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Curricular innovation

New moral psychology minor takes on challenging questions

A&S Communications

The curriculum will offer students interdisciplinary engagement with moral psychology theory and research as well as hands-on experience applying moral psychology to practical ethical issues.

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Research applications

Looking for love, finding TNT

Cornell Research

African pouched rats have an extraordinary talent for finding land mines. Alexander Ophir explores why they are so good at detecting explosives.

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Office of Undergraduate Biology

Tiny spores full of promise

Cornell Research

Eileen Tzng, an undergraduate in the Pawlowska lab, is intent on understanding the relationship between fungal spores and the bacteria they harbor.

Kyle Shen
Physics

Engineering novel hybrid superconductors

Cornell Research

The Shen lab leverages unique experimental capabilities to detect and investigate systems in which superconductivity may be fragile or exist only at surfaces or interfaces.

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Climate change

Grant to fund conference on climate change in South Asia

A&S Communications

A Cornell-led international team of researchers has received a $65,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for its project, “The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.”

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Classroom innovation

Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom

Cornell Chronicle

This fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods

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Provided Jonathan Weston ”04, pictured with his wife, Holly, and daughter, Lilia, at Panama Rocks park.
Alumni honors

Geologic park manager receives NYS Hometown Alumni Award

Cornell Chronicle

Jonathan Weston ’04, manager of Panama Rocks, a park and geologic site in New York’s Chautauqua County, received the Cornell New York State Hometown Alumni Award Oct. 6 in a virtual ceremony.

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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Chemistry professor helped catalyze Nobel-winning breakthrough

Cornell Chronicle

… everything from polymer synthesis to the creation of new materials. But perhaps the most important application is in …

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Postdoctoral scholars

Alumnus/postdoc spotlight: Frank Castelli, Ph.D. ’17

Cornell University Graduate School

Frank Castelli ’05, M.S. ’14, Ph.D. ’17, is a postdoc in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior from Howard Beach, New York.

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ESO/M. Kornmesser An artist's rendition of a "hot Jupiter."
Astronomy

Spectrum reveals extreme exoplanet is even more exotic

Cornell Chronicle

An international team led by Cornell researchers has discovered ionized calcium on the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet.

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Campus events

Francis Fukuyama talk launches new series on global crises

Celebrated public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 will be the first speaker in the Center for the Study of Economy & Society’s new fall lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World.”

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Music

Music department presents organ festival Oct. 20-23

Department of Music

An organ festival on campus will feature the works of the Dutch composer and keyboardist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

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Mathematics

Event will honor suffragist and mathematician James Oliver

A&S Communications

The life and work of James Edward Oliver, a passionate supporter of women’s suffrage and a nationally recognized mathematician, will be celebrated in an evening of talks on Oct. 14.

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Humanities research

Applications open for new humanities prize

A&S Communications

Undergraduate students interested in the intersection of religion and politics or society can now apply for a new prize, to be given out next spring.

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History

History professor wins George Washington Prize

A&S Communications

Mary Beth Norton has been awarded the George Washington Prize for her book, "1774: The Long Year of Revolution."