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Huge sign that says "Hollywood" on a Los Angeles hillside
Photo by Nathan DeFiesta on Unsplash
Performing & Media Arts

Groundswell of Black women celebrity activism expected for Harris

A&S Communications

Prof. Samantha Sheppard, chair of performing & media arts, comments on celebrity reaction to Kamala Harris' campaign for president.

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Provided Artist Brandon Lazore is creating a digital mural about climate change in the Kettle Lakes Watershed in collaboration with New York State Water Resources Institute and the Cortland-Onondaga Federation of Kettle Lakes Associations
Performing and Media Arts

Digital murals to dental clinics: Einhorn Center grants support community-based projects

Cornell Chronicle

The Einhorn Center for Community Engagement recently award Engaged Opportunity Grants to 10 university-community project teams. The grants provide up to $5,000 to Cornell faculty and staff to include undergraduate students in community-engaged learning opportunities.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

A touch of gold has extra reach in degrading micropollutants

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell team used a new form of high-resolution optical imaging to better understand how adsorption – the clinging of molecules to surfaces – works on the semiconductor titanium dioxide with a gold particle added as a co-catalyst.

Four people cluster around a painting, laid out on a table
Noël Heaney/Cornell University Ananda Cohen-Aponte, associate professor of history of art and visual studies (center left), discusses a painting with Miguel Barrera ’24 (left), Osiel Aldaba ’26 and Emily Hernandez ’25.
Latin American art

Exhibition highlights once-overlooked colonial Latin American art

Cornell Chronicle

The exhibit brings a nuanced view to a complicated period in Latin American art, and it is doing so with the help of student curators.

Isaac Kramnick
Student scholarships

Kramnick Scholarship Fund tops $1 million mark

A&S Communications

… teaching at Harvard, Brandeis and Yale universities before coming to Cornell. “Professor Kramnick was an amazing … to the Isaac Kramnick First-Generation Memorial Fund,  visit this link. … … Kramnick Scholarship Fund tops $1 …

A planet in space: a smooth orb striped horizontally with gray, blue and yellow hues. A small, dark ball (a moon) the bottom
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Titan, Saturn's largest moon, crosses the rings and the planet.
Astronomy

New analysis of Cassini data yields insights into Titan’s seas

Cornell Chronicle

Using data from precision radar experiments, a Cornell-led research team analyzed and estimated the composition and roughness of sea surfaces on Titan.

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Media studies

Cornell crafts multifaceted game studies program

A&S Communications

The field of game studies is growing at Cornell, including an expanded set of classes, workshops and symposia and a growing library collection of games.

Brett Fors
Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Brett Fors
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Fors receives ACS Young Investigator Award

A&S Communications

The award recognizes two outstanding early career investigators conducting research in any area of fundamental polymer or biopolymer science.

A ring of colors -- red, orange, blues yellow -- around a black interior.
ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/ESO/D. Liu et al. The distant galaxy PJ0116-24, a Hyper Luminous Infrared Galaxy (HyLIRG). Cold gas is seen here in blue; warm gas is shown in red.
Astronomy

Surprising ring sheds light on galaxy formation

A&S Communications

An international research team discovered that the gas in a Hyper Luminous Infrared Galaxy was rotating in an organized fashion, rather than in the chaotic way expected after a galactic collision –– a surprising result.

Five people cluster around an open log full of bees
Credit: Natalia Roa Lopez/Provided Local beekeepers and researchers examine an open log with a Melipona favosa nest during a workshop led by ABC Colombia on how to transfer colonies to artificial hives to facilitate management and honey harvest.
Ecology and Environmental Biology

Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants

Cornell Chronicle

Alison Power, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will study adaptive agricultural landscapes in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Héctor Abruña
Jason Koski/Cornell University Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Abruña receives Global Energy Prize

A&S Communications

Abruña was selected in the “non-traditional energy” category for “foundational contributions spanning electrochemistry, batteries, fuel cells and molecular electronics.”

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Photo by Gabe Pierce on Unsplash
Klarman Fellows

Childcare workers built movement to raise pay, include more families

Cornell Chronicle

In the early 1990s, labor activists responded to the exploitation of waged childcare workers by dissolving the usual labor divisions between workplace and home, according to a new account of the movement by a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow.

Book cover: The Rock of Arles
Alumni

Your July 2024 reads

Cornellians

This month’s feature titles include an ancient guide to romance and “the first book authored by a geological formation,” both by A&S faculty.

Six musicians--a singer, four string players and a pianist--perform on stage
Provided A Chamber Music Collective performance in 2023
Music

Forte/Piano Summer Academy returns to Cornell

A&S Communications

The July 30-Aug. 3 experience for young artists will culminate with a series of concerts, presentations and roundtable discussions featuring distinguished performing artists, teachers and “rising stars."

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Economics

Economist to study collective action with NSF grant

A&S Communications

From organizing a charity event to demonstrating against an authoritarian regime, collective action is one of the most basic and ubiquitous forms of strategic interaction in a society, says Marco Battaglini.