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Search underway for new chief diversity officer A search-and-screen committee has been appointed to help identify and select candidates for the next deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, vice provost and chief diversity officer. The committee is being chaired by Jerlando Jackson, professor and department chair in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the School of Education. Other committee members include: Ruben Anthony, president and CEO, Urban League of Greater Madison;...

3 Mar 2021 Scientists from at least thirty-three universities in the United Kingdom have worked with Chinese military researchers on the development of nuclear weapons, an investigation has claimed. Top academics, including those at the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Manchester, have reportedly worked alongside researchers at China’s top nuclear weapons research institution, the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP). According to The Telegraph, academics from at least thirt...

March 2, 2021 The Office of Academic Integration (OVPAI) has awarded $750,000 in seed grants to 10 studies ranging from refugee health and legal rights, to a vaccine treating fentanyl addiction and overdose, to pancreatic cancer and antibiotic tolerance. This year’s awardees represent faculty collaborations across five colleges and schools, and 18 departments and divisions across the Cornell Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Tech in New York City. Designed to catalyze colla...

The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to Tulane physicists Dr. Denys Bondar (left) and Dr. Diyar Talbayev to complete an unsolved experiment involving superoscillations of light. (Photos courtesy of Tulane’s Department of Physics and Physics Engineering)   Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to do what no physicist has ever done before: see through opaque matter using superoscillations...

Date Time Researchers create ‘beautiful marriage’ of quantum enemies Cornell scientists have identified a new contender when it comes to quantum materials for computing and low-temperature electronics. Using nitride-based materials, the researchers created a material structure that simultaneously exhibits superconductivity – in which electrical resistance vanishes completely – and the quantum Hall effect, which produces resistance with extreme precision when a magnetic field is applied....

Even as the term has all but disappeared from official documents, its tenets are being strengthened and extended.

Alumni Activities SAAI to Announce Winners for Scientific Essay Competition Celebrating the 1st anniversary of Sakura Alumni Association Indonesia (SAAI), SAAI organized a scientific essay competition in December 2020. The competition aimed to develop scientific thinking in solving the current crisis. Together, Japan and Indonesia, through the Sakura Alumni Association in Indonesia (SAAI), JST and Sakura Science Club (SSC) would like to attempt a possible effort to provide a platform to trigge...

Cloud Security Alliance Announces 2021 CSA Research Fellows Award honors volunteers for significant accomplishments, contributions to CSA research SEATTLE – Feb. 4, 2021 – The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, today announced the newest recipients of its prestigious Fellowship Awards. CSA Fellow is the highest honor and distinction that ca...

A possible red hot future for electric vehicle batteries High-temperature batteries could one day power road vehicles, according to the University of Nottingham, which has worked with Chinese universities to take a step forward with molten salt ‘metal-air’ batteries. Having a battery running at 700-800°C might seem a little impractical. “This molten salt battery has multiple feasible application directions, and transport is one of these,” Nottingham professor of electro-chemistry Geo...

January 19, 2021 The path that leads to the next generation of high-power electronics is not long. But it needs to be wide. Very wide. A Cornell collaboration has found a way to grow a single crystalline layer of alpha-aluminum gallium oxide that has the widest energy bandgap to date – a discovery that clears the way for new semiconductors that will handle higher voltages, higher power densities and higher frequencies than previously seen. Provided The image at left shows the energy b...