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Britney Schmidt, associate professor of astronomy and of earth and atmospheric sciences, and her team set up their field site in Antarctica in 2018. They’re currently in Antarctica through February 2022.
Astronomy

Schmidt: Exploring Earth’s oceans to reach Europa

A&S Communications

Britney Schmidt is in Antarctica through February 2022 with a small team of researchers to explore the confluence of glaciers, floating ice shelves and ocean, using a submarine robot called Icefin.

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Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI) and M. Barstow (University of Leicester) White dwarf Sirius B. This burned-out stellar remnant is a faint companion to the brilliant blue-white Dog Star, Sirius, located in the winter constellation Canis Major.
Astronomy

Surviving a star’s demise: Discovery adds proof of planetary resilience

A&S Communications

Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, comments on the discovery of MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb, a Jupiter-sized planet that survived its star’s death.

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Alumni support

Scholarship gift helps pay it forward

Cornell Chronicle

Will Yoon ’01 and Renee Choi ’06 believe in the power of education—and the power of giving back. The couple recently established the Eliana Kim & Choi Family Memorial Scholarship with a gift of $100,000 to support current students.

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Student entrepreneurs

eLab introduces newest cohort of student startups

Cornell Chronicle

Following a competitive application process, eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, announced the 20 student teams selected for participation in the 2021-22 cohort.

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Music

Concerto highlights individual voice and the sound of community

Cornell Chronicle

“The Oberlin Concertos,” released Sept. 17, features a composition by Elizabeth Ogonek, which combines voice, piano and percussion.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Chemistry professor helped catalyze Nobel-winning breakthrough

Cornell Chronicle

A small contribution from chemistry Professor Tristan Lambert when he was a doctoral student helped catalyze the breakthrough in catalysis that led to the 2021 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

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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.