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two people on top of a mountain
Provided Mike Niemack, left, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and Nick Cothard on top of Cerro Chajnantor where the FYST will be built and the instrumentation that they received funding for will be installed.
two people on top of a mountain
Provided Mike Niemack, left, associate professor of physics and astronomy, and Nick Cothard on top of Cerro Chajnantor where the FYST will be built and the instrumentation that they received funding for will be installed.
Astronomy

NSF awards $1.3M to CCAT-prime telescope project

Cornell Chronicle
Jupiter with bands of swirling color and a red spot at top of sphere.
NASA/JPL An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, upper right, and the planet's swirling surface, was taken by the Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2020.
Jupiter with bands of swirling color and a red spot at top of sphere.
NASA/JPL An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, upper right, and the planet's swirling surface, was taken by the Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2020.
class with teacher and students
Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Darlene Campbell, senior lecturer in biology, works with students in class.
class with teacher and students
Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Darlene Campbell, senior lecturer in biology, works with students in class.
Comparative literature

Reshaping student experiences through new innovations in teaching

Cornell Chronicle
A black and white aerial image of Titan's river system.
NASA/JPL A radar image from the Cassini spacecraft of Titan’s liquid methane and ethane rivers and tributaries.
A black and white aerial image of Titan's river system.
NASA/JPL A radar image from the Cassini spacecraft of Titan’s liquid methane and ethane rivers and tributaries.
man looking at a piece of charcoal
Provided Sturt Manning, director of the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory, examines a charcoal sample at the New York State Museum in Albany.
man looking at a piece of charcoal
Provided Sturt Manning, director of the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory, examines a charcoal sample at the New York State Museum in Albany.
Classics & Archaeology

New timeline clarifies Indigenous history in Mohawk Valley

Cornell Chronicle
telescope
Shami Chatterjee/Provided The new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, known as FAST, in Guizhou, China, where the 1,652 fast radio bursts were detected.
telescope
Shami Chatterjee/Provided The new Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, known as FAST, in Guizhou, China, where the 1,652 fast radio bursts were detected.
husband, wife and baby in a park
Provided Jonathan Weston ”04, pictured with his wife, Holly, and daughter, Lilia, at Panama Rocks park.
husband, wife and baby in a park
Provided Jonathan Weston ”04, pictured with his wife, Holly, and daughter, Lilia, at Panama Rocks park.
Alumni honors

Geologic park manager receives NYS Hometown Alumni Award

Cornell Chronicle
telescope
NASA/Provided Artistic rendering of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently under development by NASA, which will be used in the search for distant planets beyond our solar system.
telescope
NASA/Provided Artistic rendering of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, currently under development by NASA, which will be used in the search for distant planets beyond our solar system.
person in lab
Provided Cornell doctoral student Ryan Porter prepares an superconducting radio-frequency cavity made from the element Nb3Sn in the clean room of Newman Lab.
person in lab
Provided Cornell doctoral student Ryan Porter prepares an superconducting radio-frequency cavity made from the element Nb3Sn in the clean room of Newman Lab.
Center for Bright Beams

Center for Bright Beams awarded $22M in grant renewal

Cornell Chronicle
whale coming out of water
Provided Cornell will host “The Whale Listening Project,” Sept. 23-26, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59.
whale coming out of water
Provided Cornell will host “The Whale Listening Project,” Sept. 23-26, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59.
Dean Colleen Barry with microphone in hand, speaking at podiumSchool of Public Policy
Jason Koski/Cornell University Colleen Barry, dean of the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, speaks during a reception for the school Sept. 15 in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. In the background are President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff.
Dean Colleen Barry with microphone in hand, speaking at podiumSchool of Public Policy
Jason Koski/Cornell University Colleen Barry, dean of the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, speaks during a reception for the school Sept. 15 in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. In the background are President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff.
Public Policy

Decades in making, public policy school now a reality

Cornell Chronicle
Colored three-dimensional scan of the hands and footprints
Researchers discovered what is possibly the world's oldest artwork, rendered here in a three-dimensional scan, on a rocky promontory at Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau in 2018.
Colored three-dimensional scan of the hands and footprints
Researchers discovered what is possibly the world's oldest artwork, rendered here in a three-dimensional scan, on a rocky promontory at Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau in 2018.
Archaeology

Hand and footprint art dates to mid-Ice Age

Cornell Chronicle
St. James AME Zion Church
Provided St. James A.M.E. Zion Church is believed to be the oldest religious structure in Ithaca and one of the first A.M.E. Zion churches in the country.
St. James AME Zion Church
Provided St. James A.M.E. Zion Church is believed to be the oldest religious structure in Ithaca and one of the first A.M.E. Zion churches in the country.
Rural Humanities

Excavation to explore church’s role in Underground Railroad

Cornell Chronicle
a black lattice
Fibonacci., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A moiré pattern, formed by two sets of parallel lines.
a black lattice
Fibonacci., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A moiré pattern, formed by two sets of parallel lines.
Physics

Researchers receive $5.4M to advance quantum science

Cornell Chronicle