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woman in front of a staircase — Provided Kamillah Knight ’13, MPA ’15, MBA ’22

Alumni support

Two A&S alums honored for volunteer efforts

2/6/2023 A&S Communications

The two are among five winners of the inaugural Robert S. Harrison ’76 Recent Alumni Volunteer Awards.

man standing outside stone wall — Provided Akimasa Ihara

Student research

Student wins fellowship to continue quantum computing education

2/6/2023 A&S Communications

“This program focuses on the social good that can come from interactions between science and policy."

Person waits for a COVID test while people wearing medical gear hurry by — Jason Koski/Cornell University Coronavirus testing site at Fischell Band Center in 2020

Public Health

Lessons learned from pandemic successes and failures: a conversation Feb. 20

2/7/2023 A&S Communications

What have we learned about the successes and failures of the policy responses to Covid‑19?

Can you hear my voice?

A day-long conference on April 5, “Can You Hear My Voice: The Impact of Untapped Marginalized Groups in the Talent Management Space,” will offer creative, actionable ideas for anyone who makes hiring decisions or who has an interest in creating a more inclusive workforce. A day-long conference on April 5, “Can You Hear My Voice: The Impact of Untapped Marginalized Groups in the Talent Management Space,” will offer creative, actionable ideas for anyone who makes hiring decisions or who has an interest in creating a more inclusive workforce.

A boy seated on stone steps, dressed in shorts and a white shirt. Black and white historical image — Provided Isaac Kramnick at a sanatorium where he was treated for rheumatic fever.

Alumni magazine

In a Posthumous Memoir, Famed Prof Recalls a Turbulent Childhood

2/7/2023 Cornellians

Long before Isaac Kramnick joined the Cornell faculty, he was a foster child from a family grappling with poverty and mental illness.

A police vehicle at night, red and blue lights reflecting off wet pavement

Government

Reforming police culture across nation a ‘shared responsibility’

2/8/2023 A&S Communications

Professor Joseph Margulies says that while President Biden was right to call for police accountability in the State of the Union address, we all share responsibility for police culture.

Dry landscape featuring a hill and partly cloudy sky — John Marston The researchers scrutinized tree ring samples recovered from the Midas Mound Tumulus at Gordion, a human-made 53-meter-tall structure located west of Ankara, Turkey.

Archaeology

Rare drought coincided with Hittite Empire collapse

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary collaboration used tree ring and isotope records to pinpoint a likely culprit: three straight years of severe drought in an already dry period.

Sociology

Same-race reviews reduce inequality in Airbnb bookings

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

White guests favor Airbnb properties with white hosts, but are more inclined to rent from Black or Asian hosts if they see featured reviews from previous white guests, Cornell research finds.

Two images of boggy land; people digging in it — Nuria Rodríguez/Provided Fieldwork and sampling in Tirez lagoon, central Spain, when the lagoon was still active (left) and after drought and desiccation, with only salt crusts remaining (right).

Astronomy

Spanish lagoon proposed as Mars ‘astrobiological time-analog’

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Alberto G. Fairén led an inaugural study of a dynamic analogous Earth environment where changes can be analyzed over many years.

A diagram of green lines making a path among blue and red lines — Sunghoon Kim As the experimentalists changed the electric field, it is likely that different parts of the material underwent the metal-to-insulator transition at different values of the electric field because of a small number of inherent imperfections. Consequently, the flowing electrons must find a path through these “islands” of insulating regions, embedded in a “sea” of metal.

Solving Quantum Mysteries

Being able to control how metals become insulators – and vice versa -- could lead to new complex microscopic circuits, superconductors and exotic insulators that could find use in quantum computing. A&S physicists are exploring this mysterious kind of phase transition, discovering new ways to reconcile experiment and theory.

Elusive transition shows universal quantum signatures