With pulses of sound through tiny speakers, Cornell physics researchers have clarified the basic nature of a new superconductor. Since it was found to be a superconductor about five years ago, uranium ditelluride has created a lot of buzz in the quantum materials community – and a lot of confusion, with more than a dozen theories about the true nature of its superconducting properties…
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A pair of stereoscopic images of the asteroid Dinkinesh and Selam created with data collected by the L’LORRI camera on NASA's Lucy spacecraft in the minutes around closest approach on Nov. 1, 2023.
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Valzhyna Mort, center, discusses the risks writers take to speak out in many countries, with Suzanne Nossel, left, and David Folkenflik ’91.
Narges Mohammedi, a journalist and women’s rights activist, smuggled her Nobel Peace Prize speech out of an Iranian jail so her 15-year-old twins, whom she has not seen for 10 years, could give it for her.
Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, a nonprofit whose goal is to raise awareness for the protection of free expression, was at the December 2023 award ceremony in Oslo to witness…
Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) while maintaining a place among leading intellectuals in Europe, died in Paris on April 7. He was 96.
Remembered as “one of the last of a generation” of classical philologists, Pucci brought fresh insight to ancient texts,…
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Rachel Beatty Riedl, left, the Einaudi Center’s director and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, and Colleen Barry, Brooks School dean.
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Students in James Spinazzola's conducting class attend a extended reality (XR) orientation to learn how the immersive technology can help give students a sense of what it feels like to conduct an ensemble in real time.
It can be demoralizing for a person to work in a climate of repetitive skepticism and doubt about what they know, a new study shows.
“I’m not talking about healthy, well-founded skepticism. I’m talking about failures-of-exchange when a person is persistently overlooked, unheard, brushed off and explained to,” said Laura Niemi, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts…
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Lígia Fonseca Coelho, postdoctoral associate at the Carl Sagan Institute and first author of the study, cultivating bacteria samples in the lab.
Whether life exists anywhere besides Earth is a burning question that, at long last, may soon be answered.
The clues we find on exoplanets could be as strange as a bioluminescent glow or a rainbow hue, as astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger describes in her accessible new book, “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos.”
The director of the Carl Sagan Institute (CSI) and…
Architecture students volunteer at the Enfield Food Distribution Center. The visit served as participatory research for their speculative design projects.
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Student dancers rehearse an ensemble piece that will be part of the "This table has been a house in the rain" performance April 25-27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts: (from left) Isabel Padilla, doctoral candidate in performing and media arts; Irene Kim ’24; Taylor Pryor, doctoral candidate in literatures in English; Molly Hudson ’25; and Eliza Salamon ’24.
“The world begins at a kitchen table,” poet laureate Joy Harjo wrote.
Inspired by this line, a kitchen table appears at the center of a live dance performance – which is paired with an exhibition of dance-related visual art – April 25-27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Student-artists will reimagine the Kiplinger Theater in the evening-length work, titled “This table has…
The newly assembled Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), nearly the size of a five-story building, was unveiled April 4 at an event in Xanten, Germany, attended by numerous German municipal officials – as well as Fred Young, himself.
“It is especially pleasing to participate in what is a celebration of the result of 20-some years of involvement in the creation of this significant…
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On April 11, 2004, Maj. Richard J. Gannon II '95 addressed Marines under his command during a memorial service for Lance Cpl. Christopher B. Wasser of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, at Camp Husaybah, Iraq, near the Syrian border. Gannon was killed days later while trying to help a wounded Marine. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star.
Former National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley '69 will explore “U.S. National Security Policymaking and the Future of U.S.-China Relations” in a fireside chat on Wednesday, April 17, with Jessica Chen Weiss, the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the government department in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is also a faculty member in the Cornell Jeb E…
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Workers hand roll kretek in a "living factory" at House of Sampoerna, a kretek museum in the East Javanese port city of Surabaya. Kretek museums present the history of the commodity in a nostalgic and flattering light and frame kretek manufacturers as benevolent patrons.
Nancy Wang ’24 and DALL-E3/College of Human Ecology
Nancy Wang ’24 used the AI DALL-E3 and the prompt “create a schematic of one layer of flexible battery, one layer of woven conductive thread, and one layer of textile” to create this image.
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Ying Lin Zhao ’26, center, works with Amy LeViere ’95, left, chief philanthropic services and systems officer, and CEO George Ferrari ’84 at the Tompkins County Community Foundation.
This data visualization shows the geodesic training trajectory of different deep neural networks as they advance from total ignorance to full certainty
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Yuval Grossman, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been visiting Arab villages in Israel during academic breaks since 2019 to teach math to school children. His last trip was in January.
When Yuval Grossman was 5, his father, an Israeli soldier, died during the war with Syria. Then he lost a good friend – a neighbor who lived on his street in Nahariya, Israel – in a terror attack in 1974.
“These two big events affected me a lot as a child,” said Grossman, now a professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences. “But at some point, I realized that I had to get over…
Margarita Amalia Suñer, professor of linguistics emerita in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died in Ojai, California on Feb. 29 after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 82.
An expert in the field of Hispanic theoretical linguistics, Suñer is remembered for her insights, her dedication to students and the personable way she shared her love of language.
“Magui was a…
Cheyenne Reuben-Thomas, a doctoral student in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology, does field work on land management.
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Prof. Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Jewish and Near East Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences (front row, far right) organized a tour of the White House for students in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy's Cornell in Washington program in February.
Cornell media scholar Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times crossword at age 19 and has since been crowned “the new queen of crosswords” in the media for reenergizing this puzzle genre and cracking into its white male power base. These days, most crossword editors and constructors are men, but it wasn’t always this way.
“I’ve learned how woman-coded the puzzle was in the first half…
On March 13, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will host “Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after Oct. 7,” one of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year events.
The 5 p.m. talk will feature scholars Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, and Marc Lynch, Ph.D. ‘97,…
Daniel A. Baugh, professor emeritus of history, died Feb. 9 at his home in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was 92.
Baugh was an historian of British history who specialized in 18th century maritime, naval and geopolitical issues. He was considered the definitive historian of British naval administration.
Colleagues and former students remember him for the breadth and depth of his expertise, his…
