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Renowned string quartet to perform in Cornell Concert Series

2/20/2023 A&S Communications

… featuring Western classical artists, the series presented Ravi Shankar in 1987 and has since grown to encompass a …

Graduate student research

Student Spotlight: Angie Torres-Beltran

2/17/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral candidate in government from central Florida, Torres-Beltran studies how women’s political participation is influenced by gender-based violence and interactions with state institutions.

Two people arms around each other, smiling — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Taylan Özgür Ercan ’25, left, president and founder of the Turkish Students Association and an economics major, and Majd Aldaye ’25, a computer science major

Cornell community

Campus rallies to support Syria, Turkey earthquake survivors

2/16/2023 Cornell Chronicle

With about 70 students on campus from Syria and Turkey affected by the devastation in their countries, students, faculty and administrators have mobilized to create relief efforts.

man and woman in front of chalkboard — Chris Kitchen Marten van Schijndel, left, and Helena Aparicio

Linguistics

Researchers use computational tools to understand linguistic processing

2/16/2023 A&S Communications

Two recently-hired faculty in the Department of Linguistics are expanding the use of computer modeling and experimental techniques as they forge new paths of research in the discipline.

Group of people in an equipment room, a table of parts — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Britney Schmidt, center, and research team members

Climate research

Underwater robot helps explain Antarctic glacier’s retreat

2/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

First-of-their-kind observations beneath the floating shelf of a vulnerable Antarctic glacier reveal widespread cracks and crevasses where melting occurs more rapidly, contributing to the glacier’s retreat.

Clock tower in foreground, snowy college campus in the distance, seen from above in low light

Sloan Research Fellowships

Five early-career faculty win Sloan Research Fellowships

2/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Debanjan Chowdhury, physics, and Andrew Musser, chemistry, are among 126 researchers in the United States and Canada who this year have received two-year fellowships to advance their work.

Smoke rising from a landfill — Collab Media/Unsplash Milner's project aims to use renewable electricity to achieve low-cost capture of methane from various streams, including landfills.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Milner wins Scialog award to advance methane mitigation

2/14/2023 A&S Communications

The Scialog initiative aims to catalyze advances in basic science that will enable technologies for removal of C02 and other greenhouse gases to become more efficient, affordable and scalable.

Silhouettes on a wall show a gun aimed at two hands held up in surrender; a scene of nighttime crime

Moral psychology

I, Judge and Jury

2/13/2023 Cornell Research

How do you decide if a person in a difficult situation has acted criminally or not? John Doris reveals patterns in our moral judgments.

Light shines through gossamer fabric of a large, inflated balloon against a dark sky — NASA/Dartmouth/Alexa Halford/Creative Commons license 2.0 A high altitude research balloon, launching in 2015

Unidentified flying objects

In an age of drones and UAVs, why balloons are having a moment

2/13/2023 A&S Communications

Countries have long used balloons to extend intelligence collection though more sophisticated technologies have replaced them in recent years, says drone researcher Paul Lushenko.

Music

GRAMMY-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Feb. 24

2/10/2023 A&S Communications

Maria Schneiders’ “Winter Morning Walks” headlines the program in Barnes Hall.

city lights on a river at night — Moscow

History

Sanctions Against Russia Ignore the Economic Challenges Facing Ukraine

2/9/2023

In a New York Times guest essay, Nicholas Mulder considers why the Russian economy has proven relatively resilient under sanctions.

A diagram of green lines making a path among blue and red lines — Sunghoon Kim As the experimentalists changed the electric field, it is likely that different parts of the material underwent the metal-to-insulator transition at different values of the electric field because of a small number of inherent imperfections. Consequently, the flowing electrons must find a path through these “islands” of insulating regions, embedded in a “sea” of metal.

Solving Quantum Mysteries

Being able to control how metals become insulators – and vice versa -- could lead to new complex microscopic circuits, superconductors and exotic insulators that could find use in quantum computing. A&S physicists are exploring this mysterious kind of phase transition, discovering new ways to reconcile experiment and theory.

Elusive transition shows universal quantum signatures

Two images of boggy land; people digging in it — Nuria Rodríguez/Provided Fieldwork and sampling in Tirez lagoon, central Spain, when the lagoon was still active (left) and after drought and desiccation, with only salt crusts remaining (right).

Astronomy

Spanish lagoon proposed as Mars ‘astrobiological time-analog’

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Alberto G. Fairén led an inaugural study of a dynamic analogous Earth environment where changes can be analyzed over many years.

Sociology

Same-race reviews reduce inequality in Airbnb bookings

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

White guests favor Airbnb properties with white hosts, but are more inclined to rent from Black or Asian hosts if they see featured reviews from previous white guests, Cornell research finds.

Dry landscape featuring a hill and partly cloudy sky — John Marston The researchers scrutinized tree ring samples recovered from the Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, a human-made 53-meter-tall structure located west of Ankara, Turkey.

Archaeology

Rare drought coincided with Hittite Empire collapse

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary collaboration used tree ring and isotope records to pinpoint a likely culprit: three straight years of severe drought in an already dry period.

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