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

Preparation for a life well lived

Illustration of a planet with a haze of atmosphere around it, bulging on the left side
Engine House and Hannah Wakeford/Provided The shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere mapped using transmission strings. The planet has a broad banded jet around the equator with vast wind speeds which transport material and heat from the permanently irradiated dayside to the permanently shadowed nightside.
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Astronomy

Pulling strings: New method maps exoplanet’s true shape

Cornell Chronicle
A squar chip held between blue-gloved fingers by researcher Zhiyuan Zhang
Xi Jin/Provided Cornell physics researcher Zhiyuan Zhang holds a chip containing an array of the devices he developed to create microscopic bubbles on demand, when and where they are needed.
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Physics

Tiny platform creates and directs microbubbles on demand

Cornell Chronicle
Person looking at a display of photos in a room of a house. An ornage rug covers the floor
Sheryl Sinkow/for the Society for the Humanities Arriving at the Society for the Humanities' 60th anniversary event in the A. D. White House, Maddie Reynolds, PhD ’21, former Humanities Scholars Program Postdoctoral Associate, views photos of Society activities
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Society for the Humanities

Society for the Humanities celebrates 60 years as incubator for innovative research

A&S Communications
Gold folded objects in rows of six on a baby blue background with wires connecting them
Provided False-color scanning electron micrograph of an array of released artificial cilia before they are put into motion. The cilia are electronically synchronized by temperature-sensing circuits to generate programmable fluid pumping
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Physics

Microscopic robots inspired by fireflies, cilia, sync to reshape surroundings

Cornell Chronicle
Person working to adjust a very complicated piece of machinery
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
An instructor leans on a table to share something with four students
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
NSF grant to explore whether AI can support students’ critical thinking_image
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