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Person lecturing at a podium — Provided Raymond Craib

Teaching awards

Craib and Fiani win graduate, professional teaching prize

9/28/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“These professors have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to teaching and mentoring their students.”

Several people arranged on a stage, playing violins — Members of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Cornell Concert Series

Cornell Concert Series presents Scottish Chamber Orchestra with Nicola Benedetti, violin

9/29/2022 A&S Communications

The event takes place Sat., Oct. 15 at 3 pm in Bailey Hall.

White apartment building towers over a street corner — Bianca Neves/Unsplash São Paulo, Brazil

Latin America

What’s next for Brazil: Cornell experts on economics, politics post-election

9/29/2022 A&S Communications

In the first round of Brazil’s elections Oct. 2, former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva face off against right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro; Cornell government professors react.

Person standing in front of a small space craft — Jason Koski/Cornell University Léa Bonnefoy ‘15, a post-doctoral researcher, led a team of Cornell scientists to characterize the Dragonfly mission's landing site on Saturn’s moon Titan. The rotorcraft is expected to launch in 2027 and reach that moon in 2034.

Astronomy

Scientists depict Dragonfly landing site on Saturn moon Titan

9/28/2022 Cornell Chronicle

When NASA’s 990-pound Dragonfly rotorcraft reaches Saturn’s moon in 2034, Cornell’s Léa Bonnefoy '15 will have helped to make it a smooth landing.

Migration

Book: Policymakers are failing ‘climate refugees’

9/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The United States must transform its outdated migration policies to address the human devastation that is left in the wake of climate change and environmental catastrophe, Maria Cristina Garcia argues.

Sports history

Acclaimed sports historian to speak on 'the NFL’s Most Important Game'

9/27/2022 A&S Communications

Louis Moore, history professor and co-host of The Black Athlete podcast, will give this semester’s Seymour Lecture in Sports History on Oct. 6.

Blazing yellow celestial body seen beyond the horizon of another globe, tinted red — European Southern Observatory / L. Calçada In this illustration, exoplanet CoRoT-7b, which is likely five times the mass of Earth, may well be full of lava landscapes and boiling oceans.

Astronomy

Synthetic lava in the lab aids exoplanet exploration

9/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers developed a starter catalog for finding volcanic worlds that feature fiery landscapes and oceans of magma.

Person speaking authoritatively from a stage — Ryan Young/Cornell University Ann Simmons, the Wall Street Journal’s Moscow Bureau Chief and the fall 2022 Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow, speaks as part of a panel Sept. 22 in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

International relations

Panelists: War in Ukraine reshapes world political order

9/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Faculty and journalist experts considered the consequences of the ongoing conflict during “Aftershocks: Geopolitics Since the Ukraine invasion."

Abstract blue, grey and black pattern — Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, University of Arizona/Provided This image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the edge of the Martian South Pole Layered Deposit. The stack of fine layering is highlighted by the rays of the polar sun.

Astronomy research

Layering, not liquid: Astronomers explain Mars’ watery reflections

9/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Using computer simulations, Cornell researchers demonstrate that strong reflections can be generated by interference between geological layers, without liquid water or other rare materials.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Hyster wins Fresenius Award for early-career excellence

9/26/2022 A&S Communications

New tools being developed by the Hyster lab can be applied in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.

Faculty leadership

New faculty director takes helm of Office of Undergraduate Biology

9/26/2022 A&S Communications

Nicholson said her mission is to empower students and give them confidence.

Multi-colored ribbons of light form the infinity symbol — Photo by Izabel 🇺🇦 on Unsplash Infinity symbol

Mathematics

Cornell mathematician featured in Netflix film

9/25/2022 A&S Communications

“The main idea of the film involves an exploration of infinity from several perspectives: mathematical, physical, philosophical, theological."

Etching showing a stately building and horse and carriage traffic around it

American studies

Book explores the centuries-old influence of ‘Protestant Brooklyn’

9/23/2022 Cornellians

Professors Glenn Altschuler, PhD ’76, and Stuart Blumin take a deep dive into the borough once known as the "city of churches."

Red cliffs reaching down to blue ocean; a city of white buildings appears small — Provided The Greek island of Santorini, traditionally known as Thera, experienced one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the Holocene epoch, most likely between 1609 and 1560 BCE, according to a new analysis

Statistical analysis aims to solve Greek volcano mystery

9/20/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Sturt Manning has zeroed in on a much narrower range of dates, approximately 1609–1560 BCE, for the eruption on Santorini, a pivotal event in the prehistory of the region.

Music

loadbang offers concerts as 2022-23 Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble

9/23/2022 Department of Music

The ensemble will collaborate with graduate composers on new works and engage with students in a variety of ways.

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