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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

How a pervasive microorganism generates a greenhouse gas

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered a way for ammonia oxidizing archaea, one of the most abundant types of microorganisms on Earth, to produce nitrous oxide, a potent and long-lasting greenhouse gas.

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Provided Cornell's Combined Heat and Power Plant will provide researchers access to real-world flue gas emissions as home to the CAPTURE-Lab, an experimental facility that will explore carbon capture and industrial decarbonization.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

What you need to know about carbon capture, utilization and storage

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers Greeshma Gadikota, Phil Milner and Tobias Hanrath discuss their carbon capture research, including a new experimental CAPTURE-Lab at Cornell’s Combined Heat and Power Plant.

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Alumni

A roundup of the Cornellians on the Hill – Capitol Hill

Cornellians

Seven alumni are currently serving in Congress, including a newly elected senator from Michigan. Two are A&S alumni.

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Alumni

The ‘marvelous, turbulent times’ when a literary magazine was born

Cornellians

A fellow alum’s passing sparked vivid memories of launching the Cornell Review, a cutting-edge journal of ideas, in the late 1970s.

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Government

What’s next for TikTok? Kreps outlines possible paths forward

A&S Communications

With the U.S. Supreme Court upholding a federal law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S., Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law, discusses possible paths forward for the popular app.

Romance studies

Fulginiti wins book prize

A&S Communications

Fulginiti’s novel, “Il dolore degli altri” (“The Pain of Others”), was chosen from among 114 competing manuscripts and will be published soon by Italian publisher ExCogita.

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Provided YAMATO The Drummers of Japan
Cornell Concert Series

YAMATO The Drummers of Japan featured on Cornell Concert Series February 2 

A&S Communications

Described as the “epitome of the Japanese spirit,” Yamato will bright their show “Hito no Chikara”, The Power of Human Strength to Baily Hall.

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Government

Good intentions pave incumbents’ road to re-election

Cornell Chronicle

Voters care if they’re better off than before the last election — but also about incumbent politicians’ intentions, Cornell research finds.

Black and white historic photo of Ezra Cornell, frowning and holding a pen.
Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Ezra Cornell in 1868
Alumni

‘Good health, tempered courage, and sound common sense’

Cornellians

Those are the gifts that fate gave Ezra Cornell, per one historian. Here’s a look at his life—from humble beginnings to great wealth.

Nianpo Su
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Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Nianpo Su

Cornell University Graduate School

Nianpo Su, doctoral candidate in linguistics, studies how syntactic principles determine the structure of sentences in human languages.

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Weill Cornell Medicine Lipid accumulation in a murine model of fatty liver disease, visualized by color-enhanced lipid droplets (pink) in liver tissue (green). Superimposed chemical structure of a newly discovered bile acid conjugate.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Diet, microbes: new pathway controlling levels of body fat, cholesterol

Cornell Chronicle

Beneficial gut microbes and the body work together to fine-tune fat metabolism and cholesterol levels, according to a new preclinical study by investigators from Weill Cornell Medicine and the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

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Provided Artwork by Prof. Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik depicting first three women hired by the Department of History and McGraw Hall.
History

History department honors first women hired

A&S Communications

The centerpiece is a wall-size homage to three of the first women hired and McGraw itself, drawn by Prof. Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik.

Barry Adams
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Barry Adams, former vice provost and literature scholar, dies at 89

Cornell Chronicle

Barry Banfield Adams, professor of literatures of English emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Dec. 31 at home in Brooktondale, New York. He was 89.

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Chemistry and Physics

Light-activated micro device expands ‘green’ electrochemistry

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists and nanofabrication experts have joined forces to create a 2 millimeter-wide, wireless, light-activated device to simplify electrochemistry for broad use.

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Melissa '00 and Rob '99 Lewin during a visit to campus in 2020. Provided
Alumni mentors

Alums offer mentoring to students exploring career options

A&S Communications

Melissa Lewin ’00 and her husband Rob ’99 are active backers of Cornell through their support of Cornell’s Public History Initiative and the archaeology program.