Students on the Arts Quad in fall
Extraordinary Journeys: The Class of 2020

Preparation for a life well lived

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Chris Kitchen/College of Arts and Sciences Using a new technique, Paul Malinowski and other researchers in Kyle Shen’s lab found that iron selenide’s superconducting “dome” is more closely linked to resistance caused by imperfections in its crystal lattice than to the number of electrons flowing through the crystal.
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Physics

Disorder is key to tuning a high-temperature superconductor

A&S Communications
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Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Center for Teaching Innovation Alexandra Werth, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and member of the Duffield Engineering Education Research Institute, teaching a seminar in biomedical engineering
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Education research

NSF grant to explore whether AI can support students’ critical thinking

A&S Communications
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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Full Teaching Professor Brenda Schertz, coordinator of the ASL/Deaf Studies Program in Arts & Sciences’ linguistics department, teaches in Morrill Hall
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Faculty news

Title of Teaching Professor and new award announced

A&S Communications
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Provided
Gabriella Carini named CHESS director as facility readies for the future_image
2026 New Faculty

New Faculty: Gabriella Carini

A&S Communications
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Krish Dulal/Creative Commons license 3.0 Rivers (Bhotekoshi / Trishuli, left, and Lende Khola, right) that flow from China to Nepal, pictured in 2013
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Government

Nepal-Tibet flood puts China's regional role to the test

A&S Communications
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin An artist's-concept illustration depicting the spacecraft of NASA's Psyche mission near the mission's target, the metal asteroid Psyche. Psyche Mission PI Lindy Elkins-Tanton will speak at Cornell Sept. 11.
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Astronomy

Psyche Mission leader to give public lecture Sept. 11

A&S Communications
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NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 7, after engineers and technicians at Kennedy Space Center had mated the observatory to a payload adapter, before it was secured to the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Astronomy

NASA telescope gives hidden exoplanets chance to shine

Cornell Chronicle