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Literary icon Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, dies at 88

Cornell Chronicle

Nobel Prize-winning author and alumna Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, died Monday, Aug. 5, in New York City. She was 88.

Sociology

Study finds racial bias in tweets flagged as hate speech

Cornell Chronicle

… and words associated with particular demographics, in order to predict the likelihood that a tweet was written by …

Student summer experiences

Students fight violence, support NYC artists during summer experiences

A&S Communications

Students can use Summer Experience Grants to cover living and travel expenses when they take unpaid or minimally-paid positions.

Student experiences

Grants fund students’ summer research experiences

A&S Communications

From hanging out with dart frogs to studying gene expression, students used Summer Experience Grants to explore careers.

Artist’s Impression of WASP-121b
Astronomy

Hubble Uncovers 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football

A&S Communications

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed magnesium and iron gas streaming from a strange, football-shaped world outside our solar system known as WASP-121b. The Hubble observations represent the first time that so-called "heavy metals"—elements heavier than hydrogen and helium—have been spotted escaping from a hot Jupiter, a large, gaseous exoplanet very close to it star.

Chemistry & chemical biology

Baskin wins young investigator award for lipid research

Cornell Chronicle

… Chemistry and Chemical Biology … to improvise. “I was always noodling around to see what new and interesting things could happen,” said Baskin, an assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life … lipids that bind to proteins and switch them on and off to initiate cascades that lead to major changes in cell …

Mathematics

The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet

The New York Times

… op-ed . "Mathematical Twitter is normally a quiet, well-ordered place, a refuge from the aggravations of the … "But on July 28, someone who must have been a troll off-duty decided to upset the stillness, and did so with a …

Physics

Two on A&S faculty awarded DOE early career grants

Cornell Chronicle

Two College of Arts & Sciences faculty members were awarded grants by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science Early Career Research Program. Jared Maxson, Ph.D. ’15 and Brad Ramshaw, both assistant professors of physics, will receive at least $750,000 over five years to support their scientific endeavors.

Mathematics

Geometric Cut-and-Paste Problems

Cornell Research

A common approach to problem-solving is to split a problem into smaller sub-problems, solve each of the smaller problems, and assemble the answers into a solution to the original problem. This last step is often very difficult, as there are multiple ways of gluing the pieces of the solution together. The mathematical area of K-theory studies the different ways of putting such solutions back together, as well as the relations behind differently-assembled pieces. 

Warrior Scholars

Warrior-Scholar Project helps veterans adapt to demands of the classroom

Cornell Chronicle

Thirteen students came to campus July 20-28 for The Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP), an immersive college preparation experience for current and former enlisted service members.

Student entrepreneurs

Incubator helps students move businesses forward during summer

A&S Communications

… Student business leaders gathered for pitch practice and feedback, then worked on their own at various locations … venture for Clémence Bruguier ’21, a government and Russian major in the College of Arts & Sciences. Her … student in the Sloan Program in Health Administration, is off campus this summer, but talks to Bruguier each night. …

Astronomy

TESS satellite uncovers its ‘first nearby super-Earth’

Cornell Chronicle

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system – and an international team of astronomers has characterized the super-Earth, about 31 light-years away.

Physics

Physicist offers a new take on 160 year old math problem

The Riemann hypothesis -- an unsolved problem in pure mathematics – is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, with a $1 million prize to the person who solves it.  But that’s not why it fascinates mathematical physicist Andre’ LeClair, for whom this is perhaps the most important open question in mathematics. 

Government

Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise.

The Washington Post

Political scientists Peter Enns and Jonathon P. Schuldt explain in this Washington Post op-ed that although President Trump believes race-baiting will help him gain a second term, their data suggests this approach won't work. 

First-generation students

A&S Summer Scholars get first introduction to campus

A&S Communications

“It will be a whole new thing living on my own."