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Astronomy

Cornell partners in NSF grant for astrophysics institute

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) is among 10 collaborators awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.Adam Brazier, a computational scientist with CAC, is the technical lead on the project, which is being led by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Music

How I discovered a dozen new Lou Reed songs

The Washington Post

In this Washington Post opinion piece, Judith Peraino, music professor, describes her amazing discovery of unknown Lou Reed songs at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Romance Studies

MacArthur Fellow to speak on American border crisis

A&S Communications

In Valeria Luiselli’s new novel, Lost Children Archive, a family crosses the United States by car. They’re en route to Apacheria, Arizona, the place where the Apaches – the last free indigenous tribe in the United States – once called home. News of an immigration crisis at the border chases the family via radio.

In Memoriam

Writer, emeritus professor James McConkey dies at 98

Cornell Chronicle

Acclaimed writer James McConkey, the Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus and mentor to young writers at Cornell for nearly four decades, died Oct. 24, 2019 at his home in Enfield. He was 98.

Music

Musicologist discovers tape of unreleased Lou Reed music

Cornell Chronicle

"The import of the discovery didn’t hit me until...a curator of the archive said, ‘I think you’ve just discovered a lost Lou Reed album.’”

Psychology

Economic scarcity shifts perception, leads to discrimination

Cornell Chronicle

“Scarcity mindsets can really exacerbate discrimination,” said Amy Krosch, assistant professor of psychology

A father and a mother smiling at a baby she is holding
What Makes Us Human?

New podcast episode examines parenting inequities

A&S Communications

“Unequal Parenting,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, examines persistent inequalities in parenting and the earnings penalties that go along with them. The podcast’s fifth season –  “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality.

German Studies

Kraemer receives language education award

… Angelika Kraemer, Director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell and an affiliated senior … Department of German Studies, received the Michigan World Language Association’s (MIWLA) Barbara Ort-Smith Award … Language Resource Center … Angelika Kraemer, Director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell and an affiliated senior …

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Frogs, under attack by a lethal pathogen

Cornell Research

Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Kelly R. Zamudio studies amphibians, especially frogs, combining field work and observation of behavior with genetics and genomics to glimpse the genetic processes underlying species traits. Recently her lab has turned that expertise to studying two virulent fungi of the genus Batrachochytrium, commonly called chytrids, that affect frogs and salamanders.

Media studies

Media studies scholars visit campus for 'Siren Echoes' conference

A&S Communications

Scholars from Germany and the UK, as well as numerous U.S. universities, will visit campus Nov. 7-9 for the first media studies conference sponsored by CIVIC (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s Radical Collaboration initiative focused on the humanities and the arts.

Education Innovation

New approaches to teaching revolutionize the classroom

Ezra Magazine

Teaching at Cornell is in the midst of a transformation, with faculty applying the latest research and technologies across disciplines to excite and engage students.

History of Art & Visual Studies, Classics

Art and science provide fertile ground for research, teaching

Cornell Chronicle

Lehmann and Klinck sounded out two other Cornell scientists – associate professor of entomology Kyle Wickings and assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering Greg McLaskey – to join in a project to listen to the Earth. Wickings is the principal investigator on “Sounds of Soil,” a project to develop inexpensive acoustic sensors to detect, monitor and study populations of soil-dwelling organisms – in particular, disruptive insects that feed on roots, affecting both plant and soil health. The project received a Venture Fund grant from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability in June 2018.

Physics

Magnetics with a twist: Scientists find new way to image spins

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have put a new spin on measuring and controlling spins in nickel oxide, with an eye toward improving electronic devices’ speed and memory capacity.

Computer science

Cornell CIS hosts recipients of 'Genius Grant'

Alumni Affairs & Development

On October 3-4, 2019, Cornell CIS (Computing and Information Science) celebrated its 20th anniversary. To mark the event, CIS hosted a symposium showcasing the game-changing impact of computing on a breadth of disciplines.

Neurobiology and Behavior

Neurobiology professor receives grant for research on hunger

A&S Communications

Nilay Yapici, assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in The College of Arts & Sciences and a Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator, recently received a $2 million grant to fund her research on taste perception and hunger in the neural system.