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Precious samples from Mars have been collected. Now it’s up to Congress to get them back.

Clues about our planet’s ability to support life might come from Mars – yet political storms that have hit Washington, DC, threaten to leave valuable samples stranded on Mars.
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Cornell students explore opportunities in film at Sundance

A professor in Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts brought students to the Sundance Film Festival.
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Eight students advance to 3MT finals

Three A&S-affiliated graduate students are among the competitors advancing to the final round of the 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), having competed in a pool of 22 students in the preliminary round.
Amber Bal

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Student spotlight: Amber Bal

Amber Bal, a doctoral candidate in romance studies, studies the urban-rural divide in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature.
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NY’s fundamental need: New housing of every ‘shape, size and price’

Soaring rents and home prices have created a city of haves and have-nots, says Cornell history scholar Jacob Anbinder, who studies how America’s most progressive cities become unaffordable for a significant portion of the population.
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Students host first undergraduate philosophy conference

Sophia Gottfried '25 talks about putting on Cornell's first undergraduate philosophy conference.
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Replica theory shows deep neural networks think alike

A collaboration between researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania found that most successful deep neural networks follow a similar trajectory in the same “low-dimensional” space.
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Understanding politics at home and abroad: Sarah Cutler '16

Sarah Cutler, an alumna of Arts & Sciences, has used her work in journalism to help people understand political polarization in the U.S.
Kate Manne

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A moral philosophyer contemplates the evils of 'fatphobia'

After penning two acclaimed books on misogyny, Kate Manne turns her attention to a different—but related—form of oppression
Yuval Grossman

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Choosing connection: Physics professor teaches Arab youth in Israel

Professor Yuval Grossman has been traveling to Israel to lead math and physics activities with young people in Arab villages since 2019. His most recent trip was in January.
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Russia’s presidential election is ‘not so important’ as what will come after

“The potential domestic and battlefield implications of another mobilization after the election are the things to watch.”
Margarita Suñer

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‘Innovative’ linguist Margarita Suñer dies at 82

Margarita Amalia Suñer, professor of linguistics emerita in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died in Ojai, California on Feb. 29 after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 82.
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Grad student grants support sustainability, biodiversity

Thirty-one graduate students across three colleges, including A&S, have been awarded research grants from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.
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Filament formation enables cancer cells’ glutamine addiction

Blocking the formation of filaments – multi-enzyme structures that fuel cancer activity – may offer new ways to control cancer cell proliferation, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.
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Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’98 to deliver Culler Theory Lecture

“Beyond the World as Picture: Worlding and Becoming the Whole World [devenir tout le monde],”will examine philosophical accounts of the ways in which we organize the concept of reality.
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Students to discuss navigating identities abroad

Panelists who have studied in countries ranging from Denmark to South Africa will speak about their perspectives on gender, sexuality, race and identities that impacted them while abroad during an upcoming global freedom of expression event.
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Students in DC examine antisemitism, Islamophobia

Students from the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s Cornell in Washington program will have an opportunity to observe in person how policymakers contend with Islamophobia and antisemitism at a White House briefing on March 14.
Anna Shechtman

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‘Queen of crosswords’ recovers the puzzle’s feminist side

In “The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting a Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle,” media scholar Anna Shechtman combines a history of the crossword highlighting its early women innovators with her memoir of a personal challenge.
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Freedom-seekers inspire doctoral student’s work

History doctoral student Megan Jeffreys is using runaway slave ads as one of the foundations of her work.
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Talk focuses on academic freedom post Oct. 7

On March 13, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will host “Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after Oct. 7,” one of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year events.
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France’s abortion rights vote sets potential ‘worldwide precedent’

France is the first county in the world to include a right to an abortion in its constitution, underscoring the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms, says sociologist Landon Schnabel.
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Student buses planned for eclipse viewing

Cornell students can travel right to the heart of the eclipse’s path, thanks to the student-led Astronomical Society at Cornell.
Dr. Yunn-Shan Ma

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Concert celebrates International Women’s Day

The annual Empowerment Through Music concert will be held Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pm in Sage Chapel.
Students enjoy in-person activities around the Arts Quad during March Wellness Days

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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 14

Your gift allows the College to fulfill our mission — to prepare our students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Poised for Oscar gold, Oppenheimer boasts a Big Red distinction

Thanks in part to its physics-centric plot, the hit movie may depict more Cornellians than any other feature film in history.
Elbert Cox: a black and white portrait of a person wearing doctoral regalia

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Remembering the Cornellian who broke racial barriers in math

After becoming the first Black person to earn a PhD in the field, Elbert Cox, PhD 1925, spent a lifetime inspiring others to follow.
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Ice shell thickness reveals water temp on ocean worlds

