Connecting video games and creative writing
Student says video games "have a vast capacity for expression and emotion, and a huge potential for humanistic inquiry."
Read moreStudent says video games "have a vast capacity for expression and emotion, and a huge potential for humanistic inquiry."
Read more<p>When Cornell physicists Robert Richardson, David Lee and Douglas Osheroff received the 1996 Nobel Prize for their discovery of the superfluid state of liquid helium, it was only the beginning. Now a new team of Cornell researchers, building on that work, have found new complexities in the phenome...
Read more<p>With the introduction of CBETA, the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator, Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists are following up on the concept of energy-recovering particle accelerators first introduced by physicist Maury Tigner at Cornell more than 50 years ago.</p...
Read more<div id="wrap"><div id="content"><div id="page-pattern"><div id="display-content"><div><div id="block-system-main"><div><div><div id="main"><div><p>Solitary waves – known as solitons – appear in many forms. Perhaps the most recognizable is the tsunami, which forms following a disruption on the ocean...
Read more<p>On the famous list of the “161 Things to Do at Cornell” is spending a summer in Ithaca. From doing research with a professor to assisting with summer programs, students say spending a summer at Cornell can be a rewarding experience.</p><p>“This is my second summer staying in Ithaca,” said Alice J...
Read moreOn June 16-17, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) held a symposium in the Physical Sciences Building to explore using origami to create machines at the micron scale using atomically thin materials.
Read moreBiophysics is a science of shapes – the shapes of molecules like DNA as they wrap and unwrap around protein cores, for instance. Cornell researchers have unveiled a new method for observing such processes in real time.Professor of applied and engineering physics Lois Pollack and her research group h...
Read moreNucleosomes are tightly packed bunches of DNA and protein which, when linked together as chromatin, form each of the 46 chromosomes found in human cells.The organization of DNA in nucleosomes is important not just for DNA packaging; it also forms the basis for the regulation of gene expression. By c...
Read moreRachel Bean shared some of the most recent discoveries about the history of the cosmos with a packed room of alumni June 7 during Reunion 2014. The associate professor of astronomy also talked about unresolved cosmic mysteries and encouraged young attendees to consider a career studying the heavens....
Read moreRachel Bean, professor of astronomy, has been named the first senior associate dean of undergraduate education for the College of Arts & Sciences and will begin her position on July 1. The appointment is the next step in a restructuring of the college’s admissions and advising office, which is u...
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