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‘Smart Cups,’ clever idea: Alum’s company 3D prints ingredients

Founder and CEO Chris Kanik ’05, Arts & Sciences econ major, hopes its technology will revolutionize how we transport beverages, medicines, and more.
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Your April 2025 reads

This month’s featured titles include poetry, a Creative Writing Program prof’s neo noir novel, and a memoir about working for two celebrity chefs
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Knight Institute creates ‘culture of writing’ on campus

The institute coordinates the Cornell Writing Centers, Graduate Writing Service, writing workshops, first-year writing seminars and other programs.
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Celebrated bonobo Kanzi honored in workshop

Kanzi's legacy and the relation between great apes and language will be explored in a Humanities Lab Workshop on April 19.
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Robinson-Appel Award recipients create community-engaged solutions to social challenges

Three Cornell undergraduates, including A&S student Michelle Tcherevatenko ’25, are being recognized for their dedication to tackling social challenges through innovative, community-engaged learning projects.
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Vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth featured on Cornell Concert Series April 24

Roomful of Teeth is a Grammy Award-winning vocal band dedicated to re-imagining the expressive potential of the human voice.
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Graduate student Elizabeth Ryan selected to attend Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting

A Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate student in the Weill Institute’s Baskin Lab, Ryan will be among 600 young scientists from around the world to come together in Lindau, Germany.
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Ask an Ambassador: Three bits of advice before coming to college

"A positive mindset is key to success."
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Ethnic cleansing explored in Annual Armenian Genocide Commemoration Lecture

Columbia University's Khatchig Mouradian will give a lecture, “Ethnic Cleansing in the Long 19th Century: The Native American, Circassian, and Armenian Cases,” on April 24.
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Mentorship series: Jonathon Thomalla and Mariana Wolfner

Jonathon Thomalla, a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, and Mariana Wolfner, distinguished professor of molecular biology and genetics and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow in Molecular Biology and Genetics, discuss their mentoring relationship in a Q&A.
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Study of democracy’s decline offers roadmap for fighting back

The study of pathways to democratic backsliding provides clear examples of the risks currently posed to the U.S. system of government.
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Ask an Ambassador: Explore all of your interests

"My experiences with exploration pushed me to uncover new interests."
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National security journalist to discuss ‘New Cold Wars’

A public conversation with journalist David Sanger about his recent book, “New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West,” will highlight his April 21-22 visit.
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Biblical scholar: Parables in Luke parallel Genesis stories

Prof. Carmichael identifies how parables unique to Luke were composed as a response to, and reframing of, problems attributed to the earliest of biblical times.
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Booker’s speech: A retreat from the ‘acquiescent liberal elite’ and an embrace of ‘good trouble’

Prof. Alexander Livingston comments on Senator Corey Booker's historic 25-hour speech.
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2024 A&S grads report stellar career outcomes

Jen Maclaughlin credits the College’s first-year advising seminars for at least part of the success for 2024 graduates.
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Language House opens to students learning ASL

Students who want an immersive on-campus experience with American Sign Language (ASL) can now sign up to live in the Language House.
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Book plumbs AI’s potential to reinvigorate the humanities

In his new book, “Humanities in the Time of AI,” professor Laurent Dubreuil argues that the arrival of AI may present an opportunity to “re-create scholarship.”
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Chinese military drills send ominous message to Taiwan

The drills, in the waters and airspace around Taiwan, serve three military purposes, says professor David Silbey.
Ziad Fahmy

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Fulbright funds research on early Egyptian radio

With the award, Ziad Fahmy is working on the first critical history of early Egyptian radio.
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Le Pen conviction could ‘backfire’ on French political establishment

Le Pen’s sentence for embezzling $3 million is going to push French politics into even more tumult, says sociology professor Mabel Berezin.  
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New high-powered telescope reaches Chilean peak

The first major component of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived at its final home: the Cerro Chajnantor mountaintop, more than 18,000 feet above sea level.
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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv, Sheon Han writes in a Wired feature about arXiv's creator Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics.
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Putting the brakes on bacterial mobility: A new approach to fighting disease

Researchers have identified a new way to fight infections like Lyme disease and syphilis by disrupting the bacteria’s ‘motor,’ preventing it from spreading through the body.
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Admitted Class of 2029 channels passions into knowledge

Through volunteer work, research and advocacy, the 5,824 students admitted to the Class of 2029 reflect Cornell’s commitment to changing lives through public engagement.
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Ecologist Jed Sparks elected AAAS Fellow

