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Community event will showcase trans philosophy and scholarship

Organized by trans Cornellians, the event will address issues and harms facing the community from a trans perspective.
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NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91 talks ‘Freedom of Expression’

Reflecting on his time on campus as this year's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist during the university's Freedom of Expression theme year, David Folkenflik '91 says "freedom of expression isn't at its most potent as an issue or principle when it's easy. In some ways, it matters most when it’s hard."
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Klarman Fellow: AI has a lot to learn from “flexible and reliable” human memory

Greater understanding of beneficial characteristics of the human brain, such as flexibility and reliability, will help Wenbo Tang develop therapies for human diseases – and to improve AI systems.
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Prof. Sarah Kreps featured in new ‘Military Mysteries’ TV series

“The stories are fascinating and gave me an opportunity to dig into history and evidence," said Prof. Sarah Kreps.
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Johnson Museum exhibit considers migration and its effects

At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.
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Steel industry protectionism beyond typical election-year rhetoric

President Biden’s tariff proposal is less about economics and more related to U.S. domestic politics, says Chinese foreign policy expert Allen Carlson.
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Iranian strike against Israel seemed more spectacle than attack, says prof.

Professor David Silbey comments on Iran's thwarted attack on Israel.
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April 25 event celebrates class of 2024

Arts & Sciences Career Development staff want to help mark the next steps in your journey.
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Hubble Fellow chooses Cornell for postdoc

Physicist Keefe Mitman will work with Nils Deppe, assistant professor of physics, on the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration on improving gravitational wave models to aid with the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra Collaboration’s detection and characterization of compact binary encounters.
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Ukraine’s mobilization bill sign of ‘desperation’ and ‘rationalization’

Scholar David Silbey: “Large industrial wars like this one are as much about organization as they are about fighting, and this is a sign that Ukraine takes that lesson seriously.”
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The Klezmatics to play in Cornell Concert Series April 13

The Klezmatics’ music is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while also incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and antifundamentalism, and eclectic musical influences — from jazz and punk to Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms.
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Life as a Cornell entrepreneur: ‘I have people in my corner who inspire me’

Richlove Nkansah '26 is the co-founder, with Harmony Prado ’24, of CultureCare, a digital platform for BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color) therapists to manage their practice and connect to clients.
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Film set in Schwartz Center: A pop-up laboratory for building worlds

Throughout spring 2024, a set installed on the Kiplinger Theatre stage for the short film “Remembering Colin Stall" doubled as an experimental zone for film and theater technology classes.
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Two seniors chosen as fellows by Carnegie Endowment

McKenzie Carrier ’24 and Margot Treadwell, ’24 will spend next year conducting research with the organization in Washington, D.C.
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Totality awesome: 400 students travel north for rare eclipse

The April 8 solar eclipse was “definitely life-changing,” said Emma Linscomb ’27, a member of Cornell’s Society of Physics Students.
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Cornell Cinema offers tasty, mind-stretching Science on Screen showings

Science on Screen® supports creative pairings of current, classic, cult, and documentary films with introductions by figures from the world of science, technology and medicine.
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Treats and poems featured at LRC’s “Sweet Poetry” event

“Any poem, any language” is the theme of the Language Resource Center’s second annual celebration of National Poetry Month, April 17
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Kiss-Pophouse deal shows recording ‘promises a certain immortality’

The recordings can be endlessly reconfigured to bring Kiss to life for new audiences, says Benjamin Piekut, professor of music.
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NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91 to host ‘Dissident Writers’ event

The April 17 event, part of the Freedom of Expression series, features Folkenflik in conversation with Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, and Belarusian poet and Cornell faculty member Valzhyna Mort.
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McEneaney Memorial Reading features Irish author Cólm Tóibín

Cólm Tóibín, the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, will visit campus April 11 to deliver the Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading,
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Suffrage Science Award given to neuroscientist Azahara Oliva

The award aims to “create a self-perpetuating cohort of talent that can encourage others to enter science and reach senior leadership roles.”
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Florida ruling ‘deviates from the more moderate views’ held by most Americans

Professor Landon Schnabel: “The Florida Supreme Court's seemingly contradictory abortion rulings—allowing a six-week ban while permitting voters to decide on a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights up to viability—reveal the tension between conservative courts and the popular will in determining reproductive rights."
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Panel explores rise of nationalism across the globe

Cornell faculty and alumni took part in a wide-ranging discussion focused on nationalism around the world during a March 26 New York City event featuring NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik ’91, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Two Cornell scientists chosen for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships

The three-year postdoctoral fellowship, granted to Lígia Fonseca Coelho and Zach Ulibarri, provides recipients with resources, freedom, and flexibility to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.
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Townsend lecturer explores Anatolian origins of European literature

Morris’ research involves the interaction of Greece with its Eastern neighbors, in art, literature, religion and culture.
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Summer Experience Grant applications now open

The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
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Cornell Expert: Why bridge collapse recovery is ‘time to listen’ to Baltimore residents impacted by coal shipping

Anthropologist Chloe Ahmann comments on environmental justice in in the wake of the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
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A.D. White professor addresses threats to democracy

Theda Skocpol, Harvard scholar and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell, will present the public lecture “Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy – Roots and Responses” on April 9.
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Nabokov celebrated for crossing arts/science boundaries

An avid lepidopterist since childhood, Nabokov was known to spend most of his free time on campus in the Cornell University Insect Collection.
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Mind Prize awarded to neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz

The prize aims to “change the paradigm of neuroscience research by creating a community of next-frontier thinkers who can uncover a deeper understanding of the brain and cognition.”
Shiqi Lin

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Klarman Fellow: Digital media connects people in a polarized world

Situated at the intersection of media and politics, Shiqi Lin's research explores how critical media culture can push open new spaces for social participation and how new forms of media can bring people together, particularly at times of crisis and radical change.
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Celebrating April as Mathematics Awareness Month

The Cornell and Ithaca communities can see a unique blend of mime and mathematics during two days of events planned by the Cornell Department of Mathematics on April 19 and 20.
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Passion for civil rights continues after Cornell: Alec Giufurta ‘21

Alec Giufurtan '21, discusses his work related to journalism and civil rights, and his current life as a law student.
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Astronomy mourns Mary Mulvanerton, ‘amazing problem-solver’

She’s being remembered by friends and colleagues as a mentor, advisor, friend and fierce advocate for the work of the department.
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April 10 lecture focuses on formation of revolutionary China

Mitter’s talk will re-examine the classic question, “Did the communists win or the nationalists lose the Chinese civil war?”
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Economics department receives $500K gift honoring Tapan Mitra

The Dr. Tapan Mitra Economics Fund continues the passion of the late professor for top-level collaboration in economic theory and his legacy of generosity.
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Cornell students explore opportunities in film at Sundance

A professor in Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts brought students to the Sundance Film Festival.
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NY’s fundamental need: New housing of every ‘shape, size and price’

Soaring rents and home prices have created a city of haves and have-nots, says Cornell history scholar Jacob Anbinder, who studies how America’s most progressive cities become unaffordable for a significant portion of the population.
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Students host first undergraduate philosophy conference

Sophia Gottfried '25 talks about putting on Cornell's first undergraduate philosophy conference.
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Understanding politics at home and abroad: Sarah Cutler '16

Sarah Cutler, an alumna of Arts & Sciences, has used her work in journalism to help people understand political polarization in the U.S.
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Russia’s presidential election is ‘not so important’ as what will come after

“The potential domestic and battlefield implications of another mobilization after the election are the things to watch.”
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Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’98 to deliver Culler Theory Lecture

“Beyond the World as Picture: Worlding and Becoming the Whole World [devenir tout le monde],”will examine philosophical accounts of the ways in which we organize the concept of reality.
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Freedom-seekers inspire doctoral candidate’s work

History doctoral candidate Megan Jeffreys is using runaway slave ads as one of the foundations of her work.
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France’s abortion rights vote sets potential ‘worldwide precedent’

France is the first county in the world to include a right to an abortion in its constitution, underscoring the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms, says sociologist Landon Schnabel.
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Student buses planned for eclipse viewing

Cornell students can travel right to the heart of the eclipse’s path, thanks to the student-led Astronomical Society at Cornell.
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Concert celebrates International Women’s Day

The annual Empowerment Through Music concert will be held Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pm in Sage Chapel.
Students enjoy in-person activities around the Arts Quad during March Wellness Days

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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 14

Your gift allows the College to fulfill our mission — to prepare our students to do the greatest good in the world.
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On climate change, artists ‘imagine the world otherwise’

Carolyn Fornoff explores how contemporary Mexican writers, filmmakers and visual artists have reacted to climate change in her book "Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change."
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Asian American studies celebrates new endowment funding

"The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having.”
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Grant to enhance art history book

A Millard Meiss Publication Fund award will support the publication of Kelly Presutti's "Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France.”