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Chris Kitchen From left, Jack Donnellen, Aindri Patra, Shuqian Lyu and Alexander Burnett are four of the newest members of the Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program.
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Chris Kitchen From left, Jack Donnellen, Aindri Patra, Shuqian Lyu and Alexander Burnett are four of the newest members of the Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program.
Academic opportunities

New College Scholars research climate, health care, legal interpretation

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Martha Haynes with glasses, shoulder-length gray hair in a red top, with blurred stars on screen behind her
Jason Koski/Cornell University Martha Haynes speaks at Reunion 2013.
Graphic showing a clear object like a glass on its side, representing Big Bang expansion
Photo Credit: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/the-big-bang-and-expansion-of-the-universe
Astronomy

Learn about the cosmos with Cornell astronomers

Alumni Affairs & Development
Three takeout food packages against a yellow background
Agenlaku Indonesia/Unsplash High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is ubiquitous in single-use applications such as packaging and containers, labeled with the number two inside the triangular recycling symbol.
Three takeout food packages against a yellow background
Agenlaku Indonesia/Unsplash High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is ubiquitous in single-use applications such as packaging and containers, labeled with the number two inside the triangular recycling symbol.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Scientists enhance recyclability of waste plastic

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person wearing blue shirt stands in front of complicated silver equipment
Chris Kitchen Manipulating the properties of atomic material helps Paul Malinowski understand the fundamental physics of how different quantum phases develop and are related to each other.
person wearing blue shirt stands in front of complicated silver equipment
Chris Kitchen Manipulating the properties of atomic material helps Paul Malinowski understand the fundamental physics of how different quantum phases develop and are related to each other.
Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow Malinowski creates and tests quantum materials

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Large aircraft without a cockpit parked on a runway at sunset
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle parked on a taxiway at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada
Large aircraft without a cockpit parked on a runway at sunset
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle parked on a taxiway at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada
Government

Drones in modern war: evolutionary or revolutionary?

Cornell Chronicle
Person shouts joyfully, waving a card that says "American Idol"
ABC/Eric McCandless American Idol's superstar judges all agreed that Amara Valerio '24 is headed for Hollywood.
Person shouts joyfully, waving a card that says "American Idol"
ABC/Eric McCandless American Idol's superstar judges all agreed that Amara Valerio '24 is headed for Hollywood.
Student experiences

Amara Valerio ’24 advances on ‘American Idol’

Cornell Chronicle
White flag showing a red, white and blue skull graphic in front of a campus clock tower
Cornell University file photo Cornellians gathered to listen to the Cornell Chimes play Grateful Dead songs on 2017 Grateful Dead Day, the 40th Anniversary of the famous 1977 Grateful Dead concert at Barton Hall.
White flag showing a red, white and blue skull graphic in front of a campus clock tower
Cornell University file photo Cornellians gathered to listen to the Cornell Chimes play Grateful Dead songs on 2017 Grateful Dead Day, the 40th Anniversary of the famous 1977 Grateful Dead concert at Barton Hall.
About 20 people sit at long tables arranged in a horseshoe shape
Provided Participants in the Peace Games consider a nonviolent response to a simulated international crisis. Congressional staff members were invited to the event, sponsored by Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and by the U.S. Institute of Peace.
About 20 people sit at long tables arranged in a horseshoe shape
Provided Participants in the Peace Games consider a nonviolent response to a simulated international crisis. Congressional staff members were invited to the event, sponsored by Institute of Politics and Global Affairs at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and by the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Government

Peace Games underscore options to war

Cornell Chronicle
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Matt Fern/Phase 7 Jamila Michener, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, senior associate dean of public engagement in the Brooks School and co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, speaking Feb. 22 at the White House
Person speaking at a podium; American flag in the background
Matt Fern/Phase 7 Jamila Michener, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, senior associate dean of public engagement in the Brooks School and co-director of the Cornell Center for Health Equity, speaking Feb. 22 at the White House
Two people stand in front of a red backgroun, holding a framed diploma
Jason Koski/Cornell University Earle (left) with Ed Helms during the actor’s Convocation visit. Earle is holding Andy Bernard’s faux diploma from the set of “The Office,” which he received as a birthday gift from his brother, University Archivist Evan Earle ’02, MS ’14.
Two people stand in front of a red backgroun, holding a framed diploma
Jason Koski/Cornell University Earle (left) with Ed Helms during the actor’s Convocation visit. Earle is holding Andy Bernard’s faux diploma from the set of “The Office,” which he received as a birthday gift from his brother, University Archivist Evan Earle ’02, MS ’14.
Person in plaid jacket sits at a bus stop
Provided “Heading into Night,” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, explores the unexpected humor and discoveries to be found in the loss of memory.
Person in plaid jacket sits at a bus stop
Provided “Heading into Night,” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, explores the unexpected humor and discoveries to be found in the loss of memory.
Performing and Media Arts

