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Campus events

Moderna scientist to speak about COVID vaccine development

A&S Communications

Melissa Moore led early-stage research teams developing Moderna’s platform technologies in mRNA design and delivery.

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Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian New observations of WASP-39b with the James Webb Space Telescope have provided a clearer picture of the exoplanet, showing the presence of sodium, potassium, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. This artist's illustration also displays newly detected patches of clouds across the planet.
Astronomy

Webb telescope shows exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

Cornell Chronicle

“This is the first time we see concrete evidence of photochemistry – chemical reactions initialized by energetic stellar light – on exoplanets.”

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University A student uses a VR headset as Jackwin Hui, right, a student technology specialist at CTI who helped to set up and troubleshoot the headsets, looks on.
Classroom innovation

Students visit virtual world to learn research technique

A&S Communications

Students experienced cryo-electron microscopy as part of a collaboration with Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation.

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Student honors

Town-gown awards honor food-related community partnerships

Cornell Chronicle

The awards celebrate cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community.

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Global Grand Challenges

Cornell, global partners discuss the next ‘grand challenge’

Cornell Chronicle

Global Cornell will host a town hall in December for additional feedback and announce the new Global Grand Challenge theme in the coming year.

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Provided Dana Oshiro '24, right, a Laidlaw scholar, spent six weeks working with Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) and VinUniversity on projects to combat adverse childhood events.
Global experiences

Laidlaw scholars at Cornell gain global perspectives

Cornell Chronicle

Four current Laidlaw scholars share their summer research or leadership in action experiences.

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Economics

Economist Tom Davis dies at 93

Cornell Chronicle

Tom E. Davis, professor emeritus of economics, was an expert on economic development in Latin America.

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Physics

Physicist identifies how electron crystals melt

Cornell Chronicle

Eun-Ah Kim and Michael Matty, M.S. ’19, Ph.D. ’22, describe a phase in between the liquid and the solid for electron structures.

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Neuroscience

Goldberg shares research at Russekoff lecture

A&S Communications

The Mitzi Sutton Russekoff ’54 Lecture took place Nov. 15 at the Cornell Club in New York City.

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Jernej Furman, Creative Commons license 2.0 Zero covid policies in China are linked with leader Xi Jinping
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Why protesters are targeting Xi Jinping for China’s ‘zero covid’ failures

The Washington Post

Simmering anger at Beijing’s “zero covid” restrictions exploded over the past few days, writes Jeremy Lee Wallace, associate professor of government, in Washington Post commentary.