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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.

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.

professor and two student write formulas on clear glass — Robert Barker/Cornell University file photo Hector D. Abruna, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CHEM), in the lab with post-doctoral students.

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

… to be used, ultimately, in plastic-based metal-free batteries. Also explored by individual scholars in this … Fellowship program offers postdoctoral opportunities free of grant constraints or teaching responsibilities. …

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

… these gardens after they worked, after they labored – for free, by the way,” Acree says. “And so that meant late at … and grandmother farmed and we would often return home from visiting them with mason jars full of greens that they grew …

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.

two women walking in new York City — Jesse Winter Milstein students explored the city on various outings.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein students spend summer producing, questioning, exploring

8/15/2022 A&S Communications

Milstein students spent eight weeks this summer wrestling with societal questions about technology's role in our world.

I love interacting Ivan Andrade — Jesse Winter Iván Andrade on the Weill Cornell Medical Center campus in New York City.

Summer Experience Grants

Iván Andrade: ‘I love interacting with patients’

8/15/2022 A&S Communications

Iván Andrade’s summer experience helped him realize that he’s headed in the right direction as he pursues a career in medicine.

woman outside courthouse — Jesse Winter Louise Wang outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, where she worked this summer, in New York City.

Humanities Scholars Program

Humanities Scholars explore future careers through legal internships

8/15/2022 A&S Communications

Two students in the College explored legal careers this summer thanks in part to grants from the Humanities Scholars Program.

Cornell University Cornell University James Turner, the founding director of Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center and a a professor emeritus of African and African American Politics and Social Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Aug. 6 in Ithaca.

In memoriam

James Turner, a ‘giant’ of Africana studies, dies at 82

8/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

… His early stewardship of the center, during an era of enormous civil turmoil, put Cornell at the forefront of … for understanding and articulating Black experience that is now replicated in institutions throughout the world. … Cross and African American Studies Scholar Eleanor Trayler, visiting professor from Howard University. “He did not have …

teacher standing at the front of a classroom full of students

Economics

Teachers critical to detecting and reporting child maltreatment

8/8/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Time spent in school and the resulting contact with teachers and other school staff leads to increases in reports of child maltreatment – cases that would not have been discovered otherwise.

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