A.D. White Professors are named; fall visits announced

An acclaimed historian of the Caribbean and a multidisciplinary professor of the built environment have been appointed the newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large. Three full visits and three “mini” visits are planned for this semester.

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McMurry makes bestselling chemistry text free in memory of son

Starting fall 2023, the 10th edition of McMurry’s Organic Chemistry will be available an open educational resource (OER) through OpenStax.

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Student’s research focuses on Indigenous agriculture system

The movement involves not only re-establishing heritage foods, but also bolstering the systems that sustain them: irrigation and land access, for instance.

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Sobhani, industry partners win grant to 3D print for clean energy reactors

Assistant Professor Sadaf Sobhani is leading a $50,000 FuzeHub grant in partnership with ceramic 3D-printing company Lithoz America and energy startup Dimensional Energy to develop 3D-printed ceramics for clean energy reactors.

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NFL uses kicking tee invented by Cornell alum

Every National Football League game since the 1999-2000 season has used the patented Ground Zero 1 kicking tee invented by Cornell Engineering alum H. Jay Spiegel ’74.

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Community read launches Society for the Humanities’ ‘Repair’ theme

Cornell’s Society for the Humanities will kick off its 2022-23 theme of “Repair” with a community read of “The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ People in the Cayuga Lake Region. A Brief History” by Kurt Jordan, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Lectures to unearth stories ‘that don’t get told’ in classical scholarship

Oxford scholar Constanze Güthenke will bring to light untold stories of classical scholarship during the 2022 Townsend Lectures Sept. 7, 9, and 12.

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Welcome events to return in full force for fall 2022 semester

CU Downtown, one of three opportunities in September for students to connect with the greater Ithaca community, is returning after a two-year hiatus with a lineup of 11 student performance groups.

New position to intensify cross-campus engineering research

Silvia Ferrari, the John Brancaccio Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will serve as the inaugural associate dean for cross-campus engineering research, reporting to the deans of Cornell Tech and Cornell Engineering.

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