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Near Eastern Studies

Fahmy wins Urban History Association book prize

1/31/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Ziad Fahmy won a 2021 book prize from the Urban History Association (UHA) for “Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt." Fahmy’s book was recognized for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History.

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Music

New piano joins historic instrument collection

1/31/2022 A&S Communications

A new Silbermann piano has joined the instrument collection at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.

Creative Writing Program

Cornell Reading Series features writers with diverse artistic range

1/31/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Beginning Feb. 24, the Spring 2022 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series will feature a wide range of artistic styles and voices from around the world.

Animal with white fur – a lemur — Provided The silky sifaka

Alumni

Doctoral alum devoted his career to saving lemurs

1/25/2022 Cornellians

Working with a conservation nonprofit, Erik Patel, PhD ’11, protects and studies the endangered primates in their native Madagascar.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Transforming solar energy with solution-processed materials

1/28/2022 Cornell Research

Thin-film solar cells made from solution-processed crystalline materials are promising alternatives to silicon wafers, the core component that converts light into electricity in most solar panels today.

pixelated image of grey and blue texture — Davis lab/provided This composite image shows where the selenium atoms reside in the crystal of niobium diselenide, a transition metal dichalcogenide, using conventional scanned tunneling microscopy (left, in grey) and where the electron pairs are observed using scanned Josephson tunneling microscopy (right, in blue).

Physics

New superconducting interfaces for quantum technologies

1/28/2022 Cornell Research

Potential applications of this research include high-performance topological quantum computers, quantum information processing, high-sensitivity sensors, and perfect spin filters.

Mathematics

How a Mathematician Spends His Sundays

1/28/2022 New York Times

Everywhere Steven Strogatz goes in the city, he sees math.

White line drawing on green background showing city on one side of a chasm and a farm on the other

Alumni

Exploring the Widening Chasm Between Urban and Rural Voters

1/27/2022 Cornellians

A team led by government professor Suzanne Mettler, PhD ’94, seeks to understand the factors at play in the red-blue divide between America's cities and countryside.

Small orange fish — Provided Longspine squirrelfish

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Look who’s talking now: the fishes

1/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A new study from Cornell University finds that fish are far more likely to communicate with sound than previously thought — and some fish have been doing this for at least 155 million years.

Xenophobia meter aims to track anti-immigrant hate speech

1/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

With funding from Global Cornell, the Xenophobia Meter project aims to track online anti-immigrant hate speech in real time using machine learning.

Painting of a face — Shanzai Ikhlas '24/Cornell University Exploration of women and gender in the Middle East - acrylic

Social Justice

Course art exhibition teaches expression about social justice

1/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The exhibition helped students connect more personally with migration issues and share alternative stories of social justice and migration.

Graduate school

Helping humanities students explore careers beyond academia

1/24/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

Humanities doctoral students begin their programs with an area of interest. This focus narrows as dissertation research progresses until, by the end of a doctoral program, it narrows to the point that students see only a path to a faculty or research career. To broaden their view, the Graduate School’s Careers Beyond Academia has expanded its programs to illuminate many more possible careers.

man watching stars — Provided Nordgren watches the Milky Way rise at Big Bend National Park,

Astronomy

Alum is an evangelist for the wonders of national parks—‘after dark’

1/24/2022 Cornellians

Astronomer and artist Tyler Nordgren, PhD ’97, trains rangers to lead stargazing programs and immortalizes parks in 1930s-style travel posters.

Administration

Bruce Lewenstein appointed university ombudsman

1/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Bruce Lewenstein, professor of science communication in both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed Cornell’s 13th university ombudsman.

The head and shoulders of a man wearing a wreath of leaves and a cloak over armor. — Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Roman Emperor at the Summer Garden

Public Engagement

Putin’s goal of ‘breaking NATO’ evokes past Soviet, Roman leaders

1/27/2022 A&S Communications

Prof. Barry Strauss comments on Russian President Vladimir Putin's demands about Ukraine.

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