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Lisa Kaltenegger
Astronomy

Cornell astronomer stars in IMAX film, 'The Search for Life in Space'

A&S Communications

Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy and director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute, is featured in the new IMAX film, “The Search for Life in Space,” now released internationally.

Philosophy

Learning from libertarianism: Thanks from an unrepentant social democrat

The Washington Post

Richard Miller, the Hutchinson Professor in Ethics and Public Life in the Sage School of Philosophy, writes in this Washington Post op-ed that understanding the philosophy of libertarianism provides a basis for abandoning libertarianism. 

Physics

Paul McEuen named a Citation Laureate

A&S Communications

Paul McEuen, John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics, has been named a Citation Laureate for his seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics.

Neurobiology & Behavior

In this communication course, scientists are the storytellers

Cornell Chronicle

Mark Sarvary wanted to create an opportunity for Cornell undergraduates to start building a mindset for communicating their scientific work to nonscientist audiences: funders, employers and colleagues in other disciplines.

Sociology & Center for the Study of Inequality

Symposium in Zambia tackles African income inequality

Cornell Chronicle

Wealth and income disparities present problems everywhere, but they are especially acute in Africa, where 330 million people survive on less than $1.25 a day.

Music & College Scholar Program

Alum receives young composer award

A&S Communications

Julia Adolphe ‘10 is one of 19 recipients of the 2017 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The awards are given to concert music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a national competition.

Faculty research

Faculty train to use new technologies to share their research widely

Cornell Chronicle

Scholars are using websites, vlogs, information comics and PechaKuchas to reach wider audiences than journal articles that sometimes baffle the general public.

Physics

New unit merges teaching excellence center with academic technology

Cornell Chronicle

Recent changes in the provost’s office have set the stage for better implementation of technology and teaching initiatives, blending them behind the scenes in a way that matches, and enhances, how they complement each other throughout Cornell.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

3-D Analysis of dog fossils sheds light on domestication debate

Cornell Chronicle

In an effort to settle the debate about the origin of dog domestication, a technique that uses 3-D scans of fossils is helping researchers determine the difference between dogs and wolves.

Physics

The social life of electrons

Cornell Research

Like human social behavior, the behavior of electrons in relation to each other is difficult to predict. In strongly correlated systems, each electron impacts how those around it act, their orientation and movement, and this leads to diverse behavior in the whole. This Cornell Research story explores this behavior.

Philosophy

Cycling with a philosophical bent

Cornell Chronicle

Cornellians on wheels were a big part of the Southern Tier AIDS Program’s 19th Annual AIDS Ride For Life Sept. 9.

Astronomy

Astronomer Yervant Terzian honored with room dedication

A&S Communications

“Great scientist, teacher, leader and friend,” reads the plaque on the newly named Terzian Conference Room on the sixth floor of the Spaces Sciences Building, unveiled in a ceremony on Aug. 31.

Physics

Speaker to advocate for “Shut Up and Calculate!” in physics

A&S Communications

Nima Arkani-Hamed is one of the leading particle physicists in the world. On September 25, he will be presenting the lecture, “Three cheers for ‘Shut up and Calculate!’ in fundamental physics,” in his last public talk as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. The talk, at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell’s Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, is free and open to the public. There will be a pre-lecture reception held outside of Schwartz Auditorium from 6:30-7:30pm.

Side of a Gray Planet on the shadow side image
Astronomy

Cornellians see Cassini mission end in a cosmic blaze of glory

Cornell Chronicle

After 360 engine burns, 2.5 million executed commands, 635 gigabytes of gathered data, 162 moon flybys, 4.9 billion miles traveled and 3,948 published papers, NASA’s 20-year Cassini spacecraft ran the last lap of its historic scientific mission Sept. 15.

Africana Studies

There is no constitutional right to a high-quality public education. Should there be?

In this Washington Post story, written in honor of Constitution Day, Noliwe Rooks, associate professor in Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies, argues that there should be a federal right to a high-quality public education, even though public education is not mentioned in the Constitution, with that responsibility left to the states.