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Psychology

Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact

The Conversation

Why is the Danish language so complicated? Morten Christiansen explains in an op-ed in The Conversation.

Porcelain plate painted with a landscape
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection A porcelain plate in the "Service des Departments" series by Sèvres
History of Art and Visual Studies

A fragmented France depicted on dessert plates

Cornell Chronicle

In a new essay, Kelly Presutti describes the ultimate failure of a set of Sèvres porcelain dessert plates, 1824-32, to represent all of France.

pixelated image of grey and blue texture
Davis lab/provided This composite image shows where the selenium atoms reside in the crystal of niobium diselenide, a transition metal dichalcogenide, using conventional scanned tunneling microscopy (left, in grey) and where the electron pairs are observed using scanned Josephson tunneling microscopy (right, in blue).
Physics

Electron-pair discovery advances field of quantum materials

Cornell Chronicle

Physicist Séamus Davis and his team have found an exotic state of quantum matter.

Economics

Kaushik Basu receives Humboldt Research Award

Cornell Chronicle

Basu plans to use the Humboldt Research Award for economics to work on moral philosophy and game theory, and on law and economics.

Astronomy

Could alien astronomers have spotted Earth?

CNN

In an op-ed on CNN, Lisa Kaltenegger explains how she and other astronomers look for life beyond Earth – and how technologically advanced extraterrestrials might look for us.

A planet with stars and a dark sky in the background
OpenSpace/American Museum of Natural History Artistic view of the Earth and sun from thousands of miles above our planet, showing that stars can enter and exit a position to see Earth transiting the sun.
Astronomy

Exoplanets get a cosmic front-row seat to find backlit Earth

Cornell Chronicle

Astronomers have identified 2,034 nearby star-systems – within 326 light-years – that could find life on Earth by watching our pale blue dot cross our sun.

Graduate research

Six graduate students receive 2021 Wu Scholarships

Cornell Chronicle

Six graduate students were awarded 2021 Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarships. These scholarships recognize graduate students for their academic ability, performance and character as well as financial need.

Graduate research

Two doctoral students receive Ford Fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Doctoral students Monique Pipkin and Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu have been selected to receive 2021 Ford Foundation Fellowships. Honorable mentions were awarded to nine additional Cornell graduate students.

Undergraduate research

Moonlighting proteins

Cornell Research

Brianna Johnson ’21, who has had her own battles with diseases caused by microscopic organisms, found a passion for trying to understand their impacts and intricacies through biological sciences research.

Student stories

There’s no syllabus for this

Cornell Research

Supporting community-engaged learning at Cornell, Amber Haywood ’21 found a way to put her values into action.

Astronomy

Astronomers seek gravitational waves with renewed NSF grant

Cornell Chronicle

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Humanities

Podcast episode explores creation: medieval poems to Thai temples

Cornell Chronicle

A new episode of “The Humanities Pod” explores the language and materiality of belief through literary and anthropological methods of humanities research.

Mathematics

Who's afraid of big numbers?

New York Times

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Francesco Sgarlata
Klarman Fellows

Klarman postdoc tackles ‘theory of everything’ with first principles

Cornell Chronicle

Physicist Francesco Sgarlata is taking a bottom-up approach to finding a theory of quantum gravity.

Margaret Washington
Juneteenth

Radio interview discusses Juneteenth

Cornell Chronicle

On June 15, the "All Things Equal" podcast featured Cornell Arts & Sciences Professor of American History Margaret Washington for a discussion of Juneteenth.