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Mathematics

Celebrating Cornell University luminaries in mathematics and statistics

4/17/2024 Cornell Bowers CIS

In honor of Math and Statistics Awareness Month, we’re looking back on luminaries from the last century-plus whose excellence helped establish Cornell University as a leader in mathematical and statistical discovery.

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Moral psychology

Persistent questioning of knowledge takes a toll

4/17/2024 Cornell Chronicle

A new study highlights how demoralizing it can be for a person to work in a climate of repetitive skepticism and doubt.

Yellow hot molten steel pours out of a shute into a vat

International relations

Steel industry protectionism beyond typical election-year rhetoric

4/17/2024 A&S Communications

President Biden’s tariff proposal is less about economics and more related to U.S. domestic politics, says Chinese foreign policy expert Allen Carlson.

Person in lab coat holding a glass bottle — Ryan Young/Cornell University Lígia Fonseca Coelho, postdoctoral associate at the Carl Sagan Institute and first author of the study, cultivating bacteria samples in the lab.

Astronomy

In search for alien life, purple may be the new green

4/16/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Purple bacteria is one of the primary contenders for life that could dominate a variety of Earth-like planets orbiting different stars, and would produce a distinctive "light fingerprint," Cornell scientists report.

Missile heading up into the sky — Photo by Maciej Ruminkiewicz on Unsplash

History

Iranian strike against Israel seemed more spectacle than attack, says prof.

4/15/2024 A&S Communications

Professor David Silbey comments on Iran's thwarted attack on Israel.

Ambassadors on Goldwin Smith Hall portico jumping — Welcome Class of 2029

Student accomplishments

April 25 event celebrates class of 2024

4/15/2024 A&S Communications

Arts & Sciences Career Development staff want to help mark the next steps in your journey.

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Astronomy

New book gives insider’s view of cosmic search for life

4/15/2024 Cornell Chronicle

The clues we find on exoplanets could be as strange as a bioluminescent glow or a rainbow hue, as astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger describes in “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos.”

Alumni authors

Bestselling children’s author weaves tales of wonder

4/12/2024 Cornellians

The latest by Michelle Knudsen ’95, of Library Lion fame: the story of a sensitive spider who yearns to be a pet kitten

Physics

Hubble Fellow chooses Cornell for postdoc

4/12/2024 A&S Communications

Physicist Keefe Mitman will work with Nils Deppe, assistant professor of physics, on the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration on improving gravitational wave models to aid with the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra Collaboration’s detection and characterization of compact binary encounters.

People choosing food from tables; a shopping cart full of milk and vegetables — Architecture students volunteer at the Enfield Food Distribution Center. The visit served as participatory research for their speculative design projects.

Community engagement

Community-engaged research gets boost from new grants

4/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

A multidisciplinary project to design a new facility and community garden for the Enfield Food Distribution Center – which has seen demand skyrocket since 2020 – is among eight teams of Cornell faculty, students and community partners to receive Engaged Research Grants from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Five people perform a dance, creating a V formation with their bodies — Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Student dancers rehearse an ensemble piece that will be part of the "This table has been a house in the rain" performance April 25-27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts: (from left) Isabel Padilla, doctoral candidate in performing and media arts; Irene Kim ’24; Taylor Pryor, doctoral candidate in literatures in English; Molly Hudson ’25; and Eliza Salamon ’24.

Performing and Media Arts

'A place at the table': Exploring free expression through dance

4/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Student-artists will reimagine the Kiplinger Theater in a work titled “This table has been a house in the rain,” through choreography and improvisation, innovative staging and ties to other art forms.

Several soldiers cluster near a tank; a blue and yellow Ukraine flag flies nearby — Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Creative Commons license 2.0 Anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine

History

Ukraine’s mobilization bill sign of ‘desperation’ and ‘rationalization’

4/11/2024 A&S Communications

Scholar David Silbey: “Large industrial wars like this one are as much about organization as they are about fighting, and this is a sign that Ukraine takes that lesson seriously.”

Music

The Klezmatics to play in Cornell Concert Series April 13

4/10/2024 A&S Communications

The Klezmatics’ music is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while also incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and antifundamentalism, and eclectic musical influences — from jazz and punk to Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms.

woman standing with arms crossed — Chris Kitchen Richlove Nkansah '26

Student entrepreneurs

Life as a Cornell entrepreneur: ‘I have people in my corner who inspire me’