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Louis Hand, pioneer of high-energy physics, dies at 90

Colleagues remember Hand as a scientist devoted to discovery, both in his field of expertise and beyond.
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Panel offers advice for students interested in public affairs internships

Students interested in public service and government can learn more about their futures in the field at an event on November 15.
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Banerjee named Mellon Fellow in diversity network

Banerjee will participate in a two-year academic leadership and governance fellowship.
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Alumna explores impact of Asian American Hollywood icon

Shirley Lim's ’90 research into Hollywood icon Anna May Wong is receiving lots of attention as Wong is pictured on a new set of U.S. quarters.
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Employee Excellence awards honor staff achievements

Seventeen individuals and three teams of Cornell employees received President's Awards for Employee Excellence in seven categories, highlighting the achievements of staff and faculty who excel in their roles.
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Remembering the Triangle

About 2,000 people gathered in October in Greenwich Village for the Triangle Fire Memorial dedication. The 1911 workplace disaster became a catalyst for worker protections and a defining moment for the nation.
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Alum’s book gleans inspiration from Black American trailblazers

From Oprah and the Obamas to lesser-known heroes, Joseph Holland ’78, MA ’79 finds words to live by.
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Cornell chemists image basic blocks of synthetic polymers

Cornell chemists have developed a technique that allows them to image polymerization catalysis reactions at single-monomer resolution, key in discovering the molecular composition of a synthetic polymer.
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Community spotlight: 2023 First Generation Celebration Week

To kick off the 2023 First Generation Celebration Week, Student and Campus Life gathered insights and advice from first-gen students, alumni and staff.
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Cornell’s military veterans share their histories

A current student veteran has been exploring the stories of Cornell's military veterans through a collection of interviews and memorabilia.
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Exhibit, symposium consider art ‘Between Performance and Documentation’

Live events Nov. 16-17 will illuminate questions about performance, photograph and video – and the complex relationship between the three – posed in a current Johnson Museum exhibition.
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Einhorn Center announces new Engaged Faculty Fellows

A&S faculty are among twenty-five faculty and academic staff from nine Cornell colleges and units are Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year.
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Talk to consider roots of antisemitism, racism, Islamophobia

A Nov. 16 talk sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts and Sciences will shed light on the history of hate movements in the U.S.
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Looking ahead: State elections ‘not always great predictors’ of what’s to come

… but is this an indication of what’s to come nationally in 2024? David Bateman , professor of government and policy at … it captures the basic trends since 2016. And it looks like 2024 will have Trump on the ballot. “The polls across most … necessarily an indication of what’s to come nationally in 2024, says David Bateman. … Looking ahead: State elections …
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Riché Richardson receives literary society award

"Emancipation's Daughters" earned the 2022 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for Southern Literature.
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Cornell Cinema still lights up the silver screen

After more than a half-century in the Straight, the Hill’s iconic movie venue remains a film fan’s delight.
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Struggling with sarcasm: Cornell expert on why Musk’s Grok chatbot isn’t funny

The key to funny sarcasm is found in empathy, says professor David Shoemaker, who studies the moral psychology of humor.
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Rediscovering self-fulfillment during a leave

Through hosting a talk show and traveling around the Middle East, An Le ‘25 relearned the value of passion, exemplifying that the path to success is not homogenous.
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Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

Telescopes could better detect potential chemical signatures of life in the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet more closely resembling the age the dinosaurs inhabited than the one we know today, Cornell astronomers find.
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Weiss teaching awards honor exceptional faculty

Three A&S faculty members are recipients of 2023 Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Awards, which honor a sustained commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students.
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Book reexamines scholarship, teaching in the era of COVID-19

Three years after the disruptions of 2020, teaching and research continue to be immensely different from pre-pandemic times, according to scholar Debra Castillo.
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A. R. Ammons Reading Series: Reviving a beloved tradition

Over two decades since Ammons’s passing, an open mic tradition is being revived thanks to a gift from his student Beverly Tanenhaus ’70.
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Brains! Collection is a (slightly spooky) artifact of an earlier era

Now overseen by the psychology department, the vintage cerebra draw many a visitor to the second floor of Uris Hall.
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James John, medieval historian, dies at 95

… Medieval Studies honored John for his work in 2009. He won fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the …
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Bethe Lecture: Testing space propulsion on Earth

On Nov. 15, physicist and engineer John Foster will discuss the challenge of testing high power electric propulsion on the ground.
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Meshri family funds Baker 200 restoration project

The Meshri Family Auditorium opened this fall, after a $6 million renovation.
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Apocalypse debate set for Nov. 9

Five professors will argue for the importance of their disciplines during the Logos Philosophy Debate Club’s annual debate.
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Humanists have the power and the tools to fight climate change

Humanities scholars have an important role to play in the current political struggle to stave off environmental collapse, Caroline Levine argues in her new book.
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Underwater robot updates understanding of ice shelf crevasses

Crevasses play an important role in circulating seawater beneath Antarctic ice shelves, potentially influencing their stability, finds Cornell-led research based on first-of-its-kind exploration by an underwater robot.
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Tiny networks intertwine to mimic design of bird colors

The resulting materials could prove useful in a variety of applications, from making sustainable pigments to energy storage and filtration.
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Role of women in early Christianity informs Catholic present

“As Roman Catholic Church leaders meet this month for the Synod on Synodality, some women—both nuns and laypeople—have been invited to join the workshop," says Kim Haines-Eitzen.
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Argentina’s run-off to be decided by Patricia Bullrich supporters

Which candidate can capture the votes of supporters of Patricia Bullrich, the mainstream conservative candidate?
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Award-winning journalists to discuss role of the press

On Nov. 14, NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91, Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist, will moderate a panel of noted journalists and faculty to discuss “Free Press in a Free Society: U.S. Newsrooms on the Front Lines.”
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Oct. 26 panel focuses on Israel-Palestine conflict

The Department of Near Eastern Studies will offer “Understanding Events in Israel – Palestine” from 5-6:30 p.m. in Room 165 of McGraw Hall.
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‘Climate Change Comedy Hour’ on Nov. 2

Environmental historian Aaron Sachs will use a combination of gallows humor, history and silly videos to show how we can shift our attitude about climate change -- and how that shift might help us get to the next stage of climate activism.
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Chinese linguist Tsu-Lin Mei dies at 90

Mei was one of the most important Chinese historical linguists of the 20th century.
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As Pew investigator, Goldberg to study how animals feed young

The collaboration aims for a breakthrough in understanding the neural mechanisms by which parental animals balance their own needs with the needs of their offspring.
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Role of hippocampus in two functions of memory revealed

The finding has important implications for one day treating memory and learning issues found in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Conference highlights humanities projects on the theme of “Crossing”

The Society’s fall conference on Friday, Oct. 27, will feature talks by seven multidisciplinary fellows.
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Clark Hall space becomes hub for social sciences

After years of planning, the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS) has moved into a newly renovated space in Clark Hall.
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Research repository arXiv receives $10M for upgrades

Cornell Tech has announced more than $10 million in gifts and grants to support arXiv.
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Law and Justice party seeing ‘double rebuke’ from voters

Prof. Bryn Rosenfeld comments on Poland’s Law and Justice party losing power.
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Registration for Winter Session 2024 is now open

Beginning October 16, students can enroll in a wide range of online courses taught by Cornell faculty.
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Library publishes catalog on Jewish fables

Jon A. Lindseth’s collection of Jewish fables complements the library’s holdings related to Jewish Studies.
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U.S.-supplied, long-range missiles of ‘limited utility’ for Ukraine

Military historian David Silbey comments on Ukrainian forces using American-supplied, long-range missiles on the battlefield for the first time.
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‘Desdemona’ celebrates Morrison’s Nobel Prize anniversary

The performance will feature singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré, who wrote the music for the original production.
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Webb detects quartz crystals in clouds of hot gas giant

The quartz crystals are only about 10 nanometers across (one-millionth of one centimeter), so small that 10,000 could fit side-by-side across a human hair.
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Nature’s missing evolutionary law identified

An interdisciplinary group of researchers has identified a missing aspect of Darwin's theory that applies to essentially everything.
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Students from all majors invited to mathematical modeling contest

The competition allows students to work on open-ended real world problems, showcasing the multifaceted nature of applied mathematics.
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Cornell ReSounds concert features Moog keyboard, new instruments

It will be the first time the instrument will be played in public.