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Frank Castelli
Postdoctoral scholars

Alumnus/postdoc spotlight: Frank Castelli, Ph.D. ’17

Cornell University Graduate School

Frank Castelli ’05, M.S. ’14, Ph.D. ’17, is a postdoc in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior from Howard Beach, New York.

Swirls of red and white representing a planet's atmosphere
ESO/M. Kornmesser An artist's rendition of a "hot Jupiter."
Astronomy

Spectrum reveals extreme exoplanet is even more exotic

Cornell Chronicle

An international team led by Cornell researchers has discovered ionized calcium on the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet.

man at podium
Campus events

Francis Fukuyama talk launches new series on global crises

Celebrated public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 will be the first speaker in the Center for the Study of Economy & Society’s new fall lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World.”

Annette Richards at the organ
Music

Music department presents organ festival Oct. 20-23

Department of Music

An organ festival on campus will feature the works of the Dutch composer and keyboardist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

James Oliver
Cornell University James Oliver
Mathematics

Event will honor suffragist and mathematician James Oliver

A&S Communications

The life and work of James Edward Oliver, a passionate supporter of women’s suffrage and a nationally recognized mathematician, will be celebrated in an evening of talks on Oct. 14.

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Humanities research

Applications open for new humanities prize

A&S Communications

Undergraduate students interested in the intersection of religion and politics or society can now apply for a new prize, to be given out next spring.

Book cover of "1774: The Long Year of Revolution"
History

History professor wins George Washington Prize

A&S Communications

Mary Beth Norton has been awarded the George Washington Prize for her book, "1774: The Long Year of Revolution."

hands putting liquid in test tubes
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Three A&S professors honored with national chemistry awards

A&S Communications

Three faculty members in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts & Sciences have been honored with national awards.

Ken Ruoff
History

Seymour lecture focuses on Japan’s Olympic history

Department of History

Historian Ken Ruoff will discuss the Japan that was on display during the Olympics in 1940 and 1965 at this year’s Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History.

Arts Quad at Cornell University
Faculty awards

Four from faculty receive Carpenter Advising Awards

Cornell Chronicle

Four Cornell faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.

four people
Provided Ernesto Bassi, Mabel Berezin, Thomas Pepinsky, Judith Reppy
Global reach

Einaudi welcomes new program directors and opportunities

Global Cornell

Three new faculty program directors join the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies this fall, providing leadership for the center’s regional programs on Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Southeast Asia.

slaves with bags
Humanities Podcast

Podcast episode explores resistance to slavery via newspaper ads

Society for the Humanities

A new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast, “Tweets of the Un-Mastered Class: Exploring the Freedom on the Move Database with Edward Baptist,” discusses the stories of self-liberated fugitives from American slavery through the lens of over 30,000 original documents depicting their escapes.

Donna Lynch-Cunningham
College staff

College names Donna Lynch-Cunningham as new director of human resources

A&S Communications

The College of Arts & Sciences will welcome a new director of human resources, Donna Lynch-Cunningham, beginning on Oct. 4. Cunningham was previously human resources divisional director for the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.

telescope
NASA/Provided Artistic rendering of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently under development by NASA, which will be used in the search for distant planets beyond our solar system.
Astronomy

‘Planet confusion’ could slow Earth-like exoplanet exploration

Cornell Chronicle

A new Cornell study finds that next-generation telescopes used to see exoplanets could confuse Earth-like planets with other types of planets in the same solar system.

pumpkin in a field
Provided Heritage Buffalo Creek squash, identified in the Cayuga language and in English.
Cayuga language

Collaboration plants seeds for cultural, biological conservation

Cornell Chronicle

A campus collaboration with the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ (Cayuga Nation) seeks to conserve biodiversity and simultaneously safeguard human cultural values and traditions – including language – that depend on these natural resources.