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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

Tweets believed to be written by African Americans are much more likely to be tagged as hate speech than tweets associated with whites, according to a Cornell study analyzing five collections of Twitter data marked for abusive language.

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

When chemical biologist Jeremy Baskin played piano as a child, his parents noticed something unusual: He loved to improvise.

Mathematics

The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet

The New York Times

Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz, author most recently of "Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe," explains the latest mathematical Twitter upset in a New York Times op-ed.

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

… ways of gluing the pieces of the solution together. The mathematical area of K-theory studies the different ways of … Mathematics … ways of gluing the pieces of the solution together. The mathematical area of K-theory studies the different ways of … and reassembled. Zakharevich is an assistant professor of mathematics and LCP Ho Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. Read …

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 across campus.

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."