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Science and Technology Studies

The Dilemma of Cybersecurity

Cornell Research

What does cybersecurity mean when computer systems remain vulnerable to hacking? Rebecca Slayton investigates.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemist Mao named finalist in Blavatnik Awards

A&S Communications

Xianwen Mao, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been recognized for his innovations in imaging nanoscale systems by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

Alumni, Government

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 dies

Cornell Chronicle

Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54, whose legal career in the fight for women’s rights, equal rights and human dignity culminated with her ascent to the U.S. Supreme Court, and who – as an octogenarian – became a cultural hero and arguably the most beloved justice in American history, died Sept. 18 in Washington, D.C. She was 87. Ginsburg died from complications of cancer, according to a statement from the Supreme Court.

American Studies

Policing, incarceration examined in racism webinar debut

Cornell Chronicle

The Racism in America series will resume in November with a focus on residential and educational segregation.

Music

Center for Historical Keyboards presents fall concerts online

A&S Communications

The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards (CCHK) presents a full program of virtual events for the fall 2020 semester, comprised of two distinct series: "Music as Refuge," beginning Sept. 23; and "Beethoven and Pianos: Off the Beaten Path," beginning Oct. 2.

Arts Unplugged

Authors, poets, scholars celebrate Morrison in ‘Bluest Eye’ reading & teach-in

The Oct. 8 event is the fourth in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series, which brings artistic, scientific and creative works into the public sphere for discussion and inspiration.

Book cover: California Dreaming
Asian American Studies, Performing & Media Arts

Anthology explores Asian American California through art

Cornell Chronicle

… There isn’t one unified Asian American vision of California, argues Christine … in “California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary,” a new multi-genre collection she … Asian American Studies Program … There isn’t one unified Asian American vision of California, argues Christine …

Staff excellence

Gemmell honored for years of work in A&S dean’s office

A&S Communications

"I have had such good friendships with faculty and staff and have been universally impressed by the caliber of people I’ve had the chance to work with,” said Katherine Gemmell.

Government

Democracy 20/20 webinar to assess ‘deep state’

Cornell Chronicle

Since arriving in Washington with a promise to “drain the swamp,” President Donald Trump has often called out the “deep state” for blocking his political goals. The fourth event in the Democracy 20/20 webinar series will examine how the capacity and professionalism of the federal government has fared over the past four years.

Astronomy

Can life survive a star’s death? Webb telescope will explore

When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core – a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a promising opportunity to determine if life can survive the death of its star, according to Cornell researchers. In a study published Sept. 16 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, they show how NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope could find signatures of life on Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarfs.

Astronomy

Breakthrough telescope in Chile renamed for benefactor alum

Fred Young ’64, M.Eng. ’66, MBA ’66 has been instrumental in keeping the telescope project moving forward.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Biopesticide startup gets $750K more in NSF funding

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell-based startup Ascribe Bioscience, which applies the emerging field of metabolomics to the soil microbiome to develop new products for agriculture, has won a $750,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award to field test its unique pathogen-fighting technology.

Astronomy

Study shows difficulty in finding evidence of life on Mars

Cornell Chronicle

In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth. While scientists are eager to study the red planet’s soils for signs of life, researchers must ponder a considerable new challenge: Acidic fluids – which once flowed on the Martian surface – may have destroyed biological evidence hidden within Mars’ iron-rich clays, according to researchers at Cornell and at Spain’s Centro de Astrobiología.

A frog
Leo Malagoli/Provided A locally disappeared tree frog species from Parque Nacional da Serra dos Órgãos, Brazil, which has not been registered since 1977, and was rediscovered by eDNA.
Ecology and Evoluntionary Biology

Lost frogs rediscovered with environmental DNA

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists have detected signs of a frog listed extinct and not seen since 1968, using an innovative technique to locate declining and missing species in two regions of Brazil.

Arts Unplugged

Considerations about language and presenting ‘The Bluest Eye:’ A critical discussion

A&S Communications

Faculty members planning this year’s Cornell Celebrates Toni Morrison series have spent considerable time discussing how to handle, for a general audience, the brutal language of racism and scenes of sexual violence in “The Bluest Eye.”