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Doctoral student Shikhar Prakash, right, and Madhur Srivastava, assistant research professor in chemistry and chemical biology, work at a white board in the Physical Sciences Building.
Extreme weather and changing patterns of electricity use have led to blackouts and unpredictable utility bills across the nation.
To address that unpredictability, Cornell researchers are piloting a new payment plan and an app that would provide consumers with more information about their energy use and incentives to reduce use, while also allowing utility companies to respond more nimbly in…
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Peter Enns, professor of government and public policy in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, speaks to a Cornell Tech audience about the Collaborative Midterm Survey.
An innovative Cornell-led survey paints a comprehensive picture of what Americans were thinking on Election Day in 2022 – and advances the science of surveys.
Key findings include that nearly half of white Americans recognize that the deck remains stacked against Black Americans. One out of four Americans think parents should decide whether their kids buckle up. And a majority of Americans…
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As a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in chemistry and chemical biology, Richard Kong develops catalysts to guide chemical reactions toward desired outcomes, including some that could have a positive effect on the environment.
… Seth Klarman ’79 and Beth Schultz Klarman. “The Klarman Fellowships have surpassed our highest expectations, and I am … recommended its renewal and expansion. The Klarman Fellowships support a wide range of pioneering research, … by teaching or other requirements. The Klarman Fellowships have already become highly coveted postdoctoral …
Answers by more than 19,000 Americans to a wide-ranging survey about political views will be revealed Friday, Jan. 20 at an online and in-person event on the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.
The NSF-funded project is hosting a hackathon featuring experts from industry, academia, and media as they offer their perspectives on the innovations, methods, and data from the 2022…
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Martin Luther King Jr. and colleagues stand outside Anabel Taylor Hall on Nov. 13, 1960, during King’s first visit to Ithaca. Left to right: Kenneth Hagood ’60, a Cornell student organizer; Martin Luther King Jr.; the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a co-founder with King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Dr. Edward Hart, an Ithaca ophthalmologist and chair of the Cornell Committee Against Segregation.
On April 4, 1959, Cornell President Deane W. Malott typed a letter on onion-skin paper to Martin Luther King Jr., inviting him to preach at Sage Chapel. The invitation included a $300 honorarium and accommodations at Willard Straight Hall.
Malott’s letter was the first in a series of formal, gracious correspondence he and King exchanged, comparing schedules and availability. And it was one of…
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A farmer holds multiple varieties of wheat and barley from his field in Kutabir District, Amhara, Ethiopia.
Morgan Ruelle, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’15, was living in the remote mountains of Ethiopia in 2011, researching his dissertation on food diversity, when he kept hearing about a crop that confused him.
The farmers repeatedly mentioned a grain called “duragna” in Amharic that had no equivalent in English. “They kept saying, ‘Well, it’s not really wheat, it’s not really barley,’” Ruelle says. “I was just…
A chemistry collaboration led to a creative way to put carbon dioxide to good – and even healthy – use: by incorporating it, via electrosynthesis, into a series of organic molecules that are vital to pharmaceutical development.
In the process, the team made an innovative discovery. By changing the type of electrochemical reactor, they could produce two completely different products, both…
Cornell is leading a new $34 million research center that will accelerate the creation of energy-efficient semiconductor materials and technologies, and develop revolutionary new approaches for microelectronics systems.
The SUPeRior Energy-efficient Materials and dEvices (SUPREME) Center will bring together leading researchers from 14 higher education institutions, in collaboration with…
A grant of more than $1 million from the Mellon Foundation will support improvements to the content and functionality of Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a collective digital history project based at Cornell, as well as fostering a research community around the collection.
Through FOTM, Cornell is partnering with multiple institutions, including Howard University’s Department of History, to…
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This image, taken in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on July 23, 2019, shows a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument (its lens is in the large circular opening).
The eerie sound of an extraterrestrial whirlwind has reached the Earth from more than 50 million miles away, thanks to the first working microphone to traverse the surface of Mars. The audio records the movements of a dust devil, a tiny tornado of dust and grit – similar to the feeling on your ankles on a windy day on a sandy beach.
On Mars, this “saltation,” the movement of dust grains…
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In Barton Hall on Dec. 18, the university’s 20th recognition ceremony for December graduates honored more than 700 recipients of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees.
Arriving at Cornell in 2016, Ariane Bowers was thrilled to start an undergraduate career exactly like the one she’d imagined, the Gothic buildings and late-night study sessions like scenes from her favorite childhood novel.
