After 15 years, gravitational waves detected as cosmic ‘hum’

A collaboration including Cornell astrophysicists has found the first evidence of low-frequency gravitational waves believed to be generated by merging pairs of supermassive black holes.

Geologists celebrate 40 years of Andes research

A group of Cornell geologists – known as the Cornell Andes Project – came together in early June to celebrate 40 years of research in South America and their collective success in advancing the understanding of plate tectonics.

Spouses sharing friends may live longer after widowhood

The “widowhood effect” – the tendency for married people to die in close succession – is accelerated when spouses don’t know each other’s friends well, new Cornell sociology research finds.

2023 Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator names record cohort

The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management unveiled the diverse group of 25 startups that make up the 2023 Johnson Summer Startup Accelerator (JSSA), the program's largest cohort to date.

Around Cornell

Howard Evans, emeritus professor of anatomy, dies at 100

Howard Evans earned his undergraduate degree and his Ph.D.from Cornell and joined CVM as a faculty member in 1950, where he taught courses on animal anatomy.

NextGenPop aims to broaden the people studying populations

Twenty undergraduates visited Cornell June 4-18 for NextGenPop, an intensive summer training program aimed at increasing diversity in the field of population science.

Lena Kourkoutis, renowned electron microscopy expert, dies at 44

Lena F. Kourkoutis, M.S. ’06, Ph.D. ’09, an associate professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics, who was internationally recognized for her advances in cryo-electron microscopy, died on June 24 at the age of 44 after living with colon cancer for two years.

Working toward Black reproductive justice from the Library of Congress

Appointed to the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History this year, Tamika Nunley is using her time at the Library of Congress to work on  The Black Reproductive Justice Archive, a collection of oral histories.

Exoplanet may reveal secrets about the edge of habitability

A recently discovered exoplanet may provide insights about conditions at the inner edge of a star’s habitable zone, and why Earth and Venus developed so differently, according to new astronomy research led by Lisa Kaltenegger.