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Person in lab coat and safety glasses, placing a tube in a rack — Wen Zhang, an organic chemist, has harnessed electrochemistry to promote reactions of carbon-based compounds without relying on rare materials historically used in chemistry.

Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists

Two A&S postdocs receive Blavatnik awards in physics, chemistry

10/4/2022 A&S Communications

Xiaolong Liu, a postdoctoral researcher in physics, and Wen Zhang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemistry, stand out among young scientists in the tri-state area.

Person sitting in a chair, speaking dynamically — Chris Kitchen Anna Shechtman leads a publication workshop for graduate students writing about literature

Klarman Fellows

What is ‘media?’ Klarman Fellow strives to define a capacious concept

10/4/2022 A&S Communications

Scholar, writer and crossword star Anna Shechtman bridges the academic study and the real-world practice of media.

Physics

2022 Bethe Lectures: Harnessing quantum matter for future technologies

10/3/2022 A&S Communications

Physicist Charles Kane will explain how mysterious features of quantum mechanics can be harnessed for future technologies on Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m.

Thitirat Boonyanuphong who works at the Statler Hotel, is using Cornell's Part Time Study program to earn credits toward a degree

Part Time Study Program

Part-time study helps employees, visiting students boost careers

9/28/2022 Cornell Chronicle

When Thitirat Boonyanuphong isn’t on her housekeeping rounds at the Statler Hotel or teaching conversational Thai at Cornell’s Language Resource Center, the 43-year-old can be found in a classroom on campus earning college credits.

Nine people stand in a line; six of them hold plaques — Roger William Photography postdoctoral scholars honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards

Graduate student research

Seven Postdocs Honored with Achievement Awards

9/29/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

Elizabeth Riley, postdoc in psychology, and Eileen Gonzales, postdoc in astronomy, represent the College of Arts and Sciences among the honorees.

Fruits and vegetables arranged at a market — Jacopo Maia/ Unsplash Fruits and vegetables for sale

American studies

What’s healthy? FDA tackles notoriously difficult definition

9/29/2022 A&S Communications

"Healthy is not a neutral one-size-fits-all concept," says Adrienne Bitar, an expert in the history and culture of American food.

Person lecturing at a podium — Provided Raymond Craib

Teaching awards

Craib and Fiani win graduate, professional teaching prize

9/28/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“These professors have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to teaching and mentoring their students.”

Several people arranged on a stage, playing violins — Members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Cornell Concert Series

Cornell Concert Series presents Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Nicola Benedetti, violin

9/29/2022 A&S Communications

The event takes place Sat., Oct. 15 at 3 pm in Bailey Hall.

White apartment building towers over a street corner — Bianca Neves/Unsplash São Paulo, Brazil

Latin America

What’s next for Brazil: Cornell experts on economics, politics post-election

9/29/2022 A&S Communications

In the first round of Brazil’s elections Oct. 2, former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva face off against right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro; Cornell government professors react.

Person standing in front of a small space craft — Jason Koski/Cornell University Léa Bonnefoy ‘15, a post-doctoral researcher, led a team of Cornell scientists to characterize the Dragonfly mission's landing site on Saturn’s moon Titan. The rotorcraft is expected to launch in 2027 and reach that moon in 2034.

Astronomy

Scientists depict Dragonfly landing site on Saturn moon Titan

9/28/2022 Cornell Chronicle

When NASA’s 990-pound Dragonfly rotorcraft reaches Saturn’s moon in 2034, Cornell’s Léa Bonnefoy '15 will have helped to make it a smooth landing.

Migration

Book: Policymakers are failing ‘climate refugees’

9/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The United States must transform its outdated migration policies to address the human devastation that is left in the wake of climate change and environmental catastrophe, Maria Cristina Garcia argues.

Sports history

Acclaimed sports historian to speak on 'the NFL’s Most Important Game'

9/27/2022 A&S Communications

Louis Moore, history professor and co-host of The Black Athlete podcast, will give this semester’s Seymour Lecture in Sports History on Oct. 6.

Blazing yellow celestial body seen beyond the horizon of another globe, tinted red — European Southern Observatory / L. Calçada In this illustration, exoplanet CoRoT-7b, which is likely five times the mass of Earth, may well be full of lava landscapes and boiling oceans.

Astronomy

Synthetic lava in the lab aids exoplanet exploration

9/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers developed a starter catalog for finding volcanic worlds that feature fiery landscapes and oceans of magma.

Person speaking authoritatively from a stage — Ryan Young/Cornell University Ann Simmons, the Wall Street Journal’s Moscow Bureau Chief and the fall 2022 Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow, speaks as part of a panel Sept. 22 in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

International relations

Panelists: War in Ukraine reshapes world political order

9/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Faculty and journalist experts considered the consequences of the ongoing conflict during “Aftershocks: Geopolitics Since the Ukraine invasion."

Abstract blue, grey and black pattern — Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, University of Arizona/Provided This image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the edge of the Martian South Pole Layered Deposit. The stack of fine layering is highlighted by the rays of the polar sun.

Astronomy research

Layering, not liquid: Astronomers explain Mars’ watery reflections

9/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Using computer simulations, Cornell researchers demonstrate that strong reflections can be generated by interference between geological layers, without liquid water or other rare materials.

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