Sparks was honored for his distinguished contributions to the fields of ecology and environmental science.
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Five early-career professors win NSF development awards

Researchers studying novel traits in organisms and the fundamental understanding of extreme weather are among the five Cornell assistant professors who've received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards.
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Day-long conference celebrates Cornell Atkinson at 15

The evening panel will be moderated by Anne Thompson, NBC News’ chief environmental affairs correspondent and the spring 2025 Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist.
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Cornell Cinema to screen ‘The Accelerator,’ film on physicist Wilson

Producer David Raubach will attend the free screening of the documentary April 8 and participate in a discussion following the film.
Jonathan Culler

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French university honors Jonathan Culler for literary contributions

On March 26, the University of Paris 8 on March 26 recognized Culler for his contributions to literary and theoretical studies and his close ties with French intellectual movements.
Shahal Ilani

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Quantum mechanics with a twist: spring 2025 Bethe lecture

Physicist Shahal Ilani will introduce the emerging field of twistronics, which is revolutionizing our ability to harness quantum phenomena, during a public lecture April 9.
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Professor’s book probes afterlife of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela

The works ponders how “ghosts” can help a state secure its survival and ground its authority in moments of crisis, such as the one Venezuela is experiencing now.
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PMA brings musical to Edinburgh Fringe Festival

“The Family Copoli," a “post-apocalyptic burlesque and re-population play,” is the brainchild of playwright Andy Colpitts ’26, a doctoral candidate in PMA, and composer Michael Wookey and the production involves more than a dozen Cornell alumni and students.
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Book calls social scientists to robust ‘multiverse’ analysis

To cut through misinformation, noise and fragile claims, sociologist Cristobal Young calls social science researchers to adopt a new approach.
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Cook-Gray Lecture will examine transformative labor movement

Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College, will deliver the 2025 Alice Cook-Lois Gray Distinguished Lecture on April 15: “Poverty Wages, 'We're Not Lovin' It': Gender, Race and Inequality Rising in the 21st Century.”
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Student creates company focused on luxury African bags

The newest episode of Startup Cornell, a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, features Cornell senior Micere Mugweru ’25, the founder of Mizoma Africa.
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Share and hear poetry in many languages at this April 9 event

The event celebrates April as National Poetry Month.
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Historian Barry Strauss wins 2025 Bradley Prize

The award carries a stipend of $300,000; Strauss will receive the award at a ceremony on May 29 in Washington, D.C.
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‘Collaborative creativity’ of Gamelan inspires student band

The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and a collection of antique instruments sparked the formation of Twin Court – a band that melds rock and traditional Indonesian music.
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Canadian ‘snap’ election all about President Trump, says Cornell historian

Professor Jon Parmenter says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to call the election looks like a smart decision.
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Rosenberg named Poet Laureate of Tompkins County

“I believe poetry offers us valuable opportunities to slow down, to reflect, and to extend our empathy, and I’m excited to share these gifts with our whole community,” Rosenberg said.
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Balancing various uncertainties in cyber threat intelligence

New Cornell research focuses on two types of uncertainty that play important roles in the cyber threat security industry – coordinative uncertainty and adversarial uncertainty – and analyzes the relationship between them.
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Engaged Opportunity Grants fuel community-engaged learning for students

Seven projects are receiving a boost from the latest round of Engaged Opportunity Grants, awarded two times a year by the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement to teams of faculty or staff and their community partners.
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Student spotlight: Jingya Guo

Jingya Guo, a doctoral candidate in history, studies how historical actors contested and reconfigured the demarcation between pathology and health for female bodies in China.
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Drug found ‘remarkably’ effective in treating common canine oral cancer

An FDA-approved drug used in humans has been found to inhibit the growth of oral squamous cell carcinomas in dogs - with one dog’s tumor nearly disappearing in a matter of weeks.
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Legality unlikely to sway public opinion about executive actions

Don’t expect a broader backlash against President Donald Trump's flurry of executive orders simply because they may rest on shaky legal ground, new Cornell research suggests.
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PMA presents work at National Shakespeare Conference

Members of Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts are participating in the Shakespeare Association of America conference this week.
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Klarman Fellow headed to Yaddo residency

Eraldo Souza dos Santos will work on their next book project, “Everything Disappears,” a family memoir and meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil.
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Clearest images yet of 380,000-year-old baby universe released

The new results confirm a simple model of the universe and have ruled out a majority of competing alternatives, says the research team.
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AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language

A Cornell-led research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track fingerspelling in American Sign Language.