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long plank with smaller arms coming off it and a long rod of metal with a loop at the end suspended over it — Matt Ferguson Schematic of a SQUID pickup loop imaging stray magnetic fields above a Hall bar sample of dimensions 200 × 75 μm2.

Physics

Current takes a surprising path in quantum material

8/3/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The findings will help settle a decades-long debate and offers insights that will inform the development of topological materials for next-generation quantum devices.

Students standing around an open wastewater treatment facility, which looks like a big cement rectangle with green water and wooden separaters. — Provided. Environment and Sustainability students visit the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility. IAWWTF is a key community partner in a project studying contaminants in Cayuga Lake.

Community Engagement

Engaged Opportunity Grants fund projects from Tompkins to Tanzania

8/2/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The funded community-engaged learning projects provide opportunities for students to excavate ancient Pompeii, establish a community garden in Moshi, Tanzania and more.

Person playing a keyboard instrument, seen from above — Joe Wilensky / Cornell University Moseley tickles the (antique) ivories at the center’s University Avenue home.

Music

Campus center holds the ‘keys’ to musical history

8/2/2023 Cornellians

From fortepianos to pipe organs, the Hill boasts one of the world’s leading collections of performance-ready vintage instruments.

woman feeding fish — Patrick Shanahan Blythe Wong '25 feeds some of the thousands of Poecilia parae fish in Mudd Hall.

Nexus Scholars Program

Undergrads relish challenging Nexus Scholar projects

8/2/2023 A&S Communications

Nexus Scholars spent eight weeks this summer working with researchers on campus on projects in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences.

Graduate students

Student Spotlight: Sarena Tien

8/2/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral candidate in romance studies Sarena Tien studies representations of female friendship in literature and film from French-speaking Africa and Asia.

Aerial view of the Arts Quad in the fall

Domestic and Global Politics of Police Violence

3/28/2022 Cornell Research

Domestic and Global Politics of Police Violence

A rainbow against a deep blue sky, over a brick building with a peaked roof — Jason Koski/Cornell University A rainbow over McGraw Hall and the Arts Quad after a summer rain storm.

Faculty honors

Balance, Nicholson honored for research, teaching and service

7/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Two faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences are the recipients of the 2023 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.

purple dots in a grid against a turquoise background

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Imaging shows microbes turning CO2 into bioplastic

7/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

"We provide quantitative assessments of protein behaviors and also a mechanistic understanding of how the electron transport occurs from the semiconductor to the bacteria cell.”

Grey sphere backed by the darkness of space — NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kalleheikki Kannisto An enhanced image of the Jovian moon Ganymede, obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.

Astronomy

James Webb Space Telescope sees Jupiter moons in a new light

7/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell astronomer who is part of JWST’s Early Release Science program report the first detection of hydrogen peroxide on Ganymede and sulfurous fumes on Io, both the result of Jupiter’s domineering influence.

A room full of people facing a speaker at a podum — George Gull At the July 15 "Gas-trophysics Across the Universe" symposium, Ann Martin Ph.D. '11 introduces Gordon Stacey, professor of astronomy.

Astronomy

New support fund for astronomy graduate students announced

7/27/2023 A&S Communications

The Riccardo Giovanelli Graduate Student Support Fund was announced July 15 at “Gas-trophysics Across the Universe.”

Person standing in a field holding a sign that says "Estate Little Princess" — Provided MyKayla Williamson on Estate Little Princess

Archaeology

Unearthing the lives of enslaved peoples at a historical St. Croix sugar plantation

7/26/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

MyKayla Williamson's archaeological excavation takes place on Estate Little Princess, a plantation where people of African descent lived and worked starting in circa 1740.

student sitting at desk — Patrick Shanahan Aidan Goldberg '25 looks at the collection of A.D. White memorabilia in the Cornell Library Rare and Manuscript Collection.

Student research

Uncovering historical mysteries at the A.D. White House

7/26/2023 A&S Communications

Aidan Goldberg '25 is spending his summer putting together a history of the A.D. White House.

Alumni careers

A comic takes on little-known histories

7/26/2023 A&S Communications

Andy Warner '06 is the New York Times best-selling author of "Brief Histories of Everyday Objects,” “This Land is My Land,” “Pests and Pets” and “Spring Rain.”

The telescope is a 3-story white rectangle-shaped box with a big opening at the top. with stairs on the outside. — A rendering of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope

Astronomy

Science plans for telescope’s first light focus of CCAT Consortium meeting

7/25/2023 A&S Communications

“This was a critical meeting as we are less than two years out from anticipated first light with the facility," said project director Gordon Stacey.

A fiery circle of orange, green and blue against a dark background of space — ESA/Hubble Artist's impression of supernova 1993J, an exploding star in the galaxy M81 whose light reached us 21 years ago

Astronomy

NASA selects Cornell astronomer for ULTRASAT observatory

7/24/2023 A&S Communications

Anna Y. Q. Ho and others chosen will pursue science investigations that will contribute to Israel’s first space telescope mission, planned to launch into geostationary orbit around Earth in 2026.

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