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Humanities

Podcast episode explores creation: medieval poems to Thai temples

Cornell Chronicle

A new episode of “The Humanities Pod” explores the language and materiality of belief through literary and anthropological methods of humanities research.

Mathematics

Who's afraid of big numbers?

New York Times

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Francesco Sgarlata
Klarman Fellows

Klarman postdoc tackles ‘theory of everything’ with first principles

Cornell Chronicle

Physicist Francesco Sgarlata is taking a bottom-up approach to finding a theory of quantum gravity.

Margaret Washington
Juneteenth

Radio interview discusses Juneteenth

Cornell Chronicle

On June 15, the "All Things Equal" podcast featured Cornell Arts & Sciences Professor of American History Margaret Washington for a discussion of Juneteenth.


Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Magnetic tweezers reveal polymers’ hidden properties

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers were able to stretch and twist individual molecules of a conjugated polymer and measure its mechanical and kinetic properties, gaining insights that could eventually lead to more flexible and robust soft electronic materials.

Sociology

Trends favor Le Pen victory, ‘somersaults’ in French politics

A&S Communications

Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology, says that regional elections in France on June 20 could serve as an early indicator of what may come in the 2022 presidential election.

Crowd of people holding signs during BLM protest
Racism in America

Reunion panel steers racism conversation toward action

Cornell Chronicle

The panel suggested listening to scholarly experts, implementing new initiatives and engaging students and faculty in organizations beyond the university.

Government

Juneteenth reverberates with triumph, pain, past and present

Cornell Chronicle

The holiday celebrates the day enslaved people gained their freedom. But they lacked political power then, as Black people too often do today, says associate professor Jamila Michener.

Public policy

Colleen Barry named inaugural dean of public policy school

Cornell Chronicle

Colleen L. Barry, a professor and department chair at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, has been named the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s first dean, effective Sept. 15.

Linguistics

Removing barriers through remote opportunities

Cornell Chronicle

Many Graduate School students, alumni and staff, including linguistics alumna Carol-Rose Little, Ph.D. ’20 have learned to use remote and hybrid environments to their benefit.

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Pew scholar builds on gene-editing technology

Cornell Chronicle

Elizabeth Kellogg, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named to the Pew Scholars Program to pursue research into advancing gene editing capability.

Mathematics

Stillman receives UI achievement award for mathematics

Cornell Chronicle

A 2021 Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of Illinois Department of Mathematics recognizes advances in the field by Michael Stillman, professor of mathematics.

Physics

Monolayer superconductor exhibits unusual behavior

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered a rare “pseudogap” phenomenon that helps explain how the superconducting transition temperature can be greatly boosted in a single monolayer of iron selenide, and how it might be applied to other superconducting materials.

Public policy

Gift endows, names Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy

Cornell Chronicle

The major gift from the Brooks family, whose Cornell roots span three generations, provides an early boost to help the university’s newest school achieve world-class excellence.

Classics

Researchers link ancient wooden structure to water ritual

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers used dendrochronology and a form of radiocarbon dating to identify the ancient origins of the structure in Northern Italy.