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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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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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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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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

Accelerator physics has revealed hidden universes, from the Higgs boson to what can be seen on a CT scan – and much of that progress is thanks to work done in an unassuming building tucked away on Cornell’s north campus: Newman Lab.
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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,” published in 1982, 1995 and 2012, 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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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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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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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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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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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.
Morten Christiansen

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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.”
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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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‘Destroy the Copy’: Essay collection rethinks the history of plaster casts

The destruction of replicated European sculpture collections can tell us as much as their creation.
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Drones in modern war: evolutionary or revolutionary?

According to two Cornell government scholars, armed drones are neither a “magic bullet” that wins wars nor an inconsequential tool with little impact on the battlefield.
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Scientists enhance recyclability of waste plastic

Cornell scientists working with the U.S. Department of Energy have developed a new method for recycling high-density polyethylene using a novel catalytic approach.
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Klarman Fellow Malinowski creates and tests quantum materials

A world expert at using mechanical strain to precisely manipulate the properties of materials, Malinowski is particularly interested in superconductors.
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Honduras cutting ties with Taiwan shows China’s growing influence in Central America

Government professor Kenneth Roberts: Extensive trade and investment relations has established China as an increasingly important economic power in Central America.
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History Department Begins Three Year Active Learning Initiative

Active learning methods encourage students to engage in their learning by thinking, discussing, investigating, and creating in their courses.
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Amara Valerio ’24 advances on ‘American Idol’

The American Studies major nailed her March 12 audition, making a childhood wish come true.
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Cornell alum to speak on the power of nonfiction comics in 21st century

On March 28, Andy Warner  ’06, author of the memoir "Spring Rain" and several other books, will explore the power of graphic media to tell true stories.
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Jewish Studies celebrates 50 years with speakers, conferences

The program now has four endowed faculty positions, 28 affiliated faculty from more than 15 departments and nearly 40 courses offered each year.
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'Can You Hear My Voice?' conference offers new ways to think about hiring practices

The all-day conference April 5 is for anyone who makes hiring decisions or who has an interest in creating a more inclusive workforce.
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How carbohydrates function to help or hurt humans: Aggarwal Lectures March 15-16

Chemical biologist Laura L. Kiessling of MIT will detail how carbohydrates function to help the body fight cancers and pathogens.
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Physics theory could be slam dunk for basketball coaches

A model based on density functional theory can suggest the best positioning for each player on the basketball court.
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Philippine study analyzes Marcos family return to power

A national survey points to theories based on continuity between former President Rodrigo Duterte and Bongbong Marcos and between the younger Marcos and the older – as well as ethnicity-based voting.
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Dead & Co. to play benefit at Barton Hall, honoring legendary ’77 show

Remaining members of the Grateful Dead will return to play a benefit concert in Barton Hall on May 8 as part of the band’s final tour.
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Peace Games underscore options to war

A unique Cornell University-sponsored event in Washington, D.C. brought together congressional staff to search for nonviolent solutions to a simulated clash between superpowers.
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Michener advocates ‘Broadening the Tent’ at White House

Equity and effectiveness are enhanced when more voices contribute to policymaking, Prof. Jamila Michener said.
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Spinoza on mind-body identity: Hübner wins best article prize

Hübner's winning article from the Journal of the History of Philosophy gives a new reading of Spinoza’s claim that minds and bodies are “one and the same thing.”
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Alumni filmmakers share stories from the Big Red to the red carpet

Producers of "Succession" and "American Masters" on PBS will screen films and talk about their careers.
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Students can learn ASL during summer, winter sessions

Interest in ASL is growing, prompting Cornell to increase opportunities for students to explore the language.
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2023 Bethe Lecture: How fast is the universe expanding?

Astrophysicist Wendy L. Freedman will describe the current state of cosmology and her work with the Hubble Space Telescope that has led to some of the most precise measurements of the Hubble constant made to date.
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‘March Madness’ Contest Will Crown the Top Fictional Alum

Cornell history maven Corey Earle ’07 is running a Twitter poll with 64 contenders—and you can vote.
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Math communicator visits campus to explore math in everyday life

“Ellenberg is a distinguished mathematician and a master of public communication."
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Robot provides unprecedented views below Antarctic ice shelf

A U.S.-New Zealand research team recognized a shift as evidence of “ice pumping” – a process important to the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf.
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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16

 On Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.
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Clown play captures complex emotions of cognitive loss

“Heading into Night: a Clown Ode on…(forgetting),” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, who developed the play with Professor Beth Milles, premiered this month.
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Literature, film, and critical theory professor delivers Culler Lecture

Anna Kornbluh, professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, will address "Immediacy: Some Theses on Contemporary Style" on Tuesday, March 7.
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U.S. has few options to counter rollback of elections protections in Mexico

Professor Gustavo Flores--Macías: the United States has few diplomatic options to push back on the Mexican government’s changes to electoral laws, which protestors claim threaten democracy.
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Postcards from Earth: Hologram project showcased at Intrepid

A yearslong effort to launch Cornell-made satellite technology into a neighboring solar system is making a terrestrial stop at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.
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Public history project reveals stories of Cornell changemakers

A new public history digital exhibition hosted by the Center for Teaching Innovation uses storytelling methods to look at Cornell’s past.
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Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe

Cornell astronomers discovered a companion galaxy estimated at 1.4 billion years old while scanning images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
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Philosopher John Doris: ‘Moral psychologists have plenty to do’

John M. Doris reflected on his book "Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality" during a recent book talk.
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Students to develop their ideas for social change

