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Drone flying in the air with mountains in the background — Photo by Alessio Soggetti on Unsplash

Government

What happens now to U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan?

9/21/2021 The Washington Post

Sarah Kreps, professor of government, writes in this Washington Post piece that a lack of accountability for civilian casualties in drone strikes isn’t likely to change.

Literatures in English

Book explores connections of Alaska’s Native and Asian peoples

9/21/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Juliana Hu Pegues often heard stories of Asian immigrants as she was growing up, but they never made it into the history books.

Physics

New technique boosts cryo-electron microscopy clarity, safety

9/21/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A new study published Sept. 7 in the journal of the International Union of Crystallography demonstrates that cryo-EM samples can be prepared with a safer and less expensive coolant – liquid nitrogen – and these samples can produce even sharper images than those prepared with ethane.

person in lab — Provided Cornell doctoral student Ryan Porter prepares an superconducting radio-frequency cavity made from the element Nb3Sn in the clean room of Newman Lab.

Center for Bright Beams

Center for Bright Beams awarded $22M in grant renewal

9/20/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration of researchers led by Cornell has been awarded $22.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue gaining the fundamental understanding needed to transform the brightness of electron beams available to science, medicine and industry.

whale coming out of water — Provided Cornell will host “The Whale Listening Project,” Sept. 23-26, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59.

Music

Project celebrates the beauty of humpback whale songs

9/20/2021 Cornell Chronicle

“The Whale Listening Project,” which runs Sept. 23-26, is a four-day immersion in the beauty of whale song and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59, a retired research associate with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program.

man at microscope — Schuster worked in the Kotlikoff lab as an undergrad.

Student outcomes

‘More inspired than ever:’ Cornell students start their journeys in law, med school

9/20/2021 A&S Communications

Cornell students successfully navigated the application process despite the COVID-19 pandemic and are headed to some of the country’s top professional schools this fall.

Houses of Kabul — Photo by Sohaib Ghyasi on Unsplash Kabul, Afghanistan

International

Cornell informs, takes action on Afghanistan

9/16/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A&S faculty moderated two panels on Afghanistan hosted by Global Cornell.

Public Policy

Decades in making, public policy school now a reality

9/17/2021 Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy creates a home for policy-oriented faculty to study and teach, and for students to learn, about effective, thoughtful policymaking, analysis and management.

A slice of pizza being lifted up with cheese falling from it — Photo by Nicolás Perondi on Unsplash

American Studies

Market grows for environmentally friendly dairy alternatives

9/17/2021 A&S Communications

“Plant-based and cultivated (or “lab-grown”) alternatives to animal products have moved well beyond the vegetarian aisle. "

Provided Natalie Wolchover

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Natalie Wolchover named A&S Zubrow Visiting Journalist for Spring 2022

9/17/2021 A&S Communications

The program brings accomplished journalists to Cornell each year to interact with faculty, researchers and students.

Ngoc Truong sitting on a rock in front of a lake and a mountain with glacier — Ngoc Truong

Astronomy

Student Spotlight: Ngoc Truong

9/15/2021 Cornell University Graduate School

Ngoc Truong chose to study at Cornell because of its tradition of faculty/staff/student involvement with spacecraft missions and its many notable planetary scientists and astrophysicists such as Carl Sagan and Edwin Salpeter.

Colored three-dimensional scan of the hands and footprints — Researchers discovered what is possibly the world's oldest artwork, rendered here in a three-dimensional scan, on a rocky promontory at Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau in 2018.

Archaeology

Hand and footprint art dates to mid-Ice Age

9/14/2021 Cornell Chronicle

To answer whether this could be the oldest art ever found, the team turned to A&S research scientist Thomas Urban.

St. James AME Zion Church — Provided St. James A.M.E. Zion Church is believed to be the oldest religious structure in Ithaca and one of the first A.M.E. Zion churches in the country.

Rural Humanities

Excavation to explore church’s role in Underground Railroad

9/13/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A multidisciplinary team of Cornell students and faculty and local schoolchildren began an archeological dig Sept. 18 at St. James AME Zion church in Ithaca.

Beams of light memorializing the Twin Towers with the Manhattan skyline below. — Photo by Lerone Pieters on Unsplash

Government

What 9/11 taught us about the president, Congress and who makes war and peace

9/11/2021 The Washington Post

In this op-ed, Prof. Douglas Kriner reflects on the lessons learned about war powers in the U.S. since 9/11.

A woman standing with her fist upraised at a protest at the White House — Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

History

Should hatemongers and extremists have free speech rights? Cornell lecture

9/13/2021 Department of History

Hate speech is increasingly discouraged, even banned, by many institutions and media platforms. But allowing open forums for all speech -- including hate speech -- is essential to democracy.

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