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Physics

Lessons from arXiv’s 30 years of information sharing

Nature Reviews

Physics Prof. Paul Ginsparg, founder of arXiv, examines the impact of online preprints and what we can learn from academic experience about sharing information.

Music

Sierra symphony highlights Caribbean culture

Cornell Chronicle

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will launch its 2021-22 season on Oct. 14 with the world premiere of “Symphony No. 6,” composed by Roberto Sierra, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Student experiences

History, music, physics harmonize in keyboard project

A&S Communications

Elizaveta Zabelina '24 is spending the summer helping to photograph and regulate the 17 historical pianos, harpsichords and clavichords in the collection of the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.

Ekaterina Landgren, long blonde hair and glasses with a blue shirt, smiling
Ekaterina Landgren
Mathematics

Student Spotlight: Ekaterina Landgren

Cornell University Graduate School

Ekaterina Landgren is a doctoral candidate in applied mathematics from Moscow, Russia.

Kaushik Basu wearing a tweed jacket with hand upraised as he delivers a talk.
Cornell University File Photo Kaushik Basu at a 2016 Chats in the Stacks talk about his book “An Economist in the Real World.”
Economics

Dear diary: Basu shares notes from policymaking’s front lines

Cornell Chronicle

Prof. Kaushik Basu's new book recounts his experiences in government, as India's chief economist and as senior vice president at the World Bank.

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Awards

Student Awards 2021-2022 TK

A&S Communications

… Teaching Assistant Award went to Andrea Roeser for BioNB 2220 Neurobiology and Behavior II: Introduction to Neuroscience, BioNB 4910 Principles of Neurophysiology, and BioNB 1220 Freshman Writing Seminar. DEPARTMENT OF …

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Sociology

Religious have fewer children in secular countries

Cornell Chronicle

The study reveals that “societal secularism” is a better predictor of fertility rates than surveys of individuals’ religiosity or secularism.

Performing & Media Arts

Book explores historical queerness of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

Cornell Chronicle

“What’s really interesting about the space and these artists is that there is a queerness that has always been at the cafe, but that has never been used to frame the space.”

Physics

Chaotic electrons heed ‘limit’ in strange metals

Cornell Chronicle

"We are finally unlocking the enigma behind the intense motions of electrons in strange metals.”

Reflections of Mars' South Pole
ESA/Mars Express Mars’ south pole – which looks like creamy swirls in cappuccino – is an icy cap with carbon dioxide and other geologic traits. About a mile below the cap is smectite, a hydrated version of clay.
Astronomy

Mars’ bright south pole reflections may be clay – not water

Cornell Chronicle

“Those bright reflections have been big news over the last few years because they were initially interpreted as liquid water below the ice.”

Astronomy

Lai and Mish win initial graduate, professional teaching prize

Cornell Chronicle

Dong Lai, M.S. ’91, Ph.D. ’94, professor of astronomy, has won Cornell’s inaugural Provost Award for Teaching Excellence in Graduate and Professional Degree Programs.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Literatures in English

From Kenya to Cornell, writer Mukoma ranges across genres

Cornell Chronicle

Mukoma Wa Ngugi channeled his fascination with Ethiopian "Tizita" songs into his fourth novel, “Unbury Our Dead With Song,” which will be published Sept. 21.

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Government

Vaccine acceptance higher in developing nations than U.S.

Cornell Chronicle

The study provides one of the first insights into vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in a broad selection of low- and middle-income countries, covering more than 20,000 survey respondents.

Wedding bouquet and rings
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Sociology

Choose wisely: Spouses consolidate resources in families

Cornell Chronicle

In consolidating multiple types of resources, married partners deal themselves and their children better hands with long-term payoffs, but the process may amplify inequality across generations.

Image of hundreds of microscopic proteins shaped like cylinders
Kellogg Lab provided A cryo-electron microscopy image of TnsC filaments.
Molecular Biology & Genetics

Advanced microscopy shines light on new CRISPR-Cas system

Cornell Chronicle

The CRISPR-Cas system holds promise for developing an improved gene editing tool.