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Forty-three student scholars, including nine from Arts and Sciences, were honored at this year’s 35th Merrill Presidential Scholars ceremony on May 23.
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Cornell is breaking new ground in electron beam research with the HERACLES beamline, a state-of-the-art electron gun that mimics the harsh environments of the world’s largest particle colliders.
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These grants provide a unique opportunity for faculty who are new to active learning and want to learn more or for those who want to expand upon initial efforts in implementing these teaching strategies.
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A&S faculty members will delve into questions ranging from quantum computing to foreign policy development and from heritage forensics to effects of climate change.
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This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Eun-Ah Kim and Google researchers report the first demonstration of 2D particles that are key for a promising method of introducing fault resistance to quantum computing.
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A&S physicist Michelle Wang is among four Cornell faculty who were elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in research.
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Jeffrey Backus is a physics and mathematics major.
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Yaoju Tarn is a physics major.
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The approach could one day lead to the creation of a new fleet of tiny autonomous devices that can rapidly respond to their chemical environment.
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The fellowship provides world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources at DOE national laboratories.
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“I’m excited that we can use this tool now and apply it to this large class of really fascinating superconductors, which are a rich playground in condensed matter physics for realizing extraordinary superconducting phenomena.”
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Toichiro Kinoshita, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died March 23. He was 98.
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Five faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences will be featured on a “Cornell week” on The Academic Minute radio program from May 1-5.
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By studying the brain mechanisms of vocal learning in budgies, Zhilei Zhao explores how social learning is implemented in the brain.
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Realizing 2D particles called non-Abelian anyons in the real world is potentially useful for quantum computation: protecting bits of quantum information by storing them non-locally,
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You don’t have to be a nuclear physicist to appreciate these tidbits about the Hill’s first facility devoted to accelerator physics
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Planning to harness the power of AI are A&S researchers from physics; ecology and evolutionary biology; chemistry and chemical biology; and neurobiology and behavior
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Physicists Matthias Liepe and James Sethna were recognized for having made "exceptional contributions" to physics.
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Research in the realm of accelerator physics focuses a lot on where you get the particles from. My group’s expertise is creating and manipulating electron beams. We’re typically interested in studying a process called photon emission by way of using light to impinge on a specially engineered material that will emit electrons when illuminated. My group are experts in generating high brightness electron beams via photoemission, using light to generate electrons.
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I joined the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2005. The project then was already in the middle of construction and primarily I worked on the pixel detector and getting that ready for data taking, which started in 2010. But already I was thinking about what we want to do in the future. So I got involved with the H luminosity LHC upgrade, the next major upgrade of the facility at CERN that will allow us to take data at a rate that is in order of magnitude higher than what we have been doing so far. Starting about 2014, we really started seriously to make the plans for this work which had been listed as the highest priority project for the LHC upgrades.
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As a graduate student in Germany at a national research lab, students weren’t allowed to do many thing for themselves. My advisor sent me to Cornell for six months to learn how to do things. In Newman Lab, the students do everything – how to use the clean room, how to solder, etc. So after I finished my PhD I came back to Newman Lab and Cornell.
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A model system created by stacking a pair of monolayer semiconductors is giving physicists a simpler way to study confounding quantum behavior.
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“There are very few universities that do accelerator research. Cornell is a leader among them.”
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A world expert at using mechanical strain to precisely manipulate the properties of materials, Malinowski is particularly interested in superconductors.
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A model based on density functional theory can suggest the best positioning for each player on the basketball court.
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Astrophysicist Wendy L. Freedman will describe the current state of cosmology and her work with the Hubble Space Telescope that has led to some of the most precise measurements of the Hubble constant made to date.
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Gravitational waves produced from colliding black holes interact with each other, producing nonlinear effects – “what happens when waves on the beach crest and crash.”
Three Arts and Sciences professors “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization."
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Assistant professors Debanjan Chowdhury, physics, and Andrew Musser, chemistry, are among 126 researchers in the United States and Canada who this year have received two-year fellowships to advance their work.
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In the experimental metal-to-insulator transition, even a tiny amount of imperfection plays a key role in revealing the universal physics.
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“This program focuses on the social good that can come from interactions between science and policy."
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For most undergraduate women studying physics, they’ll likely experience being one of just a few women—if not the only one—in the classroom. Faculty and student leaders from the physics departments at Ithaca College and Cornell University recently joined forces to host the 2023 American Physical Society (APS) Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP), designed to inspire and empower the next generation of female physicists.
Twelve Cornell and Weill Cornell Medicine faculty members – six of whom are also Cornell alumni – have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
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New research into a common chemotherapy agent is advancing the study of cancer inhibitors.
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The fourth cohort of Klarman Fellows is the largest since the program’s launch in 2019.
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Thanks to additional significant support from Seth Klarman ’79 and Beth Schultz Klarman, the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship program has been expanded to support 10 fellows per cohort.
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In 1995, astronomers found the first known planet around a sun-like star outside our solar system. The news caused a buzz of excitement around the world. Finally we had proof of a planet orbiting another star like our own—the stepping stone, perhaps, to finding extraterrestrial life in far-distant solar systems.
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Dan Ralph, Ph.D. ’93, the F.R. Newman Professor of Physics, is among the center’s 25 principal investigators.
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The finding provides evidence for an organizational principle in which each muscle has a specific function in flight control.
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With $410,000 Ivan Bazarov will research long lifetime spin-polarized electron sources in particle accelerators.
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A new explanation of nanoscale mechanics by Michelle Wang's lab contributes to the future of CRISPR technology.
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Eun-Ah Kim and Michael Matty, M.S. ’19, Ph.D. ’22, describe a phase in between the liquid and the solid for electron structures.
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Ze-Wen Koh plans to pursue a doctorate in planetary science after graduation.
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The National Science Foundation offers approximately 2,000 fellowships per year to research-based master’s and doctoral students pursuing STEM studies.
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The research will help give unprecedented insight into electron behavior and quantum phenomena.
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Why do electrons in high-temperature superconductors behave the way they do? A quantum explanation could have planetary payoffs.
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Julia Thom-Levy, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named associate vice provost for physical sciences.
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Quantum microscopes based on Davis designs have galvanized quantum materials visualization studies globally.
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The initiative has supported classes in the humanities, the social and natural sciences, mathematics, information science and engineering.
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