Decades before any probe dips a toe – and thermometer – into the waters of distant ocean worlds, Cornell astrobiologists have devised a way to determine ocean temperatures based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space.
Daniel Baugh

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Daniel Baugh, ‘giant’ of British maritime history, dies at 92

Daniel A. Baugh, professor emeritus of history, died Feb. 9 at his home in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was 92.
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Events celebrate Nabokov as butterfly scientist

On March 15 the College of Arts & Sciences takes over the Mann Library for this semester's Arts Unplugged, "Nabokov, Naturally," celebrating esteemed Cornell faculty member, Vladimir Nabokov as writer and "butterfly man."
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On climate change, artists ‘imagine the world otherwise’

Carolyn Fornoff explores how contemporary Mexican writers, filmmakers and visual artists have reacted to climate change in her book "Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change."
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Asian American studies celebrates new endowment funding

"The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having.”
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Grant to enhance art history book

A Millard Meiss Publication Fund award will support the publication of Kelly Presutti's "Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France.”
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Grants available to fund rural humanities projects

Funding is available for faculty and students with projects related to rural humanities.
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Three juniors awarded Caplan Travel Fellowships

Julia Fritsch ’25, Cristina Kiefaber ’25, and Ashley Koca ‘25 have been selected as the 2024 Harry Caplan Travel Fellows, supported by the Department of Classics.
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New grants support student involvement in community projects

An A&S-led project to clean up Cape Cod Bay is among the latest round of Engaged Opportunity Grants.
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Babies use their immune system differently but efficiently

Scientists have long believed that a newborn’s immune system was an immature version of an adult’s, but new research shows that newborns’ T cells – white blood cells that protect from disease – outperform those of adults at fighting off numerous infections.
Lenka Zdeborová

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Spring 2024 Bethe Lecture bridges physics and computer science

During three events March 13-15, Lenka Zdeborová will explore how principles from statistical physics provide insights into challenging computational problems.
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Freshmen win top prize at digital ag hackathon

More than 120 students took part in the Digital Agriculture Hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture and Entrepreneurship at Cornell.
Valzhyna Mort

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Faculty poet Valzhyna Mort reads her poem, “In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks”

"I wrote this poem when I couldn't write a different poem," Mort says. "And this inability to write made me feel homeless in language and in poetry."
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MLK lecture: Encourage democracy, fight suppression

Kimberlé Crenshaw ’81, a legal scholar, reflected on the ways Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s influence shaped her personal, academic and professional journey.
J. Robert Lennon

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Lennon chases down literary thrills in new series

J. Robert Lennon’s “weird hike through the wilderness” of publishing has led him to a new and unexpected place: writing his first thriller, “Hard Girls,” published Feb. 20 by Mulholland Books.
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Four early-career faculty win 2024 Sloan Research awards

Assistant professors Anna Y.Q. Ho, Chao-Ming Jian, Rene Kizilcec and Karan Mehta are among 126 early-career researchers who have won 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Book cover: The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria

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Book brings elusive Greek technical writer into focus

Hero of Alexandria's writings on things like pneumatics, pure geometry and catapults have influenced many others through the ages and his principles touch early modern inventions including the player piano and the fire engine.
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How much do you know about Africana Studies on the Hill?

During Black History Month, test your knowledge of Cornell’s ground-breaking program with 10 trivia questions!
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Speaker series focuses on China’s communist past and present

A series of four lectures — two in the spring and two in the fall of 2024 — will focus on “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China."
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Cornell astronomers on newly approved UVEX NASA mission

The space telescope, targeted to launch in 2030, has Cornell astronomers Anna Y. Q. Ho and Shrinivas R. Kulkarni on the mission team.
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A musical bridge: Cornell Wind Symphony makes transformative journey to Cuba

Cornell musicians traveled to Cuba for a tour in collaboration with the National Concert Band of Cuba.
Jake Turner

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Earth to be exhibit A for lunar exoplanet research

With the help of a Cornell astronomy researcher, the first radio telescope ever to land on the moon will lay the foundation for detecting habitable planets in our solar system by observing Earth as if it’s an exoplanet.
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Cornell expert on same-sex marriage in Greece vote

Legalizing same-sex marriage in Greece would show other Eastern Orthodox Christians that providing rights does not undermine culture and values, says sociology scholar Landon Schnabel.
Ishion Hutchinson

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Book-length poem narrates struggle of young Black fighters in WWI

In the new book-length work, “School of Instructions: A Poem,” Ishion Hutchinson writes of the psychic and physical terrors of West Indian soldiers volunteering in British regiments in the Middle East during World War I.