Clown play captures complex emotions of cognitive loss

Cornell Chronicle
Four people in winter gear stand around a tall, thin piece of equipment
Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP/Schmidt Members of Britney Schmidt’s Icefin team after completing their first mission exploring conditions beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, near where it meets Kamb Ice Stream, in December 2019.
Red circle with blue light at the end and two threads leading down
Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP/Schmidt/Quartini The remotely operated underwater vehicle Icefin, developed by a team led by Britney Schmidt, is visible as it is lowered via a 4.3-mm fiber-optic tether through a borehole to start one of three dives beneath the Ross Ice Shelf near Kamb Ice Stream in Dedcember 2019. A tent shelter’s color is reflected in the ice.
four people in lab coats look at a small, rectangular object together
Provided Members of the Alpha CubeSat team – from left, João Maria de Mesquita ’20, doctoral student Joshua Umansky-Castro, Stephanie Young ’23 and Siqi Qian ’21 – look at a hologram that features a sculpture created by Ithaca-born artist C Bangs.
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Provided A new museum exhibit showcases the Alpha CubeSat project, in which a small, low-cost satellite and light sail will be adorned with holographic art as a means of interstellar communication.
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Cornell University Archives Above, two women students in Clara Dickson Hall, from "Fighting for More than a M.R.S. Degree," a story shared by Xiyu Mei and Juno Salazar Parreñas.
Drawing collage showing a face, a branch with pink blossoms and a clock tower
Soontira Sutanont/Cornell University Kimi Gengo, a poet, literary pioneer and advocate for Japanese Americans who attended Cornell from 1924-1925 and 1928-1930 is one of the changemakers featured in Any Person, Many Stories. Her story is shared by Claire Deng, '22.
Public history

Public history project reveals stories of Cornell changemakers

Cornell Chronicle
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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Clinton Foundation Students meet at eHub in Kennedy Hall.
Eight students face forward
Sreang Hok/Cornell University Clinton Foundation Students meet at eHub in Kennedy Hall.
Student experiences

Students to develop their ideas for social change

Cornell Chronicle
Dark space, interrupted by two black holes
Aurore Simonnet/LIGO-Caltech-MIT-Sonoma State An artist’s conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO.
Dark space, interrupted by two black holes
Aurore Simonnet/LIGO-Caltech-MIT-Sonoma State An artist’s conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO.
Physics

Physicists create new model of ringing black holes

A&S Communications
Purple and green spikes radiate outward in a microscopic image of a cell
Provided/Leslie Babonis Developing stinging cells (magenta and aqua) in a larva of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis.
Purple and green spikes radiate outward in a microscopic image of a cell
Provided/Leslie Babonis Developing stinging cells (magenta and aqua) in a larva of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Single gene causes stinging cell to lose its sting

Cornell Chronicle
Three tiers of scientific vials containing liquid glowing in a rainbow range from green to dark blue.
Provided Light-sensitive molecules arranged in metal-organic frameworks (MOF) glow different colors under UV light, showing energy diffusion differences.
Three tiers of scientific vials containing liquid glowing in a rainbow range from green to dark blue.
Provided Light-sensitive molecules arranged in metal-organic frameworks (MOF) glow different colors under UV light, showing energy diffusion differences.
Climate research

Color coding aids evaluation of new solar tech materials

Cornell Chronicle
Two people sign a document on a podium
Jason Koski/Cornell University Ray Halbritter, left, representing the Oneida Indian Nation, and President Martha E. Pollack, sign documents that repatriate ancestral remains from the university to the Oneida Indian Nation.
Two people sign a document on a podium
Jason Koski/Cornell University Ray Halbritter, left, representing the Oneida Indian Nation, and President Martha E. Pollack, sign documents that repatriate ancestral remains from the university to the Oneida Indian Nation.
Split image showing a rocky landscape on both left (Mars) and right (Atacama Desert in Chile)
Mars photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Atacama photo: Armando Azua-Bustos/Provided On the left is of the Jezero Crater, on the surface of Mars; the image on the right is the Red Stone Jurassic fossil delta of the Atacama Desert in northwestern Chile, a popular geological analog for Mars.
Split image showing a rocky landscape on both left (Mars) and right (Atacama Desert in Chile)
Mars photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Atacama photo: Armando Azua-Bustos/Provided On the left is of the Jezero Crater, on the surface of Mars; the image on the right is the Red Stone Jurassic fossil delta of the Atacama Desert in northwestern Chile, a popular geological analog for Mars.
Astronomy

Life on Mars? Better tools needed to get the answer

Cornell Chronicle
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Provided Jessie Kapstad '24, right, poses with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, during his summer experience last year.
man and woman
Provided Jessie Kapstad '24, right, poses with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, during his summer experience last year.
Student experiences

Summer Experience Grant applications now open

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