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Physics

Ultrashort cell-free DNA reveals health of organ transplants

Cornell Chronicle

When cells die, whether through apoptosis or necrosis, the DNA and other molecules found in those cells don’t just disappear. They wind up in the blood stream, where degraded bits and pieces can be extracted.

Image of Titan's surface
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Hydrogen cyanide on Titan key to possible prebiotic conditions

Cornell Chronicle

NASA’s Cassini and Huygen’s missions have provided a wealth of data about chemical elements found on Saturn’s moon Titan, and Cornell scientists have uncovered a chemical trail that suggests prebiotic conditions may exist there.

Summer Service Trip

Education key to ending sex trafficking, student says

A&S Communications

Sofia Aumann ’19 could have felt completely overwhelmed as a high school freshman when she uncovered the complicated issues behind human sex trafficking as she worked on a research project.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Active learning class achieves higher student engagement

A&S Communications

In the class Introduction to Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, it’s not uncommon for the professor to don colorful props as students vote electronically on which ones would make her the most attractive bird to potential mates.The point?“That got a lot of laughs, but I’m sure no one in the audience will forget about sexual selection anytime soon,” said Justin Zhu ’17, a biology major concentrating in molecular biology.

Anthropology

Classes re-create Nazca Lines on Arts Quad

Department of Anthropology

Uthara Suvrathan, a visitng Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Materials Studies, recently led her class (ARKEO/ANTHRO 2140, "Fantastic Frauds and Myths in Archaeology") in a Nazca Lines activity on the Arts Quad.  The Nazca Lines are ancient, gigantic (several are over 300m long) geoglyphs drawn on a desert in Peru. 

Juno Mission

Jupiter's mysteries to be revealed starting July 4

A&S Communications

On July 4, the veil over Jupiter’s mysteries will be ripped away with the arrival of NASA’s Juno mission, and Jonathan Lunine will be there to watch it happen.Like cosmic archaeologists, astronomers will use Juno’s instruments to understand what went into the icy planetesimals that Jupiter swept up after it formed.

Astronomy

Kaltenegger named inaugural recipient of Barrie Jones Award

A&S Communications

Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy and director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute, has been name the inaugural recipient of the Barrie Jones Award by The Open University (OU), United Kingdom, and the Astrobiology Society of Britain (ASB). The award will be presented in a ceremony on July 7 at the OU campus.

Physics

Graphene used as a frequency mixer in Cornell-led research

Cornell Chronicle

A professor, a postdoctoral researcher and a graduate student hop onto a trampoline.

Hening Lin
Chemistry

Mutant enzyme study aids in understanding of sirtuin's functions

Cornell Chronicle

The enzyme sirtuin 6, or SIRT6, serves many key biological functions in regulating genome stability, DNA repair, metabolism and longevity, but how its multiple enzyme activities relate to its various functions is poorly understood.

Honors

Prof. Chip Aquadro receives honorary degree

Arts & Sciences Communications

Forty-one years after graduating, on May 22 Charles ("Chip") Aquadro was presented with an honorary Doctor of Science degree from St. Lawrence University, his alma mater, in recognition of his achievements in science. 

Faculty Grants

College triples Humanities Faculty Research and Travel Grants

Arts & Sciences Communications

Humanities faculty can use funding to bring a speaker to campus, attend a conference or purchase books or other items.

Government

Interning at Federal Court

A&S Communications

Chistopher Arce '19 is spending his summer interning at the U.S. Federal Court.

Comparative literature

Advising dean, professor collaborate on translation

A&S Communications

Although Jonathan Culler’s “Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction” has been translated into 22 languages including Tamil and Macedonian, a French version had never been available.

Sociology

Mixed-income neighborhoods face steady decline

Cornell Chronicle

America has been talking about racial segregation and its effects for decades. Now another kind of separation is grinding away at America’s neighborhoods: income segregation, where people are separated by their wealth, or lack of it.

In Memoriam

Renaissance scholar Carol Kaske dies at 83

Cornell Chronicle

Professor Emerita of English Carol V. Kaske, who taught at Cornell for 40 years, died June 15 at Cayuga Medical Center. She was 83.A respected and influential scholar, she specialized in English literature of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. She first taught at Cornell in 1963, was named a full professor in 1992 and retired in 2003.