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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.
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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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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.
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Milstein speaker to explore “The Battle for Your Brain”

Nita Farahany, a scholar who focuses on ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies, will be the featured speaker for an April 12 event hosted by the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.
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From Dr. Fauci to 'Succession:' A peek into the lives of two alumni filmmakers

“From the Big Red to the Red Carpet” featured Scott Ferguson ’82 and Michael Kantor ’83, Emmy-winning producers of HBO’s “Succession” and PBS' “American Masters” series.
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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.
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Harvard historian to deliver Munday lecture

Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, will deliver this year’s Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture April 17.
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Archaic equation helps scientists control CO2 transformations

To manage atmospheric carbon dioxide and convert the gas into a useful product, Cornell scientists have dusted off a 120 year old electrochemical equation.
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Classicist: ‘Modern’ view of religion dates to 303 AD

Klarman Fellow Toni Alimi identifies three features of so-called modern religious views in “Divine Institutes” by the 4th century scholar Lactantius.
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TikTok fines ‘a potentially fruitful alternative’ to bans or lack of regulation

Government scholar Sarah Kreps: The recent hearings on Capitol Hill and ongoing debates about a TikTok ban have shown how difficult it is to balance privacy concerns with core democratic principles of free speech.
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New book helps students learn ancient Tocharian language

A new book by linguist Michael Weiss provides the first pedagogical grammar ever compiled for Tocharian B, an ancient Indo-European language.
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Remember me? Gender, race may make you forgettable

Economist Michèle Belot says that systemic biases in the way we remember people could influence social networks important to career advancement.
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Expect ‘swift engagement’ for future spy balloons that enter U.S. airspace

Government scholar Paul Lushenko: U.S. political officials have learned from the incident of a Chinese high-altitude balloon able to gather intelligence.
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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election ‘immensely consequential’

Professor Glenn Altschuler: results of the Tuesday election will affect the future of abortion and gerrymandering and shed key insight into constituent sentiment around judicial candidates.  

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Cornell admits ‘extraordinary’ Class of 2027

“True to Cornell’s founding vision, these extraordinary students will bring a diverse range of ideas and experiences to enrich campus life together.”
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Ensemble-in-residence loadbang performs April 15

Featuring a unique instrumentation of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice, loadbang headlines a week of great musical performances April 11-17.
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Cornell expert: ‘For Beijing, the trip is a provocation that smacks of Taiwanese independence’

Professor Allen Carlson comments on a highly-sensitive diplomatic stopover in the United States by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen.
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‘Enormous consequences’ loom in the wake of Trump indictment

Government professor David Bateman: "There is no historical precedent for one of the two major parties to nominate a candidate on trial or potentially convicted."
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Whole-message AI communication seen as more useful

Cornell tech policy research: using AI to write entire messages in representative government appears to be more effective than using AI to generate individual sentences.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 carved portrait to adorn NYS Capitol

"We are both honoring Justice Ginsburg’s legacy as a trailblazer for justice and gender equality, and also celebrating New York’s history as the birthplace of the women’s rights movement.”
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Radar, AI identify Alaska Native Spanish flu victims burial site

The finding helps clarify the historical record for the Indigenous communities devastated by the 1918-19 pandemic.
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Russia’s quest for Bahkmut could lead to greater losses elsewhere

Bakhmut, Ukraine, by itself is not a particularly valuable piece of land for either side, says professor David Silbey, but Ukrainian control of it prevents a more general Russian advance northwest .
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Panel on political polarization and the media set for April 19

Distinguished alumni and Cornell faculty will explore whether media are helping or worsening the political divide and what can be done.
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For Newman Lab’s 75th Birthday, Some Fascinating Facts

You don’t have to be a nuclear physicist to appreciate these tidbits about the Hill’s first facility devoted to accelerator physics
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Students find professional, academic opportunities through Cornell in Washington program

Aaron Friedman '25 and Vivian Lewandowski '25 talk about their career prospects and academic experience in Washington.
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Giant planet atmospheres vary widely, JWST confirms

Researchers discovered that the atmosphere of exoplanet HD149026b, a ‘hot Jupiter’ orbiting a star comparable to our sun, is super-abundant in the heavier elements carbon and oxygen.
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Bomb-sniffing rodents undergo ‘weird’ vaginal transformations

Female giant African pouched rats, used for sniffing out landmines and detecting tuberculosis, can undergo astounding reproductive organ transformations, according to a new study.
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Eight Students Advancing to 3MT Finals

