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Student outreach and community engagement

Freedom seekers speak on new Underground Railroad site

2/1/2022 A&S Communications

The new “Voices on the Underground Railroad” website focuses on nine documented or rumored stops on the Underground Railroad in Central and Western New York.

man in parking lot — Jesse Seidman Dexter Thomas

Asian studies

Asian Studies alumnus wins Emmy for journalism work

2/1/2022 A&S Communications

Dexter Thomas PhD ’20 plans to continue working on stories “about difficult things that don’t have clear answers."

History

Black sports history topic of Cornell Seymour Lecture

2/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The talk “Reframing Boobie Miles: Racial Iconicity and the Transmedia Black Athlete,” by Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard, will explore the meaning of the black athlete, using Boobie Miles, as portrayed in the multimedia franchise “Friday Night Lights,” as her case study.

Humanities

Kim Gallon to deliver lecture on Black pandemic deaths data

2/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Kim Gallon, associate professor of history at Purdue University, will demonstrate how computational humanities offers an opportunity to redefine “crisis” through the Black American experience and turn it into a defining moment for the recovery and reimagination of Black humanity.

colorful painting — Nancy Mooslin This piece, Concerto for Orchestra By Steven Stucky, was created by artist Nancy Mooslin.

New Frontier Grants

Cornell ReSounds presented play | pen symposium Feb. 4-5

1/31/2022 Department of Music

Cornell ReSounds welcomed an esteemed slate of musicians, composers, and instrument builders for a two-day virtual symposium.

Linguistics

Klarman Fellow Skilton studies language development across cultures

1/31/2022 Cornell Chronicle

During a three-year Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Amalia Skilton will study joint attention behaviors – which include pointing – by doing field work in Peru's Amazon basin.

Women runners competing around a track. — Photo by Jonathan Chng on Unsplash

Beijing Winter Olympics

American perception of Olympics sabotage claim ‘doesn’t matter’ to China

1/31/2022 A&S Communications

Political scientist Sarah Kreps comments on China's claim that the U.S. plans to pay athletes to 'sabotage' the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.

Near Eastern Studies

Fahmy wins Urban History Association book prize

1/31/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Ziad Fahmy won a 2021 book prize from the Urban History Association (UHA) for “Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt." Fahmy’s book was recognized for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History.

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Music

New piano joins historic instrument collection

1/31/2022 A&S Communications

A new Silbermann piano has joined the instrument collection at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.

Creative Writing Program

Cornell Reading Series features writers with diverse artistic range

1/31/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Beginning Feb. 24, the Spring 2022 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series will feature a wide range of artistic styles and voices from around the world.

Animal with white fur – a lemur — Provided The silky sifaka

Alumni

Doctoral alum devoted his career to saving lemurs

1/25/2022 Cornellians

Working with a conservation nonprofit, Erik Patel, PhD ’11, protects and studies the endangered primates in their native Madagascar.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Transforming solar energy with solution-processed materials

1/28/2022 Cornell Research

Thin-film solar cells made from solution-processed crystalline materials are promising alternatives to silicon wafers, the core component that converts light into electricity in most solar panels today.

pixelated image of grey and blue texture — Davis lab/provided This composite image shows where the selenium atoms reside in the crystal of niobium diselenide, a transition metal dichalcogenide, using conventional scanned tunneling microscopy (left, in grey) and where the electron pairs are observed using scanned Josephson tunneling microscopy (right, in blue).

Physics

New superconducting interfaces for quantum technologies

1/28/2022 Cornell Research

Potential applications of this research include high-performance topological quantum computers, quantum information processing, high-sensitivity sensors, and perfect spin filters.

Mathematics

How a Mathematician Spends His Sundays

1/28/2022 New York Times

Everywhere Steven Strogatz goes in the city, he sees math.

White line drawing on green background showing city on one side of a chasm and a farm on the other

Alumni

Exploring the Widening Chasm Between Urban and Rural Voters

1/27/2022 Cornellians

A team led by government professor Suzanne Mettler, PhD ’94, seeks to understand the factors at play in the red-blue divide between America's cities and countryside.

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