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Student experiences

Six A&S students work around the world at State Department offices

A&S Communications

Students worked in State Department offices as far away as Tanzania and Spain.

Astronomy

Astronomy professor receives Bruce Medal for career’s work

Cornell Chronicle

Martha P. Haynes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded the 2019 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Physics

Cornell announces $54M from NSF for new CHESS subfacility

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, more commonly known as CHESS, entered a new era April 1.

Africana studies

Via sport, Farred explores relation, belonging in ‘Entre Nous’

Cornell Chronicle

The little-known fact that philosopher Martin Heidegger was a fan of European football and an admirer of famed West German player Franz Beckenbauer launches Grant Farred’s latest exploration of philosophy through sport in his new book, “Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me.”

Physics

New accelerator sails through key test – recovering energy

Cornell Chronicle

A half-century after the idea of energy-recovering accelerators was proposed at Cornell, the university is showing that high-energy physics can also be renewable-energy physics.

Sociology

Rigged card game sheds light on perceptions of inequality

Cornell Chronicle

A few years ago, Cornell doctoral students Mario Molina and Mauricio Bucca, Ph.D. ’18, were playing President, a card game, when they noticed winners attributing the game’s outcome to skill and losers blaming their defeat on the rules.

Student activism

Space-themed fashion line launches student to NASA blastoff

Cornell Chronicle

When Shoshana Swell ’20 learned in March that NASA had scrubbed plans for an all-female spacewalk because it lacked women’s spacesuits, she got frustrated.

Awards

Three A&S faculty win White House early career awards

The White House has recognized four Cornell faculty members – Thomas Hartman, Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Kin Fai Mak and Rebecca Slayton – with prestigious 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards were announced July 2.The award is the highest honor bestowed by the federal government to scientific and engineering professionals who are in first stages of their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership.

To understand where exoplanets are in their own evolution, astronomers can use Earth’s biological milestones as a Rosetta stone.
Astronomy

Exoplanet evolution: Astronomers expand cosmic ‘cheat sheet’

Cornell astronomers have reached into nature’s color palette from early Earth to create a cosmic “cheat sheet” for looking at distant worlds. By correlating tints and hues, researchers aim to understand where discovered exoplanets may reasonably fall along their own evolutionary spectrum.

Astronomy

Cornell to celebrate 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 July 20

A&S Communications

Cornell will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with an afternoon of discussion about the future of planetary and exoplanetary discovery. “From the Moon to Mars and Beyond” will take place on July 20, the actual anniversary of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descending from the Eagle spacecraft onto the lunar surface. The event will feature two talks and a panel discussion and will be held from 2-4:30 pm in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.