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Milena Djourelova

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New Faculty: Milena Djourelova

Milena Djourelova, Economics
Joe Lerangis

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New Faculty: Joe Lerangis

Joe Lerangis, Music
Person standing in front of a huge black & white image of a comet with a rocky surface

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Cornell scientists show how terrain evolves on an icy comet

Astronomers have shown how smooth terrains – a good place to land a spacecraft and to scoop up samples – evolve on the icy world of comets.
Carolyn Fornoff

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New Faculty: Carolyn Fornoff

Carolyn Fornoff, Romance Studies
Richard Clark

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New Faculty: Richard Clark

Richard Clark, Government
Mayer Juni

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New Faculty: Mayer Juni

Mayer Juni, History and Jewish Studies
waterfall

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Community read launches Society for the Humanities’ ‘Repair’ theme

"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
Michell Chresfield

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New Faculty: Michell Chresfield

Michell Chresfield, Africana Studies
Anna Ho

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New Faculty: Anna Ho

Anna Ho, Astronomy
Ryan Chahrour

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New Faculty: Ryan Chahrour

Ryan Chahrour, Economics
Jamie Budnick

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New Faculty: Jamie Budnick

Jamie Budnick, Sociology
Daniel Hirschman

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New Faculty: Daniel Hirschman

Daniel Hirschman, Sociology
Kristen Warner

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New Faculty: Kristen Warner

Kristen Warner, Performing and Media Arts
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz

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New Faculty: Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz

Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz, Performing and Media Arts
Vanessa Gubbins

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New Faculty: Vanessa Gubbins

Vanessa Gubbins, Romance Studies
José Luis Montiel Olea

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New Faculty: José Luis Montiel Olea

José Luis Montiel Olea, Economics
Luminescent tree-like structure with purple branches and bright green canopy: The lateral habenula in the mouse brain

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Study finds tiny brain area controls work for rewards

The discovery has implications for psychiatric disorders, particularly depression and anxiety.
Sophia Veltfort

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Student Spotlight: Sophia Veltfort

Sophia Veltfort, MFA ’20, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature, studies the representations of speech and thought in 20th-century fiction.
Mikhail Gorbachev

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Mikhail Gorbachev, dead at 91, ‘likely haunts Putin’s dreams’

Vladimir Putin has spent his entire life trying to undo Gorbachev's legacy, says Cornell University military historian David Silbey.
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Reporters discuss history of “land grab” universities in press freedom lecture

Journalist Tristan Ahtone and historian Robert Lee will talk about how Indigenous land expropriated by the 1862 Morrill Act is the foundation of the land-grant university system in the 2022 Kops Lecture.
a low evening sun peeks through the branches of a giant tree, sending shadows across a lush lawn. three people stroll down a hill.

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Three projects awarded Belonging at Cornell innovation grants

The "Can You Hear My Voice?" project, a collaboration between Arts and Sciences, the ILR School, eCornell and the College of Human Ecology, received one of three Belonging at Cornell innovation grants for 2022.
Megan McArdle

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The Great Separation: Why American Politics Is Coming Apart at the Seams

Megan McArdle, opinion columnist for the Washington Post, will discuss increasingly divided American life and politics in a Sept. 14 lecture.
Sandwich with lots of vegetables, close-up

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Between Two Slices of Bread, an Enduring Big Red Bond

Two ’06 classmates enjoyed a simple-but-tasty sandwich for decades—then the Washington Post shared it with the world
Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz 

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Neuroscientist receives Freedman Prize

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has been awarded the 2022 Freedman Prize, which recognizes exceptional clinical and basic research in mental illness.  
 Hector Abruna

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Energy center receives $12.6 million in renewed funding

The award allows the center to continue its work developing advanced fuel cell technologies in alkaline media.
NoViolet Bulawayo

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Fall 2022 Zalaznick Reading Series Features Global Voices

Beginning Sept. 8, the series brings innovative, award-winning authors to read from their work on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.
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Cornell helps detect CO2 for first time on faraway world

A large international team found molecular evidence of carbon dioxide on the exoplanet WASP-39b, a giant gaseous world orbiting a sun-like star about 700 light-years away.
The three researchers are sitting around a desk and Ailong Ke is pointing to an image of the IscB molecule on the computer screen.

