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Cornell faculty contribute to Astro2020 decadal survey

… 11531 … The newly released “Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s,” a … in the cosmos?  How do planets form and evolve toward places that can host life, and how many such places in the … evolves as we work toward the report’s goals.” The decadal study — undertaken by the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and …
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Morrison’s son visits campus for film screening

The son of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, will visit campus Nov. 9 for a film screening and discussion of “The Foreigner’s Home,” a documentary based on Morrison’s monthlong guest-curated 2006 series of cultural events at the Louvre.
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Einaudi Center announces new Global Public Voices fellows

With a focus on inequalities and social justice, this year’s 27 Global Vices fellows will engage with national and international news media
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Mass atrocities in Ethiopia could get worse as federal state loses ground

Political scientist Oumar Ba comments on the escalation of the yearlong war in Ethiopia.
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President Pollack shares community updates

President Martha E. Pollack shares some updates from across the Cornell community.
Princess Mako

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Princess Mako of Japan's commoner wedding suggests sexism will doom the royal family

Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, writes in this piece that legal reforms initiated under U.S. military occupation after World War II shut the door to Japan's Princess Mako and other imperial women’s claims to lifelong royalty.
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‘Still a long way to go:’ Looking back on the start of women’s studies at Cornell

As Cornell's women's studies program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – along with the 30th anniversary of the LGBT studies program – faculty and alumni from the early days of the program are remembering the barriers they hurdled, as well as the support they received, as they sought to establish the program in 1972.
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Juno craft provides first 3D view of Jupiter’s deep storms

“This answers questions that scientists have asked for 200 years," said co-author Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy.
Wynton Marsalis

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Arts Unplugged: Marsalis offers Nov. 6 concert with wind symphony

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony, open to the public, and a talk open to members of the Cornell community.
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Big data can render some as ‘low-resolution citizens’

Researchers used India’s biometrics-based individual identification system to examine how the system works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.
Pedro Molina

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Nicaraguan cartoonist finds refuge at Einaudi Center

Pedro X. Molina is now an APF fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
 Patrizia C. McBride

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Patrizia McBride recognized with article prize

Professor Patrizia McBride won the 2021 Max Kade prize for best article in The German Quarterly.
 Ella Maria Diaz

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Professor Ella Maria Diaz wins two book awards

Professor Ella Maria Diaz wins two gold medals at the International Latino Book Awards for her book "José Montoya."
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New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
Princess Mako wearing pearl earrings, necklace and pin, and a long sleeved green dress; she is holding white gloves and a fan.

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Japan’s imperial laws may doom the royal family

Historian Kristin Roebuck comments on the consequences of the marriage of Japan's Princess Mako.
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COP 26 ushers ‘new domain of geopolitics’ as Russia demands sanction relief

Historian Nicholas Mulder comments on Russia's demand for sanction relief.
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'Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It'

Brookings Fellow Jonathan Rauch will address misinformation in his talk "Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It."
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The Cornellian behind the slogan ‘Ithaca is Gorges’

The man who designed the Ithaca is Gorges logo in the Seventies—the late Howard Cogan ’50, MPS ’80—never trademarked it.
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Cornell launches $5B campaign ‘to do the greatest good’

A newly launched, major fundraising campaign aims to shape Cornell as the model university for the 21st century and beyond, building on its foundation of world-class academics, research and engagement.
Eli Clare

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Disability advocate Eli Clare to speak on COVID-19

Disability justice advocate Eli Clare has been chosen as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor, and he will be hosted for two virtual talks by the Cornell Society for the Humanities in partnership with the Syracuse University Humanities Center.
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Cornell mathematicians featured at International Congress of Mathematicians

… ICM for 2022 affirms what we are fiercely proud of in the math department: broad research strength across many areas of …
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Transdisciplinary film explores Trinidad and Tobago

“We Love We Self Up Here” is a new documentary focused on the complex histories of labor and migration in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Alumna’s galactic quest proved existence of dark matter

Vera Cooper Rubin, MS ’51, was a pioneering astronomer whose studies on the Hill helped shape her life’s work.
Farid Ferdows

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For those who dream, Cornell is your place, says Farid Ferdows ’21

… he had to start from the beginning, to build his basic math and academic writing skills. Thanks to the generosity of … says. “We both attended MCC, where we took a non-credit math class [TRS-092] to teach us basic addition, subtraction, …
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Progressives make sacrifices to win Manchin, Sinema

Government professor David Bateman comments on the budget bill negotiations in Congress.
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White House acknowledges ‘right to stay home’ for climate migrants

