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Harnessing machine learning to analyze quantum material

Prof. Eun-Ah Kim's research, using a machine learning technique developed with Cornell computer scientists, sets the stage for insights into new phases of matter.
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New book documents lives of unaccompanied minors

For six years, Klarman Fellow Chaira Galli helped youths from Central America navigate the United States’ labyrinthine asylum process while doing an ethnographic study.
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Klarman Fellow traces ideas of slavery from ancient Rome to upstate NY

Toni Alimi’s book project, “Slaves of God,” delves deep into the Augustine cannon, explaining the philosopher’s reasons for justifying slavery.
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Michael Koch, Epoch editor, remembered for ‘quiet grace’

Koch’s expertise made a mark on American literature and influenced writers who went on to publish bestselling and prize-winning works of fiction and poetry.
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Song Lin wins EPA Green Chemistry Challenge award

Lin's new process uses readily available substances and inexpensive electrodes to create the large and complicated molecules widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.
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Mong fellowship advances neuroimaging collaboration

Their work could have future implications for human health, setting a path for research into understanding brain function.
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Arts and Sciences faculty honored for teaching, advising excellence

"These faculty members and graduate teaching assistants have made tremendous contributions for the benefit of our students, guiding their educational paths and molding their experiences."
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Jellyfish’s stinging cells hold clues to biodiversity

Biologist Leslie Babonis studied sea anemones to understand how a neuron could be reprogrammed to make a new cell.
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New Frontier Grants push boundaries in A&S research

The College has awarded seven New Frontier Grants totaling $1.25 million to faculty members pursuing critical developments in areas across sciences and humanities.
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Early Silicon Valley championed meritocracy through ‘flexible masculinity’

Klarman Fellow Charles Petersen won the Martha Moore Trescott Prize at the 2022 Business History Conference for his gender analysis of tech company leadership.
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Victorian medicine shaped modern concepts of race

Medical statistics compiled and published by the British military played an important role in introducing “race” as a categorical reality, Suman Seth argues.
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Frog song, shrimp and evolution: Animal Behavior Podcast launches Season 2

Klarman Fellow and animal behavior researcher Matthew Zipple started the podcast to share the vast array of animal behaviors.
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Klarman Fellow Nancy P. Lin interprets urban on-site art

Focusing on Chinese contemporary art, Lin brings her fascination with urban spaces to her work as an art historian.
John Martinis

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Quantum computing pioneer to share insights in Bethe lectures

On April 27, physicist John Martinis will explain the basic concepts behind quantum computing for a general audience.
Alejandro Martínez-Marquina

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Klarman fellow questions common financial decisions

Behavioral and experimental economist Alejandro Martínez-Marquina wants to know the mechanisms through which people make choices about money, especially when debt or uncertainty are present.
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Light, oxygen turn waste plastics into useful benzoic acid

The new reaction can even take place in a sunny window, as the researchers demonstrated in their experiments.
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Rational neural network advances machine-human discovery

This machine-human partnership is a step toward the day when artificially intelligent deep learning will enhance scientific exploration of natural phenomena such as weather systems, climate change, fluid dynamics, genetics and more.
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Women want to work, despite workforce precarity

Despite persistent gaps in workforce participation, when it comes to wanting to work, the gender gap has all but disappeared over the last 45 years, according to Cornell sociologist Landon Schnabel.
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Chasing data: Astronomers race to explore ancient galaxies

At a dizzying elevation in Chile, two astronomers had only hours left to collect data from light that had taken 11.5 billion years to reach Earth.
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Carbon-coated nickel enables fuel cell free of precious metals

The new discovery could accelerate the widespread use of hydrogen fuel cells, which hold great promise as efficient, clean energy sources for vehicles and other applications.
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Meet the neutrinos: Kids’ book introduces mystery particles

Physics researcher Eve Vavagiakis published “I’m a Neutrino: Tiny Particles in a Big Universe,” a picture book introducing children (and adults) to tiny particles that have an outsized effect on the universe.
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Klarman Fellow blends physics and math to explore string theory

Richard Nally will spend his three-year fellowship seeking to understand the mathematical structures at the root of gravity and quantum mechanics.
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Magnetism helps electrons vanish in high-temp superconductors

Cornell physicist’s discovery could lead to the engineering of high-temp superconducting properties into materials useful for quantum computing, medical imaging.
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People rethink nationalist beliefs in uncertain times

Based on an in-depth study of ordinary people in Russia, new research explores how citizens engage with the principles of nationalism in making sense of disruptive social change.
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New history of revolution offers hope for “our troubled present”

