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An artist's concept of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
NASA/JPL-CalTech An artist's concept of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
Astronomy

Scientists supporting mission to assess Europa’s habitability

Cornell Chronicle

Jupiter’s moon Europa may have conditions that could support life. To find out, NASA has launched its next flagship science mission, Europa Clipper, and Cornell scientists will play a role.

Anna Ho
Astronomy

Astronomy professor Ho named Packard Fellow

Cornell Chronicle

The fellowship from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation includes $875,000 in unrestricted funds to be used for research over five years.

A long row of people using small white voting booths
Global Cornell

Global experts look abroad for lessons in super election year

Cornell Chronicle

Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking “super election” year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.

Three dimensional art piece; a honeycomb like construction of white clay
Society for the Humanities

‘Silence’ theme of Society for the Humanities Fall presentations

A&S Communications

Six fellows from a broad swath of humanities fields will present their projects in progress during the annual Fall Fellows’ conference, on Friday, Oct. 25.

Book cover: On the Move
Climate

Brooks School to host author Abrahm Lustgarten ‘95 for lecture on climate migration

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell alumnus, and ProPublica climate reporter, Abrahm Lustgarten is author of “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America."

Moon Duchin
Mathematics

Mathematician and redistricting expert joins Brooks School as radical collaboration hire

Cornell Chronicle

Moon Duchin is a mathematician and public policy expert who has advised numerous U.S. states on redistricting and whose lab has been at the forefront of an emerging discipline that merges data science and elections.

Image of Shane Littrell

Shane Littrell

Postdoctoral Associate
Government

Arts Unplugged

Celebration of Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday being held Nov. 9

A&S Communications

On what would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday, Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute will celebrate his legacy in an interdisciplinary day of science, music and more as part of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series.

Book cover: Firesign
Media Studies

Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique

Cornell Chronicle

In his new book, Prof. Jeremy Braddock explores the history of the Firesign Theatre, which used multitrack audio and avant-garde collage to put a countercultural spin on the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s.

John Hopfield
Princeton University John Hopfield, Ph.D. ’58, has received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Alumni

John Hopfield, Ph.D. ’58, wins Nobel Prize in physics

Cornell Chronicle

Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto were honored for their work in training artificial neural networks.

Girl with blue Shirt and glasses
Student research

Empowering research and building community: A Rawlings Scholar’s journey

A&S Communications

Rawlings Presidential Research Program Scholar Tejal Nair is working on research that connects math and computer science with technology in areas such as healthcare.

Fall view of Goldwin Smith Hall
Humanities

A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network

A&S Communications

“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Creative Writing Program

Poet and sportswriter Rowan Ricardo Phillips to read Oct. 17

A&S Communications

“Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a renowned sportswriter, and has written extensively on baseball, soccer, and tennis. He is, however, first and foremost a poet of the highest order, full of formal sophistication, lyrical possibility, and musical syncopation."

man talking to two students
Chris Kitchen Weiner talked with students during a reception (which included pizza) after the talk.
Alumni experiences

A slice of wisdom from Russell Weiner ‘90

A&S Communications

Russell Weiner ’90, CEO of Domino’s, shared career and life advice during a Sept. 20 talk on campus.

Ling Ma
Alumni authors

Author alum wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Cornellians

Ling Ma, MFA ’16, has earned raves for her fiction; a Cornell Tech prof also received one of the coveted fellowships.