Alumna’s namesake observatory takes a deep dive into the cosmos
The facility, which honors astronomer Vera Cooper Rubin, MS ’51, has released its first images—and they’re mind-blowing
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A&S honors 13 faculty with endowed professorships
The professorships are made possible because of gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
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SPROUT Awards cultivate early-stage engineering research 
From designing a reversible male contraceptive to detecting life on distant ocean worlds, the latest Cornell Engineering SPROUT Awards are cultivating breakthroughs across medicine, space exploration, robotics and environmental sensing.
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Cornell astronomers win time on James Webb Space Telescope
The "premier telescope in space right now" will start a fourth annual cycle of observations on July 1, and three early-career astronomy researchers in A&S are PI or co-PI on observation programs chosen from a very competitive field.
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SETI Institute Names First William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Karen I. Perez is the inaugural recipient of the William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship at the SETI Institute.
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Changemaker Award goes to SPIF and Zoe Learner Ponterio
The Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways say Ponterio’s support “has been invaluable."
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'I embraced my love of learning'
Laine Havens is majoring in astronomy and science & technology studies
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'I've worked on a code-based project characterizing exoplanets'
Neal Jerome is an astronomy major.
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