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Books

Wondering what to read in 2023? A&S faculty offer ideas

12/7/2022 A&S Communications

A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.

China

Why protesters are targeting Xi Jinping for China’s ‘zero covid’ failures

11/30/2022 The Washington Post

Simmering anger at Beijing’s “zero covid” restrictions exploded over the past few days, writes Jeremy Lee Wallace, associate professor of government, in Washington Post commentary.

Neuroscience

Goldberg shares research at Russekoff lecture

11/30/2022 A&S Communications

The Mitzi Sutton Russekoff ’54 Lecture took place Nov. 15 at the Cornell Club in New York City.

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Physics

Physicist identifies how electron crystals melt

11/28/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Eun-Ah Kim and Michael Matty, M.S. ’19, Ph.D. ’22, describe a phase in between the liquid and the solid for electron structures.

A black and white image of Tom Davis in suit and tie, wearing black plastic glasses and smiling.

Economics

Economist Tom Davis dies at 93

11/23/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Tom E. Davis, professor emeritus of economics, was an expert on economic development in Latin America.

three women with tote bags — Provided Dana Oshiro '24, right, a Laidlaw scholar, spent six weeks working with Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) and VinUniversity on projects to combat adverse childhood events.

Global experiences

Laidlaw scholars at Cornell gain global perspectives

11/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Four current Laidlaw scholars share their summer research or leadership in action experiences.

Global Grand Challenges

Cornell, global partners discuss the next ‘grand challenge’

11/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Global Cornell will host a town hall in December for additional feedback and announce the new Global Grand Challenge theme in the coming year.

Student honors

Town-gown awards honor food-related community partnerships

11/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The awards celebrate cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community.

student wearing VR headset — Sreang Hok/Cornell University A student uses a VR headset as Jackwin Hui, right, a student technology specialist at CTI who helped to set up and troubleshoot the headsets, looks on.

Classroom innovation

Students visit virtual world to learn research technique

11/22/2022 A&S Communications

Students experienced cryo-electron microscopy as part of a collaboration with Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation.

A star shining brightly onto the red surface of a planet. — Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian New observations of WASP-39b with the James Webb Space Telescope have provided a clearer picture of the exoplanet, showing the presence of sodium, potassium, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. This artist's illustration also displays newly detected patches of clouds across the planet.

Astronomy

Webb telescope shows exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

11/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“This is the first time we see concrete evidence of photochemistry – chemical reactions initialized by energetic stellar light – on exoplanets.”

Campus events

Moderna scientist to speak about COVID vaccine development

11/21/2022 A&S Communications

Melissa Moore led early-stage research teams developing Moderna’s platform technologies in mRNA design and delivery.

Person speaking passionately into a microphone — Provided Miguel Algarín

Poetry and performance

Anthology celebrates Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder

11/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A digital and print collection, co-edited by Karen Jaime, pays tribute to the late Miguel Algarín.

A plate of Peruvian fried rice — Provided Peruvian fried rice – or chaufa – a dish featured on Kitchen Marronage, led by Tao Leigh Goffe. Supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the project uses food as a doorway into understanding the history of indentureship.

Humanities

Goffe: Collaboration is key to major humanities grants

11/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

… Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation will help make humanities research more accessible to scholars and the … Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity … Two grants, from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Mellon Foundation, are supporting a …

Government

Professor wins award for book about middle class and democracy

11/18/2022 A&S Communications

Bryn Rosenfeld, assistant professor of government, won for her book, “The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy.”

Large aircraft without a cockpit parked on a runway at sunset — Defense Visual Information Distribution Service An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle parked on a taxiway at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada

International relations

Public views drone strikes with other countries’ support as most legitimate

11/17/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A first-of-its kind survey reveals that Americans consider tactical strikes, used with the consent of other nations, to be the most morally legitimate or appropriate.

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