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EHT Collaboration/Provided This is the first image of Sagittarius A\*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
Astronomy

Team reveals first image of the black hole at our galaxy’s heart

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers contributed to the first direct visual evidence of something compact and very massive at the center of the Milky Way.

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Lisa Banlaki Frank/CAM In fall 2018, Li came to campus for a visit during which she spoke to classes, held training sessions with Cornell Dining staff, met with students, and did a cooking demo in Okenshields, where several Mei Mei dishes were featured at dinner.
Alumni

Chef Irene Li ’12, BA ’15, marries culinary verve and social action

Cornellians

The Boston restaurateur and dumpling maven now boasts a James Beard Leadership Award.

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New Frontier Grants

New Frontier Grants push boundaries in A&S research

Cornell Chronicle

The College has awarded seven New Frontier Grants totaling $1.25 million to faculty members pursuing critical developments in areas across sciences and humanities.

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Ryan Young / Cornell University 2022 Cornell Campus-Community Leadership Award winners Claire Deng ’22 (left) and Temilola (Lola) Adepoju ’22
Student honors

Students honored for local community impact

Cornell Chronicle

Temilola (Lola) Adepoju ’22 and Claire Deng ’22 are among graduating seniors who have shown exceptional town-gown leadership and innovation.

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Psychology

Undergraduate psychology conference to feature diverse research

Cornell Chronicle

Thirty-five students will present on topics from implicit bias in person perceptions to early-life adversity in prairie voles and more.

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Graduate student research

Travel Grants Help Graduate Students Conduct Research Across the Globe

Cornell University Graduate School

The Graduate School awarded over 100 Research Travel Grants totaling $204,196 in 2021-22, the largest group of grants awarded since the pandemic began interrupting travel.

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Flutist Gili Schwarzman will perform at Mayfest
Music performance

Mayfest chamber music festival returns to Ithaca May 20-24

Cornell Chronicle

The music department's annual springtime festival of world-class chamber music will feature performances by exceptional guest artists from around the world.

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Provided A hole 22 meters in diameter near the summit of Cerro Chajnantor in Chile’s Atacama Desert, at an elevation of 18,400 feet stands ready for the cement foundation on which the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope will one day rest.
Astronomy

Major progress made in construction of Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope

Cornell Chronicle

Project scientists are looking forward to collecting data that will give them insight into the universe’s earliest days; the telescope will also play a role in the search for gravitational waves and dark matter.

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Renzo Borgatti/Creative Commons license 2.0 Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, outside Batavia, Illinois
Physics

Graduate student selected for DOE program

Cornell Chronicle

Zepyoor Khechadoorian’s project in high energy physics will be the measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, working with Fermilab advisor Chris Polly.

Benjamin Feldman
Student honors

A&S student named Carnegie Fellow

A&S Communications

Ben Feldman '22 will conduct research at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in D.C. after graduation.

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Etienne Desclides/ Unsplash Ferrofluids were invented in 1963 by NASA to create liquid rocket fuel that could be drawn toward a fuel pump in a weightless environment by applying a magnetic field.
Physics

Mechanism ‘splits’ electron spins in magnetic material

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered a technique that could eventually lead to the development of more energy-efficient magnetic memory devices.

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Extraordinary Journeys

'I did not close myself off from my potential'

Jonathan Mercedes is a comparative literature major.

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Social science research

Misperceptions can threaten scientific advancement

Cornell Chronicle

Peter Enns, professor of government, and co-authors made this massive collection of COVID-related survey data available at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

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Extraordinary Journeys

'I learned to ask questions from curiosity rather than a need to be right'

Kathryn Stamm is a Literatures in English and American Studies major.

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Another Believer/Creative Commons license 3.0 Interior of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
National Academy of Sciences

Four elected to National Academy of Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Peter Lepage, the Tisch Family Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics, is among four Cornell faculty to be honored this year.