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 Opportunity Mars Rover

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Built to last 90 days, Mars rover Opportunity ends mission after 15 years

Opportunity reshaped our understanding of ancient Mars: it was "more habitable, more Earthlike," says Cornell astronomer Steve Squyres.
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Freedom on the Move launches database of fugitives from American slavery

This public crowdsourcing project is helping to digitize tens of thousands of advertisements placed by enslavers who wanted to recapture self-liberating Africans and African-Americans.
 San Francisco downtown from overhead

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Tech wealthy have a responsibility to the state that made them

Cristobal Young, associate professor of sociology, writes in this San Francisco Chronicle op-ed that those companies who make their money in Silicon Valley have a responsibility to pay their taxes to the "state that made them," rather than the growing trend of moving out of the high tax state right before t

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Give and Go: The double movement of "Shut Up and Dribble"

In a commentary for the LA Review of Books, Mary Armstrong Meduski '80 Assistant Professor Samantha N Shephard launches a critique of the recent SpringHill Entertainment documentary, "Shut Up and Dribble". The documentary focuses on NBA athletes' historical relationship with civil rights issues and the power dyanmics of the league today. Sheppard, an expert in Black cultural production and production culture, criticizes the film's overly simplistic narrative of social change; one that omits women and other marginalized figures such as victims of HIV.
 Rhodessa Jones at the Schwartz Center

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Performing and Media Arts to host interdisciplinary symposium

On March 15–16, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will host an interdisciplinary symposium titled “Feminist Directions: Performance, Power, and Leadership.” Over the course of the symposium, internationally acclaimed artists Tisa Chang (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre), Holly Hughes (University of Michigan), Leigh Fondakowski (Tectonic Theatre Project), Rhodessa Jones (Cultural Odyssey), Peggy Shaw (Split Britches), and Lois Weaver (Queen Mary University of London) will join local artis

 Students Jeff Liu 19 and Samantha Taylor 22, part of the Perfect Match team

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Students develop Cornell-specific dating algorithm just in time for Valentine’s Day

Students created an algorithm, interviewed 100 happy couples and entered survey data from students about their Cornell-specific likes and dislikes to determine perfect matches.
 Steven Strogatz with a group of students from the College of Human Ecology in front of the world's only 7-star hotel

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Strogatz gives plenary session at World Government Summit in Dubai

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, delivered a lecture at the World Governmental Summit in Dubai Feb. 11. In the lecture, he discussed how governments can harness the science of synchronized randomness to the benefit of society.

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Caesar’s death and life in Antiquitas podcast

The second season of the Antiquitas: Leaders and Legends of the Ancient World podcast, “The Death of Caesar,” launches Feb. 11, in a new collaboration with the Cornell Broadcast Studios. The season will feature interviews with experts who will illuminate the life and death of one of history’s most famous leaders.

 Gary Koretzky ’78, a rheumatologist, immunologist and Cornell’s vice provost for academic integration, has been named the inaugural director of the new Cornell Center for Immunology.

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Cornell creates multicollege Center for Immunology

Building on Cornell’s decades of fundamental and comparative research in the immunological sciences, Provost Michael Kotlikoff has announced the creation of a new Cornell Center for Immunology.

The virtual center will combine multiple research efforts across several departments and colleges on the Ithaca campus and strengthen ties to the university’s ongoing immunological research at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

 Oskar Eustis

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Milstein program brings 'Hamilton' producer, design thinking expert to campus for public talks

The program "hopes to stimulate conversation across the campus about technology, visionary thinking and education.”
 Edmundo Paz-Soldan

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Let the novel speak

This Cornell Research profile explores the work of Edmundo Paz-Soldán, professor of Spanish literature in the Department of Romance Studies.

The story says that Paz-Soldán initially shied away from devoting his life to literature.

 A winter break networking event for students interested in legal careers

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Winter networking events break attendance records

A new alumni gift helps students with travel and lodging expenses.
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Art history professor receives grant for global seminars

Iftikhar Dadi, associate professor of history of art, has received a $238,000 grant from the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative for a series of research seminars. The project, “Connecting Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia,” is a collaboration between Cornell’s Institute of Comparative Modernities (ICM), the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, and Asia Art Archives in Hong Kong. ​
 Students work together in Introduction to Evolutionary Biology and Diversity, an Active Learning Initiative course.

