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Ngoc Truong chose to study at Cornell because of its tradition of faculty/staff/student involvement with spacecraft missions and its many notable planetary scientists and astrophysicists such as Carl Sagan and Edwin Salpeter.
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The European Astrobiology Network association (EANA) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For that reason, EANA organized several special events and activities in 2021. One of these activities was the EANA outstanding paper award contest. The winner has been announced:Fairén et al., “The Complex Molecules Detector (CMOLD): A fluidic-...
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This new program provides undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with hands-on experience in developing innovative small spacecraft missions in high-priority areas of space science.
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Applications are now being accepted for the third cohort of the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowships program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The deadline for submission is Oct. 15.
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Sixteen military veterans participated in a virtual academic boot camp at Cornell July 26 to Aug. 6. The university partnered with the Warrior-Scholar Project for the seventh consecutive year to help recent or soon-to-be military veterans transition into higher education.
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NASA’s Dragonfly mission, which will send a rotorcraft relocatable lander to Titan’s surface in the mid-2030s, will be the first mission to explore the surface of Titan, and it has big goals.
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Next month, a European rocket carrying the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch into space. In this New Yorker article, read about lead scientists, including Cornell's Nikole Lewis, who will work with the JWST’s NIRSpec (near-infrared spectrograph) instrument.Read the full story in The New Yorker.
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Saul Teukolsky, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics and Astrophysics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics’ 2021 ICTP Dirac Medal and Prize for his contributions to the detection of gravitational waves.Teukolsky is the first Cornell faculty member to receive the medal, which is...
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“Those bright reflections have been big news over the last few years because they were initially interpreted as liquid water below the ice.”
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