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Abagail Crites talking with students — Credit: Noël Heaney (UREL) Students in the Warrior-Scholars speak with Professor Abigail Crites about the instrument she is building to measure cosmic microwave background radiation to advance the study of early galaxies.

Physics

After 75 years, accelerator physics still going strong in Newman Lab

3/22/2023 Arts & Sciences Communications

“There are very few universities that do accelerator research. Cornell is a leader among them.”

Humanities

ChatGPT and humanities forum is March 24

3/20/2023 A&S Communications

An open forum will address how the OpenAI large-language model ChatGPT will improve research productivity in the humanities.

Two people sitting in the back of a van with doors open, showing boxes and bags — Provided Kreynovich (left) and Carroll on a supply run

Alumni

Meet two young alums doing hands-on relief work in Ukraine

3/20/2023 Cornellians

The best friends recently marked one year since they left their East Coast lives for a humanitarian aid mission to Eastern Europe.

Graphic showing a clear object like a glass on its side, representing Big Bang expansion — Photo Credit: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/the-big-bang-and-expansion-of-the-universe

Astronomy

Learn about the cosmos with Cornell astronomers

3/17/2023 Alumni Affairs & Development

Professlor Martha Haynes organizes monthly Zoom events led by Cornell faculty, research staff, and student experts on a variety of astronomy topics.

Faculty honors

Christiansen elected to Royal Norwegian Society

3/17/2023 A&S Communications

The psychology researcher is “one of the most prominent international contemporary scholars in the field of the cognitive and cultural foundations of language.”

Campus buildings seen from above, under a partly cloudy sky

Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Cornell Center for Social Sciences names 14 faculty fellows

3/17/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Several Arts & Sciences faculty members are among the 14 2023-24 fellows by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).

four people — Chris Kitchen From left, Jack Donnellen, Aindri Patra, Shuqian Lyu and Alexander Burnett are four of the newest members of the Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program.

Academic opportunities

New College Scholars research climate, health care, legal interpretation

3/17/2023 A&S Communications

"A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated."

History of Art and Visual Studies

‘Destroy the Copy’: Essay collection rethinks the history of plaster casts

3/16/2023 A&S Communications

The destruction of replicated European sculpture collections can tell us as much as their creation.

Large aircraft without a cockpit parked on a runway at sunset — Defense Visual Information Distribution Service An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle parked on a taxiway at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada

Government

Drones in modern war: evolutionary or revolutionary?

3/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

According to two Cornell government scholars, armed drones are neither a “magic bullet” that wins wars nor an inconsequential tool with little impact on the battlefield.

Three takeout food packages against a yellow background — Agenlaku Indonesia/Unsplash High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is ubiquitous in single-use applications such as packaging and containers, labeled with the number two inside the triangular recycling symbol.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Scientists enhance recyclability of waste plastic

3/15/2023 A&S Communications

Cornell scientists working with the U.S. Department of Energy have developed a new method for recycling high-density polyethylene using a novel catalytic approach.

person wearing blue shirt stands in front of complicated silver equipment — Chris Kitchen Manipulating the properties of atomic material helps Paul Malinowski understand the fundamental physics of how different quantum phases develop and are related to each other.

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow Malinowski creates and tests quantum materials

3/15/2023 A&S Communications

A world expert at using mechanical strain to precisely manipulate the properties of materials, Malinowski is particularly interested in superconductors.

City nestled into a mountainside — Heber Barahona/Unsplash Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras

International relations

Honduras cutting ties with Taiwan shows China’s growing influence in Central America

3/15/2023 A&S Communications

Government professor Kenneth Roberts: Extensive trade and investment relations has established China as an increasingly important economic power in Central America.