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Music

Teaching conducting in extended reality

Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation

A virtual reality setting can enable conducting students to engage with gestures in low stakes environment.

Fall view of Goldwin Smith Hall
Philosophy

The cascading effect of a 19th-century professorship

Alumni Affairs & Development

Many generations of Sage professors have established a lasting legacy in Cornell’s history and have deeply influenced the study of philosophy and psychology worldwide.

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Cornell game collection

Building and cataloging a world of games at Cornell

A&S Communications

Cornell scholars are developing a collection of games, both digital and analog, in the Cornell Library, and connecting that to teaching across disciplines and courses.

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Nuno Marques/Unsplash
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

‘Two-for-one’ fission aims to improve solar cell efficiency

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led team used ultrafast laser spectroscopy to scrutinize a key intermediate state during singlet fission and found that in certain molecules the intermediate can be directly generated with a strikingly simple technique.

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Kevin Rajaram/Unsplash
American politics

Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have found that when it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents.

Two people lean toward a complicated scientific instrument featuring gold and orange metal parts; it's about the size of a coffeemaker
Ryan Young/Cornell University Doctoral candidates Zachary Huber, left, and Ben Keller install detector array components for the Simons Observatory in one of the dilution refrigerators in Michael Niemack’s laboratory.
Astronomy and physics

Simons Observatory begins measurements to probe Big Bang inflation

Cornell Chronicle

The new Simons Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert may soon answer the great scientific question of what happened in the tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.

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Provided An electron microscopy image from David Muller, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering, confirmed that researchers had created a high-entropy multi-metal with cations mixed together in the same lattice, without any elements separating out.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Backdoor method creates high-entropy material at lower temps

Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary team developed a backchannel method that uses solubility, not entropy, to overcome thermodynamic constraints and synthesize high-entropy oxide nanocrystals at lower temperatures.

Amit Bhatia
Graduate student research

Donor's gift supports students' international research

Cornell University Graduate School

Recognizing the importance of extended, in-country research, Amit Bhatia ’01 created a fund to help close gaps in funding for travel and other expenses.

Lenora Warren
Jason Koski/Cornell University Lenora Warren, assistant professor of literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences, is an expert in Early American and Early African American literature with a focus on the literatures of abolition, insurrection and the politics of resistance.
Literatures in English

Early version of Black Pride brought US a step closer to Juneteenth

Cornell Chronicle

In 1829, abolitionist David Walker’s “Appeal to the Colored People of the World” went viral, enabling enslaved people to imagine freedom and why they deserved it.

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Neurobiology and Behavior

Mothers’ care is central factor in animal, human longevity

Cornell Chronicle

The relationship between mother and child offers clues to the mystery of why humans live longer lives than expected for their size – and sheds new light on what it means to be human.

Enzo Traverso
Awards and honors

Traverso honored by Autonomous University of Barcelona

A&S Communications

Enzo Traverso, the Susan and Bart Winokur Professor in the Humanities, has received an honorary doctorate from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB).

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Classics

In a new book, prof translates ancient advice for the lovelorn

Cornellians

How to Get Over a Breakup is Michael Fontaine’s latest entry in a series that mines modern wisdom from classical works

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Sociology

Snap elections a ‘political mistake’ for Macron

A&S Communications

Sociologist Mabel Berezin comments on France's political leaders scrambling to prepare for snap elections.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/JHU This image taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows ice sheets at Mars’ south pole.
Astronomy

Simulations dampen excitement about liquid water on Mars

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have provided a simple and comprehensive – if less dramatic – explanation for bright radar reflections initially interpreted as liquid water beneath the ice cap on Mars’ south pole.

Roald Hoffmann standing in a big lecture hall with one hand on Jeff Fearn's back, with the periodic table on the wall to their left, both smiling and rdressed casually.
Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Roald Hoffmann, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor, Emeritus in the department of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts & Sciences left, stands with alum Jeff Fearn '82, right. Hoffmann and Fearn connected for the first time in more than 40 years through the Center for Teaching Innovation's Thank a Professor Program.
Education Innovation

CTI's Thank a Professor program connects alum, professor 40 years later

Cornell Chronicle

"This thanks is a bit late, 40+ years in fact...I credit your approach and your class for turning around my academic career and continuing on with my successful scientific endeavors."