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Microscopy reveals mechanism behind new CRISPR tool

New research could lead to promising antiviral and tissue engineering tools in animal and plants.
Green lawn intersected by gray paths, seen from the air

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A&S opens application portal for Klarman postdoc fellowships

Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
Person standing on a bridge, with a river and city behind

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Quelle Surprise! The Hidden Benefits of My French Lit Major

Being immersed in another language and culture made Melissa Hart Moss ’93, JD ’97 a better lawyer—and a more broad-minded person
Two people stand in a garden

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Seeds of survival: Botanic Gardens honors the Black experience

Arts & Sciences student Jakara Zellner ’23, co-leader on the Garden Ambassador team, who served on the advisory committee and narrated the audio tour of a Cornell Botanic Gardens featuring 21 plants significant to the Black experience in the Americas.
two girls hugging

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Summer reflections from Milstein students

Hear from four of the 29 students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity about their summer at Cornell Tech.
Charles "Chip" Aquadro

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Aquadro honored for contributions to population genetics

A world leader in the study of population genetics of the fruit fly, Aquadro studies the amount of diversity that exists within and between the genomes of organisms.
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Milstein students spend summer producing, questioning, exploring

Milstein students spent eight weeks this summer wrestling with societal questions about technology's role in our world.
I love interacting Ivan Andrade

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Iván Andrade: ‘I love interacting with patients’

Iván Andrade’s summer experience helped him realize that he’s headed in the right direction as he pursues a career in medicine.
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Humanities Scholars explore future careers through legal internships

Two students in the College explored legal careers this summer thanks in part to grants from the Humanities Scholars Program.
James Turner, the founding director of Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center and a a professor emeritus of African and African American Politics and Social Policy in the College of Arts and Sciences,

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James Turner, a ‘giant’ of Africana studies, dies at 82

James Turner, the founding director of Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center and a pioneer of the multidisciplinary approach to exploring the African diaspora, died Aug. 6 in Ithaca.
Hand reaching for blueberries

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Philosophy on Main Street

Shaun Nichols, professor of philosophy and director of the cognitive science major in the College of Arts and Sciences, compares high-minded philosophical systems to the ways people approach everyday problems. Like picking wild blueberries.
Two people smile, discovering a piece of scientific equipment

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Academic boot camp boosts veterans’ higher ed mission

Professors in physics and classics contributed to the Warrior-Scholar Project (WSP) hosted at Cornell for military veterans July 23 to Aug. 6.
Geoffrey Coates

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Coates wins 2022 Eni Award for environmental solutions in chemistry

An international honor recognizes Prof. Geoffrey Coates for innovations in sustainable plastics.
teacher standing at the front of a classroom full of students

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Teachers critical to detecting and reporting child maltreatment

Time spent in school and the resulting contact with teachers and other school staff leads to increases in reports of child maltreatment – cases that would not have been discovered otherwise.
people singing in Goldwin Smith Hall

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The healing power of music

Alison Torrillo French ’95 writes about her experience singing with the chorus during Reunion 2022.
 Laura Niemi

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Laura Niemi wins Kaplan Family Fellowship

Niemi won for her work teaching applied moral psychology through community-engaged learning.
 flowers bloom near Goldwin Smith Hal

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Alumni honored with writing prizes

The Department of Literatures in English celebrates four alumni as winners of the 2022 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing.
woman husking a coconut

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Harrison College Scholars explore politics, wellness, environment in summer work

From Ithaca to Hawaii to Ecuador, students in the Robert S. Harrison College Scholars Program took advantage of the summer as a time to explore their research interests.
entomology lab

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Study identifies 'transformative learning experiences’ of field courses

While many scientists say field courses shaped their careers and benefit their students, few studies quantify their effects. Cornell researchers want to change that.
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With visit to Taiwan, Pelosi upsets Xi-Biden’s balancing act

Government Prof. Allen Carlson comments on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.
protestors with signs

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Interns experience a memorable Washington summer

Students completing internships in Washington, D.C. through the Cornell in Washington program are experiencing an in-person summer.
book cover

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Book views virtual, real world through a new media artist’s eyes

In a new book, Prof. Timothy Murray illuminates technological improvisation at the intersection of art and politics.
dark gray worms with pointed ends surrounded by dots of other microscopic things

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Worms as a model for personalized medicine

“You need to figure out how to tailor biomedical recommendations to different people based on their individual metabolism."