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Alumni Adventures

Alum and twin cross U.S. on foot to support COVID-19 relief

Cornell Chronicle

Zachary Prizant ’18, MPS ’19, and his identical twin brother, Maxwell, are crossing the continental United States on foot – running and hiking 3,000 miles – to support COVID-19 relief work.

Career experiences

Students manage remote internships found through Pathways program

A&S Communications

Many in-person internships were cancelled this summer, but eight Arts & Sciences students are still working remotely through the Pathways Internship Program.

Astronomy

Cornellians help NASA zoom in on red planet

Cornell Chronicle

Mars is about to become a little more red, thanks to the Cornellians who helped develop and calibrate instruments soon bound for the planet. Early on July 30, the NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab’s Mars 2020 spacecraft will roar away from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, bound for Earth’s rusty red neighbor.

History

Fugitive slave ad database receives grant from Mellon

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell-based Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a database documenting the lives of fugitives from American slavery through newspaper ads placed by slave owners in the 18th and 19th centuries, has received a $150,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Astronomy

A&S dean delivers keynote at K-12 ed conference

Cornell Chronicle

Jayawardhana showed teachers how the at-times esoteric subject matter of astronomy “is not only relevant but integral to our lives.”

Government, Latina/o Studies Program

A&S initiative launches with webinar about abolishing police

Cornell Chronicle

The Politics of Race, Immigration, Class and Ethnicity (PRICE), a new initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences, will bring together scholars, researchers and the public for conversations that just might make everyone a little uncomfortable.

Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Four things to know about the U.S. decision to close the Chinese consulate in Houston

Washington Post

The United States has ordered the Chinese consulate in Houston to close by Friday afternoon. This move, the Trump administration’s latest, could make it harder to repair the U.S.-China rift, writes Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, in an op-ed in the Washington Post.

Physics

Electrons obey social distancing in ‘strange’ metals

Cornell Chronicle

The chaotic behavior of Planckian, or “strange,” metals has long intrigued physicists.

Astronomy

Grad student helps combine old technique, modern tech to bring details to stars

A&S Communications

An incoming Cornell graduate student in astronomy is involved in recently-published work that may reinvigorate an older method of measuring the angular size of stars, using new technology and computing capability.

Government

US paints China as bogeyman, closes Houston consulate

A&S Communications

On Wednesday, the U.S. government ordered China to close its consulate in Houston saying the decision was made “to protect American intellectual property.” The State Department gave its Chinese counterpart three days to suspend its operation, according to a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson who added that China vowed to retaliate.

Government

TikTok ban reasonable given threat of Chinese surveillance

A&S Communications

The House of Representatives voted this week to ban TikTok from government-issued devices amid concerns that the Chinese-owned social media company’s access to U.S. data poses a national security threat.

History

‘Making it Work’: Flexibility During COVID-19

Cornell University Graduate School

Emily Donald, a doctoral student in history, planned to go to Thailand this summer. Instead, she remained in Ithaca. Like many scholars at Cornell and around the globe, Donald’s research was interrupted by the pandemic. “I’m lucky to be in a position where I can be flexible and shift things around to make it work,” she said.

Government

Roper Center collection remembers, amplifies Black voices

Cornell Chronicle

In 1946, the Minneapolis Tribune’s Minnesota Poll billed itself as “an impartial, scientific weekly survey of what Minnesotans think on leading topics of the day.”

Comparative Literature

Portland protestor used ‘insurrectionary nakedness’ to manage conflict

A&S Communications

Protests continue this week in Portland, Oregon in the wake of federal law enforcement being deployed to the city. On Saturday, the protest included the participation of a nude woman who confronted officers wearing nothing but a mask and hat.

2020 New Faculty

Xin Zhou

A&S Communications

Name and title:  Xin Zhou, Associate Professor, Mathematics Academic focus:  Geometric analysis, calculus of variations, general relativity Current research project: