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Person standing in front of a huge black & white image of a comet with a rocky surface — Jason Koski/Cornell University Doctoral student Abhinav Jindal, standing in front of a Rosetta mission image of Comet 67P, modeled the evolution of smooth terrain on that frozen world.

Astronomy

Cornell scientists show how terrain evolves on an icy comet

9/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Astronomers have shown how smooth terrains – a good place to land a spacecraft and to scoop up samples – evolve on the icy world of comets.

Luminescent tree-like structure with purple branches and bright green canopy: The lateral habenula in the mouse brain — Warden Lab/Provided The lateral habenula in the mouse brain, with axons streaming down to dopaminergic and serotonergic centers.

Neurobiology and Behavior

Study finds tiny brain area controls work for rewards

8/31/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The discovery has implications for psychiatric disorders, particularly depression and anxiety.

The exoplanet appears as a white disk with a triangle of light emanating from it; the four alternate images at the bottom of the image each appear as different colored blurs — NASA/ESA/CSA and A. Pagan (STScI) This image shows the exoplanet HIP 65426 b in different bands of infrared light, as seen from the James Webb Space Telescope: purple shows the NIRCam instrument’s view at 3.00 micrometers, blue shows the NIRCam instrument’s view at 4.44 micrometers, yellow shows the MIRI instrument’s view at 11.4 micrometers, and red shows the MIRI instrument’s view at 15.5 micrometers. These images look different because of the ways the different Webb instruments capture light.

Astronomy

NASA releases first Webb Telescope image of exoplanet

9/2/2022 A&S Communications

Observation team member Eileen Gonzales, 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow, says this is just the beginning.

man with horses in background — Provided Milo Vella spent time at the Big Pine Paiute Tribal Environmental Department and the Indian Water Commission in Owens Valley, Calif.

Student research & experiences

Student’s research focuses on Indigenous agriculture system

9/6/2022 A&S Communications

The movement involves not only re-establishing heritage foods, but also bolstering the systems that sustain them: irrigation and land access, for instance.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

McMurry makes bestselling chemistry text free in memory of son

9/6/2022 A&S Communications

Starting fall 2023, the 10th edition of McMurry’s Organic Chemistry will be available an open educational resource (OER) through OpenStax.

2022 New Faculty

The College Welcomes New Faculty for 2022-23

9/6/2022 A&S Communications

This year, 15 new faculty are bringing innovative ideas in a wide range of topics to the College of Arts & Sciences’ nexus of discovery and impact, including climate change, astronomy, identity studies and the economy.

Jonathan Miller/Provided Khadija Monis ’24 completed an internship at the Ithaca Doula Access Initiative.

Global Cornell

Afghan students – now Cornellians – look to future

9/6/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Nine Afghan undergraduates from Bangladesh-based Asian University for Women fled their country after the Taliban took control in August 2021, arriving in Ithaca four months later.

Arts Unplugged

Journalists join A&S professors to discuss global impacts of war in Ukraine

9/6/2022 A&S Communications

Ann Simmons, Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, and Mark Landler, London bureau chief for the New York Times, join Professors Peter Katzenstein and Jessica Chen Weiss for the Sept. 22 Arts Unplugged event.

White-haired smiling man with hands clasped in front of his stomach, wearing a blue blazer and dress shirt. — Robert Barker, Cornell University Frank Drake speaks at the 2017 40 Years of Cosmic Discovery: Celebrating the Voyager Missions and Humanity's Message to Space Panel.

In memoriam

Frank Drake ’51, astronomy pioneer, dies at 92

9/7/2022 A&S Communications

“Frank Drake was a pioneer of radio astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence using radio telescopes."

A.D. White Professors

A.D. White Professors are named; fall visits announced

9/6/2022 Cornell Chronicle

An acclaimed historian of the Caribbean and a multidisciplinary professor of the built environment have been appointed the newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large.

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