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Plant Biology

Researchers identify the cells that trigger flowering

A&S Communications

How do plants “know” it is time to flower? A new study uncovers exactly where a key protein forms before it triggers the flowering process in plants.Until now, no one has pinpointed which cells produce the small protein, called Flowering Locus T (FT). The study also points to an extensive intercellular signaling system that regulates FT production.

Peng Chen
Chemistry & chemical biology

Understanding nanocatalysts' 'talk' could better inform design

Cornell Chronicle

Enzymes are nature’s best nanoscale catalysts, and often show what’s known as catalytic allostery – that is, reactions at one site affecting reactions at another site, typically a few nanometers away, without direct interaction between the reactants.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

First proof of hydrogen-bonded water wires could lead to better desalination

Cornell Chronicle

Identifying the chirality of water structures could inspire the design of more efficient purification technologies.

History

Undercover: UCLA Historian to Speak about the Secret Life of Journalist Grace Halsell

A&S Communications

Historian Robin R. G. Kelley will visit campus April 16-18 for three lectures as part of the 2018 Carl Becker Lecture Series.

Student experiences

Meet our student ambassadors

These may be uncertain times, but we are also hopeful for the fall and thrilled to welcome the Class of 2024. Our A&S student ambassadors, like all of our students, are learning remotely for the rest of this semester, but we asked some of them to share their thoughts about their Cornell journey so far, as well as offer words of wisdom for new students.

Alumni

Alumna finds parallels between Cornell experience, working at NYT

A&S Communications

During her time at Cornell, Henig and a friend founded Kitsch, a student publication.

Student publications

Students launch journal to explore connections between politics and space

A&S Communications

When someone commits a crime in outer space, whose laws govern their punishment?

Student experiences

Educational trip brings students to UN to appreciate complex world

A&S Communications

UNITED NATIONS, New York City — A diverse group of undergraduates, graduate students, academic fellows and staff from Cornell took a trip to the city last month to tour the United Nations, learn more about disarmament issues and talk about career prospects with the global organization.

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Law and economics initiative launches with NYC event

Cornell Chronicle

The initiative connects economists, legal experts and other scholars with leading thinkers in government, international development, civil society and the private sector.

Alumni support

Giving Day 2018 breaks records with philanthropic innovations

Alumni Affairs & Development

Thanks to our generous alumni, parents, friends, faculty, staff, students and other supporters, the College of Arts & Sciences exceeded its goals on Giving Day.

Social Sciences

Faculty report offers ideas for structure of social sciences at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

The report identified ways to better connect faculty, provide faculty with support and improve Cornell's external visibility and recruiting power in the social sciences.

Sociology

Sociology professor Filiz Garip wins Komarovsky Best Book Award

A&S Communications

Filiz Garip, professor of sociology, was awarded the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award for her work, “On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration.” The award, given by the Eastern Sociological Society, honors the memory of Mirra Komarovsky, a pioneer in the sociology of gender.

Linguistics

Soup & Hope speaker uses love of languages to push for social change

Cornell Chronicle

For José Armando Fernandez Guerrero ’18, two strong women – his grandmother, Apolonia, and his mother, Josefina – believed that his education would open opportunities. A third – a high school French teacher – showed him how to use his education, and the passion for languages and linguistics it inspired, to help him embrace and move beyond his past.

Undergraduate Curriculum

A&S curriculum report recommends focus on exploration, simplified requirements

A&S Communications

Faculty will take the next steps to determine whether the recommendation should move on to a proposal.

Staff News

Keeley Boerman receives top Employee Excellence Award

Cornell Chronicle

More than 200 awardees, nominees, nominators and senior staff members gathered at the Statler Ballroom for the fifth annual Employee Excellence Awards celebration March 13.“You are held in the highest regard by the student-athletes,” Vice President Ryan Lombardi told the audience, “for your willingness to listen when they are struggling with school work, family issues and missing home.”