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Scott Emr
Molecular biology and genetics

Scott Emr awarded 2024 Horwitz Prize for discovering ESCRT pathway

A&S Communications

“This award places Scott Emr in the company of many of the top figures in molecular biology and biomedical sciences from the past 50 years.”

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Psychology

Empowering online communities with NSF grant

A&S Communications

Nori Jacoby, assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded an NSF fellowship for a project to develop algorithms to more effectively harness the intelligence of crowds by improving the quality of collective evaluations

Beate Heinemann
Beate Heinemann
Physics

Leading particle physicist headlines fall 2024 Bethe Lectures

A&S Communications

Beate Heinemann, professor at Universität Hamburg and director for particle physics at DESY in Germany, will share the stories of two outstanding women scientists in a public lecture.

Person standing on a balcony, looking out at a mountain, blue sky and palm trees
Provided From the film "Possible Landscapes"
Comparative literature

Professor’s feature-length documentary film debuts at Cornell Cinema

A&S Communications

“Possible Landscapes,” a new feature-length documentary film exploring the lived experience of landscapes and environments in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, will have its debut screening on Sept. 25 at Cornell Cinema.

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Economics

Economics conference considers tech, political impacts on global economy

A&S Communications

Economists from around the world will come to campus Oct. 3-5 to explore the changing global economy.

movie poster: The Man Who Saved the Internet with a Sunflower
Provided movie poster: The Man Who Saved the Internet with a Sunflower
Alumni

Indie drama depicts Cornellian couple's role in web history

Cornellians

Set in the 1980s, The Man Who Saved the Internet with a Sunflower chronicles two ’69 classmates in Silicon Valley

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Jalitha Hewage/Unsplash Colombo, Sri Lanka
Anthropology and Asian studies

Cornell expert reflects on Sri Lanka election

A&S Communications

Scholar Daniel Bass comments on this week's presidential election in Sri Lanka, the first since a 2022 economic meltdown that forced the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Cornell's central campus with lake beyond
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cornell, partners to make upstate NY a regional engine for better batteries

Cornell Chronicle

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Cornell and a group of institutional partners have created the Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine to advance energy storage technology and boost large-capacity battery manufacturing in the region.

the Jupiter moon Io
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Nearly 400 active volcanoes punctuate the Jupiter moon Io. Using flyby data from NASA’s Juno mission that examines the volcanoes, doctoral student Madeline Pettine led a group of Cornell astronomers to study a fundamental process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating.
Astronomy

Volcanoes may help reveal interior heat on Jupiter moon

Cornell Chronicle

By examining Jupiter’s moon Io – the most volcanically active place in the solar system – Cornell astronomers can study a vital process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Peter Lepage, professor emeritus of physics in the College of Arts & Sciences, stepped down as the Active Learning Initiative's director on June 1, 2024.
Active Learning Initiative

Active Learning Initiative welcomes new director, says goodbye to longtime leader

Cornell Chronicle

In June 2024, longtime Active Learning Initiative director Peter Lepage handed the initiative's reins to incoming director, Timothy Riley, professor of mathematics.

Daveed Diggs
Performing and Media Arts

Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs to visit campus for talk

Cornell Chronicle

Daveed Diggs, who won Tony and Grammy awards for his portrayal of the dual roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in “Hamilton,” will visit campus Sept. 25 for a talk as the 2024 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist.

Book cover: Positioning Women in Conflict Studies
Government

Improving women’s status promotes peace – but how?

Cornell Chronicle

Scholars and policymakers need to look at more than "gender equality" to assess women’s status and how it contributes to political violence or peace, political scientist Sabrina Karim argues in a new book.

Painting of a mountain in blues, golds and greens
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Paul Cézanne’s ‘Mont Sainte-Victoire’ paintings, such as this one created in 1902-06, were influenced by French state programs for mountain preservation, Kelly Presutti argues.
History of Art and Visual Studies

How art helped to shape modern France

Cornell Chronicle

Art historian Kelly Presutti examines the role that depictions of landscape – in paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain and maps – played in the formation of modern France in a new book.

Steve Jackson smiling, talking to three people around a high table.
Steve Jackson (center), vice provost for academic innovation, meets with members of the Center for Teaching Innovation team: (from L to R) Adara Alston, Leslie Williams, and James Whalley.
Education Innovation

Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation: teaching the way people learn

Alumni Affairs & Development

As vice provost for academic innovation, Prof. Steve Jackson has been working to ensure that teaching in university classrooms, labs, studios, and field sites is aligned with what the latest research tells us about how people learn best.

Deanne Gebell Gitner, smiling, with short black hair, a jacket and pearl necklace
Provided Deanne Gebell Gitner '66
Awards

Donor’s Annual Prize Shows Appreciation for Teaching Assistants

Cornell University Graduate School

The Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants was created to put TAs in the spotlight, celebrating and recognizing them for their contributions to education at Cornell.