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Silhouette of an octopus — Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

Mathematics

When is a basin of attraction like an octopus?

11/8/2021 A&S Communications

In dynamical systems research, a “basin of attraction” is the set of all the starting points — usually close to one another — that arrive at the same final state as the system evolves through time.

Music

ONEcomposer returns for second season

11/8/2021 A&S Communications

ONEComposer returns for a second season honoring Margaret Bonds.

Physics

Physics professor wins American Physical Society prize

11/8/2021 A&S Communications

Professor Dan Ralph was awarded the McGroddy Award by APS.

Celebrating Toni Morrison

Morrison’s son visits campus for film screening

11/5/2021 A&S Communications

The son of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, will visit campus Nov. 9 for a film screening and discussion of “The Foreigner’s Home,” a documentary based on Morrison’s monthlong guest-curated 2006 series of cultural events at the Louvre.

A multi-colored image of the Crab Nebula — NASA Goddard Crab Nebula

Astronomy

Cornell faculty contribute to Astro2020 decadal survey

11/5/2021 A&S Communications

A quarter of the faculty from the Department of Astronomy participated in the newly released decadal survey sponsored by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Air Force.

History

Princess Mako of Japan's commoner wedding suggests sexism will doom the royal family

11/1/2021

Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, writes in this piece that legal reforms initiated under U.S. military occupation after World War II shut the door to Japan's Princess Mako and other imperial women’s claims to lifelong royalty.

Ethiopia is highlighted in green on a map of the African continent. — Groubani at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons Ethiopia highlighted on map of African continent.

Government

Mass atrocities in Ethiopia could get worse as federal state loses ground

11/2/2021 A&S Communications

Political scientist Oumar Ba comments on the escalation of the yearlong war in Ethiopia.

Science and Technology Studies

Big data can render some as ‘low-resolution citizens’

10/28/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers used India’s biometrics-based individual identification system to examine how the system works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.

two people reading magazines — Provided Marylynn Salmon, right, staged this photo as a joke with a male friend in 1972, to highlight their very different reading materials.

Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

‘Still a long way to go:’ Looking back on the start of women’s studies at Cornell

11/1/2021 A&S Communications

As Cornell's women's studies program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – along with the 30th anniversary of the LGBT studies program – faculty and alumni from the early days of the program are remembering the barriers they hurdled, as well as the support they received, as they sought to establish the program in 1972.

Jupiter with bands of swirling color and a red spot at top of sphere. — NASA/JPL An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, upper right, and the planet's swirling surface, was taken by the Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2020.

Astronomy

Juno craft provides first 3D view of Jupiter’s deep storms

10/29/2021 Cornell Chronicle

“This answers questions that scientists have asked for 200 years," said co-author Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy.

Einaudi Center

Nicaraguan cartoonist finds refuge at Einaudi Center

10/27/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Pedro X. Molina is now an APF fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Music

Arts Unplugged: Marsalis offers Nov. 6 concert with wind symphony

10/28/2021 A&S Communications

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony, open to the public, and a talk open to members of the Cornell community.