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This year’s most-read Chronicle story announced the return to Cornell of Dead & Company, which included members of the Grateful Dead, for a fundraising concert on May 8, benefiting Cornell’s 2030 Project and the nonprofit MusiCares.
Young people on social media may be posing for their friends – but potential employers and others who could impact their professional lives are viewing these posts, too.
In a new study by Cornell psychology researchers, female applicants for scholarships or jobs were viewed less favorably than males when study participants, acting as decision-makers, were shown “sexy” social media photos…
Steven Jackson believes a university should be, first and foremost, about educating students, and that core belief will inspire him in his new role as vice provost for academic innovation (VPAI).
“My interest in the position really came from my central commitment as a teacher at Cornell,” said Jackson, professor in the Department of Information Science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of…
Neurons in a key area of the brain have different functions based on their exact genetic identity, and understanding this diversity could lead to better understanding of the brain’s computational flexibility and memory capacity, potentially informing disease treatment options, Cornell researchers report in a new study.
Pyramidal cells in the CA1 region of the hippocampus, once thought to…
A soil scientist, a virologist, a molecular biologist and a biophysicist are Cornell’s 2023 electees to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the academy announced May 2 at the close of its 160th annual meeting.
The newly elected members are: Johannes Lehmann, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section, in the College of…
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State Capitol Building, Madison, Wisconsin
As large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 are further developed, they will naturally become better at using available information to generate useful text on virtually any topic – not only by the phrase or sentence, but by the whole document.
Employing AI to write entire messages in an arena where personal correspondence is both crucial and nearly impossible – representative government …
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.
Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of ancient life on the red planet may not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, according to an international research team co-led by a Cornell astrobiologist.
In a paper published Feb. 21 in Nature Communications, senior author Alberto G. Fairén, a visiting scientist in the Department…
… Pendergrass and Andrej Singer have won 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships, established in 1955, support early-career … and Canada who this year have received two-year, $75,000 fellowships to advance their work. “Sloan Research Fellows …
When most drivers see a slip of paper under their windshield wiper, they’re unhappy about it – and maybe a little angry, probably with themselves – but they pay the fine. Parking tickets are a fact of life.
But there are some people who, for a variety of reasons, just don’t pay up – and wind up with additional fines or even the loss of their vehicle. And Ori Heffetz, associate professor in…
… engineering and mathematics. The Schmidt AI in Science Fellowships, a $148 million program, is part of Schmidt … improve lives across the globe. The Schmidt AI in Science Fellowships program seeks to accelerate the incorporation of …
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Cornell President Martha E. Pollack delivers her State of the University address Oct. 14 in Kennedy Hall.
Cornell’s aspirations and achievements, the success of its ongoing fundraising campaign and its extraordinary faculty and students were highlights of President Martha E. Pollack’s State of the University address, delivered Oct. 14 to an on-campus audience of more than 450 Trustee-Council Annual Meeting attendees in Kennedy Hall, as well as livestream viewers.
“The work that Cornell is…
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The Presidential Advisors on Diversity and Equity (PADE) have awarded three Belonging at Cornell innovation grants for 2022 programming, for projects addressing a range of topics involving diversity, equity and inclusion on all of Cornell’s campuses.
Similar to last year, PADE had originally sought two projects in its request for proposals, but three projects stood out such that the…
Collaborative research is as fundamental to life at Cornell as hourly chimes, Big Red hockey and Slope Day. It’s a commitment the university takes seriously – and now it’s expanding.
Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff has announced that Artificial Intelligence, Design + Technology and Quantum Science and Technology will become part of the “Radical Collaboration Drives Discovery” initiative,…
In a diverse society, attitudes and perspectives on police and policing vary based on lived experiences.
Published research in 2020 found that Black and white Americans, when asked to take the perspective of a juror who would have to decide whether an officer should be indicted, reached different conclusions, even when presented with identical evidence. But does the language used to…
Sabrina Karim, Hardis Assistant Professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Sciences, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award. Ten other assistant professors at Cornell also received awards.
Over the next five years, each will receive approximately $400,000 to $600,000 from the program, which supports early-career…
For Bruce Lewenstein, the role of university ombudsman is not just an important and rewarding job – it’s something of a calling.
“I like being the person to connect others,” said Lewenstein, who served as student ombudsman during his senior year at the University of Chicago, in 1980. “When there’s an argument, almost always my instinct is to say, ‘Yeah, there’s something good on this side, and…
Seven Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
The association elected 564 new fellows in 2021, honoring their efforts to advance research and its applications in scientifically or socially distinguished ways. New fellows will be presented with an official certificate…
Cornell assistant professors researching artificial intelligence, sustainable energy and digitization in manufacturing have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.
Over the next five years, the three researchers each will receive approximately $400,000 to $500,000 from the program, which supports early-career faculty “who have the potential to…
Researchers studying a range of topics including new feature detection tools for signal processing, computational de-randomization and machine learning applications for health care and infrastructure are among the 11 Cornell faculty members who have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.
Over the next five years, each will receive…
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Anjan Mani ’23 (left) and Alexander Chung ’21, near the Arts Quad.
Alexander Chung ’21 has been a competitive swimmer for years, and was a lifeguard in his hometown of Rockville, Maryland, before arriving at Cornell.
But until March 10, he’d never had to save someone from drowning.
