Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the inaugural CCAT-prime telescope collaboration meeting, April 7, was switched to a virtual gathering, but science regarding the project advanced.
Eric Rebillard, the Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Classics, was one of 175 writers, artists, scholars and scientists named 2020 fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Virtual events at Cornell include Virtual Reunion 2020, a Johnson Museum tour for 4-H students, a COVID-19 public policy discussion and a town hall featuring former Congressman Barney Frank and MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle.
As President Biden continues to promote his infrastructure bill, concerns are rising as the U.S. faces a shortage of skilled workers to fill the positions needed in construction, transportation and energy. Art Wheaton says as long as there are long-term assurances of jobs, training and apprenticeship programs will aid in filling those positions.
Forte Protein – a new Cornell startup that grows commercial animal proteins inside agricultural plants – has joined the university’s Center for Life Science Ventures business incubator.
President Bill Clinton will participate in a virtual conversation about strengthening America's democratic norms for future generations on March 18, launching the new Milstein Democracy Forum Speaker Series.
Dasha Khapalova of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has been honored by the Architect’s Newspaper for a proposal to transform the space near the Holland Tunnel Exit Plaza in lower Manhattan.
With a little twist and the turn of a voltage knob, Cornell researchers have shown that a single material system can toggle between two of the wildest states in condensed matter physics.
A rocky planet orbiting a white dwarf – a star in a phase after death – would present an excellent opportunity to search for molecules that signify life using the James Webb Space Telescope, Cornell researchers write in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “Caste,” will deliver the Cornell Center for Social Sciences’ annual Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 21.
