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Classroom innovation

Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom

10/7/2021 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

Climate change

Grant to fund conference on climate change in South Asia

10/7/2021 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.”

person on computer screen — Jason Koski/Cornell University Jonathan Weston ’04 during the virtual Cornell New York State Hometown Alumni Award ceremony Oct. 7.

Alumni honors

Geologic park manager receives NYS Hometown Alumni Award

10/7/2021 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.

Lab beakers, one partly filled with liquid — Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Chemistry professor helped catalyze Nobel-winning breakthrough

10/7/2021 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.

Postdoctoral scholars

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

10/6/2021 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.

Swirls of red and white representing a planet's atmosphere — ESO/M. Kornmesser An artist's rendition of a "hot Jupiter."

Astronomy

Spectrum reveals extreme exoplanet is even more exotic

10/5/2021 Cornell Chronicle

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

Campus events

Francis Fukuyama talk launches new series on global crises

10/5/2021

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.”

Music

Music department presents organ festival Oct. 20-23

10/5/2021 Department of Music

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

Mathematics

Event will honor suffragist and mathematician James Oliver

10/5/2021 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.

Humanities research

Applications open for new humanities prize

10/5/2021 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.

History

History professor wins George Washington Prize

10/5/2021 A&S Communications

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

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Three A&S professors honored with national chemistry awards

10/5/2021 A&S Communications

Three faculty members in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts & Sciences have been honored with national awards.

History

Seymour lecture focuses on Japan’s Olympic history

10/4/2021 Department of History

Historian Ken Ruoff will discuss the Japan that was on display during the Olympics in 1940 and 1965 at this year’s Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History.

Faculty awards

Four from faculty receive Carpenter Advising Awards

10/4/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Four Cornell faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.

Global reach

Einaudi welcomes new program directors and opportunities

9/29/2021 Global Cornell

Three new faculty program directors join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies this fall, providing leadership for the center’s regional programs on Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Southeast Asia.

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