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Legislative chamber

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‘Tipping point’ of polarization threatens democracy’s survival

In a new study, researchers have identified a point beyond which extreme political polarization becomes irreversible.
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Afghan women scholars find safe haven at Cornell

The nine undergrads will be arriving on campus through December, thanks to robust international and cross-campus collaborations. Cornell has pledged support until they graduate.
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Smell and situation, entangled in our brains

With an award from the National Institutes of Health, a team of Arts & Sciences researchers is investigating neurological links between smell and context—like location.
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Mapping RNA Regulation in Human Immune Cells

With an award from the National Institutes of Health, Hojoong Kwak, molecular biology and genetics, will research mechanisms that regulate gene expression.
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Music department partners with student groups for Slope Day competition

Various musical groups and organizations at Cornell are creating a competition,"Big Red Idol," with winners performing at Slope Day 2022.
David Esparza

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Student Spotlight: David Esparza

Originally from El Paso, Texas, Esparza chose Cornell for his Ph.D. because of its commitment to evidence-based teaching methods, its continued support of undergraduate field science education, and the friendly culture at Cornell EEB.
Michelle Wang

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Forces That Drive the DNA Highway

Motor proteins carry out vital biological processes as they travel along our DNA strands. Michelle Wang investigates the mysteries of how they move.
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Masks protect better than distancing, study finds

New research shows the maximum risks of being infected by the coronavirus for different scenarios with and without masks.
David Esparza

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Graduate School recognizes over 40 new NSF GRFP recipients

Arts and Sciences doctoral students David Esparza and Anna Whittemore are among 44 Cornell graduate students selected as new National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) fellows.
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Nexus Scholars Program applications now open

The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
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Highly Selective, Energy-Efficient Chemical Separations

With a CAREER award, Phillip J. Milner, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is developing sponge-like crystalline materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOF).
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New center will integrate human development research

Cornell’s new Center for Integrative Developmental Science will strengthen Cornell as a leader in human development research across the lifespan.
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How to transform neighborhoods without destroying them

"In the wealthiest country on earth, can it possibly be that low-income residents only get to live in wretched places?"
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A 'freedom church' unearths its Underground Railroad history

Church members and a multidisciplinary team of Cornell faculty and students are learning more about St. James A.M.E. Zion Church by doing an archaeological dig.
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What to read in 2022? A&S faculty weigh in

A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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Popular Music Course Makes its Winter Session Debut

Cornell’s Winter Session has always been a great way for students to earn credits, but many may not realize that some popular courses, often closed out during the spring and fall semesters, are also available during the winter.
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eLab student entrepreneurs make their first pitches to NYC alumni

Students in 20 businesses pitched their ideas to 150 Cornell alumni, investors and friends during the eLab pitch night Nov. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City.
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Cornell, Ithaca College effort moves housing project forward

Research from a team of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty and students provided key insights to Tompkins County legislators as they recently approved funding for a new housing program to help formerly incarcerated people.
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The most important meeting yet for global pandemic response–and drugmakers

As global health leaders meet to chart the future of pandemic response, equity between nations must take top priority, Basu writes.
 Paul Ginsparg

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arXiv founder Ginsparg wins Einstein Foundation Berlin Award

The inaugural Einstein Foundation Berlin Award for Promoting Quality in Research by the Einstein Foundation has been awarded to Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, for his work in developing arXiv.org, the first platform to make scientific preprints immediately available globally.
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Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections

Have you ever thought about not voting because your candidate’s victory seems assured? Think again.
Physics

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Three professors elected as APS fellows

Kyle Shen, Kin Fai Mak and Lawrence Gibbons named APS fellows.
Ben Fried

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Student spotlight: Ben Fried

Ben Fried is a doctoral candidate in English language and literature from Ottawa, Canada.
St. James AME Zion Church

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Community partnerships honored at 2021 TOGO awards

The Underground Railroad Project at St. James A.M.E. Zion Church, the Foodnet Meals on Wheels program, and Khuba International and the Learning Farm received collaboration awards for partnering with Cornell to improve the lives of Tompkins County residents.
Lamin Johnson

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Lamin Johnson ’21: sparking connections through art

The Class of 2021 grad and spoken word artist is known for writing thoughtful and poignant poetry.
Pregnant woman in tight red dress with hands on stomach.

