAL PANEL

Garrett moderates Democracy & Inequality panel

Cornell Chronicle

鈥淭hose lacking jobs, education and resources are essentially voiceless in the [democratic] process,鈥 Cornell's new president聽said.聽

NANOTECHNOLOGY

Cornell nanotech facility receives $8M NSF grant

Cornell Chronicle

The National Science Foundation has selected the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) to be part of the newly established National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). Cornell will receive $8 million from the federal agency over five years.

SUSTAINABILITY

Art, Science and the Thirsty World

Listen in as Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize winner and emeritus professor of chemistry, 聽joins with other professors and students to discuss the intersection and integration of cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject of water, through community engagement in Greece, and a collaboration between Cornell and Oxford, in this video from Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.聽

CREATIVE WRITING

Creative writing professor honored with lecture series

A new lecture series at California State University Long Beach that brings ethnic U.S. writers to campus will be named after Helena Viramontes, professor and director of creative writing in Cornell鈥檚 Department of English.聽

CREATIVE WORKS

Katherine Howe releases new novel

Lecturer Katherine Howe of the American Studies Program released her YA novel "The Appearance of Annie Van Sinderen" Sept. 15.This novel follows her New York Times bestseller novel "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane," and her YA debut novel "Conversion," which has been published in 25 languages.

AWARDS

Chemistry assistant prof. receives NSF Early Career award

鈥 Assistant Professor Kyle Lancaster聽of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical 鈥 Assistant Professor Kyle Lancaster 聽of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical 鈥 around $400,00 to $500,000, for a period of five years. 聽 Lancaster will be using his award to investigate how 鈥

ALUMNI

After the Tony, director Sam Gold 鈥00 dives into varied projects

A&S Communications

When director Sam Gold 鈥00 thinks about whether he wants to take on a new project, it鈥檚 all about the challenge of creating something meaningful.鈥淚 want to start with what I believe in and care about, a subject matter that speaks to me or a formal challenge that pushes me as an artist,鈥 he says.

AFRICANA STUDIES

Africana initiatives connect academics, activism

A&S Communications

Center aims to become hub for students interested in research, current issues and making an impact.

TEACHING

Teaching Slavery to Reluctant Listeners

New York Times Magazine

Edward Baptist, associate professor of history, writes about his experience teaching college students about slavery, in this piece in the New York Times magazine.

INCOME INEQUALITY

Measuring impacts of income inequality on democracy

Gretchen Ritter 鈥83, the Harold Tanner Dean of the 麻豆视频 & 麻豆视频, writes about democracy and inequality in this piece in The Cornell Daily Sun.

DISCOVERY

Under Saturnian moon's icy crust lies a 'global' ocean

Cornell Chronicle

The Cassini-Huygens mission could lead to more discoveries in the search for Earth 2.0.

Memorial

M.H. Abrams remembered with verse, music, stories

Cornell Chronicle

A memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium brought together much of what M.H. 鈥淢ike鈥 Abrams cherished 鈥 poetry, Elizabethan music, family, friends and colleagues.

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

Peter Katzenstein sees no new Cold War

Cornell Chronicle

An international studies professor says the U.S.聽is not entering a new Cold War with Russia, but rather a Cold Peace.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Roper Center opinion archive comes to Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

The public opinion archive holds data dating from the 1930s.

INTERNSHIPS

Grants help students take unpaid internships

A&S Communications

Twenty-two Arts & 麻豆视频 students were able to afford unpaid internships with a new grant.