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Astronomy

Saturn's moon Titan sports Earth-like features

A&S Communications

Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn’s moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two new papers, published Dec. 2 in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.

Physics

Physicists take first step toward cell-sized robots

These electricity-conducting, environment-sensing, shape-changing machines could become a powerful source for exploration.

Performing & Media Arts

Circus musical ‘Pippin’ at Schwartz Center Jan. 12-14

A&S Communications

The magic of the circus comes alive in Running to Places’ (R2P) “Pippin.” From jugglers to unicycles to acrobatics, the musical is a comedic extravaganza in the spirit of the recent Broadway revival. The production, with backstage support by Cornell staff, runs Jan. 12-14 at Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts and is a collaboration with Ithaca’s Circus Culture school.

English

Sara Holdren winner of 2016-17 George Jean Nathan Award

A&S Communications

Sara Holdren has been named the winner of the 2018 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

Humanities

New volume offers a wider view of Africa

A&S Communications

Editors document the contributions African people have made to the world without romanticizing the difficult conditions in which many people on the African continent live.

Cornell in NYC

Faculty committee tasked to envision opportunities in New York City

Cornell Chronicle

Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana Studies, is leading a presidential committee of faculty.

Alumni

An “unfiltered” voice

Cornell Alumni Magazine

“Whatever we’re talking about, we try to do it civilly and quietly," says A&S alum and CNN host S.E. Cupp '90.

Future Faculty Initiative

Gifts create new Arts & Sciences professorships

A&S Communications

Faculty growth is essential in multidisciplinary areas such as nanoscale science, behavioral economics, sustainability and media studies, as well as other emerging research areas in the social sciences, sciences, arts and humanities.

Cover of Nature Magazine
Astronomy

Across the universe, fast radio bursts ‘shout and twist’

Cornell Chronicle

An international group of astronomers has found that the Cornell-discovered fast radio burst FRB 121102 – a brief, gigantic pulse of radio waves from 3 billion light years away – passes through a veil of magnetized plasma. This causes the cosmic blasts to “shout and twist,” which will help the scientists determine the source.The research is featured on the cover of Nature, Jan. 11.

students visiting the vatican
Language study

Living language

Cornell Alumni Magazine

With the hiring of a former Vatican translator, Cornell has become a hub of an unlikely field in the modern age: spoken Latin. This Cornell Alumni Magazine article highlights the work of Daniel Gallagher, a former Catholic monsignor who spent a decade working at the Vatican.