Search : page 60

Two people cutting a red ribbon ceremonially. They are outdoors
Provided Officially launching the Abruña Energy Initiative Level 3 electric vehicle fast-charging station: Interim President Michael Kotlikoff (left) and Héctor D. Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

First Level 3 EV fast-charging station opens on campus

Cornell Chronicle

The station will serve as part of a real-world “living laboratory” for existing and emerging electric-vehicle technologies developed at Cornell and elsewhere.

Person speaking on a small stage with a large audience watching
Katharine Downey/Cornell University Damon Hollenbeck '25 pitches his business CRIT to a crowd at the 2024 Cornell Entrepreneurship Showcase: Student Pitches and Venture Panel.
Entrepreneurship

eLab welcomes 13 Startups to Spring 2025 cohort

Cornell Chronicle

A&S student Max Bohun ’25 and the business he co-founded, GradeWiz, has been accepted into Y Combinator’s winter '25 batch.

Person holding a microphone and a certificate
Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Meagan Sundstrom, Ph.D. '24, winner of Cornell's 3MT competition
Graduate student research

Eight students advance to 3MT finals

Cornell University Graduate School

Students from several graduate fields, including physics in A&S, will compete in the final round of the 2025 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT) on March 19.

Jane Bennett
Provided Jane Bennett
Society for the Humanities

Jane Bennett to deliver Culler Lecture in Critical Theory

A&S Communications

Bennett, a founding scholar of the field of new materialism, will talk about the limits of “data” as the unit of humanistic study.

Person working on an enormous piece of equipment
Carnegie Institution for Science Archives Vera Cooper Rubin, MS ’51 using an image tube spectrograph on a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Astronomy

Barrier-breaking astronomer graces a U.S. quarter

Cornellians

Immortalized in a series honoring notable women, Vera Cooper Rubin, MS ’51, is the first Cornellian ever featured on a coin.

Red brick gothic house
Sreang Hok/Cornell University. The A.D. White House
Visiting professors

Three A.D. White Professors-at-Large on campus this spring

A&S Communications

This semester, visiting A.D. White Professors-at-Large will explore themes of democracy, reparatory justice and Latin American narratives during public talks.

Robert Fay
Provided Robert C. Fay
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemist Robert Fay, emeritus professor, dies at 88

Cornell Chronicle

Robert C. Fay, emeritus professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Feb. 6 in Fairfax, Virginia. He was 88.

Field of semiconductors
Government and technology

Cutting CHIPS funding could be ‘politically challenging’ for some GOP lawmakers

A&S Communications

Given its bipartisan support and national security implications, CHIPS funding will be difficult to cut, says professor Sarah Kreps.

Sona Jobarteh
Provided Sona Jobarteh
Cornell Concert Series

Cornell Concert Series hosts Sona Jobarteh, musician of the West African griot tradition

A&S Communications

… Home Dr.) and Hoy garages. More information and campus maps can be found on the Cornell Concert Series website or …

Three people cluster around a computer in a science lab
Ryan Young/Cornell University
Physics

Peer recognition crucial for success in physics research

Cornell Chronicle

Even when women receive similar amounts of recognition from peers as men for excelling in physics classes, they perceive significantly less peer recognition, new research has found.

Six people sit in a row, during a panel discussion event
Jason Koski/Cornell University In Goldwin Smith Hall on Feb. 28, Peter Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of government, spoke during the “Science Under Siege?” faculty panel discussion hosted by the Department of Science and Technology Studies.
Research

Panels discuss federal research funding threats, opportunities

Cornell Chronicle

Experts discussed support for science research during a pair of panels organized by faculty and students on Feb. 28.

Person speaking at a podium with an image of a planet in the background
Cornell University file photo Joseph A. Burns, Ph.D. ’66, emeritus professor of engineering and astronomy, and a former vice provost and dean of the Cornell faculty, speaks at Charter Day Weekend in 2015.
In memory

Joseph Burns, emeritus professor, former dean of faculty, dies at 83

Cornell Chronicle

Joseph A. Burns, Ph.D. ’66, emeritus professor of engineering and astronomy, and a former vice provost and dean of the Cornell faculty, died Feb. 26 in Ithaca.

Row of cars for sale in a parking lot
Francesco Vantini/Unsplash
Government

No winners in looming trade war with Mexico, Canada and China

A&S Communications

The effects of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico are already felt, and the consequences will increase in the coming weeks, says government professor Gustavo Flores-Macías.

Image of a globe
Government

Trump administration’s shift from European allies could be ‘devastating’

A&S Communications

Prof. Thomas Pepinsky comments on Pres. Trump's foreign policy.

Illustration showing a crowd of people, a network of dots and lines, and some binary code
Laura Chichisan/College of Arts and Sciences In a world that’s growing more connected every day, economists and computer scientists need to work together. Cornell researchers have thought this way for years, and the rest of the world is catching on.
Research Collaboration and Impact

Where computer scientists and economists talk to each other

A&S Communications

… scientist Joseph Halpern , the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering in the College of Engineering and professor of … also be things like airports for figuring out airport route maps. The nodes can even be books.” “At that time when we … applications, such as markets and internet search engines. It’s introductory-level but also super-distilled; …