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Active Learning Initiative funds nine projects

In all, 70 faculty members will work on substantially changing the way they teach in more than 40 courses to over 4,500 students.
 Aedes aegypti mosquito

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Study: Mosquitoes can hear up to 10 meters away

Mosquitoes can hear at distances that usually require eardrums, yet all they're listening with are feathery antennae with fine hairs.
 Doctoral candidate Jack Madden

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Study probes effect of virtual reality on learning

The simulation, “Learning Moon Phases in Virtual Reality,” is part of a multi-phase research study to determine whether the compelling, immersive nature of virtual reality (VR) provides a better learning outcome than conventional hands-on activities. The study – which found no significant difference among hands-on, computer simulation or VR learning – is one of the first to look at the impacts of VR on learning.
 Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo ‘08, MA ‘15

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PhD student combines passion for music with technology and sociology

“I was in Arts & Sciences so I had the freedom to take courses in everything from Asian studies to physics."
 Alumna Irene Li at her restaurant Mei Mei

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Award-winning chef continues to innovate

Irene Li '15, co-founder of Boston's Mei Mei restaurant, is leading the way in the areas of ethical sourcing and fair employment practices.
 Capitol building

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Law that allows president to declare national emergencies needs to be repealed and replaced

In a recent op-ed for The Hill, Professor Glenn Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of Continuing Education and Summer Session, discusses the tendency of presidents to govern by declaring national emergencies, in light of President Trump's threat to declare a national emergency to construct a wall along the U.S. southern border. 

 Nanoguitar rendering

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Nanoscale guitar string ‘executes a complex dance’

Researchers have devised a way to listen to a nanoscale guitar for the first time.
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Travel grant helps students explore the world

Ruth Bierman Linnick '60 loved to travel, to learn and to teach, so her family and friends established the grant as a tribute to these lifelong pursuits.
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Question authority, beware false prophets in “Tartuffe”

A deceitful, pious man abuses his professional status to defraud and swindle trusting citizens in “Tartuffe,” written by French playwright Moliere in 1664. This enduring play, which challenges ideas of authoritarianism and hypocrisy, is brought to life by Cornell students in a performance venture at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts February 14–16. ​
 Man with a tattoo on top of a tanker truck with the image of the sky reflected off the metal

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Mellon-funded Rural Humanities initiative launches

A new project will leverage Cornell’s position in central New York to reinvigorate thinking about and engagement with rural communities and landscapes.
 A woman sewing in India

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India can hide unemployment data, but not the truth

Kaushik Basu, the C. Marks Professor of International Studies, writes in this op-ed in The New York Times that despite India's attempts to mislead and hide unemployment data, the truth is that the country is in an unemployment crisis.

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Student teams with alumna to produce touring musical

What would you do if you only had 100 days left to live? That’s the central question explored in the musical "Hundred Days"; Julia Dunetz '19 is associate producer and alumna Dana M. Lerner '14 is co-producer.
 zebra finches

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Psychologists solve mystery of songbird learning

Animal models give us insight into how humans learn language, but it turns out a favorite research model has been entirely misunderstood.
 Peng Chen, Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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A first: Cornell researchers quantify photocurrent loss in particle interface

With a growing global population will come increased energy consumption, and sustainable forms of energy sources such as solar fuels and solar electricity will be in even greater demand. And as these forms of power proliferate, the focus will shift to improved efficiency.

 Hendryck A. Gellineau

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Meeting the power of chemistry

When 17-year-old Hendryck A. Gellineau applied to Cornell in 2014, he believed that having a strong understanding of biology would prepare him for medical school. Gellineau is one of the students featured in this Cornell Research story. He was also interested in drug development research and didn’t know what would help prepare him for it.

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Math prof uses optimal control, game theory to attack cancer cells, move pedestrians, plan paths for robots

Alex Vladimirsky is the type of mathematician who draws inspiration from real-world problems. This was one of his main reasons for joining Cornell, where interdisciplinary collaborations are both valued and encouraged.

 The cover of Bien Acompanada Press first issue

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Zine project features voices in the Latinx community

Faculty from Cornell and Ithaca College worked with community partners to create Bien Acompañada Press, which released its first edition this month.
 Goldwin Smith Hall, home of the English department

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Two win Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prizes

The 2018 winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature have been announced by Abdilatif Abdalla, chair of the prize’s board of trustees.

The fiction prize winner is Tanzanian writer Zainab Alwi Baharoon, for "Mungu Hakopeshwi." The poetry category winner is Kenyan author Jacob Ngumbau Julius, for “Moto wa Kifuu.”