Enzo Traverso's research reinterprets the history of 19th and 20th century revolutions through a constellation of images, from Marx’s ‘locomotives of history’ to Lenin’s mummified body to the Paris Commune’s demolition of the Vendome Column.
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Six A&S professors named 2022 Simons fellows

"These outstanding physicists and mathematicians are pushing the boundaries of our understanding," said Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Book describes dislocation of ‘the West’

In his new book, Prof. Naoki Sakai examines a new order taking place that dislocates America and Europe from the center of world power.
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Book explores free will and determinism

Cambridge University Press called upon Prof. Derk Pereboom to write a definitive overview of research on the free will debate.
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Economist helps solve COVID-19 missing data problems

Professor of economics Jörg Stoye proposes new methods of deriving the prevalence of a disease when only partial data is available — with applications for epidemiology and public health policy.
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A&S announces third cohort of Klarman Fellows

Seven exceptional early-career scholars will be awarded three-year fellowships to pursue independent research in the arts and humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
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Naminata Diabate wins ASA book prize for ‘Naked Agency’

“It is my hope that ‘Naked Agency’ will reframe the terms of the conversation on defiant disrobing by inviting readers to take seriously the circulation of women’s grievances and hopes and the (mis)use of their bodies’ images in our hyper-visual world.”
Amalia Skilton

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Klarman Fellow Skilton studies language development across cultures

During a three-year Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Amalia Skilton will study joint attention behaviors – which include pointing – by doing field work in Peru's Amazon basin.
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Fahmy wins Urban History Association book prize

Ziad Fahmy won a 2021 book prize from the Urban History Association (UHA) for “Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt." Fahmy’s book was recognized for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History.
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Binary black hole spin behavior revealed using novel techniques

Research done at Cornell has uncovered the first potential signs of spin-orbit resonances in binary black holes, a step toward understanding the mechanisms of supernovas and other big questions in astrophysics.
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Indigenous-Cornell partnership publishes Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ history

The Tompkins County Historical Commission will release a short book written by Cornell Professor Kurt Jordan with the help of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ community members, titled “The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ People in the Cayuga Lake Region: A Brief History.”
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‘Lab on a chip’ can measure protein-DNA interactions

New nanophotonic tweezers developed by Cornell researchers can stretch and unzip DNA molecules as well as disrupt and map protein-DNA interactions, paving the way for commercial availability.
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Watercolor views advanced the British empire

Watercolor 'views' of enemy coastline, commissioned by the eighteenth century British Royal Navy, are both art and navigational tool, writes Kelly Presutti.
Robert Strichartz

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Robert Strichartz, math analyst, dies at 78

Robert Strichartz, professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on December 19 after a long illness. He was 78.
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Marilyn Migiel wins MLA prize for book on ‘proto-feminist’ poet

Marilyn Migiel, professor of Romance studies, has won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for “Veronica Franco in Dialogue,” forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in spring 2022.
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Schmidt: Exploring Earth’s oceans to reach Europa

Britney Schmidt is in Antarctica through February 2022 with a small team of researchers to explore the confluence of glaciers, floating ice shelves and ocean, using a submarine robot called Icefin.
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Grant funds machine learning discovery in quantum physics

Physicist Eun-Ah Kim and collaborators are leading the way in the discovery of new quantum materials and the development of quantum computing.
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Wilson wins grant to explore rare earth element opportunities

Justin Wilson has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop more efficient methods of separating rare earth elements, which are found in wind turbines, liquid crystal displays, batteries, and portable electronics.
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Satellite monitoring documents cultural heritage at risk

Cornell researchers are using satellite imagery to protect endangered and damaged cultural heritage in the South Caucasus, where an ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has raged for decades.
Valzhyna Mort

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A&S poet wins 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of literatures in English, won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize in the international category for her 2020 book, “Music for the Dead and Resurrected.”
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection A porcelain plate in the "Service des Departments" series by Sèvres

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A fragmented France depicted on dessert plates

In a new essay, Kelly Presutti describes the ultimate failure of a set of Sèvres porcelain dessert plates, 1824-32, to represent all of France.
Kaushik Basu

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Kaushik Basu receives Humboldt Research Award

Basu plans to use the Humboldt Research Award for economics to work on moral philosophy and game theory, and on law and economics.
Francesco Sgarlata

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Klarman postdoc tackles ‘theory of everything’ with first principles

Physicist Francesco Sgarlata is taking a bottom-up approach to finding a theory of quantum gravity.
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Astronomers seek gravitational waves with renewed NSF grant

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Reunion panel steers racism conversation toward action

The panel suggested listening to scholarly experts, implementing new initiatives and engaging students and faculty in organizations beyond the university.
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Pew scholar builds on gene-editing technology

Elizabeth Kellogg, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named to the Pew Scholars Program to pursue research into advancing gene editing capability.