Ice shelf holding back keystone Antarctic glacier within years of failure

In this Science article, read about how scientists spotted a set of diagonal fractures in Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier that nearly span the entire shelf.Cornell's Associate Professor Britney Schmidt and research scientist, Peter Washam, sent an instrument-studded robot called Icefin into the ocean finding incursions of warm water beneath the...

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Surprise Planet Discovered Around Extreme Star Pair

In this SciTechDaily article, read about how the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) captured an image of the most massive planet-hosting star pair to date, b Centauri and its giant planet b Centauri b.Read the full story in SciTechDaily.

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Graduate School recognizes over 40 new NSF GRFP recipients

Forty-four graduate students have been selected as new National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellows. These new fellows join Cornell’s community of nearly 200 fellows currently on campus.The NSF offers approximately 2,000 fellowships per year to research-based master’s and doctoral students pursuing study in...

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Nexus Scholars Program applications now open

The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.

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eLab student entrepreneurs make their first pitches to NYC alumni

Students in 20 businesses pitched their ideas to 150 Cornell alumni, investors and friends during the eLab pitch night Nov. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City.

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NSF awards $1.3M to CCAT-prime telescope project

The award will help researchers develop instrumentation that will measure galactic dust polarization and the oldest light in the universe.

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Cornell faculty contribute to Astro2020 decadal survey

A quarter of the faculty from the Department of Astronomy participated in the newly released decadal survey sponsored by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Air Force.

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If NASA greenlights this interstellar mission, it could last 100 years

In this NPR article by Nell Greenfieldboyce, read about a team of scientists and engineers and their design for a spacecraft that could go faster than the Voyagers and much farther out into interstellar space.Read the full story here.

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Juno craft provides first 3D view of Jupiter’s deep storms

“This answers questions that scientists have asked for 200 years," said co-author Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy.

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New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.

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