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Swirling brown gases form a mountain-like landscape against a backdrop of stars — NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.

Cosmic Exploration

Cornell astronomers cheer new space telescope’s first images

7/12/2022 Arts & Sciences Communications

Faculty respond to the release of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Ann Simmons smiling, with very short hair, red lipstick, earrings and a black jacket over a black top. — Ann Simmons

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

WSJ Moscow Bureau Chief named A&S Zubrow Visiting Journalist for fall 2022

7/11/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“We’re privileged to host Ann Simmons on campus at this time of global turmoil to share her deep insights with the Cornell community,” said Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.

Mathematics

Talking numbers: Cornell hosts math communication workshop

7/7/2022 A&S Communications

August 8-11, mathematics researchers and college-level teachers will discuss what it takes to communicate effectively among mathematicians, to students, and to the public.

Person writing on a chalkboard — Chris Kitchen Christian Gaetz, Klarman Fellow in mathematics

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow achieves ‘beautiful results’ with outstanding math problems

7/7/2022 A&S Communications

Christian Gaetz uses his specific focus in mathematics – algebraic combinatorics – to make exciting progress on open problems.

student walking by the observatory on campus

Cornell Cinema

Celluloid recollections: Cornell Cinema names new director

7/5/2022 A&S Communications

A new director, Molly Ryan, will take the helm of Cornell Cinema this fall, succeeding Mary Fessenden, who has led the organization for 35 years, eight years as 8 manager and 27 as director.

Psychology

Babies learn power of voice through experimentation

7/5/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have found that babies learn their prelinguistic vocalizations – coos, grunts and vowel sounds – change the behaviors of other people, a key building block of communication.

two people putting sticks into a trench — Chris Kitchen Norton, left, and Smith, right, begin to lay sticks in the bottom of a trench in the hügelkultur method.

Nexus Scholars Program

Sustainability and spirituality in the garden

7/1/2022 A&S Communications

A group of students, including some Nexus Scholars, is learning practical skills related to sustainability and connecting them to community behaviors.

Child making a face at a cut up apple on a plate

Economics

Don’t Stress: Maternal Stress Affects Child’s Diet

7/1/2022 ILR School Cornell University

Maternal exposure to stress during pregnancy could have long term detrimental effects on children’s diets, finds Michele Belot.

Sustainability

Cornell Atkinson awards $1.4 million to new sustainability projects

6/30/2022 Cornell Chronicle

This year’s Academic Venture Fund (AVF) seed grants for research support equitable and sustainable development, offshore wind energy, and improved indoor air quality.

Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei

6/29/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

The doctoral candidate in music from Denton, Texas studies music composition with a focus on time malleability.

Seven flags on poles against a blue sky — Photo by K8 on Unsplash The Finnish flag (front) and Swedish flag (fifth) fly with those of other nordic countries

NATO membership

NATO decision on Finland, Sweden strong on paper, future unclear

6/29/2022 A&S Communications

With NATO formally inviting Finland and Sweden to join its alliance after Turkey dropped its objections, classics and history professor Barry Strauss comments that history is full of alliances that amounted to little.

Martha Haynes with glasses, shoulder-length gray hair in a red top, with blurred stars on screen behind her — Jason Koski/Cornell University Martha Haynes speaks at Reunion 2013.

Cosmic Exploration

‘Follow your dreams,’ writes astronomer Martha Haynes

6/29/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“The Sky Is for Everyone” is a collection of autobiographical essays by “women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy.”

Chris Kitchen Catherine “Cat” Ramirez Foss

Staff awards

Recipients of inaugural undergraduate academic advising awards named

6/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Catherine “Cat” Ramirez Foss, Advising Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, receives one of the two awards, which recognize the critical work of front-line academic advisors.

Government

When Will Texas Stop Executing People Whose Death Sentences Are Unconstitutional?

6/22/2022 Slate

In commentary in Slate, Joseph Margulies, writes that the Supreme Court refused last week to hear an appeal from Terence Andrus, a prisoner on Texas’ death row.

Ryan Young / Cornell University Fernando Santiago ’86 received the Cornell New York State Hometown Alumni Award on June 22, at a ceremony at the Genesee Valley Club in Rochester.

Alumni

Rochester lawyer receives NYS Hometown Alumni Award

6/23/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Fernando Santiago ’86, the first person in his family to go to college, majored in government in the College of Arts & Sciences.

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