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Astronomy

Astronomy professor Ho named Packard Fellow

10/15/2024 Cornell Chronicle

The fellowship from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation includes $875,000 in unrestricted funds to be used for research over five years.

A long row of people using small white voting booths

Global Cornell

Global experts look abroad for lessons in super election year

10/14/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking “super election” year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.

Three dimensional art piece; a honeycomb like construction of white clay

Society for the Humanities

‘Silence’ theme of Society for the Humanities Fall presentations

10/14/2024 A&S Communications

Six fellows from a broad swath of humanities fields will present their projects in progress during the annual Fall Fellows’ conference, on Friday, Oct. 25.

Climate

Brooks School to host author Abrahm Lustgarten ‘95 for lecture on climate migration

10/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell alumnus, and ProPublica climate reporter, Abrahm Lustgarten is author of “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America."

Mathematics

Mathematician and redistricting expert joins Brooks School as radical collaboration hire

10/9/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Moon Duchin is a mathematician and public policy expert who has advised numerous U.S. states on redistricting and whose lab has been at the forefront of an emerging discipline that merges data science and elections.

Arts Unplugged

Celebration of Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday being held Nov. 9

10/9/2024 A&S Communications

On what would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday, Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute will celebrate his legacy in an interdisciplinary day of science, music and more as part of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series.

Media Studies

Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique

10/8/2024 Cornell Chronicle

In his new book, Prof. Jeremy Braddock explores the history of the Firesign Theatre, which used multitrack audio and avant-garde collage to put a countercultural spin on the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s.

Alumni

John Hopfield, Ph.D. ’58, wins Nobel Prize in physics

10/8/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto were honored for their work in training artificial neural networks.

Student research

Empowering research and building community: A Rawlings Scholar’s journey

10/8/2024 A&S Communications

Rawlings Presidential Research Program Scholar Tejal Nair is working on research that connects math and computer science with technology in areas such as healthcare.

Humanities

A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network

10/8/2024 A&S Communications

“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.

Creative Writing Program

Poet and sportswriter Rowan Ricardo Phillips to read Oct. 17

10/7/2024 A&S Communications

“Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a renowned sportswriter, and has written extensively on baseball, soccer, and tennis. He is, however, first and foremost a poet of the highest order, full of formal sophistication, lyrical possibility, and musical syncopation."