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Annette Richards at the organ
Music

Music department presents organ festival Oct. 20-23

Department of Music

An organ festival on campus will feature the works of the Dutch composer and keyboardist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.

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Campus events

Francis Fukuyama talk launches new series on global crises

Celebrated public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 will be the first speaker in the Center for the Study of Economy & Society’s new fall lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World.”

Swirls of red and white representing a planet's atmosphere
ESO/M. Kornmesser An artist's rendition of a "hot Jupiter."
Astronomy

Spectrum reveals extreme exoplanet is even more exotic

Cornell Chronicle

An international team led by Cornell researchers has discovered ionized calcium on the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet.

Frank Castelli
Postdoctoral scholars

Alumnus/postdoc spotlight: Frank Castelli, Ph.D. ’17

Cornell University Graduate School

Frank Castelli ’05, M.S. ’14, Ph.D. ’17, is a postdoc in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior from Howard Beach, New York.

Lab beakers, one partly filled with liquid
Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Chemistry professor helped catalyze Nobel-winning breakthrough

Cornell Chronicle

A small contribution from chemistry Professor Tristan Lambert when he was a doctoral student helped catalyze the breakthrough in catalysis that led to the 2021 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

husband, wife and baby in a park
Provided Jonathan Weston ”04, pictured with his wife, Holly, and daughter, Lilia, at Panama Rocks park.
Alumni honors

Geologic park manager receives NYS Hometown Alumni Award

Cornell Chronicle

Jonathan Weston ’04, manager of Panama Rocks, a park and geologic site in New York’s Chautauqua County, received the Cornell New York State Hometown Alumni Award Oct. 6 in a virtual ceremony.

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Climate change

Grant to fund conference on climate change in South Asia

A&S Communications

A Cornell-led international team of researchers has received a $65,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for its project, “The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.”

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Classroom innovation

Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom

Cornell Chronicle

This fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods

Kyle Shen
Physics

Engineering novel hybrid superconductors

Cornell Research

The Shen lab leverages unique experimental capabilities to detect and investigate systems in which superconductivity may be fragile or exist only at surfaces or interfaces.

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Office of Undergraduate Biology

Tiny spores full of promise

Cornell Research

Eileen Tzng, an undergraduate in the Pawlowska lab, is intent on understanding the relationship between fungal spores and the bacteria they harbor.