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AI-generated replica of a Renaissance painting
Science and the humanities

Conference considers the Art & Science of Thinking Oct. 21-22

A&S Communications

“We want to open a robust dialogue between humanists and scientists around the very notion of ‘thought’ and ‘thinking,."

Seamus Davis
Physics

Prestigious Buckley Prize awarded to physicist J.C. Séamus Davis

A&S Communications

Quantum microscopes based on Davis designs have galvanized quantum materials visualization studies globally.

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Society for the Humanities

Conference explores the theme of “Repair” from multiple humanities disciplines

A&S Communications

Friday’s concluding keynote will be delivered by Jonathan Flatley, a scholar of literature and the relationship between politics and aesthetics .

artist drawing of Jupiter's moon Europa
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Citizen scientists Kevin M. Gill and Fernando Garcia Navarro created this colorful, highly artistic view of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, taken from JunoCam on the Juno mission’s close flyby Sept. 29. JPL/NASA released this image on Oct. 6.
Astronomy

Juno’s new views heighten Europa Clipper excitement

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists believe Europa’s global ocean contains more than twice as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined and may be suitable for life.

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Provided The members of the Flying Words Project
American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) Literature Series features ASL Poets/Storytellers

A&S Communications

Six American Sign Language (ASL) poets and storytellers will visit Cornell between Oct. 12 and Nov. 28, in conjunction with this semester’s ASL Literature course.

Sandeep Parmar
Sandeep Parmar
Creative Writing Program

Sandeep Parmar, Zalaznick Distinguished Visiting Writer, to read Oct. 20

A&S Communications

This year’s Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading will include a conversation with poet Valzhyna Mort, associate professor of literatures in English.

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Performing and media arts

Indigenous dance troupe show focuses on residential schools

Department of Performing & Media Arts

The internationally-renowned Indigenous Canadian Kaha:wi Dance Theatre will perform their poignant "The Mush Hole" at Cornell on Friday, Oct. 28.

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Provided The Plunge co-hosts (l-r) Chi-Min (Mimi) Ho, Liz Kellogg and Mike Cianfrocco
Molecular Biology and Genetics

New podcast explores imaging technique cryo-EM

A&S Communications

Co-host Liz Kellogg, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics: "In every interview, we heard stories that we hadn’t expected and learned something new about each other and about the field."

Book cover: Pandemic Politics
Government

Book: Partisanship led to disastrous response to COVID-19

Cornell Chronicle

Survey data shows how the Trump administration’s partisan response led ordinary citizens to prioritize what was good for their “team” rather than what was good for their country.

Two squares: on the left, large squares of black, purple and green. On the right, much higher resolution
Provided View of a cell before (left) and after lipid expansion microscopy is applied, showing details of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), an organelle involved in cell membrane processes.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Lipid expansion microscopy uses the ‘power of click chemistry’

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered a way to apply expansion microscopy, which expands cell components to make them more visible, to lipids using click chemistry, recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.