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Several people sit on a shadowed lawn between university buildings — Lindsay France/Cornell University Students on the Arts Quad

American studies

Reporters discuss history of “land grab” universities in press freedom lecture

8/29/2022 A&S Communications

Journalist Tristan Ahtone and historian Robert Lee will talk about how Indigenous land expropriated by the 1862 Morrill Act is the foundation of the land-grant university system in the 2022 Kops Lecture.

Sandwich with lots of vegetables, close-up — Noël Heaney/Cornell University The Friendship Sandwich

Alumni

Between Two Slices of Bread, an Enduring Big Red Bond

8/26/2022 Cornellians

Two ’06 classmates enjoyed a simple-but-tasty sandwich for decades—then the Washington Post shared it with the world

Neurobiology and Behavior

Neuroscientist receives Freedman Prize

8/26/2022

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has been awarded the 2022 Freedman Prize, which recognizes exceptional clinical and basic research in mental illness.

Two spherical celestial bodies against a dark background — Credit: NASA/Provided Evidence of carbon dioxide was found by the new James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet WASP-39b, which is shown in this artistic rendering.

Astronomy

Cornell helps detect CO2 for first time on faraway world

8/25/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A large international team found molecular evidence of carbon dioxide on the exoplanet WASP-39b, a giant gaseous world orbiting a sun-like star about 700 light-years away.

The three researchers are sitting around a desk and Ailong Ke is pointing to an image of the IscB molecule on the computer screen. — Provided From left to right: Chunyi Hu, Gabriel Schuler and Ailong Ke.

CRISPR research

Microscopy reveals mechanism behind new CRISPR tool

8/25/2022 A&S Communications

New research could lead to promising antiviral and tissue engineering tools in animal and plants.

Energy research

Energy center receives $12.6 million in renewed funding

8/25/2022 A&S Communications

The award allows the center to continue its work developing advanced fuel cell technologies in alkaline media.

Creative Writing Program

Fall 2022 Zalaznick Reading Series Features Global Voices

8/25/2022 A&S Communications

Beginning Sept. 8, the series brings innovative, award-winning authors to read from their work on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

Green lawn intersected by gray paths, seen from the air — Jason Koski/Cornell University Aerial view of the Arts Quad, heart of the College of Arts and Sciences

Klarman Fellows

A&S opens application portal for Klarman postdoc fellowships

8/23/2022 A&S Communications

Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.

Person standing on a bridge, with a river and city behind — Provided Moss in Geneva, Switzerland, where she spent her junior year

Alumni

Quelle Surprise! The Hidden Benefits of My French Lit Major

8/19/2022 Cornellians

Being immersed in another language and culture made Melissa Hart Moss ’93, JD ’97 a better lawyer—and a more broad-minded person

Two people stand in a garden — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Kofi Acree, director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library and curator of Africana Collections in Cornell University Library, speaks with gardeners outside the installation at the Cornell Botanic Gardens.

The Black experience

Seeds of survival: Botanic Gardens honors the Black experience

8/17/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Arts & Sciences student Jakara Zellner ’23, co-leader on the Garden Ambassador team, who served on the advisory committee and narrated the audio tour of a Cornell Botanic Gardens featuring 21 plants significant to the Black experience in the Americas.

two girls hugging — Jesse Winter Elida Met-Hoxha, left, and Zayana Khan, became friends this summer during their time at Cornell Tech.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Summer reflections from Milstein students

8/16/2022 A&S Communications

Hear from four of the 29 students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity about their summer at Cornell Tech.

Biological sciences

Aquadro honored for contributions to population genetics

8/15/2022 A&S Communications

A world leader in the study of population genetics of the fruit fly, Aquadro studies the amount of diversity that exists within and between the genomes of organisms.