NASA eager to hear from Mars rover as dust storm clears

This feature story describes preparation to communicate with the dust-silenced Mars rover, Opportunity, as the planet’s red skies clear."This is the worst storm Opportunity has ever seen, and we're doing what we can, crossing our fingers, and hoping for the best", said Steve Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University and leader of the...

Arts & Sciences dean receives physics outreach medal

Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts & Sciences and professor of astronomy, has been awarded the 2018 Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach by the American Physical Society (APS).

A New Clue in the Search for Forests on Distant Planets

This feature story details Lisa Kaltenegger and Jack O'Malley-James' research to find signs of plant life on other worlds.“We really should look at our planet like a Rosetta Stone,” says Lisa Kaltenegger, the director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell. “We are on the verge of figuring this out, and we need archival data on our planet to...

A&S Dean Ray Jayawardhana Shares His Passions for Collaborative Learning and Astrophysics

This feature story details Dean Jayawardhana's interest in Astronomy.Arts and Sciences dean and astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana’s interest in astronomy started when, as a boy of about four years, his father told him about people walking on the moon.He said that at that age, the idea that “there’s something in the sky and you could walk on it”...

From fish DNA to Mars: STEM programs inspire kids across NYS

This feature story details how STEM programs help bring excitement and possibility of space to kids in New York State.Click here to read the full story in the Cornell Chronicle.

Lawrence Kidder elected fellow of American Physical Society

Astronomer to co-lead Extrasolar Planetary Systems Key Science Program

Image: Artist's concept of the completed Giant Magellan Telescope.

Astronomers use Earth’s history as guide to spot vegetation on new worlds

A new model by Cornell astronomers will help identify possible life on exoplanets.

A Q&A with A&S Dean Ray Jayawardhana

Ray Jayawardhana became the 22nd dean of Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences on September 1. Learn more about him as he begins his term.

Junior studies cosmology at Cornell nanoscale facility

Mahiro Abe ‘20 won an Arts & Sciences Tanner Dean’s Scholar Grant for his research this summer at the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility.