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Student entrepreneurs

App for finding study partners wins at entrepreneurship kickoff

A&S Communications

An application to help students connect with others in their classes won the top prize – an automatic spot in this fall’s eLab class – at the Entrepreneurship at Cornell kickoff event, Sept. 4 in eHub Collegetown.

Faculty excellence

Six A.D. White Professors-at-Large elected

Cornell Chronicle

A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, two bestselling authors and a leader in global sustainable agriculture are among six newly elected Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large at Cornell.Their six-year terms are effective July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2025. Candidates are nominated by Cornell faculty members; appointments are considered following review and recommendation by a faculty selection committee.

Performing & Media Arts

“The Wolves” spotlights complex dynamics of girls’ athletics

Performing & Media Arts

Rehearsing and training for “The Wolves” by Sarah DeLappe (September 26–28, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts) has been an exercise in stamina and endurance for Cornell University senior Sabrina Liu. “Being in ‘The Wolves’ has pushed me out of my comfort zone not only in terms of the way that I normally act and perform, but also in terms of what my body can do physically,” said Liu.

Astronomy

Planetary scientist Steve Squyres to retire from Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Steve Squyres ’78, Ph.D. ’81, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences, who has taught astronomy, conducted research and chaperoned two Mars rovers on their 300 million-mile journey to Earth’s rust-colored neighbor, will retire from Cornell Sept. 22.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

A Student’s Research Trek—with Salamanders

Cornell Research

For most biology students, the conventional pathway toward initiating research entails pursuing questions in a research field in which they’re interested. Jordan Garcia, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, however, arrived at the subject of his PhD dissertation in a decidedly antithetical manner—by pursuing the field he found most pertinent to the questions about which he was curious.

Welcoming new faculty

Two alumni are among new faculty in Arts and Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

This school year, 23 new faculty members join the College of Arts and Sciences, enhancing Cornell’s strengths in areas such as media studies, behavioral economics, moral psychology and African American literature.

Mathematics

After years of wandering, longest-serving professor finds a home at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Anil Nerode spent his childhood on the move.As the son of an itinerant yogi living in the United States, “I went to around 50 grammar schools in 50 places,” said Nerode, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences. “I was never anywhere more than a few weeks.”So in 1959, when he found a place he liked – Cornell – he settled down and stayed put.

Computer Science & Psychology

Research gives robots a second chance at first impressions

Cornell Chronicle

At the intersection of psychology, artificial intelligence and robotics, researchers seek to understand how people understand others, whether human or robot.

Astronomy

Explosive nitrogen created craters that pock Saturn moon Titan

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists solve mystery of steep ridges around Titan's methane lakes.

Government and politics

Experts to discuss 2020 polling on ‘Pundits on the Line’

Cornell Chronicle

Expert analysts from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research will join Cornell’s Institute of Politics and Global Affairs on a conference call to discuss polling and the 2020 election.

LGBT Studies

Lily Wong lecture kicks off year-long collaboration

A&S Communications

Sex workers play a key role in mobilizing social activism in Asia, as Lily Wong will discuss in her lecture on Sept. 10, “Sex Work, Movement Politics, and Affect Labor in the Sinophone World.” Wong will also discuss LGBT activism in Taiwan and cultural belonging in the Sinophone world. The lecture will draw on Wong’s book, Transpacific Attachments, and the entwined histories of Taiwan’s queer activism, sex-work rights movement, and labor justice movements. 

Mathematics

Strogatz named finalist for Royal Society prize

A&S Communications

A book by Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.  

Chemistry

Professor awarded grant for alkali metal research

Cornell Research

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David B Collum's lab recently received a $2.79m grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund his research on alkali metals reactivity and selectivity. These metals play a vital role in academic and industiral laboratories' development of medical compounds.

Astronomy

Stars and population stats

Cornell Research

Cornell Research's newest enstallment of academician features takes a look at Astronomy research associate Thomas Nikola, and Developmental Sociology research assistant and lecturuer Sarah C Giroux. Both faculty incorporate active research studies in evolving fields into their teaching, bringing academic excellence to their fields.

Research

Interdisciplinary Team Gets $2M grant for Bioenergy Conversion

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded an interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers $2 million to study the combination of inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles and bacterial cells for more efficient bioenergy conversion.