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Physics

Semiconductor demonstrates elusive quantum physics model

1/11/2022 Cornell Chronicle

With a little twist and the turn of a voltage knob, Cornell researchers have shown that a single material system can toggle between two of the wildest states in condensed matter physics.

Public engagement

Faculty build network of community-engaged teachers, scholars

1/10/2022 Cornell Chronicle

From teaching food science at the Ithaca Farmers Market to researching how youth feel about their race and ethnicity, this year’s Engaged Faculty Fellows are demonstrating the range of work that’s possible through community-engaged learning and research. The 2021-22 cohorts include 15 faculty from eight Cornell schools and colleges.

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Government

History repeats with effort to protect voting rights, end filibuster

1/11/2022 A&S Communications

Prof. David Bateman comments on promised action on voting rights legislation this week

Alumni

Joseph Bruchac ’64, BA ’65, Explores the Native American Experience

1/6/2022 Cornellians

… of an Abenaki detective. Bruchac published several titles in 2021 alone—including Padoskoks , the second Jacob …

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Mathematics, Physics

arXiv hits 2M submissions

1/4/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The research-sharing platform is a free resource for scholars around the world in fields including physics, math and computer science, who use the service to share their own cutting-edge research and read work submitted by others.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Lymphoma cell metabolism may provide new cancer target

1/4/2022 Cornell Chronicle

… found that one of the important ways is by increasing the production of another metabolism-influencing protein, ATF4. … reduction amounts to a starvation signal that activates the production of ATF4, which in turn ramps up the production and import of amino acids, further sustaining …

Philosophy

Diet Culture Is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral.

1/3/2022 New York Times

In a New York Times op-ed, Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, writes about personal and philosophical pressures placed on body image.

Two squares: one green and pink graph, the other rainbow — Provided A high-resolution map of a photocatalyst particle shows the transition zones of reactivity and the corresponding spatial variation of photoelectrochemical performance across the inter-facet edge.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

3D semiconductor particles offer 2D properties

1/3/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have found that 3D semiconductor particles have 2D properties, which can be leveraged for photoelectrochemical processes that boost solar energy conversion technologies.

Public engagement

Students engage with NYC Black ‘memory workers’ in Mellon seminar

1/3/2022 A&S Communications

An interdisciplinary seminar in the fall semester took students from Ithaca to New York City to explore African American heritage sites and the people whose work keeps this history alive.

Two people on a stage with a large screen showing a singer — Provided Praveen Gunendran ‘24 and Daniel Tuan ’24 created an app to help app artists within the music industry connect with one another.

Student entrepreneurs

Heart monitor, ‘tinder for musicians’ win Big Ideas Competition

1/3/2022 Cornell Chronicle

… network), with business ideas in four tracks: consumer products, health and life sciences, social impact and … their transitions to college and careers. In the consumer products category, the winner was Fan Aid, founded by Ian …

Books

What to read in 2022? A&S faculty weigh in

12/1/2021 A&S Communications

A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.

Undergraduate research

WARNING: Parents on Social Media

12/21/2021 Cornell Research

A study of "sharenting" for a Spring 2020 interdisciplinary class project changed the academic trajectories of three Cornell undergrads.

Mathematics

Robert Strichartz, math analyst, dies at 78

12/22/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Robert Strichartz, professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on December 19 after a long illness. He was 78.

Undergraduate research

A Corallary to War

12/20/2021 Cornell Research

Did racism and a fractured political landscape make the United States more vulnerable to COVID-19? Undergraduate researcher and McNair Scholar Ezinwa Osuoha '22 compares disease outbreaks in different nations.

Romance studies

Marilyn Migiel wins MLA prize for book on ‘proto-feminist’ poet

12/20/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Marilyn Migiel, professor of Romance studies, has won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for “Veronica Franco in Dialogue,” forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in spring 2022.

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