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Artist’s Impression of WASP-121b
Astronomy

Hubble Uncovers 'Heavy Metal' Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football

A&S Communications

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed magnesium and iron gas streaming from a strange, football-shaped world outside our solar system known as WASP-121b. The Hubble observations represent the first time that so-called "heavy metals"—elements heavier than hydrogen and helium—have been spotted escaping from a hot Jupiter, a large, gaseous exoplanet very close to it star.

Chemistry & chemical biology

Baskin wins young investigator award for lipid research

Cornell Chronicle

When chemical biologist Jeremy Baskin played piano as a child, his parents noticed something unusual: He loved to improvise.

Mathematics

The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet

The New York Times

Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz, author most recently of "Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe," explains the latest mathematical Twitter upset in a New York Times op-ed.

Physics

Two on A&S faculty awarded DOE early career grants

Cornell Chronicle

Two College of Arts & Sciences faculty members were awarded grants by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science Early Career Research Program. Jared Maxson, Ph.D. ’15 and Brad Ramshaw, both assistant professors of physics, will receive at least $750,000 over five years to support their scientific endeavors.

Mathematics

Geometric Cut-and-Paste Problems

Cornell Research

A common approach to problem-solving is to split a problem into smaller sub-problems, solve each of the smaller problems, and assemble the answers into a solution to the original problem. This last step is often very difficult, as there are multiple ways of gluing the pieces of the solution together. The mathematical area of K-theory studies the different ways of putting such solutions back together, as well as the relations behind differently-assembled pieces. 

Warrior Scholars

Warrior-Scholar Project helps veterans adapt to demands of the classroom

Cornell Chronicle

Thirteen students came to campus July 20-28 for The Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP), an immersive college preparation experience for current and former enlisted service members.

Student entrepreneurs

Incubator helps students move businesses forward during summer

A&S Communications

Student business leaders gathered for pitch practice and feedback, then worked on their own at various locations across campus.

Astronomy

TESS satellite uncovers its ‘first nearby super-Earth’

Cornell Chronicle

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system – and an international team of astronomers has characterized the super-Earth, about 31 light-years away.

Physics

Physicist offers a new take on 160 year old math problem

The Riemann hypothesis -- an unsolved problem in pure mathematics – is one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, with a $1 million prize to the person who solves it.  But that’s not why it fascinates mathematical physicist Andre’ LeClair, for whom this is perhaps the most important open question in mathematics. 

Government

Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise.

The Washington Post

Political scientists Peter Enns and Jonathon P. Schuldt explain in this Washington Post op-ed that although President Trump believes race-baiting will help him gain a second term, their data suggests this approach won't work. 

First-generation students

A&S Summer Scholars get first introduction to campus

A&S Communications

“It will be a whole new thing living on my own."

Innovation in teaching

Study addresses low female participation in STEM classrooms

A&S Communications

Increasing class size has the largest negative impact on female participation in these fields.

Performing & Media Arts

Theatre alumna debuts as director with DC movie, ‘The Kitchen’

A&S Communications

Andrea Berloff '95 is scheduled to be on campus for a Nov. 15 screening at Cornell Cinema.

Student experiences

Six A&S students work around the world at State Department offices

A&S Communications

Students worked in State Department offices as far away as Tanzania and Spain.

Astronomy

Astronomy professor receives Bruce Medal for career’s work

Cornell Chronicle

Martha P. Haynes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded the 2019 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.