Search

Humanities Podcast

Podcast episode explores resistance to slavery via newspaper ads

10/4/2021 Society for the Humanities

A new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast, “Tweets of the Un-Mastered Class: Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist,” discusses the stories of self-liberated fugitives from American slavery through the lens of over 30,000 original documents depicting their escapes.

College staff

College names Donna Lynch-Cunningham as new director of human resources

10/4/2021 A&S Communications

The College of Arts & Sciences will welcome a new director of human resources, Donna Lynch-Cunningham, beginning on Oct. 4. Cunningham was previously human resources divisional director for the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.

telescope — NASA/Provided Artistic rendering of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently under development by NASA, which will be used in the search for distant planets beyond our solar system.

Astronomy

‘Planet confusion’ could slow Earth-like exoplanet exploration

9/30/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A new Cornell study finds that next-generation telescopes used to see exoplanets could confuse Earth-like planets with other types of planets in the same solar system.

pumpkin in a field — Provided Heritage Buffalo Creek squash, identified in the Cayuga language and in English.

Cayuga language

Collaboration plants seeds for cultural, biological conservation

9/30/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A campus collaboration with the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ (Cayuga Nation) seeks to conserve biodiversity and simultaneously safeguard human cultural values and traditions – including language – that depend on these natural resources.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Author: World’s greatest ideas came from interdisciplinary teamwork

9/29/2021 A&S Communications

… messages author Steven Johnson delivered during a campus visit Sept. 22, as a guest of the Milstein Program in … one of the key messages Johnson delivered during a campus visit Sept. 22, as a guest of the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity. His visit was also sponsored by the Department of Science and …

Postdoctoral scholars

Six postdocs honored with achievement awards

9/27/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Six postdoctoral scholars have been honored with Postdoc Achievement Awards, as part of Cornell’s celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, celebrated Sept. 20-24.

Photo by Christian Lue on Unsplash German flag on top of Berlin Reichstag

Sociology

Germany election a ‘spectacular result’ for far-right party

9/27/2021 A&S Communications

Preliminary results of Germany’s federal election are in, and the left-leaning Social Democratic Party has narrowly won the largest share of parliamentary seats.

Blue circles and lines showing neutrino trail in bubble chamber — CERN A neutrino interacts with an electron, the track of which is seen horizontally, and emerges as a neutrino without producing a muon, in the real tracks produced in the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN.

Astronomy

A&S Dean featured in PBS/BBC documentary

9/27/2021 A&S Communications

Astronomer Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, is featured in “Particles Unknown,” airing Oct. 6.

Center for the Study of Economy & Society

Center links economy and society to study changing world

9/27/2021 Cornell Chronicle

The development of regional knowledge economies is one of several primary areas of research focus for the center’s Economic Sociology Lab, supported by graduate researchers and undergraduate assistants.

Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

“Feminist Theatre: Past and Present” kicks off with Sept. 30 event

9/27/2021

The Sept. 30 event is the first in a three-part panel series that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Cornell University’s women’s studies program.

Physics

Grant funds machine learning discovery in quantum physics

9/23/2021 A&S Communications

… from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for a project titled “Accelerating Machine-Learning-Driven Discovery in … angular momentum. Others, including developments by IBM and Google, use a superconducting-based qubit. No matter what …

Drone flying in the air with mountains in the background — Photo by Alessio Soggetti on Unsplash

Government

What happens now to U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan?

9/21/2021 The Washington Post

Sarah Kreps, professor of government, writes in this Washington Post piece that a lack of accountability for civilian casualties in drone strikes isn’t likely to change.

Literatures in English

Book explores connections of Alaska’s Native and Asian peoples

9/21/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Juliana Hu Pegues often heard stories of Asian immigrants as she was growing up, but they never made it into the history books.

Physics

New technique boosts cryo-electron microscopy clarity, safety

9/21/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A new study published Sept. 7 in the journal of the International Union of Crystallography demonstrates that cryo-EM samples can be prepared with a safer and less expensive coolant – liquid nitrogen – and these samples can produce even sharper images than those prepared with ethane.

person in lab — Provided Cornell doctoral student Ryan Porter prepares an superconducting radio-frequency cavity made from the element Nb3Sn in the clean room of Newman Lab.

Center for Bright Beams

Center for Bright Beams awarded $22M in grant renewal

9/20/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration of researchers led by Cornell has been awarded $22.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue gaining the fundamental understanding needed to transform the brightness of electron beams available to science, medicine and industry.

Search : page 308