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Frank Schroeder in glasses, beard and black shirt in front of lab equipment and next to woman with long black hair, white shirt and glasses. — Boyce Thompson Institute Boyce Thompson Institute's Frank Schroeder and Jingfang Yu in BTI’s Center for Advanced Mass Spectrometry (CAMS).

Brain Research

Chemist offers new insights into how serotonin regulates behavior

10/14/2022 Boyce Thompson Institute

The findings could ultimately lead to more effective treatments for a wide range of mental health disorders.

Looking down on a campus with buildings, green lawn, and a lake in the distance

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Staff changes will support interdisciplinary research

10/14/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Julia Thom-Levy, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named associate vice provost for physical sciences.

Two squares: on the left, large squares of black, purple and green. On the right, much higher resolution — Provided View of a cell before (left) and after lipid expansion microscopy is applied, showing details of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), an organelle involved in cell membrane processes.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Lipid expansion microscopy uses the ‘power of click chemistry’

10/13/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered a way to apply expansion microscopy, which expands cell components to make them more visible, to lipids using click chemistry, recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Government

Book: Partisanship led to disastrous response to COVID-19

10/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Survey data shows how the Trump administration’s partisan response led ordinary citizens to prioritize what was good for their “team” rather than what was good for their country.

Three people sitting on a couch, laughing — Provided The Plunge co-hosts (l-r) Chi-Min (Mimi) Ho, Liz Kellogg and Mike Cianfrocco

Molecular Biology and Genetics

New podcast explores imaging technique cryo-EM

10/12/2022 A&S Communications

Co-host Liz Kellogg, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics: "In every interview, we heard stories that we hadn’t expected and learned something new about each other and about the field."

Performing and media arts

Indigenous dance troupe show focuses on residential schools

10/12/2022 Department of Performing & Media Arts

The internationally-renowned Indigenous Canadian Kaha:wi Dance Theatre will perform their poignant "The Mush Hole" at Cornell on Friday, Oct. 28.

Creative Writing Program

Sandeep Parmar, Zalaznick Distinguished Visiting Writer, to read Oct. 20

10/12/2022 A&S Communications

This year’s Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading will include a conversation with poet Valzhyna Mort, associate professor of literatures in English.

Two people performing with dramatic hand gestures and facial expressions — Provided The members of the Flying Words Project

American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) Literature Series features ASL Poets/Storytellers

10/11/2022 A&S Communications

Six American Sign Language (ASL) poets and storytellers will visit Cornell between Oct. 12 and Nov. 28, in conjunction with this semester’s ASL Literature course.

artist drawing of Jupiter's moon Europa — NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Citizen scientists Kevin M. Gill and Fernando Garcia Navarro created this colorful, highly artistic view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, taken from JunoCam on the Juno mission’s close flyby Sept. 29. JPL/NASA released this image on Oct. 6.

Astronomy

Juno’s new views heighten Europa Clipper excitement

10/10/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Scientists believe Europa’s global ocean contains more than twice as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined and may be suitable for life.

Society for the Humanities

Conference explores the theme of “Repair” from multiple humanities disciplines

10/10/2022 A&S Communications

Friday’s concluding keynote will be delivered by Jonathan Flatley, a scholar of literature and the relationship between politics and aesthetics .

Physics

Prestigious Buckley Prize awarded to physicist J.C. Séamus Davis

10/10/2022 A&S Communications

Quantum microscopes based on Davis designs have galvanized quantum materials visualization studies globally.

A painting (generated by AI) depicts a person looking stressed while a bubble over his head reflects the colors of a scene outside his window — AI-generated replica of a Renaissance painting

Science and the humanities

Conference considers the Art & Science of Thinking Oct. 21-22

10/10/2022 A&S Communications

“We want to open a robust dialogue between humanists and scientists around the very notion of ‘thought’ and ‘thinking,."

Two people stand in front of a pond surrounded by woods — Lisa Godfrey Evon and Sydney Antonio sustainably manage 450 acres of forestland in Greene County, New York.

Rural Humanities

Outreach supports Black rural landowners in Northeast

10/4/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Supported by a grant from the College of Arts and Sciences' Rural Humanities initiative through an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award, a 30-page publication highlights the stories of five Black owners of forestland in Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire and Vermont

Two people talking in a wooded setting — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Authors Michelle Cronin, left, and Tyler Hill are among the 14 authors from upstate New York participating in the Oñgwaga•ä’ Writers Workshop

Creative Writing Program

‘Our story’: Native American writers cultivate their craft

10/6/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Fourteen authors from upstate New York participating in the Oñgwaga•ä’ Writers Workshop this month.

Tweezers placing a black square onto a green rectangle — Vishnu Mohanan/Unsplash Parts used in semiconductor manufacture

International relations

U.S. tech restrictions on China could backfire without ally support

10/7/2022 A&S Communications

The U.S. is increasingly seeing China as a significant military threat and seeking to maintain as large a lead as possible in its tech competition with China, says Sarah Kreps.

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