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Congratulations to the Arts & Sciences faculty receiving Weiss teaching awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring! Michael Goldstein, Cornell Psychology; Verity Platt, classics; @SumanSeth42, Science & Technology Studies at Cornell; and Alex Townsend, mathematics as.cornell.edu/news/weiss-tea…

"The promise and perils of the #NewSpace Boom" - with Sarah Kreps Avishai Melamed for The Brookings Institution #TechStream: brookings.edu/techstream/the… #space #tech #policy CornellArts&Sciences Cornell University

The rapid expansion of commercial space activity, as well as its integration into key government programs and services, represents a leap into uncharted waters. Sarah Kreps, Ray Jayawardhana, and Avishai Melamed discuss the risks and policy challenges. brookings.edu/techstream/the…

The Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship program has been expanded to 10 fellows per cohort thanks to additional support from Seth Klarman ’79 & Beth Schultz Klarman. "The Klarman Fellowships have surpassed our highest expectations," says Dean Ray Jayawardhana as.cornell.edu/news/klarman-f…

Renovation underway: CornellArts&Sciences has embarked upon a $110 million transformation of McGraw Hall, with several Cornell University families pledging more than $40 million in foundational gifts to enable the comprehensive renovation. Cornell Alumni Ray Jayawardhana news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…

Coming up Wednesday #exoplanet #astronomy #NewZealand University of Canterbury UC Science | Te Kaupeka Pūtaiao

Visit to University of Canterbury UCNZ's Mt John Observatory #astronomy

Coming up next week University of Canterbury.

We are at a moment akin to Galileo and his telescope. Will discovery of alien life be our Copernican moment? Intriguing ending to ⁦University of Canterbury⁩ Connect talk by ⁦Ray Jayawardhana⁩ from ⁦Cornell University⁩

Paper on disks of young planetary-mass objects, using Spitzer Telescope (Retired) data in prep. for NASA Webb Telescope observations, led by Dalcash Dvinsky, accepted by AAS Publishing: #astronomy

New paper on emission spectroscopy of the ultra-hot Jupiter #exoplanet KELT-9b, using Carmenes Exoplanets data, led by Andrew Ridden-Harper, accepted by@AAS_Publishing: arxiv.org/abs/2304.03248 #astronomy

Great talk last night with Ray Jayawardhana, S.E. Cupp from CNN, Matthew Hiltzik from Hiltzik Strategies, http://AliCirone.bsky.social and Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Andrew Morse, president and publisher of Atlanta Journal-Constitution on political polarization and the media

This morning, with Andrew Ross Sorkin

Backing bold ideas: $2.5M in CornellArts&Sciences New Frontiers Grants will fund 13 research projects across the sciences, social sciences and humanities for novel investigations, ranging from quantum computing to climate change. Ray Jayawardhana news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…

This summer, 101 undergrads in CornellArts&Sciences will take part in groundbreaking #research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program. Ray Jayawardhana news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/0…

Distinguished mathematician, teacher & science communicator Steven Strogatz is the first to hold the Winokur Professorship in the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics in A&S, believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S. Ray Jayawardhana as.cornell.edu/news/5m-gift-e…

Steven Strogatz Ray Jayawardhana “The Winokur Professorship extends the remarkable legacy of Carl Sagan and other legendary Arts and Sciences faculty, and doubles down on our deep and enduring commitment to broader engagement,” said A&S dean Ray Jayawardhana, who has made public engagement a priority for the college.

Welcome to Hopkins Ray Jayawardhana! hub.jhu.edu/2023/07/12/ray…

In other news, we detected metal hydride in an exoplanet atmosphere at high spectral resolution for the first time, led by Dr. Laura Flagg: arxiv.org/abs/2307.06242

Excited that within the next day (!) NASA Webb Telescope will observe young star cluster NGC 1333 with NIRISS/WFSS, in search of free-floating planetary mass objects. Nearly a decade of planning with former postdocs Aleks Scholz & Kora Muzic, building on ground-based surveys.