Baharoon and Julius will each receive $5,000 awards. The prizes will be awarded in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Feb. 15.

 Andy meeting with the Bikeline interns at a dinner this past fall in Ithaca.

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Company Man

Andy Potash ’66 knows how to stay busy. It started at Cornell, where he was a two-sport varsity athlete playing both sprint football and lacrosse, while also being in a fraternity and serving as the senior class president. Prior to his final year on East Hill, he worked a summer internship with Bayly, Martin, & Fay (now part of AON) and accepted a job with the company immediately following graduation.
 Glenn Altschuler

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When the State of the Union (address) is poisonously partisan

In a recent op-ed for political magazine, The Hill, Professor Glenn Altschuler of American History at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences discusses the historical tranistion of the political use of the State of the Union address.
 Woman listening to music on her iphone

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Streaming chill vibes? Spotify data says the season is the reason

Are you a night owl? Do you live in the north? New research finds our music choices are influenced by time of day, season, and even gender.
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Scientists tackle breeding challenges of land mine-finding rats

Thousands of people – many of them children – are hurt or killed by land mines each year, so finding these devices before they explode is critical.

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Saturn’s icy rings reveal another secret: they’re young

Data from the NASA spacecraft Cassini show that Saturn’s rings may have been created when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
 Headshot of Dr. Leonard Schleifer '73

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Regeneron CEO named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year

Leonard Schleifer '73, who majored in biological sciences, founded Regeneron in 1988, one of the world's leading biotechnology companies.
 Murray poses with some of his Cornell memorabilia

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’52 alumnus who skipped senior year for med school finally receives diploma

Dr. David Murray, part of the crew and fencing teams, hoped to finish in three years by taking summer classes, and then got into nine medical schools.
 Poet and writer Claudia Rankine

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Spring Zalaznick Reading Series exemplifies range of literary genres

 Katherine Kinzler

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Dean’s Fellow for Public Engagement announced

Katherine Kinzler has been appointed Dean’s Fellow for Public Engagement in the College of Arts & Sciences, a three-year term that began January 1.

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Chemists develop new scale for electronegativity

Electronegativity is one of the most well-known models for explaining why chemical reactions occur. Used daily by chemists and materials researchers all over the world, the theory of electronegativity is used to describe how strongly different atoms attract electrons. In a new paper, researchers have redefined the concept with a more comprehensive electronegativity scale.

 Hip hip concert in Senegal

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Appert explores hip-hop and social change in Senegal

Catherine Appert's new book explores hip-hop as a globalized, not just global, phenomenon.
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How do you flourish in scientific publishing? Ask a librarian

To jump-start the careers of graduate students and postdocs in the fields of engineering, math and the physical sciences, Cornell University Library held a free workshop, “Research From Start to Publish,” Jan. 7–8.

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Winners of 2017-18 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism announced

The George Jean Nathan Award Committee has named John H. Muse of the University of Chicago and arts journalist Helen Shaw as winners of the 2017-18 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, citing “their invigorating and perceptive theatrical analyses.”
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Music announces spring semester events

The new Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards offers chances for study, performance and recording.
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Creative writing student recognized by literacy association

Yessica Martinez was named to the International Literacy Association’s 2019 “30 Under 30” list, which celebrates rising innovators, disruptors and visionaries in the literacy field.
 FDR signs Tennesee Valley Authority Act

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The left is pushing Democrats to embrace their greatest president. Why that’s a good thing.

Historian Lawrence Glickman writes in this Washington Post piece that "nearly a century after President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his effort to revive the American economy through government programs, Democrats are once again becoming fans of Roosevelt and his legacy."

 The mere presence of void or empty spaces in porous two-dimensional molecules and materials leads to markedly different van der Waals interactions across a range of distances.

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Pore size influences nature of complex nanostructures

New research by Cornell chemists could impact the assembly of sophisticated nanostructures and new materials.
 Isabel Hull

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Permissible war

How do nations decide when to go to war? What are the rules that govern when it is permissible to resort to war under international law? This Cornell Research profile of History Professor Isabel Hull explores her research into situations when war has been deemed permissible, specifically at what history tells us—the period 1814 to 1914 and the criteria known as jus ad bellum.

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Next-gen particle accelerator is aim of Bright Beams work

New research at Cornell is helping address current challenges and develop more efficient accelerators.