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Grey city buildings look very small compared to billowing steel- and linen-colored clouds filling the sky above
Vlad Tchompalov/Unsplash Gas Works Park, Settle
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Metal organic frameworks turn greenhouse gas into ‘gold’

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have found an innovative way to handle fluorinated gases as stable solids -- and the same process could someday be used to capture greenhouse gases.

Megan Driscoll
Graduate student research

Student Spotlight: Megan Driscoll

Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral student in chemistry and chemical biology with a focus in polymer chemistry from Chelmsford, Massachusetts Driscoll researches new ways to make and upcycle polymers.

Person playing a stringed instrument
Provided Simon Shaheen
Near Eastern Studies

Award-winning Simon Shaheen to perform, lecture on Arab music

A&S Communications

“Simon Shaheen is widely celebrated as a virtuoso violinist and oud player, incomparably creative composer and master teacher of Arab music."

Painting showing a regal woman in magnificent black dress; a servant holds a red parasol over her
Widner Collection/National Gallery of Art 'Portrait of Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo’ by Anthony van Dyck
History of Art and Visual Studies

Clothing is key: Van Dyck portrait captures ‘moment in the history of race-making’

A&S Communications

Ana Howie used her expertise in cultures of dressing and European imperialism to uncover a story tying Genoa’s elite families to globalized material trade – and Atlantic and Mediterranean slavery.

lots of guitar looking instruments
Provided A sampling of the instruments that Jesse Jones built for the Cornell ReSounds project.
New Frontier Grants

Cornell ReSounds concert features Moog keyboard, new instruments

A&S Communications

It will be the first time the instrument will be played in public.

Person singing in a brightly colored traditional costume of Mongolia
Long-song vocalist Ganchimeg Badamsuren
Music

Mongolian music comes to campus

A&S Communications

Concerts set for Oct. 20 and 22 will highlight the musical legacy of composer Byambasurengiin Sharav, a household name in Mongolia.

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Psychology

Israel-Hamas conflict: Fighting misinformation requires better tools

A&S Communications

“Every time there is some major event and information is at a premium, we see misinformation spread like wildfire," says professor Gordon Pennycook.

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Government

Cornell scholar: Netanyahu’s policy failures on display following attack

A&S Communications

The sense of collective shock in Israel is larger than after the surprise attack on the country which started the Yom Kippur War, says Uriel Abulof.

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Simon Wheeler/Cornell University Author N.K. Jemisin speaks at the Bartels World Affairs Lecture Oct. 4 in in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium.
Bartels World Affairs Lecture

Author Jemisin builds ‘the world from scratch’

Cornell Chronicle

At the Bartels World Affairs Lecture Oct. 4, Jemisin spoke on how to investigate our world and beliefs about it, and how to use what we learn to imagine and construct a better future.

Claudia Goldin
Cornell University file photo Claudia Goldin ’67 speaks on campus in 2014
Economics

Claudia Goldin ’67 wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Cornell Chronicle

Goldin’s pioneering research has revealed the reasons for gender gaps in labor force participation and earnings.

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Economics

October India conference features government, corporate leaders

A&S Communications

N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys Limited, will offer the keynote address during an India Conference at Cornell Oct. 13-15.

Amit Vishwas uses a screwdriver to work on ALPACA, a round metal top with metal boxes and cables protruding
Ryan Young/Cornell University Amit Vishwas ’10, M.Eng.,’14, Ph.D. ’19, research scientist in the College of Arts & Sciences, works on the ALPACA instrument, with Donald Campbell, professor emeritus of astronomy (A&S), looking on.
Astronomy

Cornell-built instrument to transform Green Bank Telescope

A&S Communications

The new camera "is actually a very different way of observing the sky,” said A&S research scientist Amit Vishwas ’10, M.Eng.,’14, Ph.D. ’19.

Three people sitting on a city bench with one standing behind; they are laughing together
Provided The collaborators who created the concert "Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind": (seated l-r) playwright Virginia Grise, novelist Helena María Viramontes, and composer Martha Gonzalez. Standing is Kendra Ware, the production's director.
Creative Writing Program

Performance and conference honor Viramontes

A&S Communications

Held Oct. 20-21, “Lest Silence Be Destructive" will feature readings, discussions and the first public performance of a musical album based on Viramontes' work.

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Alexandra Werth

Assistant Professor
CDER

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Allison Godwin

Associate Professor
CDER