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Ngoc Truong sitting on a rock in front of a lake and a mountain with glacier — Ngoc Truong

Astronomy

Student Spotlight: Ngoc Truong

9/15/2021 Cornell University Graduate School

Ngoc Truong chose to study at Cornell because of its tradition of faculty/staff/student involvement with spacecraft missions and its many notable planetary scientists and astrophysicists such as Carl Sagan and Edwin Salpeter.

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Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Natalie Wolchover named A&S Zubrow Visiting Journalist for Spring 2022

9/17/2021 A&S Communications

The program brings accomplished journalists to Cornell each year to interact with faculty, researchers and students.

A slice of pizza being lifted up with cheese falling from it — Photo by Nicolás Perondi on Unsplash

American Studies

Market grows for environmentally friendly dairy alternatives

9/17/2021 A&S Communications

“Plant-based and cultivated (or “lab-grown”) alternatives to animal products have moved well beyond the vegetarian aisle. "

Public Policy

Decades in making, public policy school now a reality

9/17/2021 Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy creates a home for policy-oriented faculty to study and teach, and for students to learn, about effective, thoughtful policymaking, analysis and management.

Houses of Kabul — Photo by Sohaib Ghyasi on Unsplash Kabul, Afghanistan

International

Cornell informs, takes action on Afghanistan

9/16/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A&S faculty moderated two panels on Afghanistan hosted by Global Cornell.

man at microscope — Schuster worked in the Kotlikoff lab as an undergrad.

Student outcomes

‘More inspired than ever:’ Cornell students start their journeys in law, med school

9/20/2021 A&S Communications

Cornell students successfully navigated the application process despite the COVID-19 pandemic and are headed to some of the country’s top professional schools this fall.

whale coming out of water — Provided Cornell will host “The Whale Listening Project,” Sept. 23-26, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59.

Music

Project celebrates the beauty of humpback whale songs

9/20/2021 Cornell Chronicle

“The Whale Listening Project,” which runs Sept. 23-26, is a four-day immersion in the beauty of whale song and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59, a retired research associate with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program.

person in lab — Provided Cornell doctoral student Ryan Porter prepares an superconducting radio-frequency cavity made from the element Nb3Sn in the clean room of Newman Lab.

Center for Bright Beams

Center for Bright Beams awarded $22M in grant renewal

9/20/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration of researchers led by Cornell has been awarded $22.5 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue gaining the fundamental understanding needed to transform the brightness of electron beams available to science, medicine and industry.

Literatures in English

Book explores connections of Alaska’s Native and Asian peoples

9/21/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Juliana Hu Pegues often heard stories of Asian immigrants as she was growing up, but they never made it into the history books.

Physics

New technique boosts cryo-electron microscopy clarity, safety

9/21/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A new study published Sept. 7 in the journal of the International Union of Crystallography demonstrates that cryo-EM samples can be prepared with a safer and less expensive coolant – liquid nitrogen – and these samples can produce even sharper images than those prepared with ethane.

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