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Acclaimed Horror Writer Forges Bright Paths Through Dark Worlds

12/23/2022 Cornellians

Novelist Victor LaValle ’94, BA ’95, has recently expanded his eerie narrative voice into Marvel Comics—and Apple TV.

woman playing guitar — Simon Wheeler Milstein student Pareesay Afzal '24 performs an original song at the Salon.

Student experiences

Creativity flourishes at student-run Milstein Salon

1/3/2023 Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

The event featured a cello ensemble, a fashion shoot spread and a series of poetry and prose readings.

A white box with a lense on the right end with complex equipment on the underside; a sensor bound for Mars — Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image, taken in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on July 23, 2019, shows a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument (its lens is in the large circular opening).

Astronomy

Perseverance rover records sound of dust devils on Mars

1/4/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Thanks to the first working microphone to traverse the surface of Mars, the sound of a tiny, extraterrestrial dust tornado has reached Earth.

Drawing from an 18th century newspaper of a person in a tree

Humanities

Mellon grants $1M to deepen and improve Freedom on the Move

1/5/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell is partnering with multiple institutions to foster a research community around a growing collection of “runaway slave” advertisements published in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Physics

Cornell to lead new semiconductor research center

1/5/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Dan Ralph, Ph.D. ’93, the F.R. Newman Professor of Physics, is among the center’s 25 principal investigators.

golden spheres connected by dark lines — Alex Shuper/Unsplash

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Electrochemistry converts carbon to useful molecules

1/5/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists discovered they could produce two products used in medicinal chemistry by changing the electrochemical reactor.

Book cover: Revolution — Traverso's award-winning book, English translation

Romance Studies

Traverso wins Italian literature award for nonfiction

1/11/2023 A&S Communications

“Rivoluzione 1789-1989” has also been published in English, French and Spanish, with translations to follow in German, Portuguese, Greek, Korean and other languages.

Alex McAlvay/New York Botanical Garden A farmer holds multiple varieties of wheat and barley from his field in Kutabir District, Amhara, Ethiopia.

Climate

Ancient farming strategy holds promise for climate resilience

1/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A paper by Cornell researchers suggests maslins have the unique capacity to adapt in real time to extreme weather.

Four people stand in front of a building, wearing dress coats and hats — Provided by the family of Dr. Edward Hart Martin Luther King Jr. and colleagues stand outside Anabel Taylor Hall on Nov. 13, 1960, during King’s first visit to Ithaca. Left to right: Kenneth Hagood ’60, a Cornell student organizer; Martin Luther King Jr.; the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a co-founder with King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Dr. Edward Hart, an Ithaca ophthalmologist and chair of the Cornell Committee Against Segregation.

Africana Studies and Research Center

MLK's 1960s visits to Cornell still resonate today

1/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

King’s historic visit on Nov. 13, 1960, and a second, on April 14, 1961, came during a period when he was honing ideas that would take center stage at the March on Washington in 1963

Person wearing a suit, sitting at a piano with a colorful painting in the background — Lindsay France/Cornell University Composer Roberto Sierra, at home

Music

New work by Prof. Roberto Sierra featured in Jan. 29 concert

1/17/2023 A&S Communications

The Sierra Duo – John Haines-Eitzen, cello, and Matthew Bengtson, piano – will Sierra’s “Cuatro Piezas para cello y piano” and other pieces Jan. 29.

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