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Literatures in English

Two Doctoral Students Receive Ford Fellowships

9/16/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

Joseph Miranda, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature, received a dissertation competition fellowship.

Person at a podium, hand raised to take an oath — Philippine Presidential Museum and Library The second inauguration of President Ferdinand Marcos on December 30, 1969

Asian American Studies

Martial law anniversary marked by ‘historical revisionism’

9/16/2022 A&S Communications

This year’s anniversary of Philippine martial law is momentous, says professor Christine Bacareza Balance.

Desert land seen from above, showing a huge crater — NASA/Provided The famed Barringer Meteor Crater in the desert in northern Arizona. Two students affiliated with the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy's Tech Policy Institute will analyze public opinion on how governments should respond when asteroids and comets threaten the earth.

Graduate student research

Student team will seek public’s views on planetary defense

9/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The researchers will conduct public opinion surveys on how governments respond when asteroids and comets threaten cities, countries, or at the extreme, even the entire earth.

Medical professoional wearing a mask and protective gloves gives a shot to a person wearing a Cornell Big Red t-shirt — Lindsay France/Cornell University During an April 2021 clinic, Cornell community members receive COVID-19 vaccines in Bartels Hall.

Sociology

Collaboration to infuse human behavior into epidemiological models

9/13/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Six Cornell faculty members from three different colleges will work together to improve epidemiological models of infectious disease using a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Person wearing a hat in a sunny field, using electronc equipment — Chris Kitchen Matthew Zipple uses an RFID scanner to identify a mouse living in an outdoor enclosure. By briefly catching and releasing the mice Zipple and colleagues are able to take repeated measures of animal's body mass as they develop.

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow tracks impact of social bonds on animal health

9/19/2022 A&S Communications

“My focus is on how an animal’s mother can impact a wide range of outcomes: in childhood, adulthood, and even between generations."

Climate

From methane to microbes: 2030 Project conveys first grants

9/13/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“Climate change is a pressing challenge and we don’t have a moment to lose."

Ancient stone building with a spire and foliage growing on the roof — Provided St. Hovhannes Church of Chahuk (built in the 12th or 13th century and renovated in the 17th and 19th centuries) was destroyed between 1997 and 2009, as documented in a new report from Caucasus Heritage Watch.

Cultural heritage

Report shows near-total erasure of Armenian heritage sites

9/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The study compiled decades of high-resolution satellite imagery from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.

National Cancer Institute/Unsplash breast cancer cells

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Proteins could lead to early breast cancer diagnosis, treatment

9/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A team of researchers has discovered a non-invasive biomarker that could aid with earlier diagnosis of breast cancer, the most common cancer among women, which will likely affect one in 13 women during their lives.

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Kellogg honored for insight into mechanics of biological systems

9/12/2022 A&S Communications

The 2023 Margaret Oakley Dayhoff Award is given each year to a woman who has achieved prominence while in the early stages of a career in biophysical research.

Philosophy

Sydney Shoemaker, leading figure of Cornell philosophy, dies at 90

9/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

… Philosophy … Sydney Shoemaker, Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Sept. 3 after a brief illness. He was 90. … Sydney Shoemaker, leading figure of Cornell philosophy, dies at 90 …

Economics

At global turning point, economists take stock of 100 years of development

9/9/2022 A&S Communications

Major figures in world economics will gather in Ithaca Sept. 15-17 to re-think the foundations of economics and the nature of regulation – with particular care for the environment.

Wearing a tiara with matching shiney necklace, a sash and medals, the white haired queen looks unsmilingly at the camera. — Photograph taken by Julian Calder for Governor-General of New Zealand Queen Elizabeth II in the Blue Room of Buckingham Palace.

International

King Charles III must quickly determine his path as ruler

9/9/2022 A&S Communications

Cornell faculty reflect on what will happen after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Academic diversity

New Jewish studies major approved in College of Arts & Sciences

9/8/2022 A&S Communications

“These efforts recognize the critical questions Jewishness raises and its place as part of a shared heritage.”

In Memoriam

Eminent physicist Kurt Gottfried, co-founder of Union of Concerned Scientists, dies at 93

9/8/2022 A&S Communications

Gottfried was also the author of a classic text on quantum mechanics and numerous scholarly articles on missile defense, space weapons, nuclear weapons and cooperative security.

Spiral galaxy — ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy Mrk (Markarian) 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo.

Astronomy

UVEX NASA mission advances with Cornell astronomers on team

9/8/2022 A&S Communications

Cornell astronomers Anna Y. Q. Ho and Shrinivas R. Kulkarni are part of the mission team for the UltraViolet Explorer (UVEX) mission, which has advanced toward a 2028 launch with NASA.

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