The Aizuri String Quartet—with Ariana Kim, Music, College of Arts and Sciences—was nominated for a 2019 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble performance for their debut album Blueprinting.

Johannes Lehmann, School of Integrative Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences. Lehmann specializes in soil sciences.

Sabrina M. Karim, Government, College of Arts and Sciences, along with co-author Kyle Beardsley, won a 2018 American Political Science Association Best Book Award for Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping.

A new Cornell center—Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the United States Department of Energy at $10.75 million—was established to push forward next-generation fuel cell development, directed by Héctor Abruña, Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research received a $2.8 million grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to establish the Center for Creating Trauma-Informed Residential Settings. The new center helps children who have experienced trauma and adversity by implementing and teaching trauma-informed, evidence-based models to their caretakers. Christopher Wildeman, Policy Analysis and Management, College of Human Ecology, is director of the Bronfenbrenner Center.

Cornell Center for Health Equity was established to bridge Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus to better understand why health outcomes vary among demographic groups—directed by Monika Safford, Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Avery August, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine.

Denmark-based pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, the world’s #1 insulin producer, is backing diabetes research in Mingling Ma’s lab, Biological and Environmental Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Science/College of Engineering, with up to $7 million over the next three-plus years.

Cornell startup Ecolectro received $1.7 million grant from the United Sates Department of Energy to accelerate hydrogen production, a green fuel for the future.

Andrew J. Hicks, Music/Medieval Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, received the Society of Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar book award for 2018 for Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos (Oxford University Press).

Peter Wittich, Physics, College of Arts and Sciences, became part of a $25 million National Science Foundation initiative—leading a Cornell team to expand computation capacity for physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.

Geoffrey W. Coates, Chemistry and Chemistry Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, became part of the United States Department of Energy’s $120 million interdisciplinary Energy Innovation initiative to realize next-generation batteries.

Denise N. Green, Fiber Science and Apparel design, College of Human Ecology, and Rachana Kamtekar, Philosophy/Classics, College of Arts and Sciences, received National Endowment for the Humanities Grants totaling $66,000 for preservation and research projects. Green received $6,000, and Kamtekar received $60,000.

The Roper Center, a non-partisan public opinion data archive, received $1.4 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to construct a Health Opinion Database, perhaps the most comprehensive in the world—directed by Peter K. Enns, Government, College of Arts and Sciences.