麻豆视频

Search : page 553

DIVERSITY

Cornell welcomes most diverse freshman class

Cornell Chronicle

First-year students arriving on campus this week are members of Cornell鈥檚 most racially diverse incoming freshman class since the university began keeping records on race in the early 1980s.

STUDENT LIFE

Prefreshman Summer Program preps students

A&S Communications

Ruby Rhoden 鈥17 expected her arrival at Cornell would be like landing on a new planet, with everything from the social environment to the academics substantially different from where she came from.

RESEARCH

Physics grad student describes women behind the Large Hadron Collider

Discov-HER.com

Margaret Zientek, one of nine PhD students from Cornell working at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, is featured in聽this story聽about women making their way in this male-dominated environment.鈥淚 am working on a search for dark matter particles,鈥 she says

RESEARCH

Book on thought unites neuroscience, humanities

A&S Communications

A new book tackles questions of thought and meaning.

Entrepreneurship

Students spend summer incubating their business ideas

A&S Communications

While most Cornell students headed home for the summer 鈥 off to internships, work or play 鈥 a group of entrepreneurial undergrads and graduate students are staying in Ithaca for intensive business development as part of the new Life Changing Labs (LCL) summer incubator.

Liberal Arts

Senior uses double major to find meaning in small details

A&S Communications

Chinelo Onyilofor 鈥15 has found that her studies in chemistry and art history have taught her the art of looking for small details, whether she鈥檚 finding the hidden meaning in a painting or an answer to solve a chemical synthesis.After she graduates this weekend, Onyilofor, a double major in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频 from Annapolis, Maryland, plans to travel for a year before going to graduate school to pursue a doctorate in organic chemistry.

COLLEGE SCHOLARS

College Scholars study climate change, local food

A&S Communications

When Irene Li 鈥15 isn鈥檛 hunkered down surveying the latest research on the local food movement and social change, she鈥檚 in a Boston kitchen, meeting growers or dreaming up new items for her food truck and restaurant.Li, one of three sibling owners of Mei Mei Kitchen in Boston, is a College Scholar in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, who will return to her family business after graduating.This year鈥檚 class of College Scholars presented their final projects April 17.

UNDERGRAD RESEARCH

Undergrad researches the desecration of cultures

A&S Communications

Anjum Malik 鈥16 used her undergraduate research award to explore the reasons for the destruction of museums and heritage sites in Iraq and Syria.

COMMENTARY

Professor Pepinsky on Financial Scandals in Malaysia

New Mandala

Malaysia is once again in the midst of a serious political scandal, with the allegation that the government-run investment company 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has been used to funnel approximately US$ 700 million to a personal account of Prime Minister Najb Razak, writes Tom Pepinsky, associate professor of government, in this piece.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Grad student explores 'math culture' in Turkey

A&S Communications

As Ellen Abrams considered math-related topics for her doctoral thesis, she knew the summer after her first year would be a good time to explore the options.So the doctoral student in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) chose a two-pronged approach. For the latter part of the summer, she plans to hole up in a library studying the history of mathematics. But before that, she headed to Turkey to do an ethnographic study of a class at Nesin Mathematics Village.

Education

Student 'senators' debate U.S. budget in government class

A&S Communications

鈥淲e鈥檙e down one Democrat. It鈥檚 going to be a slaughter,鈥 someone called out.The students in Suzanne Mettler鈥檚 Introduction to American Government and Politics class huddled in small groups in eight different classrooms, bargaining, brokering deals and negotiating, trying to overcome gridlock and partisan loyalties to pass a budget.

INNOVATION

New teaching model a 'game changer'

A&S Communications

Hundreds of students have just completed new courses in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频鈥 Active Learning Initiative (ALI), part of a strategic effort by the college to embrace engaged learning models and emerging technologies. The ALI five-year pilot project is funded by Alex and Laura Hanson, both Class of 1987.

Education

El Barrio artwork opens students' eyes to East Harlem stories

A&S Communications

For the 15 students in a new interdisciplinary class this semester, the murals common throughout East Harlem have deeper meanings than passersby might realize.

Education

Strogatz helps students find the magic in math

A&S Communications

Math, to a mathematician, is an aesthetic, creative endeavor. But for too many high school students, math has become a reviled, boring subject.It doesn鈥檛 have to be that way, as Steven Strogatz aims to show the students in his new 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频 course, Mathematical Explorations. The course fulfills the math distribution requirement and has attracted seniors who put off taking a math class as long as they could, as well as freshmen intrigued by the course鈥檚 title.

Archaeology

Class examines Cornell past and future

A&S Communications

鈥淲elcome to Cornell Ruins National Park,鈥 Adam T. Smith tells his students. 鈥淲e鈥檙e lucky today. We have a cache of objects to examine discovered in the ruins of McGraw Hall.鈥漈his 鈥淩ise and Fall of 鈥楥ivilization鈥欌 class examines traditional archaeological topics, like kingship and the origins of cities, partly by looking at our current civilization through the lens of a single site 鈥 the Cornell campus as it would look 1,000 years from now.