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irina island images Peter Enns, professor of government and public policy in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, speaks to a Cornell Tech audience about the Collaborative Midterm Survey.
Government

Experts assess innovative Cornell election study

Cornell Chronicle

The researchers, including those from the government department, revealed the results from the Cornell-led 2022 Collaborative Midterm Survey Jan. 20 at an event at Cornell Tech.

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The research of Geoffry Coates (center) is recognized to be at the forefront of innovation in the development high-performance sustainable materials.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemist wins National Academy of Science award

A&S Communications

Geoffrey Coates’ discoveries have revolutionized polymer recycling, materials for green hydrogen generation, and the synthesis of sustainable plastics.

Richard Kong
Patrick Shanahan As a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in chemistry and chemical biology, Richard Kong develops catalysts to guide chemical reactions toward desired outcomes, including some that could have a positive effect on the environment.
Klarman Fellows

A&S Klarman Fellows program renewed and expanded

Cornell Chronicle

Thanks to additional significant support from Seth Klarman ’79 and Beth Schultz Klarman, the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship program has been expanded to support 10 fellows per cohort.

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Alumni

CU in Congress: Alumni in the House

Cornellians

The seven Cornellians serving as representatives in D.C. include military veterans, businesspeople, and even a former MMA fighter — and two A&S graduates.

Peter Enns
Peter Enns
Government

Results of innovative Cornell-led public opinion survey to be released Friday

Cornell Chronicle

Peter Enns is the lead investigator on the 2022 Collaborative Midterm Survey, containing answers by more than 19,000 Americans to a wide-ranging survey about political views.

J.C. Dombrowski
Noël Heaney/Cornell University Dombrowski displays one of his hundreds of TikToks.
Student experiences

TikTok Star’s Eclectic Offerings Entertain—and Educate—Millions

Cornellians

Exploring topics from marine mammals to moisturizers, leading influencer J.C. Dombrowski ’23 loves to share science.

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Lindsay France/Cornell University Composer Roberto Sierra, at home
Music

New work by Prof. Roberto Sierra featured in Jan. 29 concert

A&S Communications

The Sierra Duo – John Haines-Eitzen, cello, and Matthew Bengtson, piano – will Sierra’s “Cuatro Piezas para cello y piano” and other pieces Jan. 29.

Four people stand in front of a building, wearing dress coats and hats
Provided by the family of Dr. Edward Hart Martin Luther King Jr. and colleagues stand outside Anabel Taylor Hall on Nov. 13, 1960, during King’s first visit to Ithaca. Left to right: Kenneth Hagood ’60, a Cornell student organizer; Martin Luther King Jr.; the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a co-founder with King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Dr. Edward Hart, an Ithaca ophthalmologist and chair of the Cornell Committee Against Segregation.
Africana Studies and Research Center

MLK's 1960s visits to Cornell still resonate today

Cornell Chronicle

King’s historic visit on Nov. 13, 1960, and a second, on April 14, 1961, came during a period when he was honing ideas that would take center stage at the March on Washington in 1963

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Alex McAlvay/New York Botanical Garden A farmer holds multiple varieties of wheat and barley from his field in Kutabir District, Amhara, Ethiopia.
Climate

Ancient farming strategy holds promise for climate resilience

Cornell Chronicle

A paper by Cornell researchers suggests maslins have the unique capacity to adapt in real time to extreme weather.

Book cover: Revolution
Traverso's award-winning book, English translation
Romance Studies

Traverso wins Italian literature award for nonfiction

A&S Communications

“Rivoluzione 1789-1989” has also been published in English, French and Spanish, with translations to follow in German, Portuguese, Greek, Korean and other languages.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Electrochemistry converts carbon to useful molecules

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists discovered they could produce two products used in medicinal chemistry by changing the electrochemical reactor.

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Physics

Cornell to lead new semiconductor research center

Cornell Chronicle

Dan Ralph, Ph.D. ’93, the F.R. Newman Professor of Physics, is among the center’s 25 principal investigators.

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Humanities

Mellon grants $1M to deepen and improve Freedom on the Move

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell is partnering with multiple institutions to foster a research community around a growing collection of “runaway slave” advertisements published in the 18th and 19th centuries.

A white box with a lense on the right end with complex equipment on the underside; a sensor bound for Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image, taken in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on July 23, 2019, shows a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument (its lens is in the large circular opening).
Astronomy

Perseverance rover records sound of dust devils on Mars

Cornell Chronicle

Thanks to the first working microphone to traverse the surface of Mars, the sound of a tiny, extraterrestrial dust tornado has reached Earth.

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Simon Wheeler Milstein student Pareesay Afzal '24 performs an original song at the Salon.
Student experiences

Creativity flourishes at student-run Milstein Salon

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

The event featured a cello ensemble, a fashion shoot spread and a series of poetry and prose readings.