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Psychology

Babies learn power of voice through experimentation

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have found that babies learn their prelinguistic vocalizations – coos, grunts and vowel sounds – change the behaviors of other people, a key building block of communication.

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Provided Molly Ryan will be the new director of Cornell Cinema
Cornell Cinema

Celluloid recollections: Cornell Cinema names new director

A&S Communications

A new director, Molly Ryan, will take the helm of Cornell Cinema this fall, succeeding Mary Fessenden, who has led the organization for 35 years, eight years as 8 manager and 27 as director.

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Chris Kitchen Christian Gaetz, Klarman Fellow in mathematics
Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow achieves ‘beautiful results’ with outstanding math problems

A&S Communications

Christian Gaetz uses his specific focus in mathematics – algebraic combinatorics – to make exciting progress on open problems.

Poster: Communicating Mathematics
Mathematics

Talking numbers: Cornell hosts math communication workshop

A&S Communications

August 8-11, mathematics researchers and college-level teachers will discuss what it takes to communicate effectively among mathematicians, to students, and to the public.

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Ann Simmons
Distinguished Visiting Journalist

WSJ Moscow Bureau Chief named A&S Zubrow Visiting Journalist for fall 2022

Cornell Chronicle

“We’re privileged to host Ann Simmons on campus at this time of global turmoil to share her deep insights with the Cornell community,” said Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.

Stephan's Quntet
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI In this image of Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope, sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth are revealed. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster.
Cosmic Exploration

Cornell astronomers cheer new space telescope’s first images

Arts & Sciences Communications

Faculty respond to the release of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Religion

Desert sounds offer lessons in solitude and community

Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, Kim Haines-Eitzen explores the rich range of desert sounds and what they can teach us about place, the past, solitude and community.

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Sofija Palurović Romanian pianist Aurelia Visovan, one of the 12 artists participating in the Forte/Piano Summer Academy.
Historical Keyboard Collection

Center for Historical Keyboards summer academy hosts 12 young piano stars

A&S Communications

Young artists from around the world will be immersed in one of the world’s most significant collections of performance-ready historical pianos, with performances open to the public August 1-6.

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History in HD/Unsplash A campaign rally
Government

Will Biden and Trump face off again in 2024?

The Washington Post

In Washington Post commentary, Roper Center director Peter K. Enns bucks conventional polling by asking Americans to name who they would like to see on the ticket, a technique that has proved remarkably accurate.

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Provided Postdoctoral researcher Rui Zou (right) is supported by a new NSF grant to Cornell researchers working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). With CLASSE engineer Charlie Strohman, she is working on the Apollo ATCA card, a device for the trigger track project that is part of Cornell-based upgrades to LHC’s Compact Muon Solenoid detector.
Particle physics

$3.8M NSF grant begins a new era of early universe research

Cornell Chronicle

The grant from the National Science Foundation will support a team of Cornell physicists who smash matter into its component parts to learn about elementary particles and their interactions.