Ten enterprising Cornell students will attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2023 Annual Meeting in March.
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High stakes and high risk in Nigeria landmark election 

Perspective from professor Rachel Beatty Riedl on the “opportunity of historic turnover" as Nigerians will head to the polls Feb. 25 for a fiercely-competitive presidential election. 
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Physicists create new model of ringing black holes

Gravitational waves produced from colliding black holes interact with each other, producing nonlinear effects – “what happens when waves on the beach crest and crash.”
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Nine professors win NSF early-career awards

Three Arts and Sciences professors “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization."
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Single gene causes stinging cell to lose its sting

“This one gene controls a switch between two alternative cell fates," said Professor Leslie Babonis.
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Color coding aids evaluation of new solar tech materials

Cornell chemistry researchers discovered a method to evaluate complex materials for solar energy harvesting.
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Cornell repatriates ancestral remains to Oneida Indian Nation

The remains, unearthed in 1964, had been kept in a university archive for six decades. They were returned on Feb. 21 at a small campus ceremony.
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Life on Mars? Better tools needed to get the answer

Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of ancient life may not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, says a Cornell-led study.
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The U.S. should deter — not provoke — Beijing over Taiwan. Here’s how.

What will fundamentally change the calculus between the U.S. and China? Jessica Chen Weiss analyzes the situation in The Washington Post.
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Mathematician Vogtmann elected to National Academy of Sciences

Karen Vogtmann is among 120 members and 30 international members who were elected in 2022, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
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Family abolition focus of upcoming lecture

Sophie Lewis will offer a deep dive into the history of radical movements and explore family abolition, which she characterizes as a turning away from the privatization of care.
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Summer Experience Grant applications now open

Summer Experience Grants help support students to take unpaid or minimally-paid summer positions.
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Migrations announces winners for creative writing, art

Four winners of the competition by the Migrations Global Grand Challenge are affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Researchers create custom technology in quest to understand memory

A pair of researchers in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior are designing new technology and research methods to discover how brain circuits support learning and memory.
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War’s aftermath brought modern painting to Taiwan

“Transcending Fragments” is the first detailed account of the life and art of Fong Chung-Ray.
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Renowned string quartet to perform in Cornell Concert Series

Hailing from Cremona, Italy, the birthplace of the violin, Quartetto di Cremona will perform works by famed Italian composers Boccherini, Puccini, Respighi and Verdi.
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After one year of war, how to break the stalemate in Ukraine?

February 24 will mark one year since Russian tanks rolled over the border into Ukraine; two Cornell historians provide insight.
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Student Spotlight: Angie Torres-Beltran

A doctoral candidate in government from central Florida, Torres-Beltran studies how women’s political participation is influenced by gender-based violence and interactions with state institutions.
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Campus rallies to support Syria, Turkey earthquake survivors

With about 70 students on campus from Syria and Turkey affected by the devastation in their countries, students, faculty and administrators have mobilized to create relief efforts.
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Researchers use computational tools to understand linguistic processing

Two recently-hired faculty in the Department of Linguistics are expanding the use of computer modeling and experimental techniques as they forge new paths of research in the discipline.
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Underwater robot helps explain Antarctic glacier’s retreat

First-of-their-kind observations beneath the floating shelf of a vulnerable Antarctic glacier reveal widespread cracks and crevasses where melting occurs more rapidly, contributing to the glacier’s retreat.
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Five early-career faculty win Sloan Research Fellowships

Assistant professors Debanjan Chowdhury, physics, and Andrew Musser, chemistry, are among 126 researchers in the United States and Canada who this year have received two-year fellowships to advance their work.
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Milner wins Scialog award to advance methane mitigation

The Scialog initiative aims to catalyze advances in basic science that will enable technologies for removal of C02 and other greenhouse gases to become more efficient, affordable and scalable.
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I, Judge and Jury

How do you decide if a person in a difficult situation has acted criminally or not? John Doris reveals patterns in our moral judgments.
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In an age of drones and UAVs, why balloons are having a moment

Countries have long used balloons to extend intelligence collection though more sophisticated technologies have replaced them in recent years, says drone researcher Paul Lushenko.
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Juniors selected for Caplan travel fellowships

Kim Montpelier ‘24, Austin Manning ‘24 and Shanzai Ikhlas ‘24 won fellowships through the classics department.
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Website sheds light on 19th century Black literary culture

The site includes 700 poems that Charline Jao discovered and transcribed.
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GRAMMY-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Feb. 24

Maria Schneiders’ “Winter Morning Walks” headlines the program in Barnes Hall.
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Sanctions Against Russia Ignore the Economic Challenges Facing Ukraine

In a New York Times guest essay, Nicholas Mulder considers why the Russian economy has proven relatively resilient under sanctions.
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Elusive transition shows universal quantum signatures

In the experimental metal-to-insulator transition, even a tiny amount of imperfection plays a key role in revealing the universal physics.
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Reforming police culture across nation a ‘shared responsibility’

Professor Joseph Margulies says that while President Biden was right to call for police accountability in the State of the Union address, we all share responsibility for police culture.
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Spanish lagoon proposed as Mars ‘astrobiological time-analog’

Alberto G. Fairén led an inaugural study of a dynamic analogous Earth environment where changes can be analyzed over many years.
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Same-race reviews reduce inequality in Airbnb bookings

White guests favor Airbnb properties with white hosts, but are more inclined to rent from Black or Asian hosts if they see featured reviews from previous white guests, Cornell research finds.