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PSYCHOLOGY

Re-examining the 'first impressions' adage

6/12/2015 Cornell Chronicle

What does it take to reverse a first impression? Cornell researchers were especially interested in implicit impressions – rapidly and uncontrollably activated positive and negative evaluations of others. Implicit impressions are assumed to be very difficult to revise.

STRATEGY

Rock-paper-scissors may explain evolutionary 'games' in nature

5/29/2015 Science Magazine

The hand game “rock-paper-scissors” is a classic way to settle playground disputes, with rock smashing scissors, scissors cutting paper, and paper covering rock. But it turns out that nature plays its own versions of the game, and mathematicians and biologists have used it to study everything from human societies to bacteria in a petri dish.

EXOPLANETS

Finding infant Earths and potential life just got easier

12/4/2014 A&S Communications

Among the billions and billions of stars in the sky, where should astronomers look for infant Earths where life might develop? New research from Cornell University’s Institute for Pale Blue Dots shows where – and when – infant Earths are most likely to be found. The paper by Blue Dots research associate Ramses M. Ramirez and director Lisa Kaltenegger, “The Habitable Zones of Pre-Main Sequence Stars,” is forthcoming in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

GOVERNMENT

Flores-Macías studies Colombian security tax on country's elite

A&S Communications

Gustavo Flores-Macias, professor of government, has studied the Colombian security tax, a levy on the economically elite that finances public safety.Growing up in Latin America at a time of drastic economic reforms wasn’t easy, says Gustavo Flores-Macías.Those reforms included privatization, trade and financial liberalization, and the elimination or reduction of government subsidies, all of which carried what Flores-Macías refers to as “distributive consequences.”

EXOPLANETS

Astronomers create array of Earth-like planet models

6/15/2015 Cornell Chronicle

To sort out the biological intricacies of Earth-like planets, astronomers have developed computer models that examine how ultraviolet radiation from other planets’ nearby suns may affect those worlds, according to new research published June 10 in Astrophysical Journal.

ASTROBIOLOGY

Colorful life-form catalog helps discern if we’re alone

3/16/2015 Cornell Chronicle

While looking for life on planets beyond our own solar system, a group of international scientists has created a colorful catalog containing reflection signatures of Earth life forms that might be found on planet surfaces throughout the cosmic hinterlands. The new database and research, published in the March 16 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), gives humans a better chance to learn if we are not alone.

Jewish Studies

Reunion panel examines future of Jewish studies

6/15/2016 Cornell Chronicle

"This is an exciting moment for Jewish studies,” said Gretchen Ritter, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, in her introduction to a Reunion Weekend panel on “Jewish Studies at Cornell, Today and Tomorrow,” held June 10 in the Physical Sciences Building.The panel included Jonathan Boyarin, Jewish Studies Program director, and Kim Haines-Eitzen, incoming director of the Religious Studies Program.

Awards

2015 Student and Faculty Award Winners

5/20/2015

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES TEACHING AND ADVISING AWARDSThe Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants went to graduate students Sarah Maxey, government, Allison Tracy, ecology and evolutionary biology, Danielle Morgan, English, and Laura Manella, neurobiology and behavior.

Africana Studies

Noelani Gabriel: 'We all have the opportunity to create change'

5/24/2016

Noelani GabrielAfricana StudiesSpringfield, MAHow did any of your beliefs or interests change during your time at Cornell?

Mathematics, Music & Physics

Michael Lee: 'I took every opportunity I could to broaden my educational horizons'

5/24/2016

… in Applied Mathematics. Who or what influenced your Cornell education the most? How or why? I think that the support of … the marching band. My parents were equally important to my educational success. My father was actually the one who … Michael Lee: 'I took every opportunity I could to broaden my educational horizons' …

History of Art