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Thumbs down icon seen through a screen of water droplets, all of which reflect the icon as a thumbs up — Barefoot Communications/Unsplash

Social media

Cornell expert on SCOTUS ruling in social media dispute

6/26/2024 A&S Communications

The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts; associate professor of psychology Gordon Pennycook, who studies misinformation, comments.

A UN blue peacekeeper's helmet in the foreground; facing a crowd of people — US Marine Corps/ Public Domain A UN peacekeeper in Haiti

Government

Kenyan police bring 'spotty' track record to Haiti

6/26/2024 A&S Communications

The U.N.-backed mission, led by Kenya, must have full understanding of the local context before engaging in any political or police action, says Sabrina Karim, assistant professor of government.

Person juggling four orange clubs under a dark overhang — Jason Koski/Cornell University After taking up juggling at age 10, Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse won the World Juggling Federation’s junior title at 12 – two years before becoming the youngest to win its advanced overall championship.

Mathematics

Going for Paris gold, math scholar aids juggling’s Olympic bid

6/25/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Doctoral student Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse could be crowned the world’s best juggler in a June 30 competition that aims to help build a case for juggling as an Olympic sport.

Person wearing a red virtual reality headset and gesturing with her arms

Music

Teaching conducting in extended reality

6/21/2024 Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation

A virtual reality setting can enable conducting students to engage with gestures in low stakes environment.

Philosophy

The cascading effect of a 19th-century professorship

6/21/2024 Alumni Affairs & Development

Many generations of Sage professors have established a lasting legacy in Cornell’s history and have deeply influenced the study of philosophy and psychology worldwide.

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Cornell game collection

Building and cataloging a world of games at Cornell

6/21/2024 A&S Communications

Cornell scholars are developing a collection of games, both digital and analog, in the Cornell Library, and connecting that to teaching across disciplines and courses.

solar panels under a sun rise — Nuno Marques/Unsplash

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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

6/20/2024 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.

Grassy field in front of a distant bridege at sunrise — Kevin Rajaram/Unsplash

American politics

Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans

6/20/2024 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.

Two people lean toward a complicated scientific instrument featuring gold and orange metal parts; it's about the size of a coffeemaker — 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

6/20/2024 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.