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Kramnick Scholarship Fund tops $1 million mark

7/17/2024 A&S Communications

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

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

7/17/2024 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.

Media studies

Cornell crafts multifaceted game studies program

7/17/2024 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.

Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Brett Fors

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Fors receives ACS Young Investigator Award

7/16/2024 A&S Communications

The award recognizes two outstanding early career investigators conducting research in any area of fundamental polymer or biopolymer science.

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

7/15/2024 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.

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

7/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Alison Power, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will study adaptive agricultural landscapes in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

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

7/12/2024 A&S Communications

Abruña was selected in the “non-traditional energy” category for “foundational contributions spanning electrochemistry, batteries, fuel cells and molecular electronics.”

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

7/12/2024 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.

Alumni

Your July 2024 reads

7/11/2024 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.

Music

Forte/Piano Summer Academy returns to Cornell

7/11/2024 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."

A crowd gathering on a city intersection, seen from above — Venti Views/Unsplash

Economics

Economist to study collective action with NSF grant

7/10/2024 A&S Communications

From organizing a charity event to demonstrating against an authoritarian regime, collective action is one of the most basic and ubiquitous forms of strategic interaction in a society, says Marco Battaglini.

French politics

Youth vote factoring heavily in French elections

7/8/2024 A&S Communications

In Sunday's election, Marine Le Pen's National Rally party was thwarted, but she will live to fight another day, says Cornell populism expert Mabel Berezin.

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