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Helping humanities students explore careers beyond academia

1/24/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

Humanities doctoral students begin their programs with an area of interest. This focus narrows as dissertation research progresses until, by the end of a doctoral program, it narrows to the point that students see only a path to a faculty or research career. To broaden their view, the Graduate School’s Careers Beyond Academia has expanded its programs to illuminate many more possible careers.

man watching stars — Provided Nordgren watches the Milky Way rise at Big Bend National Park,

Astronomy

Alum is an evangelist for the wonders of national parks—‘after dark’

1/24/2022 Cornellians

Astronomer and artist Tyler Nordgren, PhD ’97, trains rangers to lead stargazing programs and immortalizes parks in 1930s-style travel posters.

Administration

Bruce Lewenstein appointed university ombudsman

1/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Bruce Lewenstein, professor of science communication in both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed Cornell’s 13th university ombudsman.

The head and shoulders of a man wearing a wreath of leaves and a cloak over armor. — Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Roman Emperor at the Summer Garden

Public Engagement

Putin’s goal of ‘breaking NATO’ evokes past Soviet, Roman leaders

1/27/2022 A&S Communications

Prof. Barry Strauss comments on Russian President Vladimir Putin's demands about Ukraine.

Astronomy

Video: Spacecraft destined for orbit following balloon test

1/26/2022 Cornell Engineering Magazine

Cornell students, including some from Arts and Sciences, have begun building the final version of Alpha CubeSat – a small satellite that will carry a first-of-its-kind light sail, hologram-embossed solar panels and several other new techniques for deep-space travel.

Faculty honors

Seven faculty members elected AAAS fellows

1/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Seven Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. This year's fellows, 564 in all, will be honored at a virtual event Feb. 19.

Historical black and white photo of a large waterfall — Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Many common labels for this region’s Indigenous people and places, including Taughannock Falls, shown here in a photo from 1888, are actually mispronunciations imposed by white settlers, according to professor Kurt Jordan. His brief history of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ people in the Cayuga Lake region seeks to clarify local history; this image appears in the book.

Anthropology

Indigenous-Cornell partnership publishes Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ history

1/25/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The Tompkins County Historical Commission will release a short book written by Cornell Professor Kurt Jordan with the help of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ community members, titled “The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ People in the Cayuga Lake Region: A Brief History.”

Smoke stacks and electric power plant towers.

Public Engagement

E.P.A’s new air, water protections for poor sends mixed signals, says prof.

1/26/2022 A&S Communications

Prof. Jerel Ezell comments on the EPA's announcement of new air and water monitoring and enforcement.

Illustration of two black holes — LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet) An artist's conception of a precessing binary black hole. The black holes, which will ultimately spiral together into one larger black hole, are shown here orbiting one another in a plane. The black holes are spinning in a non-aligned fashion, which means they are tilted relative to the overall orbital motion of the pair. This causes the orbit to precess like a top spinning along a tilted axis.

Physics

Binary black hole spin behavior revealed using novel techniques

1/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Research done at Cornell has uncovered the first potential signs of spin-orbit resonances in binary black holes, a step toward understanding the mechanisms of supernovas and other big questions in astrophysics.

Africana Studies and Research Center

Water crisis increased Flint children’s lead exposure

1/25/2022 Cornell Chronicle

As many as one in four children in Flint, Michigan – far above the national average – may have experienced elevated blood lead levels after the city’s 2014 water crisis, finds new research by Jerel Ezell, assistant professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center.

Public Engagement

‘Saber rattling’ over Ukraine highlights the region’s complicated past

1/25/2022 A&S Communications

Faculty experts comment on the evolving situation between Russia and Ukraine.

Physics

Gender bias in lab groups not rooted in personal preference

1/20/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The finding shows there is potential for instructional interventions that could correct the gender inequity in physics labs.

Person walking past a wall painted with many faces

Psychology

Fear of majority-minority changes perceptions of race

1/19/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The threat of demographic change may alter who white Americans perceive as racial minorities, potentially making more people vulnerable to discrimination, suggests new Cornell psychology research.

Illustration of nSWAT mechanism stretching DNA molecules — “Resonator” wave guides made of silicon nitride, represented here by gray bars, apply enough force to half-micron-wide plastic beads (blue) to perform a standard biophysical experiment, unzipping DNA molecules held in place by light emanating from the resonator at the point of each bead.

Physics

‘Lab on a chip’ can measure protein-DNA interactions

1/20/2022 Cornell Chronicle

New nanophotonic tweezers developed by Cornell researchers can stretch and unzip DNA molecules as well as disrupt and map protein-DNA interactions, paving the way for commercial availability.

Gloved hand holding a gold medal — Carla DeMello/Provided The Nobel Prize awarded to Hans Bethe in 1967

Physics

Hans Bethe’s Nobel Prize medal given to library

1/20/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Bethe earned the medal for his theory on the energy production of stars. It now holds a special place in the library among the physicist's papers from his 60-year teaching career at Cornell.

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