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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."

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.

Two people color with markers at a small table
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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

person holding a video game controller
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.

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.

Isaac Kramnick
Student scholarships

Kramnick Scholarship Fund tops $1 million mark

A&S Communications

The scholarship is funded by more than 400 alumni who say their lives were changed by his teaching and his friendship.