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Neurobiology & Behavior

Vikram Gadagkar receives award from Society for Neuroscience

A&S Communications

Vikram Gadagkar, MS ‘ 10, PhD ‘13, has received the Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award from the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), along with Harvard postdoctoral fellow Johannes Kohl. Gadagkar is a postdoctoral fellow in Assistant Professor Jesse Goldberg's lab in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior.

Interdisciplinary research

Forum highlights the connections between humans and apes

Cornell Chronicle

In the early 1980s, Peter Gabriel sang “Shock the Monkey.” But about 15 years ago, the English musician became more interested in jamming with apes instead.Bonobos, specifically.“I had always been fascinated to see how we might interact musically,” said Gabriel. “I was blown away at the obvious intelligence of the beings that I was sharing the space with.”

Man pouring tea
international studies

Two students share tea essay contest prize

Siddarth Sankaran '21 (computer science and economics) and PhD candidate Annie Sheng (anthropology) have each been awarded $250 as co-winners of a student essay contest linked to the October 26-27 conference "Tea High and Low: Elixir, Exploitation, Ecology."

Chemisty and Chemical Biology

Ecolectro receives $1.7M from DOE to accelerate hydrogen fuel development

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell startup is working toward a day when harmful carbon dioxide in automobile exhaust vanishes into thin air – for good.The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted $1.7 million to Ecolectro to accelerate production of hydrogen – a green fuel of the future. Ecolectro is based at the McGovern Family Center for Venture Development, a Cornell business incubator.

Molecular Biology and Genetics & Astronomy

Provost Research Innovation Award winners announced

Cornell Chronicle

Innovative research with great impact is one of Cornell’s hallmarks, and to recognize some of the best examples of that work, the Office of the Provost has established an annual award that highlights the depth and breadth of the university’s research efforts.The inaugural Provost Research Innovation Awards recognize midcareer faculty from engineering, the humanities, life sciences, social sciences and physical sciences.

Research

The government's role in the rise of lab grown meat

Wired.com

Adrienne Rose Bitar, a post doctoral associate in the Department of History, specializes in the history and culture of American food and health. Bitar recently published "Diet and the Disease of Civilization," a study of diet books that examines trends in popular diets.

Alumna filmmaker

Alumna lands feature film deals

Performing & Media Arts

The first feature film of Department of Performing and Media Arts alumna Amanda Idoko ’10, "Breaking News in Yuba County," will be produced in mid-2019, starring Allison Janney and Laura Dern.

Linguistics

Linguistics grad student partners with Mayan speaker for preservation research

A&S Communications

Cornell PhD candidate Carol-Rose Little has had a long-standing fascination with languages of other cultures. “I've had an interest in languages since I knew other languages existed in the world,” Little said. “During my undergraduate time (at McGill University), I started working with a community out in Eastern Canada and that's what really opened my eyes to how my love of language can be beneficial to communities that are trying to preserve their language.”

First-generation student support

Alumni provide challenge funding for Posse program

A&S Communications

"Their excitement, their enthusiasm, their freshness — it’s contagious."

Graduate student research

Grants help graduate students to do research around the world

Cornell Chronicle

Twenty-six Cornell graduate students have won more than $42,000 in fall 2018 Research Travel Grants, which provide students up to $2,000 to conduct thesis or dissertation research away from campus. In a typical year, 70 to 80 students receive these competitive grants from the Graduate School. More grant winners will be announced in the spring.

Government

Citizens feel disconnected from government. If they knew what government did for them, they wouldn’t.

… the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in government, talks about her new book in this Washington Post column. Her book, “The Government-Citizen Disconnect,” argues that citizens are … Government … , the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in government, talks about her new book in this Washington Post …

Astronomy

Fabrication of powerful telescope begins

A&S Communications

Fabrication of the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-p), a powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths, has now begun, marking a major milestone in the project.

Outreach

School kid scientists propose experiments for International Space Station

Cornell Chronicle

The opportunity to send a science experiment into orbit drew dozens of children and their families to Space Night at Case Middle School in Watertown, New York, Nov. 9. Student teams from after-school programs in Jefferson County, many of whom worked with scientist advisers at Cornell, presented their proposals for experiments that could be delivered to the International Space Station next summer.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Mollusk collection moves to PRI, internet

Cornell Chronicle

Renowned naturalist Wesley Newcomb scoured the Hawaiian Islands in the 1850s in search of living treasure: land snails and their intricate, domed shells. The specimens he assembled in Hawaii and around the world would form a vast collection of mollusks, with numerous species that would become critically threatened and, in some cases, extinct.

Astronomy

As InSight lands on Mars, Cornell's Banfield gets to work

Cornell Chronicle

After cruising for 205 days over 301 million miles, NASA’s InSight spacecraft – a mission designed to probe beneath the surface of Mars – landed flawlessly Nov. 26 at Elysium Planitia.