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Faculty collaboration

Academic Integration efforts lead to $33M in grants

8/30/2021 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.

Alumni/student connections

‘Already part of a great community’

8/30/2021 A&S Communications

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

Planes in a row with snow-covered mountains behind them. — UR-SDV Flightline at Kabul International Airport

History

Kabul bombings indicate fragile American position in Afghanistan

8/27/2021 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

8/26/2021 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.

Glass beakers on a table, one partially filled with liquid — Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Four assistant professors win early-career awards

8/26/2021 Cornell Chronicle

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

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

Alumni accomplishments

Alumna broke ground for women as Nevada Supreme Court Justice

8/25/2021 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

8/24/2021 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