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Provided The grand prize winners for the Food Hackathon pose with Touchdown the Bear after the weekend.
Entrepreneurship

Food waste solution wins top prize at hackathon

Cornell Chronicle

The hackathon included more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students from almost all of Cornell’s Ithaca campus schools and colleges.

Illustration of a sign "Fake News" on an easel
Hartono Creative Studio/Unsplash
Psychology

Could ‘inoculation’ limit election misinformation?

Cornell Chronicle

A popular strategy for combating misinformation can help people distinguish truth from falsehood – when combined with reminders to focus on accuracy, Cornell-led research finds.

Person holding an LP in front of recording equipment in a studio
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection at the UCLA Library/Creative Commons license 4.0 Quincy Jones in his studio, 1980
Music

Jones understood all art, especially Black art, is ‘political’

A&S Communications

Music producing legend Quincy Jones understood the political aspect of art, says Cornell music scholar.

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AlexanderAlUS/Creative Commons license 2.0 The ideal crystalline structure of graphene, a hexagonal grid
Physics

Revealing the superconducting limit of ‘magic’ material

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have identified the highest achievable superconducting temperature of graphene – 60 Kelvin. The finding is mathematically exact and is spurring new insights into the factors that fundamentally control superconductivity.

four people on a minimally set stage
Jason Koski/Cornell University Professor David Feldshuh, center, leads rehearsal for his new play, “Orlando's Gift.”
Performing and Media Arts

New Feldshuh play premieres Nov. 1 at Schwartz Center

Cornell Chronicle

“Orlando’s Gift,” a new play written and directed by David Feldshuh, professor of performing and media arts, and inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando,” will premiere Nov. 1 at the Schwartz Center.

Jennifer Lory-Moran, in multi-colored stripped shirt and long blond hair, is smiling while standing next to the controls for the Cornell chimes up in McGraw Tower.
Cornellians Jennifer Courtley Lory-Moran ’96, MAT ’97
Alumni News

Bells Are Ringing for This Veteran Chimesmaster

Cornellians

The Cornell Chimes' advisor for nearly a quarter-century, Jennifer Courtley Lory-Moran ’96, MAT ’97, recently marked a carillon milestone.

Jenna Barnes, dressed in jeans, open sweater and t-shirt, with long brown hair, seated and smiling.
Provided Jenna Kerner Barnes ’11
Alumni News

Alum’s Firm Sells Garments Long Seen as an Oxymoron: Comfy Bras

Cornellians

At Harper Wilde, "30 Under 30" honoree Jenna Kerner Barnes ’11 offers underclothes for customers of many shapes and sizes.

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Mathematics

Mathematician Al Schatz dies at 90

Cornell Chronicle

Alfred H. Schatz, an emeritus professor of mathematics who taught at Cornell for nearly 50 years, died at home on Oct. 11 after a long bout with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.

Red brick gothic house
Sreang Hok/Cornell University. The A.D. White House
Campus architecture

The A.D. White House: Andrew’s abode is a campus gem

Cornellians

Commissioned by Cornell’s inaugural president, the villa later became an art museum—and has long hosted a humanities group.

Person holds a large, yellowed document in a library setting
Chris Kitchen Jacob Anbinder examines documents held by Cornell University Library from the archives of New York's Regional Plan Association, one of the most influential urban planning organizations of the twentieth century.
History

Klarman Fellow presents findings on housing cost history

A&S Communications

This fall, Jake Anbinder, a historian with an interest in cities and strong ties to public policy, presented two conference papers elaborating on his award-winning book project.

Two people in casual clothes stand in a room full of bric-a-brac, holding professional grade recording equipment
Gundi Vigfusson/Provided The World According to Sound: Chris Hoff ’02 (left) and Sam Harnett.
Media Studies

Crowdfunding launch supports Ways of Knowing podcast at Cornell

A&S Communications

A crowdfunding campaign launched Nov. 1 to support a Cornell-based season of "Ways of Knowing,” a new podcast created by The World According to Sound.

Aerial view of the Arts Quad in the fall
Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures

Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures holds first event

A&S Communications

During “Beyond 2024: Envisioning Just Futures and Equitable Democracy,” faculty and students from across the university will come together to creatively showcase research and art, build community and be inspired to imagine a better future.

Danish String Quartet
Provided Danish String Quartet
Cornell Concert Series

Danish String Quartet featured on Cornell Concert Series Nov. 14

A&S Communications

At Cornell, the GRAMMY-nominated quartet will perform works by Caroline Shaw, Haydn, Shostakovich, and a selection of their original compositions and traditional folk tunes.

Yuval Grossman
Ryan Young/Cornell University Yuval Grossman
Physics

Physicist Yuval Grossman elected to American Physical Society

Cornell Chronicle

Yuval Grossman, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society for seminal contributions in “flavor” physics.

Book cover: Purchase
Provided Book cover: Purchase
Creative Writing Program

Poet pictures ‘a place where a woman may find some peace’

Cornell Chronicle

In “Purchase,” a new collection of poems from Associate Professor Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, the author seeks consolation for grief by turning to specific sources of beauty.