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Red circle with blue light at the end and two threads leading down — Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP/Schmidt/Quartini The remotely operated underwater vehicle Icefin, developed by a team led by Britney Schmidt, is visible as it is lowered via a 4.3-mm fiber-optic tether through a borehole to start one of three dives beneath the Ross Ice Shelf near Kamb Ice Stream in Dedcember 2019. A tent shelter’s color is reflected in the ice.

Astronomy

Robot provides unprecedented views below Antarctic ice shelf

3/2/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A U.S.-New Zealand research team recognized a shift as evidence of “ice pumping” – a process important to the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf.

Person in plaid jacket sits at a bus stop — Provided “Heading into Night,” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, explores the unexpected humor and discoveries to be found in the loss of memory.

Performing and Media Arts

Clown play captures complex emotions of cognitive loss

3/2/2023 Cornell Chronicle

“Heading into Night: a Clown Ode on…(forgetting),” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, who developed the play with Professor Beth Milles, premiered this month.

Hand holding a colorful rectangle — Provided A new museum exhibit showcases the Alpha CubeSat project, in which a small, low-cost satellite and light sail will be adorned with holographic art as a means of interstellar communication.

Astronomy

Postcards from Earth: Hologram project showcased at Intrepid

2/28/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A yearslong effort to launch Cornell-made satellite technology into a neighboring solar system is making a terrestrial stop at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.

Society for the Humanities

Literature, film, and critical theory professor delivers Culler Lecture

3/1/2023 A&S Communications

Anna Kornbluh, professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, will address "Immediacy: Some Theses on Contemporary Style" on Tuesday, March 7.

Drawing collage showing a face, a branch with pink blossoms and a clock tower — Soontira Sutanont/Cornell University Kimi Gengo, a poet, literary pioneer and advocate for Japanese Americans who attended Cornell from 1924-1925 and 1928-1930 is one of the changemakers featured in Any Person, Many Stories. Her story is shared by Claire Deng, '22.

Public history

Public history project reveals stories of Cornell changemakers

2/28/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A new public history digital exhibition hosted by the Center for Teaching Innovation uses storytelling methods to look at Cornell’s past.

close up of green, white and red flag with eagle crest

Government

U.S. has few options to counter rollback of elections protections in Mexico

2/28/2023 A&S Communications

Professor Gustavo Flores--Macías: the United States has few diplomatic options to push back on the Mexican government’s changes to electoral laws, which protestors claim threaten democracy.

A disc of stars in space — NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astronomy

Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe

2/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell astronomers discovered a companion galaxy estimated at 1.4 billion years old while scanning images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Moral psychology

Philosopher John Doris: ‘Moral psychologists have plenty to do’

2/27/2023 A&S Communications

John M. Doris reflected on his book "Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality" during a recent book talk.

Eight students face forward — Sreang Hok/Cornell University Clinton Foundation Students meet at eHub in Kennedy Hall.

Student experiences

Students to develop their ideas for social change

2/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Ten enterprising Cornell students will attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2023 Annual Meeting in March.

City street winds past modern buildings beside a river: Lagos, Nigeria — Nupo Deyon Daniel/Unsplash Lagos, Nigeria

African politics

High stakes and high risk in Nigeria landmark election

2/24/2023 A&S Communications

Perspective from professor Rachel Beatty Riedl on the “opportunity of historic turnover" as Nigerians will head to the polls Feb. 25 for a fiercely-competitive presidential election.

Dark space, interrupted by two black holes — Aurore Simonnet/LIGO-Caltech-MIT-Sonoma State An artist’s conception shows two merging black holes similar to those detected by LIGO.

Physics

Physicists create new model of ringing black holes

2/24/2023 A&S Communications

Gravitational waves produced from colliding black holes interact with each other, producing nonlinear effects – “what happens when waves on the beach crest and crash.”

Red buds on black branches in the foreground with a clock tower in the distance

National Science Foundation awards

Nine professors win NSF early-career awards

2/23/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Three Arts and Sciences professors “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization."