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Marine Le Pen with sholuder-length blonde hair and jacket, with hand upraised in the midst of a speech, with French flag in bakcground

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May Day strikes: French far-right gains ground as working people's party

Prof. Mabel Berezin comments on the May Day strikes in France.
Tamika Nunley

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Historian explores limits of justice for enslaved women in Virginia

The creation of slave laws throughout the antebellum South can be traced back to the legal system in Virginia.
Toichiro Kinoshita

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‘Heroic’ physicist Toichiro Kinoshita dies at 98

Toichiro Kinoshita, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died March 23. He was 98.
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Milstein first-years take advantage of community, opportunity

First-year students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity talk about their varied experiences.
Alice Paul toasting (with grape juice) the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, August 26, 1920

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Passage of ERA legislation ‘long overdue’

The U.S. Senate is set to vote today on a measure that could allow the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to be added to the U.S. Constitution, a century after its introduction. 
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Mars Rover documentary to screen at Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema will present a free screening of the documentary Good Night Oppy.
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Arts and Sciences faculty featured on Academic Minute

Five faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences were featured on a “Cornell week” on The Academic Minute radio program from May 1-5.
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'Parking missile subs in South Korea creates multiple risk scenarios'

The United States will deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in 40 years — part of a new agreement, signed Wednesday, and signaling Washington's commitment to defend Seoul against nuclear threats from North Korea.
Dean Ray Jayawardhana (left) moderates “Transcending Echo Chambers: Political Polarization and the Media” with panelists Andrew Morse ’96, S. E. Cupp ’00, Matthew Hiltzik ’94; and Alexandra Cirone, assistant professor of government.

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Panelists: Good journalism can help combat divisions

The panel was the centerpiece of Andrew Morse’s residency as Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College.
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New research sheds light on how circadian rhythms work

The research offers new hope for dealing with jet lag, insomnia and other sleep disorders.
P. Gabrielle Foreman

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MacArthur Fellow to give Krieger Lecture on 19th-Century Black political organizing

May 2, MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman will give a talk, “Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th-Century Black Political Organizing,” on the history of 19th century Black activism.
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Film co-produced by Natalie Melas wins award

The Award for Film and Video from the Society of Architectural Historians has been given to the film “We Love We Self Up Here.”
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Circumstances influence happiness as much as personality

Surveys of happiness and life satisfaction overstate the importance of psychological traits, but a methodological change – simply asking someone how they’re doing – enables a fairer comparison.
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Ask our ambassadors: My favorite memories

I could yell, celebrate, and parade around campus with the rest of the crowd, because, in that moment, I realized that I was one of them: I was a Cornell student.
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Klarman Fellow studies vocal learning in parrots

By studying the brain mechanisms of vocal learning in budgies, Zhilei Zhao explores how social learning is implemented in the brain.
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Popular course offers life lessons from faculty dream team

Drawing on research in psychology and economics, the profs offer practical tools for relationships, finances, and more.
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The notable lives behind (seven more) big red buildings

In part two of our continuing series, we meet a celebrated scientific couple, a distinguished Chinese scholar, and much more.
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Recent alumna awarded Bernheimer Prize

Hannah Cole, Ph.D. '20, has been awarded this year’s Bernheimer Prize for her dissertation, “A Thorny Way of Thinking: Botanical Afterlives of Caribbean Plantation Slavery.”
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‘Cheap thrills’: Low-cost leisure leads to less work, more play

Researchers found that people today work substantially less than they did generations ago because of virtually unlimited cheap entertainment increasingly at their fingertips.
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Dark comedy can lighten up fight against climate change

In his new book, “Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change,” Aaron Sachs demonstrates how laughter can give strength even when things seem most hopeless.
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Students’ island clean-up trip inspires multimedia projects

Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.
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Ask our Ambassadors: Finding Plato on the Arts Quad

It is within these halls, these classrooms, where I feel that I am benefitting from centuries of critical thought, deep questions and explorations into finding meaning in the human experience.
Jane Landers

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Noted life of an “Atlantic Creole” focus of Becker Lectures

This year's Carl Becker Lectures, April 25-27, will illuminate the extraordinary life of Captain Francisco Menéndez.
book cover: Subsurface

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Book goes underground to find how climate change shapes stories

Prof. Karen Pinkus confronts the global threat of climate change by using select literary works from the 19th century.
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Museum exhibit illuminates Pliny’s study of art, nature

Open now through June 11, “Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder” marks the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Roman author, natural philosopher and statesman.
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Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule

Music department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.
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Year of ‘Repair’ ends with research conference at Society for the Humanities

The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.
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‘Out Here’ film event shines light on rural LGBTQ life

A trio of short films showing the pleasures – and perils – of rural life for LGBTQ+ people will show April 26 as part of the Rural Humanities Initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Partnership Expands Horizons of Humanities Doctoral Career Possibilities

This flexible, on-campus summer internship gives students the chance to experience firsthand what is involved in becoming an acquisitions professional at a university press,
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Strong momentum marks 2030 Project’s early fundraising results

In 2022 Cornell University launched an initiative, to tackle climate change; in less than a year, donors have given more than $146 million in support.
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Art and community: Africana Library exhibits quilts

“Precious Scraps” showcases quilters and fabric artists from across the country, as well as from Cornell -- including Africana Prof. Riché Richardson.
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‘No one wins when immigrants cannot readily access healthcare’

By expanding access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, the Biden administration is taking an important step to expand access to healthcare for DACA beneficiaries, says professor Jamila Michener.
Britney Schmidt

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Britney Schmidt named one of Time’s 100 most influential people

Schmidt was recognized for contributions to climate science, following the recent publication of surprise results about the melting of the imperiled Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
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3 ways Banga may push World Bank to tackle climate change more aggressively

Ajay Banga, expected to become World Bank president, could push the bank to tackle climate change more aggressively in three ways, but that each approach carries risk, says professor Richard T. Clark.
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New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell

Two Arts and Sciences professors are among the 13 Cornell faculty members receiving Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
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Students can sign up for minor in public history

Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.
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New Beebe Lake seating area honors Hu Shih

In admiration of the contributions of literature and philosophy scholar Hu Shih 1914, friends and alumni of Cornell funded an outdoor seating area for quiet and contemplation.
Illustration: red sky and land, people in space suits, modular buildings

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Humans need Earth-like ecosystem for deep-space living

Carl Sagan Institute researcher Morgan Irons examined the long-term physical needs of humans living far from Earth.
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Physicists take step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing

Realizing 2D particles called non-Abelian anyons in the real world is potentially useful for quantum computation: protecting bits of quantum information by storing them non-locally,
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Despite lasting peace, legacy of trauma in Northern Ireland remains

Consistent ‘severe’ threat levels speak to the strong and lasting appeal of narratives within Northern Ireland society.
Book cover: WhiteWashing Our Sins Away

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Book examines the mainline Christian ‘Worship Wars’

Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.
David Nirenberg

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Understanding history of anti-semitism can help us today

Scholar David Nirenberg is a historian of Christians, Jews and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.
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$9.5M to fund chronic fatigue syndrome research

The funding will enable Cornell experts from disparate fields to work together on the mysterious and debilitating condition.
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Intelligence leak creates significant problems on and off the battlefield

Leaked documents include information about Ukrainian defenses, says history professor David Silbey.
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Sociology research centerpiece of comedic video 

Professor Cristobal Young, on-screen, explains how he came to the conclusion that millionaire tax flight is 99% myth. He also shreds on guitar.
Book cover: State and Family in China

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Chinese state used parent-child relationships to serve political goals

Prof. Mara Yue Du will talk about “State and Family in China: Filial Piety and its Modern Reform” on April 13 in Olin Library.
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Ten Inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.
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A movement brings community, visibility to neurodiversity at Cornell

Students and staff are finding support, community, visibility and a voice through Neurodiversity @ Cornell.
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Brain Prize winner to speak on brain’s control of locomotion

Understanding locomotion can unveil fundamental principles of how our nervous systems generate behavior and lead to treatment for human movement disorders.
Mary Ann Radzinowicz

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Mary Ann Radzinowicz, Milton scholar, dies at 97

A noted Milton scholar who also worked on modern poetry and American literature, Radzinowicz taught at Cornell starting in 1980, after a 20-year academic career in Great Britain.