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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

‘Two-for-one’ fission aims to improve solar cell efficiency

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led team used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to scrutinize a key intermediate state during singlet fission and found that in certain molecules the intermediate can be directly generated with a strikingly simple technique.

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American politics

Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have found that when it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Doctoral candidates Zachary Huber, left, and Ben Keller install detector array components for the Simons Observatory in one of the dilution refrigerators in Michael Niemack’s laboratory.
Astronomy and physics

Simons Observatory begins measurements to probe Big Bang inflation

Cornell Chronicle

The new Simons Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert may soon answer the great scientific question of what happened in the tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

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Provided An electron microscopy image from David Muller, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering, confirmed that researchers had created a high-entropy multi-metal with cations mixed together in the same lattice, without any elements separating out.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Backdoor method creates high-entropy material at lower temps

Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary team developed a backchannel method that uses solubility, not entropy, to overcome thermodynamic constraints and synthesize high-entropy oxide nanocrystals at lower temperatures.

Klarman Hall

Edna Wan

PhD Student
Literatures in English

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Rebeca Hey-Colón

Associate Professor
American Studies Program, Latina/o Studies Program, Literatures in English

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Adhy Kim

Assistant Professor
Asian American Studies Program, Literatures in English

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Alex Gilvarry

Associate Professor of the Practice
Literatures in English

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Aaron Bartels-Swindells

Visiting Assistant Professor
Literatures in English

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Emily Foster

Lecturer
Literatures in English

Klarman Hall

Andrew Hill

Lecturer
Literatures in English

Klarman Hall

Dan Rosenberg

Visiting Senior Lecturer
Literatures in English

Amit Bhatia
Graduate student research

Donor's gift supports students' international research

Cornell University Graduate School

Recognizing the importance of extended, in-country research, Amit Bhatia ’01 created a fund to help close gaps in funding for travel and other expenses.

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Alexandra Kleeman

Associate Professor
Literatures in English

Lenora Warren
Jason Koski/Cornell University Lenora Warren, assistant professor of literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences, is an expert in Early American and Early African American literature with a focus on the literatures of abolition, insurrection and the politics of resistance.
Literatures in English

Early version of Black Pride brought US a step closer to Juneteenth

Cornell Chronicle

In 1829, abolitionist David Walker’s “Appeal to the Colored People of the World” went viral, enabling enslaved people to imagine freedom and why they deserved it.