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Red buds on black branches in the foreground with a clock tower in the distance
National Science Foundation awards

Nine professors win NSF early-career awards

Cornell Chronicle

Three Arts and Sciences professors “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization."

Purple and green spikes radiate outward in a microscopic image of a cell
Provided/Leslie Babonis Developing stinging cells (magenta and aqua) in a larva of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Single gene causes stinging cell to lose its sting

Cornell Chronicle

“This one gene controls a switch between two alternative cell fates," said Professor Leslie Babonis.

Three tiers of scientific vials containing liquid glowing in a rainbow range from green to dark blue.
Provided Light-sensitive molecules arranged in metal-organic frameworks (MOF) glow different colors under UV light, showing energy diffusion differences.
Climate research

Color coding aids evaluation of new solar tech materials

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemistry researchers discovered a method to evaluate complex materials for solar energy harvesting.

Two people sign a document on a podium
Jason Koski/Cornell University Ray Halbritter, left, representing the Oneida Indian Nation, and President Martha E. Pollack, sign documents that repatriate ancestral remains from the university to the Oneida Indian Nation.
Anthropology

Cornell repatriates ancestral remains to Oneida Indian Nation

Cornell Chronicle

The remains, unearthed in 1964, had been kept in a university archive for six decades. They were returned on Feb. 21 at a small campus ceremony.

Split image showing a rocky landscape on both left (Mars) and right (Atacama Desert in Chile)
Mars photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Atacama photo: Armando Azua-Bustos/Provided On the left is of the Jezero Crater, on the surface of Mars; the image on the right is the Red Stone Jurassic fossil delta of the Atacama Desert in northwestern Chile, a popular geological analog for Mars.
Astronomy

Life on Mars? Better tools needed to get the answer

Cornell Chronicle

Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of ancient life may not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, says a Cornell-led study.

Red flag against a gray sky
U.S.-China relations

The U.S. should deter — not provoke — Beijing over Taiwan. Here’s how.

The Washington Post

What will fundamentally change the calculus between the U.S. and China? Jessica Chen Weiss analyzes the situation in The Washington Post.

Karen Vogtmann
Karen Vogtmann
National Academy of Sciences

Mathematician Vogtmann elected to National Academy of Sciences

A&S Communications

Karen Vogtmann is among 120 members and 30 international members who were elected in 2022, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Sophie Lewis
Society for the Humanities

Family abolition focus of upcoming lecture

A&S Communications

Sophie Lewis will offer a deep dive into the history of radical movements and explore family abolition, which she characterizes as a turning away from the privatization of care.

man and woman
Provided Jessie Kapstad '24, right, poses with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, during his summer experience last year.
Student experiences

Summer Experience Grant applications now open

A&S Communications

Summer Experience Grants help support students to take unpaid or minimally-paid summer positions.

blue and yellow flag, light shining through it
International relations

After one year of war, how to break the stalemate in Ukraine?

A&S Communications

February 24 will mark one year since Russian tanks rolled over the border into Ukraine; two Cornell historians provide insight.

scanned poem from newspaper
Provided Poem from an 1827 edition of Freedom's Journal
Graduate student research

Website sheds light on 19th century Black literary culture

A&S Communications

The site includes 700 poems that Charline Jao discovered and transcribed.

Greek statue
Unsplash Picture of a Greek statue
Classics

Juniors selected for Caplan travel fellowships

A&S Communications

Kim Montpelier ‘24, Austin Manning ‘24 and Shanzai Ikhlas ‘24 won fellowships through the classics department.

Migrants carry everything they own to find a better life in a new home.
Courtesy of the Cornell Chronicle
Student awards

Migrations announces winners for creative writing, art

A&S Communications

Four winners of the competition by the Migrations Global Grand Challenge are affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences.

rat eating and playing
Chris Kitchen One of the rats in the Brain Computation and Behavior Lab.
Neurobiology and Behavior

Researchers create custom technology in quest to understand memory

A&S Communications

A pair of researchers in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior are designing new technology and research methods to discover how brain circuits support learning and memory.

Book cover: Transcending Fragments
History of Art and Visual Studies

War’s aftermath brought modern painting to Taiwan

A&S Communications

“Transcending Fragments” is the first detailed account of the life and art of Fong Chung-Ray.