Fangming Cui, psychology, and Susannah Sharpless, English language and literature, are among eight doctoral students advancing to the final round of the 2023 Three Minute Thesis competition.
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Klarman Fellow wins American Chemical Society award

Chemist Alexa Easley has been honored for outstanding polymer research.
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Possible TikTok ban would deal ‘crushing blow’ to creators

Government scholar Sarah Kreps comments on today's expected appearance of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Capitol Hill amidst app-related national security concerns.
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Research spotlight: Anders Ryd

I joined the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2005. The project then was already in the middle of construction and primarily I worked on the pixel detector and getting that ready for data taking, which started in 2010. But already I was thinking about what we want to do in the future. So I got involved with the H luminosity LHC upgrade, the next major upgrade of the facility at CERN that will allow us to take data at a rate that is in order of magnitude higher than what we have been doing so far. Starting about 2014, we really started seriously to make the plans for this work which had been listed as the highest priority project for the LHC upgrades.
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How Margaret Rossiter uncovered the hidden women of science

Her three-volume work, “Women Scientists in America,” sheds light on the many ways women were involved in the advancement of science, as well as how they were pushed out of the field.
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Research spotlight, Matthias Liepe

As a graduate student in Germany at a national research lab, students weren’t allowed to do many thing for themselves. My advisor sent me to Cornell for six months to learn how to do things. In Newman Lab, the students do everything – how to use the clean room, how to solder, etc. So after I finished my PhD I came back to Newman Lab and Cornell.
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Lawmakers struggle to differentiate AI and human emails

A field experiment investigating how GPT-3 might be used to generate constituent email messages showed that legislators were only slightly less likely to respond to AI-generated messages than human-generated.
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First known interstellar interloper resembles ‘dark comet’

Insights from Oumuamua could advance our understanding of planet formation in this solar system and others.
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IMF providing political cover for Western allies to support Ukraine

Cornell political scientist Richard Clark comments on the International Monetary Fund's $15.6 billion loan package to support Ukraine.
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10 researchers named inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows

Planning to harness the power of AI are A&S researchers from physics; ecology and evolutionary biology; chemistry and chemical biology; and neurobiology and behavior
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Research spotlight: Jared Maxson

Research in the realm of accelerator physics focuses a lot on where you get the particles from. My group’s expertise is creating and manipulating electron beams. We’re typically interested in studying a process called photon emission by way of using light to impinge on a specially engineered material that will emit electrons when illuminated. My group are experts in generating high brightness electron beams via photoemission, using light to generate electrons.
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After 75 years, accelerator physics still going strong in Newman Lab

“There are very few universities that do accelerator research. Cornell is a leader among them.”
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Imaging captures social dynamics of 'pee-shy' mice

Cornell research is shining a new light – via thermal imaging of mice – on how urine scent mark behavior changes depending on shifting social conditions.
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Semiconductor lattice marries electrons and magnetic moments

A model system created by stacking a pair of monolayer semiconductors is giving physicists a simpler way to study confounding quantum behavior.
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Should US send troops to fight Mexican drug cartels? It's not a good idea.

Cornell government professor: "As long as there is demand for drugs in the United States, no military operation, even by highly trained U.S. forces, will prove effective in reducing drug trafficking."
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Xi trying to ‘thread the needle’ by meeting Putin without damaging China’s relations in Europe

Government professor Jessica Chen Weiss gives insight on the Chinese leader's March 21 visit to Moscow.
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ChatGPT and humanities forum is March 24

An open forum will address how the OpenAI large-language model ChatGPT will improve research productivity in the humanities.
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Meet two young alums doing hands-on relief work in Ukraine

The best friends recently marked one year since they left their East Coast lives for a humanitarian aid mission to Eastern Europe.
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Giving Day raises more than $13M, shattering records

Cornell’s ninth Giving Day united 18,296 donors who live in nearly 100 countries to raise $13,043,165 in just 24 hours.
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Cornell Center for Social Sciences names 14 faculty fellows

Several Arts & Sciences faculty members are among the 14 2023-24 fellows by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).
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New College Scholars research climate, health care, legal interpretation

"A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated."
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Learn about the cosmos with Cornell astronomers

Professlor Martha Haynes organizes monthly Zoom events led by Cornell faculty, research staff, and student experts on a variety of astronomy topics.
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Christiansen elected to Royal Norwegian Society

The psychology researcher is “one of the most prominent international contemporary scholars in the field of the cognitive and cultural foundations of language.”