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Chinese President Xi Jinping standing at a podium with the US Seal on the front, with Joe Biden behind him and Hilary Clinton to his left dressed in a red pants suit.
Mark Stewart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Xi giving a speech at the U.S. Department of State in 2012, with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then Vice-President Joe Biden in the background. Seated in the front row is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Government

Contentious issues between U.S., China unlikely to be resolved by zoom call

A&S Communications

Associate professor of government Allen Carlson comments on the scheduled meeting between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The cover of Trans Historical showing a person with long red hair and a mustache.
Humanities

New edited volume explores plurality of gender experiences

A&S Communications

“The book is a collection of essays about trans, nonbinary and gender-complicated people across a broad geographic range, from Poland to France to early Colonial America, going all the way back to Byzantine and Ancient Roman writings.”

woman sitting behind desk
Provided Savage snapped this selfie on the Oval Office set while shooting “Veep.”
Alumni

Andrea Savage ’94 makes ’em laugh

Cornellians

Andrea Savage '94 is a a prolific actress and comedy writer.

two people on top of a mountain
Provided Mike Niemack, left, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and Nick Cothard on top of Cerro Chajnantor where the FYST will be built and the instrumentation that they received funding for will be installed.
Astronomy

NSF awards $1.3M to CCAT-prime telescope project

Cornell Chronicle

The award will help researchers develop instrumentation that will measure galactic dust polarization and the oldest light in the universe.

Board game with black and white pieces
Physics

Weak coupling shows flaw in strange metal model

Cornell Chronicle

Planckian metals have the potential to power high-temperature superconductors, quantum computers and a host of other next-generation technologies.

Black Lives Matter protest, masked people holding signs of men who have been killed
History

America’s most destructive habit

The Atlantic

Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.

woman at a protest
Global reach

Einaudi Center announces new Global Public Voices fellows

Cornell Chronicle

With a focus on inequalities and social justice, this year’s 27 Global Vices fellows will engage with national and international news media

cornell seal
Campus update

President Pollack shares community updates

Cornell Chronicle

President Martha E. Pollack shares some updates from across the Cornell community.

Silhouette of an octopus
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay
Mathematics

When is a basin of attraction like an octopus?

A&S Communications

In dynamical systems research, a “basin of attraction” is the set of all the starting points — usually close to one another — that arrive at the same final state as the system evolves through time.

Daniel Ralph
Physics

Physics professor wins American Physical Society prize

A&S Communications

Professor Dan Ralph was awarded the McGroddy Award by APS.

Margaret Bonds
Music

ONEcomposer returns for second season

A&S Communications

ONEComposer returns for a second season honoring Margaret Bonds.

Morrison's son film poster
Celebrating Toni Morrison

Morrison’s son visits campus for film screening

A&S Communications

The son of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, will visit campus Nov. 9 for a film screening and discussion of “The Foreigner’s Home,” a documentary based on Morrison’s monthlong guest-curated 2006 series of cultural events at the Louvre.

A multi-colored image of the Crab Nebula
NASA Goddard Crab Nebula
Astronomy

Cornell faculty contribute to Astro2020 decadal survey

A&S Communications

A quarter of the faculty from the Department of Astronomy participated in the newly released decadal survey sponsored by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Air Force.

Princess Mako
History

Princess Mako of Japan's commoner wedding suggests sexism will doom the royal family

Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, writes in this piece that legal reforms initiated under U.S. military occupation after World War II shut the door to Japan's Princess Mako and other imperial women’s claims to lifelong royalty.

Ethiopia is highlighted in green on a map of the African continent.
Groubani at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons Ethiopia highlighted on map of African continent.
Government

Mass atrocities in Ethiopia could get worse as federal state loses ground

A&S Communications

Political scientist Oumar Ba comments on the escalation of the yearlong war in Ethiopia.