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Ancient stone building in a rocky landscape, seen from above
Provided The 7th-century Armenian church of Vankasar in Azerbaijan. In April, Caucasus Heritage Watch reported a possible threat to the church due to satellite detection of heavy machinery in the area.
Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies

Satellite monitoring documents cultural heritage at risk

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers are using satellite imagery to protect endangered and damaged cultural heritage in the South Caucasus, where an ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has raged for decades.

Physics

Machine learning tool sorts the nuances of quantum data

Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell and Harvard University researchers developed a machine learning tool to parse quantum matter and make crucial distinctions in the data, an approach that will help scientists unravel the most confounding phenomena in the subatomic realm.

Physics

Hawking’s black hole theorem observationally confirmed

Cornell Chronicle

Saul Teukolsky and other physicists at Cornell, MIT and elsewhere have confirmed Hawking's area theorem for the first time, using observations of gravitational waves.

Literatures in English

July Fourth and early Black Americans: It’s complicated

Cornell Chronicle

Black people in early America used July Fourth to argue that they should be freed from enslavement and had as much right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as white people.

Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Peter Enns Named Director of Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Peter K. Enns, professor in the Brooks School of Public Policy and in the Department of Government, has been named the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences. Enns’ three-year appointment began July 1.

Sustainability

New faculty directors to support research and training at Cornell Atkinson

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Atkinson welcomes new faculty directors to advance research efforts, strengthen cross-college collaborations, and guide development of new programs.

Economics

Report: Ithaca economy shouldn’t return to business as usual

Cornell Chronicle

Economist Michèle Belot and the ILR School’s Ithaca Co-Lab recommend workforce strategies to reduce racial disparities, remove barriers to work and prioritize living-wage jobs.

Poetry

A&S poet wins 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize

Cornell Chronicle

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of literatures in English, won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize in the international category for her 2020 book, “Music for the Dead and Resurrected.”

Linguistics

Student Spotlight: Charlotte Logan

Cornell University Graduate School

Charlotte Logan is a doctoral student in linguistics from Syracuse, New York. She chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to its location in the Haudenosaunee homelands and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program.

Government

The Kremlin has a new toolkit for shutting down independent news media

Washington Post

Bryn Rosenfeld, assistant professor of government, writes in an op-ed in the Washington Post that the Russian government is making operations difficult for independent media outlets – even those that don’t criticize the Kremlin.

Diversity

Lewis, Michener honored for diversity contributions

Cornell Chronicle

Jamila Michener, associate professor of government, and Mark E. Lewis, director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, are the recipients of this year’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.

Psychology

Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact

The Conversation

Why is the Danish language so complicated? Morten Christiansen explains in an op-ed in The Conversation.

History of Art and Visual Studies

A fragmented France depicted on dessert plates

Cornell Chronicle

In a new essay, Kelly Presutti describes the ultimate failure of a set of Sèvres porcelain dessert plates, 1824-32, to represent all of France.

Physics

Electron-pair discovery advances field of quantum materials

Cornell Chronicle

Physicist Séamus Davis and his team have found an exotic state of quantum matter.

Economics

Kaushik Basu receives Humboldt Research Award

Cornell Chronicle

Basu plans to use the Humboldt Research Award for economics to work on moral philosophy and game theory, and on law and economics.