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International politics

‘The Zelensky Method’ unpacks Ukrainian president’s panache

7/26/2022 A&S Communications

In an extended essay, Grant Farred focuses on actor-turned-wartime president, examining the intersection of pop culture and politics.

Faculty awards

PMA prof honored with fellowship for screenwriting work

7/26/2022 A&S Communications

Austin Bunn, associate professor of performing and media arts, has been awarded a New York State Council for the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in screenwriting.

3-D shapes, black on top and orange red beneath, in a square of textured gray — Courtesy of T. Urban Ground-penetrating radar image of several footprints from the Utah site. Overlapping footprints of several sizes were detected, indicating an adult walking with children. The scenario was confirmed with excavation.

Archaeology

Ice Age human footprints discovered in Utah desert

7/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Altogether 88 footprints were documented, including both adults and children, offering insight into family life in the time of the Pleistocene.

woman standing in front of school — Jesse Winter Stephanie Naing in front of Trinity School in New York City, where she is teaching this summer.

Summer experiences

Exploring life in front of a classroom

7/26/2022 A&S Communications

Stephanie Naing is working with sixth and seventh graders this summer who want to gain entrance into New York City's independent schools.

student digging in the woods — Patrick Shanahan Eden Kebede '25 collects a soil sample in a forest outside Ithaca.

Nexus Scholars Program

Chasing carbon from trees to soils

7/25/2022 A&S Communications

A group of students, including some in the Nexus Scholars Program, completed field work and analysis this summer on soil coming from a long-term forest fertilization experiment.

man standing outside in New York City — Jesse Winter Eros Georgiou

Summer experiences

Internship offers insights into banking career

7/25/2022 A&S Communications

Eros Georgiou ’25 is spending the summer exploring a career in banking, with help from a Summer Experience Grant.

Alumni

In a Brutally Honest Memoir, Alum Recalls Addiction and Imprisonment

7/19/2022 Cornellians

Having returned to complete her degree in literatures in English, reporter Keri Blakinger ’11, BA ’14, now covers the prison system for the Marshall Project.

woman with lab equipment — Chris Kitchen Bea Pence works in the Musser lab.

Nexus Scholars Program

Student researchers explore changing chemical reactions

7/19/2022 A&S Communications

Undergrads in the Nexus Scholars Program used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to understand how organic semiconductors behave when they absorb and emit light.

two women outside — Chris Kitchen Juno Salazar Parreñas, left, and Mari Kramer

Nexus Scholars Program

Studying connections between animal-human health

7/19/2022 A&S Communications

Their map will visualize research about the spread of existing or known and new or emerging zoonotic diseases.

metal sculpture of a figure blindfolded and holding scales — Tingey Injury Law Firm/ Unsplash Justice representation

Government

Courts, not amendments, best route for constitutional reform

7/18/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Since the mid-20th century, Congress has repurposed Article V of the U.S. Constitution from a tool for constitutional reform into a mechanism for taking positions on issues, according to research by David A. Bateman.

Klarman Fellows

Get a Clue: Anna Shechtman Is a Star in the World of Crosswords

7/15/2022 Cornellians

The Klarman Fellow (and future prof) is a regular contributor to the New Yorker—and she created a puzzle just for Cornellians!

geometric pattern in browns and blues: a dry part of Australia seen from above — USGS/Unsplash Satellite image of Gosses Bluff, Australia

Astronomy

Satellite Imaging, Not Tourism, Is the Modern Space Race

7/14/2022 Wall Street Journal

While Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Elon Musk send people into orbit, real-time mapping of the Earth has much broader applications, writes Dean Ray Jayawardhana.

Book cover: The Downfall of the American Order

Political Science

Is American influence waning? Book considers what comes next

7/14/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The collection, “The Downfall of the American Order?” explores global affairs at this moment in history, a turning point in American influence.

Two people hold a laptop-sized piece of equipment — Provided Postdoctoral researcher Rui Zou (right) is supported by a new NSF grant to Cornell researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). With CLASSE engineer Charlie Strohman, she is working on the Apollo ATCA card, a device for the trigger track project that is part of Cornell-based upgrades to LHC’s Compact Muon Solenoid detector.

Particle physics

$3.8M NSF grant begins a new era of early universe research

7/14/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The grant from the National Science Foundation will support a team of Cornell physicists who smash matter into its component parts to learn about elementary particles and their interactions.

American flag background with two people appearing at the sides — History in HD/Unsplash A campaign rally

Government

Will Biden and Trump face off again in 2024?

7/14/2022 The Washington Post

In Washington Post commentary, Roper Center director Peter K. Enns bucks conventional polling by asking Americans to name who they would like to see on the ticket, a technique that has proved remarkably accurate.

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