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Astronomy

Iconic ‘pale blue dot’ photo – Carl Sagan’s idea – turns 30

Cornell Chronicle

The photo of Earth was taken at a distance of 3.7 billion miles by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1.

English

Bibliographical Society of America honors English professor

A&S Communications

Derrick R. Spires, associate professor of English, was awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for his book “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States."

TRAPPIST-1 planetary system art
Astronomy

Astronomers will probe exoplanets with Webb telescope

Cornell Chronicle

This month marks the third anniversary of the discovery of a remarkable system of seven planets known as TRAPPIST-1. These rocky, Earth-size worlds orbit an ultra-cool star 39 light-years from Earth; 1 light-year is approximately 5.88 trillion miles.

Government, History

Panel discusses global uncertainties surrounding coronavirus

Cornell Chronicle

With the recent emergence of the coronavirus from China’s Hubei province, another “virus” has the potential to spread, a Cornell faculty member said Tuesday at a wide-ranging panel discussion on the outbreak.

History, American Studies

Norton chronicles road to American Revolution in new book, ‘1774’

Cornell Chronicle

The book is the first in-depth recounting of 1774 as a critical “long year” for revolutionary change.

Government

Face-to-face contact with police builds trust in fledgling states

Cornell Chronicle

After times of major conflict, such as the civil wars in Liberia from 1980 to 2003, peace often leaves a power vacuum, especially in remote areas not yet reached by a developing government.

PHYSICS

Inquiry-based labs give physics students experimental edge

Cornell Chronicle

New Cornell research shows that traditional physics labs, which strive to reinforce the concepts students learn in lecture courses, can actually have a negative impact on students. At the same time, nontraditional, inquiry-based labs that encourage experimentation can improve student performance and engagement without lowering exam scores. 

Near Eastern Studies, Cornell Cinema

Film screening and discussion to celebrate writer Kahanoff

Cornell Chronicle

Writer Jacqueline Kahanoff was born in 1917 to a French-speaking Jewish family in Cairo, and came of age intellectually in New York City and Paris.When she settled in Israel in 1954, she brought vast cultural experience with her. She also brought an opinion, unpopular with Israel’s ruling elite, that the culture of Jews from the Eastern Mediterranean region – known as the Levant – should be celebrated alongside those from Europe.

A scene from "Charlie Says" the movie showing Charles Manson
Cornell Cinema

Faculty, cinema collaborate to show films on Manson murders, gardens, Japanese pop culture

A&S Communications

When Mary Fessenden, Cornell Cinema director, sits down to think about what films to show each semester, she has lots of movies in mind, but she also works closely with professors to find ties to the classes they’re offering.

Physics

An Exciting Mysterious World—Spacetime

Cornell Research

Thomas Hartman, assistant professor of physics, studies high-energy theoretical physics. His goal, he explains in this article in Cornell Research, is to bring to light the fundamental properties of nature, which derive from the subatomic world of quantum physics.

Government

How Never Trumpers Fell in Line

New York Times

Former Congressman Steve Israel, director of the Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, writes in the New York Times that he sees political rationalization at work among today's representatives.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Coates honored by American Chemical Society

Cornell Chronicle

Chemistry professor Geoffrey W. Coates has received the 2020 Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society

English

‘Thought-action figures,’ new media inform research, learning

Cornell Chronicle

Jon McKenzie, professor of practice in the Department of English, is working with area school teachers and their students to address issues meaningful to them and their communities, using strategic storytelling, a variety of media-making and participatory research.

Jewish Studies

Panel examines Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust

As a young child in World War II Poland, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann and members of his family spent 15 months hiding in an attic, kept safe from the Nazis by a Ukrainian couple who risked their own three small children to do so.Hoffmann’s life was spared, thanks to the courage and kindness of others.

Jewish Studies Program

Yiddish course offers ‘laboratory’ for studying cultures

Cornell Chronicle

"In the old world, Yiddish was the vernacular, the language of the everyday, the language of the home."