Engaged Opportunity Grants fund projects from Tompkins to Tanzania

With funding from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, teams of Cornell faculty, staff and community partners are creating new community-engaged learning opportunities for undergraduates.

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New support fund for astronomy graduate students announced

The Riccardo Giovanelli Graduate Student Support Fund was announced July 15 at “Gas-trophysics Across the Universe.”

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Imaging shows how solar-powered microbes turn CO2 into bioplastic

Cornell researchers developed a multimodal platform to image microbe-semiconductor biohybrids with single-cell resolution, to better understand how they can be optimized for more efficient energy conversion.

James Webb Space Telescope sees Jupiter moons in a new light

With its sensitive infrared cameras and high-resolution spectrometer, the James Webb Space Telescope is revealing new secrets of Jupiter’s Galilean satellites – in particular Ganymede, the largest moon, and Io, the most volcanically active.

Balance, Nicholson honored for research, teaching and service

Two faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences, Christine Balance and Linda Nicholson, are the recipients of the 2023 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.

Science plans for telescope’s first light focus of CCAT Consortium meeting

“This was a critical meeting as we are less than two years out from anticipated first light with the facility," said project director Gordon Stacey.

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NASA selects Cornell astronomer for ULTRASAT observatory

Anna Y. Q. Ho and others chosen will pursue science investigations that will contribute to Israel’s first space telescope mission, planned to launch into geostationary orbit around Earth in 2026.

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Inaugural 2023 Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Announced

Eight graduate students from across the U.S. to attend inaugural Weill Institute Emerging Scholars Symposium in Oct. 2023

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Using data for policy decisions: NSF funds economics study

In their project, “Mostly Harmless Statistical Decision Theory,” three Cornell economists in A&S will develop innovative methods for data-driven policy choices.

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