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia comments on the report released this week by the White House on climate change and migration.
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Reshaping student experiences through new innovations in teaching

This fall, a new group of Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners are beginning work on projects to enhance student learning environments across Cornell.
 Jamila Michener, Assistant Professor of Government

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Michener testifies to House committee about health care

Health is an exceptionally expensive resource in the United States, “though it should not be,” political scientist Jamila Michener told the House Rules Committee on Oct. 13.
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Library marks advising milestone

Librarians have been vital to the A&S advising seminars program, which pairs students with faculty advisors in the college and connects them with campus resources essential to their well-being and academic success.
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Battle with Bannon is 'political theater,' shows need for reform

Prof. Doug Kriner, author of the book “Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power,” says the conflict indicates a need for reforms that would enable more powerful congressional oversight.
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Lavish wealth tolerated more for individuals than groups

Driving the effect, the researchers propose, is our tendency to see internal traits as more responsible for individual successes and failures than for group outcomes.
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Weiss teaching awards honor 10 exceptional faculty

… can be challenging to teach to students less grounded in math. Students also appreciated Thoemmes’ knack for …
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Titan’s river maps may advise Dragonfly’s sedimental journey

A Cornell-led team of astronomers has published the final maps of Titan’s liquid methane rivers and tributaries, as seen by NASA’s late Cassini mission.
Andy Strominger

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Hans Bethe Lecture to illuminate black hole paradox

This year's Hans Bethe Lecture, “Probing the Edges of the Universe: Black Holes, Horizons and Strings,” will be on Wed., Oct. 27 at 7:30 pm in the David Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
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Attacks upon cultural heritage are 'attacks upon a people'

Cornell University researchers Adam Smith and Lori Khatchadourian, who have used high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor and document endangered and damaged cultural heritage in the South Caucasus, comment on the case currently before the Hague.
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New timeline clarifies Indigenous history in Mohawk Valley

A collaboration between the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory and the New York State Museum in Albany has established a more precise timeline for some of the most iconic archeological sites in the Mohawk Valley.
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Surviving a star’s demise: Discovery adds proof of planetary resilience

Astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, comments on the discovery of MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb, a Jupiter-sized planet that survived its star’s death.
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Detected: 1,652 radio bursts from 3 billion light-years away

An international team of astronomers including Cornell researchers have detected 1,652 independent millisecond explosions – called fast radio bursts, or FRBs – over a period of only 47 days.
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Book explores Nigerian women’s political activism

"The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria,” explores the years immediately following World War II, which were pivotal for women in Nigeria.
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Schmidt: Exploring Earth’s oceans to reach Europa

Britney Schmidt is in Antarctica through February 2022 with a small team of researchers to explore the confluence of glaciers, floating ice shelves and ocean, using a submarine robot called Icefin.
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Scholarship gift helps pay it forward

… gets stopped by fellow Cornellians when she wears her favorite Cornell sweatshirt. As alumni, they feel part of “a …
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New moral psychology minor takes on challenging questions

… moral psychology, with faculty approving the new area of study July 15. The curriculum will offer students … as well as hands-on experience applying moral psychology to practical ethical issues. The minor will first be offered … faculty in moral psychology -- the best on the planet -- places Cornell very much at the field's leading edge, so it …
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Tiny spores full of promise

Eileen Tzng, an undergraduate in the Pawlowska lab, is intent on understanding the relationship between fungal spores and the bacteria they harbor.
 Kyle Shen

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Engineering novel hybrid superconductors

The Shen lab leverages unique experimental capabilities to detect and investigate systems in which superconductivity may be fragile or exist only at surfaces or interfaces.
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eLab introduces newest cohort of student startups

Following a competitive application process, eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, announced the 20 student teams selected for participation in the 2021-22 cohort.
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Concerto highlights individual voice and the sound of community

“The Oberlin Concertos,” released Sept. 17, features a composition by Elizabeth Ogonek, which combines voice, piano and percussion.
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Looking for love, finding TNT

African pouched rats have an extraordinary talent for finding land mines. Alexander Ophir explores why they are so good at detecting explosives.
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Chemistry professor helped catalyze Nobel-winning breakthrough

A small contribution from chemistry Professor Tristan Lambert when he was a doctoral student helped catalyze the breakthrough in catalysis that led to the 2021 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
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Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom

This fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods
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Grant to fund conference on climate change in South Asia

A Cornell-led international team of researchers has received a $65,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for its project, “The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.”