Event showcases Cornell contributions to space exploration
Astronomy
A special event April 4 celebrated the history of Cornellians as pioneers in humankind's quest to discover the universe.
“This is Rocket Science: Cornell’s Contributions to Discovering the Universe,” treated alumni in D.C. to a discussion about Cornell’s contributions to space exploration, which dates back more than 100 years.
Sponsored by Cornell Alumni Affairs and Development, the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Engineering, the event included an expert Cornell panel: Catharine Conley, planetary protection officer at NASA, Ellen Gertsen, senior operations research analyst with the Office of the Chief Financial Officer at NASA Headquarters, Jonathan Lunine, professor and director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, and Mason Alan Peck, associate professor, Aerospace Engineering and Systems Engineering.
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In "Child of Light," an experimental historical fiction set in 1890s Utica, Jesi Bender-Buell '07 tells the story of a young girl as she tries to understand her world through the interests of her parents: Spiritualism for Mama, electrical engineering for Papa.
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Enslavers posted as many as a quarter-million newspaper ads and flyers before 1865 to locate runaway slaves. Ed Baptist is leading the public crowdsourcing project, Freedom on the Move, that has digitized tens of thousands of these advertisements in an open-source site accessible to the public.