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Chemistry

ACS honors student, faculty in chemistry

A&S Communications

Professor Geoffery Coates, Assistant Professor Yimon Aye and student Shivansh Chawla ’17, who works in Aye’s lab in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, were all recently honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) with 2016 awards.

Astronomy

Surf's up on Saturn's 'geologically active' moon Titan

Cornell Chronicle

In the shadow of Saturn’s hulking planetary mass, Titan’s liquid hydrocarbon seas seem a bit choppy, astronomers say.Two and a half years ago, surfing through Cassini mission radar images of Ligeia Mare, the second-largest sea on Saturn’s moon Titan, a team of Cornell astronomers found a bright, mysterious feature – a transient feature they dubbed “Magic Island.”

Astronomy

Sifting Cornell data, astronomers find repeating bursts

Cornell Chronicle

After combing through Cornell-archived data, astronomers have discovered the pop-pop-pop of a mysterious, cosmic Gatling gun – 10 millisecond-long “fast radio bursts” – caught by the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, as reported in Nature, March 2.

Music

Music curriculum expands to reach students of diverse musical backgrounds

A&S Communications

Through engaged learning activities, music classes are reaching out to a new generation of listeners.

My Job at the Office of Campus Life

By: Solveig van der Vegt '18

Psychology

The superior social skills of bilinguals

The New York Times

A psychology professor's research shows that being bilingual can bring multiple benefits, even boosting problem-solving skills. 

New Century for the Humanities

Make your contribution to the Klarman Hall time capsule

A&S Communications

We'd like to add your ideas as we collect the "best of the humanities" for our time capsule.

History

Prof Beverly Gage Recasts Legacy of FBI Founder in Carl Becker Lecture Series

Prof. Beverly Gage, director of undergraduate studies in history at Yale University, shared insights into the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the Carl Becker lecture series last week sponsored by Cornell's Department of History. Gage focused on elements of Hoover’s character and accomplishments that she said are often overlooked. 

Big Ideas

How technology and humanities intersect

Cornell Chronicle

Technology has changed all aspects of our lives, even ancient fields of study in the humanities. The College of Arts and Sciences’ fourth Big Ideas Panel, part of its New Century for the Humanities celebration, explored technology in the humanities March 15 in Klarman Hall’s Groos Family Atrium.

American Studies

Scholar details emergence of police-state tactics

Cornell Chronicle

We are living in a prison industrial complex, according to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the City University of New York.Gilmore gave the American Studies Program’s annual Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture March 3 on “Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police.”

History

Runaway slave ads portray grim period of U.S. history

Cornell University Library

Runaway slave advertisements – a common sight in North American newspapers in the 18th and 19th centuries – are frankly disturbing. They describe people as property, listing their physical attributes and family connections in chilling terms.

Physics

Séamus Davis awarded St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal

A&S Communications

Science Foundation Ireland presented its prestigious St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal March 16 to Séamus Davis, Cornell’s James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences. The presentation was made by Charles Flanagan, Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs and trade, as part of St. Patricks’ Day celebrations in Washington, D.C.

Cornell Neurotech

Crafting new tools to explore thoughts, dreams and memories

Cornell Engineering Magazine

Technological breakthroughs are giving Cornell Neurotech researchers unprecedented glimpses into the brain.

Government

New book sheds light on high U.S. incarceration rate

Cornell Chronicle

The U.S. incarcerates a greater proportion of its population than any other country in the world, with dire social and economic consequences for the incarcerated, their children and those who work in the criminal justice system. In his new book, “Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World” (Cambridge University Press), Peter Enns sheds new light on why.

Archaeology

Archaeology students try their hand at creating artifacts

A&S Communications

Students in an archaeology class tried their hand at creating some of the pottery they normally dig up and study.