She didn’t expect to plot an unconventional path to graduation as a member of the Class of 2023. But after twice taking leaves of absence to work and to settle on a course…
The Office of Academic Integration has announced 14 new Multi-Investigator Seed Grants to foster multidisciplinary collaborations between Cornell’s Ithaca and New York City campuses – the latest in a series of efforts creating new opportunities for researchers to work together and leading to more than $64 million in federal funding over the past four years.
The current round of grants,…
Riccardo Giovanelli, professor emeritus of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Dec. 14 at his home in Ithaca after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 76.
“Riccardo will be missed by all of us who treasured his gracious collegiality and kindness in working with colleagues and students and his passion for the science of astronomy,” said Jonathan Lunine, the David C…
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Doctoral candidates and instructors participating in Cornell’s Florida Field Course hike through the Everglades Headwaters landscape near Archbold Field Station, south-central Florida.
Nearly every spring break since 1968, Cornell graduate students have traveled south for the Florida Field Course (FFC), an immersion in life science at the Archbold Biological Station, learning firsthand in the scrubland of south-central Florida how to collect data, pursue a specific research question and work in teams.
They’ve also, through the years, contributed to an extensive dataset…
Mouse pups produce ultrasonic vocalizations, called isolation USVs, when they are separated from the nest. It’s a survival mechanism – baby mice need their parents to regulate their temperature and feed them – that diminishes with age.
But before the USV reflex peters out around 20 days after birth, the rate at which mouse pups cry varies a lot, even within the same individual at the same…
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A Freedom on the Move-inspired image Project by an eighth grade student at Olentangy Orange Middle School in Lewis Center, Ohio
“Freedom on the Move” (FOTM), a Cornell-based database of “runaway ads” placed by enslavers in 18th- and 19th-century U.S. newspapers, was the starting point for a new song cycle, “Songs in Flight,” that will premiere Jan. 12 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
“Songs in Flight” will also be performed on Jan. 15 at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, hosted by the…
Entrepreneurship allows biotechnology researchers to help people by bringing their innovations out of the lab and into the market. However, this process tends to be expensive and lengthy — not to mention the high failure rate of biotech startups. What does it take for a biotech company to succeed in such a challenging market?
Stephanie Wisner ’16, cofounder of biotech startup Centivax,…
Paul R. Hyams, professor emeritus of history in the College of Arts and Sciences and a leading scholar of the history and practice of law in the Middle Ages, died Dec. 4 of lymphoma in Oxford, England. He was 82.
Colleagues and former students remember Hyams as an innovative and multidisciplinary scholar who reached from history into literature, law, medieval studies and beyond through a…
The President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) awarded Affinito-Stewart research grants totaling $195,166 to 20 Cornell faculty members for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Designed to increase the number of women in tenured faculty positions at Cornell, as well as to support the work of faculty members whose research focuses on women, the Affinito-Stewart Grants…
The flight of insects may look effortless but, as with any animal, their movements would be wildly uneven without an intricate system of neural signaling and muscle response to stabilize and steer them.
A Cornell-led collaboration used a combination of targeted neural manipulation and magnetic perturbance to pinpoint the two components of a fruit fly’s flight stabilization system. Specifically…
In the late 19th century photographs, the two men look proud and capable, Sadik al-Mu’ayyad Azmzade wearing a military uniform of the Ottoman Empire and Shafiq al-Mu’ayyad Azmzade in evening dress. Both sport handlebar mustaches. They also look somewhat alike; Shafiq, although a few years younger, is Sadik’s uncle.
At the time of the photos, these two members of a notable Arab-Ottoman family…
More than 100 Cornell researchers from Cornell's Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine gathered for a two-day workshop in mid-October to discuss structural biology, which encompasses research exploring the three-dimensional structures of macromolecules including proteins and protein complexes that are of critical importance to the study of normal physiology and disease. The event was held…
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Global Public Voices fellows from the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies use their expertise to shape public debates about global policy issues and advocate for a more just and equitable future.
With a focus on democratic threats and resilience, this year’s 27 fellows – including 10 Cornell faculty and a visiting scholar from Afghanistan – will engage with national…
Norman Daly spent years chronicling the lost Iron Age civilization of Llhuros – its relics, its rituals, its poetry, its music – as well as the academic commentary it inspired.
But the thing that makes Llhuros most noteworthy as a civilization?
It never existed.
Daly wasn’t an anthropologist or archaeologist, but an art professor who taught at Cornell for 57 years. In the late 1960s, he…
At the heart of every CRISPR reaction, whether naturally occurring in bacteria or harnessed by CRIPSR-Cas gene editing technology, is a strong molecular bond of a Cas protein via a guide RNA to its target site on DNA. It’s like a nanoscale ski binding.
