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Mathematics

Math communicator visits campus to explore math in everyday life

A&S Communications

… to math’s societal and technological role in the world will visit campus March 13-17 as an A.D. White Professor at … two free events open to the public as part of his week-long visit. “Ellenberg is a distinguished mathematician and a … Math communicator visits campus to explore math in everyday life …

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Giving Day

Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16

A&S Communications

 On Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.

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Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP/Schmidt/Quartini The remotely operated underwater vehicle Icefin, developed by a team led by Britney Schmidt, is visible as it is lowered via a 4.3-mm fiber-optic tether through a borehole to start one of three dives beneath the Ross Ice Shelf near Kamb Ice Stream in Dedcember 2019. A tent shelter’s color is reflected in the ice.
Astronomy

Robot provides unprecedented views below Antarctic ice shelf

Cornell Chronicle

A U.S.-New Zealand research team recognized a shift as evidence of “ice pumping” – a process important to the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf.

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Provided “Heading into Night,” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, explores the unexpected humor and discoveries to be found in the loss of memory.
Performing and Media Arts

Clown play captures complex emotions of cognitive loss

Cornell Chronicle

“Heading into Night: a Clown Ode on…(forgetting),” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, who developed the play with Professor Beth Milles, premiered this month.

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Provided A new museum exhibit showcases the Alpha CubeSat project, in which a small, low-cost satellite and light sail will be adorned with holographic art as a means of interstellar communication.
Astronomy

Postcards from Earth: Hologram project showcased at Intrepid

Cornell Chronicle

A yearslong effort to launch Cornell-made satellite technology into a neighboring solar system is making a terrestrial stop at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.

Anna Kornbluh
Anna Kornbluh
Society for the Humanities

Literature, film, and critical theory professor delivers Culler Lecture

A&S Communications

Anna Kornbluh, professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, will address "Immediacy: Some Theses on Contemporary Style" on Tuesday, March 7.

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Soontira Sutanont/Cornell University Kimi Gengo, a poet, literary pioneer and advocate for Japanese Americans who attended Cornell from 1924-1925 and 1928-1930 is one of the changemakers featured in Any Person, Many Stories. Her story is shared by Claire Deng, '22.
Public history

Public history project reveals stories of Cornell changemakers

Cornell Chronicle

A new public history digital exhibition hosted by the Center for Teaching Innovation uses storytelling methods to look at Cornell’s past.

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Government

U.S. has few options to counter rollback of elections protections in Mexico

A&S Communications

Professor Gustavo Flores--Macías: the United States has few diplomatic options to push back on the Mexican government’s changes to electoral laws, which protestors claim threaten democracy.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech
Astronomy

Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell astronomers discovered a companion galaxy estimated at 1.4 billion years old while scanning images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

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Moral psychology

Philosopher John Doris: ‘Moral psychologists have plenty to do’

A&S Communications

John M. Doris reflected on his book "Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality" during a recent book talk.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Clinton Foundation Students meet at eHub in Kennedy Hall.
Student experiences

Students to develop their ideas for social change

Cornell Chronicle

Ten enterprising Cornell students will attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2023 Annual Meeting in March.

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Nupo Deyon Daniel/Unsplash Lagos, Nigeria
African politics

High stakes and high risk in Nigeria landmark election 

A&S Communications

Perspective from professor Rachel Beatty Riedl on the “opportunity of historic turnover" as Nigerians will head to the polls Feb. 25 for a fiercely-competitive presidential election. 

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Aurore Simonnet/LIGO-Caltech-MIT-Sonoma State An artist’s conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO.
Physics

Physicists create new model of ringing black holes

A&S Communications

Gravitational waves produced from colliding black holes interact with each other, producing nonlinear effects – “what happens when waves on the beach crest and crash.”

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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."

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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.