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Declining birth rate reflects difficulty of combining work and child rearing

Prof. Vida Maralani comments on the declining birthrate in the U.S.
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Alum memorialized with campaign to promote his made-up word

Neil Krieger ’62 coined a word during a freshman writing seminar more than six decades ago.
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The fruits of their labors

Historian Lawrence Glickman writes in this Slate piece about the origins of Thanksgiving as the "free enterprise holiday."
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Two juniors receive Caplan Travel Fellowships

Garrett Emmons '23 and Hannah Master '23 won fellowships worth $5,000 to study and conduct research in Italy and Israel, respectively.
 Roberto Sierra

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Sierra wins Latin Grammy for guitar sonata

Composer Roberto Sierra won for “Music from Cuba and Spain, Sierra: Sonata para Guitarra.”
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Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’

Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
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Migration treaty violations, trade central to U.S.-Mexico-Canada summit

Prof. Gustavo Flores-Macías comments on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada summit on Nov. 18, 2021.
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Humanizing the immigration issue

Molly O’Toole '09, this semester's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow, shared career advice, political insights and anecdotes from her work and life during two recent talks.
Black Americans gathering

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Prof. to speak on Black print culture and democracy

At this year’s Invitational Lecture for the Society for the Humanities, “Defining Democracy: How Black Print Culture Shaped America, Then and Now,” associate professor of literatures in English Derrick Spires will counter the racist notion that little to no Black print culture existed before the Civil War.
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Center for Social Sciences awards fall ’21 grants

Ten Arts & Sciences faculty and numerous graduate students won awards from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences.
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Library immersions deepen student research

A doctoral student researching Black life in the U.S. after the abolition of slavery, Victoria Baugh was fascinated by the hundreds of studio portraits in the Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photography at Cornell University Library.
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Infrastructure bill comes amid all-time high distrust of water

… nation's water quality and consumer's faith," Ezell said. “Porous infrastructure can lead to sewage overflows, which can …
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Journalists to discuss role of reporting in immigration debate

Three Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and authors will be on campus Dec. 1 for an event that will also be livestreamed on eCornell. Register now!
Lisette Lorenz

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Student spotlight: Lissette Lorenz

Lissette Lorenz is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Miami, Florida.
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Quechua language instruction returns to Cornell

The Quechua language returned to Cornell’s curriculum this fall after a 15-year hiatus, thanks to a group of students who organized to bring it back and an instructor who traveled to Ithaca from her home in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.
Chinese President Xi Jinping standing at a podium with the US Seal on the front, with Joe Biden behind him and Hilary Clinton to his left dressed in a red pants suit.

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Contentious issues between U.S., China unlikely to be resolved by zoom call

Associate professor of government Allen Carlson comments on the scheduled meeting between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Siyu Huang holding a battery

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Electric uprising: Factorial Energy—new lightning, new bottles

Factorial Energy has unveiled a 40-amp-hour solid-state battery cell for electric vehicles.
The cover of Trans Historical showing a person with long red hair and a mustache.

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New edited volume explores plurality of gender experiences

“The book is a collection of essays about trans, nonbinary and gender-complicated people across a broad geographic range, from Poland to France to early Colonial America, going all the way back to Byzantine and Ancient Roman writings.”
two people on top of a mountain

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NSF awards $1.3M to CCAT-prime telescope project

The award will help researchers develop instrumentation that will measure galactic dust polarization and the oldest light in the universe.
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Andrea Savage ’94 makes ’em laugh

Andrea Savage '94 is a a prolific actress and comedy writer.
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When is a basin of attraction like an octopus?

In dynamical systems research, a “basin of attraction” is the set of all the starting points — usually close to one another — that arrive at the same final state as the system evolves through time.
 Daniel Ralph

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Physics professor wins American Physical Society prize

Professor Dan Ralph was awarded the McGroddy Award by APS.
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Weak coupling shows flaw in strange metal model

Planckian metals have the potential to power high-temperature superconductors, quantum computers and a host of other next-generation technologies.
Margaret Bonds

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ONEcomposer returns for second season

ONEComposer returns for a second season honoring Margaret Bonds.
 Black Lives Matter protest, masked people holding signs of men who have been killed

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America’s most destructive habit

Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.