“There’s a balance between stably bound and coming off at the right time,” said Michelle Wang, the James Gilbert White Distinguished…
The mysterious changes in phases of matter – from solid to liquid and back again – have fascinated Eun-Ah Kim since she was in lower elementary school in South Korea. Without cold drinking water readily available, on hot days the children would bring bottles of frozen water to school.
Kim noticed that when the water melted, the volume changed.
“That revealed to me there is something in…
… of Health, Education and Welfare. He worked under fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science …
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Peruvian fried rice – or chaufa – a dish featured on Kitchen Marronage, led by Tao Leigh Goffe. Supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the project uses food as a doorway into understanding the history of indentureship.
Two grants, from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Mellon Foundation, are supporting a web of collaborative, public-facing humanities projects initiated by Tao Leigh Goffe, assistant professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender and sexuality studies (FGSS) in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The grants with collaborators, totaling more than $2 million, support…
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Dana Oshiro '24, right, a Laidlaw scholar, spent six weeks working with Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) and VinUniversity on projects to combat adverse childhood events.
The Laidlaw Scholars Program, hosted at Cornell by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, trains early undergraduates in international research and leadership and sends them out into the world for hands-on experiences.
Here, four current Laidlaw scholars share their summer research or leadership in action experiences. Apply by January 30 to join next year's…
International cooperation across universities and borders is imperative in our rapidly changing world, President Martha E. Pollack said in kicking off the two-day “Global Grand Challenges Symposium: Frontiers and the Future,” Nov. 16 in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, in Klarman Hall.
“The last few years brought to light just how deeply and irreversibly interconnected our global society…
Three community organizations dedicated to food research and security and agricultural justice were honored by Cornell for their campus-community partnerships in 2022.
The 12th annual Cornell Town-Gown Awards – also known as the TOGOs – celebrated cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community at a virtual ceremony held Nov. 19. Joel M. Malina, Cornell’s vice president for…
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New observations of WASP-39b with the James Webb Space Telescope have provided a clearer picture of the exoplanet, showing the presence of sodium, potassium, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. This artist's illustration also displays newly detected patches of clouds across the planet.
Known for beaming stunning images back to Earth, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world’s skies.
The telescope’s array of highly sensitive instruments was trained on the atmosphere of a “hot Saturn” – a planet about as massive as Saturn orbiting a star some 700 light-years away – known as WASP-39 b. While Webb and other…
From 2003 to 2005, scholar and poet Karen Jaime ’97 hosted the Friday Night Poetry Slam at the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe on New York City’s Lower East Side, a center for countercultural art. On Oct. 8, she was at the mic again, to celebrate the late Miguel Algarín, who co-founded the cafe as a salon in his East Village apartment in 1973.
The event served as the book launch for “Memorias de…
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An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle parked on a taxiway at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada
As the military use of aerial drones in Ukraine and other global battlefields increases, a first-of-its kind survey reveals that Americans consider tactical strikes, used with the consent of other nations, to be the most morally legitimate or appropriate.
“We know surprisingly little about the public’s perceptions of what constitutes legitimate drone strikes, despite reoccurring claims…
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Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, president of Iceland, left, and Peter Katzenstein, the Einaudi Center’s Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, president of Iceland, discussed his country’s commitment to peace, diversity and science-based climate solutions during a sold-out lecture held Nov. 10 in Klarman Hall and live streamed to an audience of hundreds.
“We see the effects of climate change before our eyes,” Jóhannesson said. “Human action has made this change more extreme. It is the will of the majority of…
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David Hernandez ’23 talks with students in the Cornell University Panhellenic Council after giving a talk to the group on his experience as a student veteran at Cornell.
When he learned he’d been admitted to Cornell, David Hernandez ’23 had recently left a more than eight-year career in the Marines during which he’d deployed to the Middle East, led security at U.S. embassies and served as an advocate for victims of sexual assault. Some enlisted friends and superiors had questioned his decision to apply to colleges, especially selective ones.
An unsolicited…
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Men gather on a street corner in Delhi. Researching delayed age of marriage for men in India, sociologist Alaka Basu said that young, unmarried, unemployed men are poised to cause or be recruited to cause social and political trouble.
Marriage is highly revered in India, so it’s notable that men are marrying later, said sociologist and demographer Alaka Malwade Basu, and not because they’re choosing to live it up as bachelors before settling down.
“I have been haunted by the sight of groups of young(ish) men hanging around in street corners across the world, but especially in the towns and cities of India, during my…
At the First Pan African Conference in 1900, W.E.B. DuBois called the 20th century “the century of the color line.” Echoing this language, scholar Carole Boyce Davies calls our current era “the century for claiming Black women’s right to leadership,” in her new book, “Black Women’s Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power.”
