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Pedro Molina
Einaudi Center

Nicaraguan cartoonist finds refuge at Einaudi Center

Cornell Chronicle

Pedro X. Molina is now an APF fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Jupiter with bands of swirling color and a red spot at top of sphere.
NASA/JPL An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, upper right, and the planet's swirling surface, was taken by the Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2020.
Astronomy

Juno craft provides first 3D view of Jupiter’s deep storms

Cornell Chronicle

“This answers questions that scientists have asked for 200 years," said co-author Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy.

two people reading magazines
Provided Marylynn Salmon, right, staged this photo as a joke with a male friend in 1972, to highlight their very different reading materials.
Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

‘Still a long way to go:’ Looking back on the start of women’s studies at Cornell

A&S Communications

As Cornell's women's studies program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – along with the 30th anniversary of the LGBT studies program – faculty and alumni from the early days of the program are remembering the barriers they hurdled, as well as the support they received, as they sought to establish the program in 1972.

Image of blue lines representing data
Science and Technology Studies

Big data can render some as ‘low-resolution citizens’

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers used India’s biometrics-based individual identification system to examine how the system works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.

Ethiopia is highlighted in green on a map of the African continent.
Groubani at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons Ethiopia highlighted on map of African continent.
Government

Mass atrocities in Ethiopia could get worse as federal state loses ground

A&S Communications

Political scientist Oumar Ba comments on the escalation of the yearlong war in Ethiopia.

Princess Mako
History

Princess Mako of Japan's commoner wedding suggests sexism will doom the royal family

Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, writes in this piece that legal reforms initiated under U.S. military occupation after World War II shut the door to Japan's Princess Mako and other imperial women’s claims to lifelong royalty.

A multi-colored image of the Crab Nebula
NASA Goddard Crab Nebula
Astronomy

Cornell faculty contribute to Astro2020 decadal survey

A&S Communications

A quarter of the faculty from the Department of Astronomy participated in the newly released decadal survey sponsored by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Air Force.

Morrison's son film poster
Celebrating Toni Morrison

Morrison’s son visits campus for film screening

A&S Communications

The son of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, will visit campus Nov. 9 for a film screening and discussion of “The Foreigner’s Home,” a documentary based on Morrison’s monthlong guest-curated 2006 series of cultural events at the Louvre.

Margaret Bonds
Music

ONEcomposer returns for second season

A&S Communications

ONEComposer returns for a second season honoring Margaret Bonds.

Daniel Ralph
Physics

Physics professor wins American Physical Society prize

A&S Communications

Professor Dan Ralph was awarded the McGroddy Award by APS.