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Engaged Cornell

Grants create community-engaged opportunities for students

Cornell Chronicle

Fourteen projects include partners from New York state communities – from Rochester to Ithaca to New York City – while seven projects include international partners.

Government

The Trump administration wrongly assumed China would capitulate in a trade war. What happens now?

The Washington Post

In this Washington Post opinion piece, Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, and David. A Lake, professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, discuss the recent trade war that the Trump Administration has instigated with China.

Graphic showing how the planet had a different light signature due to the dominance of moss.
Astronomy

Astronomers use Earth’s history as guide to spot vegetation on new worlds

Cornell Chronicle

A new model by Cornell astronomers will help identify possible life on exoplanets.

Performing & Media Arts

PMA lecturer featured in off-Broadway show

A&S Communications

The off-Broadway world premiere of “The Winning Side,” a new play by James Wallert, will feature Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., senior lecturer in the Department of Performing & Media Arts, as Major Taggert

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Postdocs honored with achievement awards

Cornell Chronicle

Six postdocs at Cornell were honored with an inaugural Postdoc Achievement Award Sept. 17 at the Big Red Barn as part of the kickoff to National Postdoc Appreciation Week.

Society for the Humanities

CNY Humanities Corridor supports humanities collaboration

A&S Communications

Cornell has received a $1.5 million endowment from the Central New York Humanities Corridor, thanks to a $3.55 million matching grant from the Mellon Foundation that also funded endowments at Syracuse and Rochester, which will support regional interdisciplinary humanities projects. With the Society for the Humanities stewarding the Cornell endowment, Cornell faculty will have faster access to funding with less paperwork.

Astronomy

Astronomer to co-lead Extrasolar Planetary Systems Key Science Program

A&S Communications

Image: Artist's concept of the completed Giant Magellan Telescope.

Lawrence Kidder
Astronomy & Physics

Lawrence Kidder elected fellow of American Physical Society

Cornell Chronicle

Award-winning senior astronomy research associate Lawrence Kidder, who contributed to the 2016 confirmation of gravitational waves detected in 2015, has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).

Outreach

$1.7 million Mellon grant fortifies prison education

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) has received a grant for $1.7 million to ensure the success of ongoing efforts to accelerate degree completion for incarcerated college students, to look at the benefits of college-in-prison in the broader society, and facilitate Cornell students’ education and engagement in criminal justice reform.

Performing & Media Arts

PMA grad students honored with multiple awards

A&S Communications

Graduate students from the Department of Performing Media Arts have been honored with multiple fellowships and grants over the course of the year.  Recipients of awards include Caitlin Kane, Jayme Kilburn, Rosalie Purvis, Elaigwu Ameh, Kristza Pozsonyi and Sam Blake.These grants, which support research, creative pursuits and teaching, give grad students the opportunity for peer academic review, funds to carry out projects and finances for travel.