Extending her research on writing by Black women around…
Who: Jennifer Wissink, Department of Economics, Cornell University
Course: ECON 1110 Introductory Microeconomics
How long have you been teaching ECON 1110 for online Winter Session?
Econ 1110 was in the very first group of on-line distance learning classes/courses Cornell piloted. I believe the year was 1999—so, 23 years ago! The technology has come a long way since then…
Peter K. Enns, the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Executive Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and professor of government
In Florida recently, a registered Republican answered a pollster’s questions over his cell phone, while a Spanish-speaking Democrat responded to a survey invitation received by mail. In Michigan, a white male voter participated after a link was texted to his randomly selected number.
Those are just a few of the thousands of potential voters being reached in diverse ways by a Cornell-led…
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Just a few hours after the final votes are cast and long before they all are counted, professors Peter Enns, Steve Israel and Suzanne Mettler (l-r) will offer analysis of the 2022 midterm elections at an in-person event at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
One day after the midterm elections, four prominent Cornell political analysts will offer their views on the winners and losers and what the outcome means for the nation and the world.
The in-person event - The Day After: What Happened on Election Night and What Happens Next - is organized by the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public…
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Cornell Votes members Dana Karami ’23, center, vice president of operations; Patrick Mehler ’23, founding member and president; and Lauren Sherman ’24, incoming vice president of external operations, gather in Willard Straight Hall.
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On Nov. 8, for the first time, nearly all Cornell students who live on campus will be able to vote on campus in a general election, thanks in part to Cornell Votes, a two-year-old nonpartisan student group that helped advocate locally and statewide for on-campus polling locations in New York.
“The ultimate inspiring thing for me is that students are a wildly untapped population in terms of…
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Color-enhanced goblet cells (dark purple) in lung epithelium.
Inulin, a type of dietary fiber commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can also promote an allergy-related type of inflammation in the lung and gut, and other parts of the body, according to a preclinical study from researchers in the Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation and Jill Roberts Institute for Inflammatory Bowel Disease at…
Like Chinese leaders for decades before him, outgoing Premier Wen Jibao’s final Government Work Report in 2013 presented a litany of statistics intended to communicate progress: rising GDP, revenues and disposable incomes, along with new housing, rail lines and airports.
But only months later, the tone was dramatically different when Wen’s successor, Xi Jinping – recently awarded a third…
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The 11 Cornell students who will be helping delegations at COP27 in Egypt.
At the United Nations’ upcoming Conference of the Parties, 11 Cornell students, including Arts and Sciences students Arden Podpora '23 and Eva Fenningdorf '23, will help delegations from specialized agencies and small countries gain a stronger voice. Better known as COP27, the annual conference ensures that countries meet global climate targets set by the Paris Agreement.
The undergraduate…
When most drivers see a slip of paper under their windshield wiper, they’re unhappy about it – and maybe a little angry, probably with themselves – but they pay the fine. Parking tickets are a fact of life.
But there are some people who, for a variety of reasons, just don’t pay up – and wind up with additional fines or even the loss of their vehicle. And Ori Heffetz, associate professor in…
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As United States voters prepare for contentious midterm elections on Nov. 8, Kenneth Roberts, Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government, College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), sees some cause for concern.
From his recent research in Ecuador and evidence ripped from headlines worldwide, when political parties stoke partisan conflicts – often by contesting formal state institutions, like…
… engineering and mathematics. The Schmidt AI in Science Fellowships, a $148 million program, is part of Schmidt … improve lives across the globe. The Schmidt AI in Science Fellowships program seeks to accelerate the incorporation of …
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Members of the Women of Color Athletes executive board, clockwise from back left, Tia Taylor ’25, track and field; Emily St. John ’23, soccer; Sydney Waiters ’24, soccer; Maddie Packer ’25, track and field; Aviva Muńoz ’23, swimming; and Sydney Moore ’24, volleyball, in Goldwin-Smith Hall. Not pictured: Meilee Key ’24 track and field.
Cornell soccer player Jadyn Matthews ’22 co-founded Women of Color Athletics (WOCA) in February 2020 to provide female athletes of color at Cornell with a community of women who understand the challenges they face. Then the pandemic hit. Then George Floyd was killed. That summer, Breonna Taylor’s murder went uncharged.
“It was a breaking point,” Matthews said. “It felt like WOCA…
Two Cornell icons woven indelibly into the fabric of American history – the late Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, and the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘54 – will each be commemorated in 2023 with a postage stamp.
On Oct. 24, the U.S. Postal Service revealed the subjects of the forthcoming 2023 postage stamps, which will feature a wide range of subjects,…
