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2021 New Faculty

The College Welcomes New Faculty for 2021-22

A&S Communications

Despite pandemic challenges, the College of Arts & Sciences expanded its faculty with 17 new hires this year, bringing exciting new ideas into wide-ranging fields, including moral psychology, Indigenous studies, cosmology, genetics and African American literature.

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Psychology

Lonely mice more vocal, more social after isolation

Cornell Chronicle

Female mice exhibit a strong drive to socialize with other females following periods of acute isolation.

Graduate students

Student spotlight: Lyrianne González

Cornell University Graduate School

Lyrianne González is a doctoral student in history from Los Angeles, California. After attending California State University, Northridge as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue further study at Cornell for the opportunity to work alongside her mentors and the flexibility of the field of history.

Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones
American studies

Creator of 1619 Project to give Kops Lecture

A&S Communications

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, will give the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture on Sept. 9 at 5 p.m.

students on sidewalk
Provided Members of the Caribbean Students’ Association.
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Caribbean studies finds home at Einaudi Center

Cornell Chronicle

In addition to changing its name, the program – celebrating its 60th year – has renewed and expanded its commitment to the study of the Caribbean cultures, places and people.

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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Scientists harness machine learning to lower solar energy cost

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to use machine learning to accelerate the creation of low-cost materials for solar energy.

Faculty collaboration

Academic Integration efforts lead to $33M in grants

Cornell Chronicle

Bringing researchers together – not only across disciplines but across the 200-plus miles separating Ithaca from New York City – is the aim of academic integration, which promotes, builds and enhances collaborative research across Cornell’s campuses.

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Alumni/student connections

‘Already part of a great community’

A&S Communications

Four career connections events this summer helped students meet alumni for advice as they navigate their journey.

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UR-SDV Flightline at Kabul International Airport
History

Kabul bombings indicate fragile American position in Afghanistan

A&S Communications

Historian David Silbey comments on the situation in Afghanistan; he is the author of “The Other Face of Battle: America's Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat."

A "C" shaped white plume of gas forming a star, with other stars around it.
Credit: ESA/NASA A small young stellar object in the constellation of Perseus.
Astronomy

Students’ satellite mission explores earliest universe

Cornell Chronicle

This new program provides undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with hands-on experience in developing innovative small spacecraft missions in high-priority areas of space science.

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Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Four assistant professors win early-career awards

Cornell Chronicle

Two professors in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology have received Early Career Awards to further their research.

Miriam Shearing
Miriam Shearing '56 served as chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
Alumni accomplishments

Alumna broke ground for women as Nevada Supreme Court Justice

A&S Communications

Miriam Shearing '56 pushed for justice for all litigants, but especially for women, children and people of color in a justice system that is sometimes biased against them.

Psychology

How moviemaking evolved to draw us in

Cornell Chronicle

James Cutting, the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Psychology Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, has a new book, “Movies on Our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement,” published Aug. 24

Lenora Warren
2021 New Faculty

New Faculty: Lenora Warren

A&S Communications

Lenora Warren, Literatures in English

Xinzhu (April) Wei
2021 New Faculty

New Faculty: Xinzhu (April) Wei

A&S Communications

Xinzhu Wei, Computational Biology