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Green line winds through a background of pink — USGS/NASA Landsat8 Nile River

Climate

Strong momentum marks 2030 Project’s early fundraising results

4/17/2023 Alumni Affairs & Development

… Chemistry and Chemical Biology … From shifting weather … Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and …

In a natural areas, a stone bench is next to an interpretive sign — Jay Potter/Cornell University Bench honoring Hu Shih

Alumni

New Beebe Lake seating area honors Hu Shih

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In admiration of the contributions of literature and philosophy scholar Hu Shih 1914, friends and alumni of Cornell funded an outdoor seating area for quiet and contemplation.

Illustration: red sky and land, people in space suits, modular buildings — NASA/JPL/Provided Even on future cosmic outposts like Mars, depicted in this artistic rendering, humans must consider closely replicating natural conditions found on Earth, according to a new theory called Pancosmorio.

Astronomy

Humans need Earth-like ecosystem for deep-space living

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Carl Sagan Institute researcher Morgan Irons examined the long-term physical needs of humans living far from Earth.

Person wearing blue gloves examines an instrument — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Ben Cosgrove, associate professor of biomedical engineering

Neurobiology and Behavior

$9.5M to fund chronic fatigue syndrome research

4/11/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The funding will enable Cornell experts from disparate fields to work together on the mysterious and debilitating condition.

pink spring flowers with a bell tower in the background

Engaged Cornell

New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell

4/13/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Two Arts and Sciences professors are among the 13 Cornell faculty members receiving Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Government

‘No one wins when immigrants cannot readily access healthcare’

4/13/2023 A&S Communications

By expanding access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, the Biden administration is taking an important step to expand access to healthcare for DACA beneficiaries, says professor Jamila Michener.

Astronomy

Britney Schmidt named one of Time’s 100 most influential people

4/13/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Schmidt was recognized for contributions to climate science, following the recent publication of surprise results about the melting of the imperiled Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.

Modern building under a blue sky with textured clouds — Franz Mahr/World Bank World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

World Bank

3 ways Banga may push World Bank to tackle climate change more aggressively

4/13/2023 A&S Communications

Ajay Banga, expected to become World Bank president, could push the bank to tackle climate change more aggressively in three ways, but that each approach carries risk, says professor Richard T. Clark.

a circle fillied with small, irridescant squares — Steve Jurvetson/Creative Commons license 2.0 Quantum computer component

Physics

Physicists take step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Realizing 2D particles called non-Abelian anyons in the real world is potentially useful for quantum computation: protecting bits of quantum information by storing them non-locally,

Three people wearing matching yellow t-shirts look at two laptop computers — Ryan Young/Cornell University Florencia Ardón (center), founder of Neurodiversity @ Cornell and staff member in the Learning Strategies Center, with neurodiversity ambassadors Carol Anne Barsody M.A. ’23 (left), master’s student in archeology, and Becca McCabe, doctoral student in mechanical engineering, in Duffield Hall

Cornell community

A movement brings community, visibility to neurodiversity at Cornell

4/10/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Students and staff are finding support, community, visibility and a voice through Neurodiversity @ Cornell.

students looking at museum paintings — Chris Kitchen Students in the Monuments, Museums and Memory class view work at the Johnson Museum during a class trip.

Public history

Students can sign up for minor in public history

4/12/2023 A&S Communications

Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.

Stone building with a green dome and a sculpture in front — K. Mitch Hodge/Unsplash Belfast City Hall, Donegall Square, Belfast

International relations

Despite lasting peace, legacy of trauma in Northern Ireland remains

4/11/2023 A&S Communications

Consistent ‘severe’ threat levels speak to the strong and lasting appeal of narratives within Northern Ireland society.

Music

Book examines the mainline Christian ‘Worship Wars’

4/11/2023 A&S Communications

Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.

Andrea Kane/Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ David Nirenberg

Religion

Understanding history of anti-semitism can help us today

4/11/2023 A&S Communications

Scholar David Nirenberg is a historian of Christians, Jews and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

Seven people wearing green honor stoles — Simon Wheeler/Cornell University

Post-graduate excellence

Ten Inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

4/10/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

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