That all changed on a balmy Wednesday afternoon at Taughannock Falls State Park, about seven miles north of Ithaca, when Chung and fellow students Anjan Mani ’23 and Felipe…
As far as author Ijeoma Oluo is concerned, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody is hardly the American hero he’s made out to be.
“The only thing that really made him exceptional,” said Oluo, author of ““Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America,” released in December 2020, “was his ability to wreak carnage on people and animals, and what a good liar he was.”
Oluo, the…
Rachit Agarwal, Sasha Rush, Katherine A. Tschida and Madeleine Udell have won 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships support early-career faculty members’ original research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics.
Tschida is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, in the College of Arts and Sciences;…
Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo will give the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell, in a virtual forum on March 1 at 7 p.m.
Instead of a lecture, this year’s event will be a conversation between Oluo and Edward Baptist, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences and author of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American…
Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History Emerita in the College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss her book, “1774: The Long Year of Revolution,” in the next “Book Breaks” discussion, hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.
The virtual event is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31; register here.
The book, released in…
With a growing global population will come increased energy consumption, and sustainable forms of energy sources such as solar fuels and solar electricity will be in even greater demand. And as these forms of power proliferate, the focus will shift to improved efficiency.Photoelectrodes and photovoltaics such as solar panels often feature thin films of silicon or other nanostructured…
David Wilson Henderson, professor emeritus of mathematics, died Dec. 20 in Newark, Delaware, from injuries suffered when he was struck by a vehicle in a pedestrian crosswalk in Bethany Beach, Delaware. He was 79.According to published reports, Henderson was struck shortly after 5 p.m. on Dec. 19. After being taken to nearby Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Delaware, Henderson was transported to…
Innovative research with great impact is one of Cornell’s hallmarks, and to recognize some of the best examples of that work, the Office of the Provost has established an annual award that highlights the depth and breadth of the university’s research efforts.The inaugural Provost Research Innovation Awards recognize midcareer faculty from engineering, the humanities, life sciences, social…
Nine Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.The association elected 417 new fellows for 2018, honoring their efforts to advance research and its applications in scientifically or socially distinguished ways. New fellows will receive a certificate and a gold and blue …
What are the biggest threats facing inhabitants of Earth in the 21st century? A two-day symposium will bring together people from across the university for a dialogue on the “grand challenges” of a world that’s both more connected than ever and increasingly fractured.The Cornell Global Grand Challenges Symposium is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 8, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall, and…
The maelstrom surrounding the nomination and subsequent confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was to be expected, when one justice’s vote could change the country’s moral compass for generations. But looking at the high court over a period of decades, have political leanings been its strongest barometer?No, says Eddie Lee, doctoral student in physics, who applied a statistical…
Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, whose invention of “optical tweezers” realized his own science fiction dream of being able to move objects with light, was among three physicists named by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. The announcement was made Oct. 2 in Stockholm.Ashkin, who at age 96 sets a record as the oldest Nobel winner in the award’s 112…
Award-winning senior astronomy research associate Lawrence Kidder, who contributed to the 2016 confirmation of gravitational waves detected in 2015, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise – including outstanding physics research, important applications of physics, leadership in or…
Particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) produce massive amounts of data that help answer long-held questions regarding Earth and the far reaches of the universe. The Higgs boson, which had been the missing link in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, was discovered there in 2012 and earned researchers the 2013 Nobel…
Titanium dioxide is one of several minerals that are self-cleaning; they use energy from the sun to convert any “schmutz” that lands on their surface to a harmless gas, which then floats away.These minerals have been used as a coating in everything from building tiles to automotive mirrors, but the nature of their self-cleaning abilities is unclear. When the surfaces are examined in a vacuum,…
Emeritus professor of physics Donald F. Holcomb, who served two terms as chair of the department and championed the cause of improving physics education, died Aug. 9 in his residence at Kendal at Ithaca. He was 92.Holcomb, who also directed the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (1964-68), chaired the physics department from 1969 to 1974, and again from 1982 to 1986. In between, he…
Researchers at Cornell are devising a method for creating new polymers in much the same way that a jewelry maker creates a beaded necklace – with the beads strung in a precise, controlled way.The lab of Brett Fors, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has experimented in the past with creating “designer polymers” using two photocatalysts. The process alternates the binding of…
A National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS) committee has endorsed the idea of building an electron-ion collider (EIC) in the United States, for the purpose of expanding understanding of the fundamental building blocks of matter.The EIC would be one of the largest scientific instruments in the country and used to study atomic nuclei – what atoms are made of, and the structure…
Andrej Singer, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and David Croll Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow, will lead a three-year project funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science that will attempt to create new quantum states of matter.The award is sponsored by the DOE’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under its “Research at the Frontiers of X-Ray Free Electron Laser,…
A team led by physics professors Sol Gruner and Veit Elser began their recent research by seeking data other researchers had discarded as unusable.Crazy, you say? To prove their idea was valid, the Cornell scientists needed data that was deemed too unclear – or “noisy” – to be used. The scientists who originally acquired the data were only able to use the best images – about 5 percent of the…
In a recent research paper published in Nature, a group led by physics professors David Muller and Sol Gruner claimed a world record for electron microscope resolution using a high-powered detector and a technique called ptychography. Their technique was shown to measure down to 0.39 ångströms or 0.039 nanometers (one-billionth of a meter).Guinness World Records has officially recognized the…
