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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.
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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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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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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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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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Your March 2025 reads

This month’s featured titles include a debut novel and a nonfiction book about the comedy troupe Firesign Theater, both by A&S authors.
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Cornell expert: EPA regulations rollback
 will reduce quality of life

Rolling back these regulations will reduce the quality of life for everyday Americans, says Talbot Andrews, who studies policy design and the changing environment.
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Jane Bennett to deliver Culler Lecture in Critical Theory

Bennett, a founding scholar of the field of new materialism, will talk about the limits of “data” as the unit of humanistic study.
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Eight students advance to 3MT finals

Students from several graduate fields, including physics in A&S, will compete in the final round of the 2025 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT) on March 19.
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Cutting CHIPS funding could be ‘politically challenging’ for some GOP lawmakers

Given its bipartisan support and national security implications, CHIPS funding will be difficult to cut, says professor Sarah Kreps.
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Cornell Concert Series hosts Sona Jobarteh, musician of the West African griot tradition

A living archive of the Gambian people, Sona Jobarteh innovates to support a more humanitarian future.
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No winners in looming trade war with Mexico, Canada and China

The effects of tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico are already felt, and the consequences will increase in the coming weeks, says government professor Gustavo Flores-Macías.
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Trump administration’s shift from European allies could be ‘devastating’

Prof. Thomas Pepinsky comments on Pres. Trump's foreign policy.
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Budget plan: ‘Long and extremely divisive process’ ahead for Republicans

With House Republicans narrowly pushing through a budget plan, the strain on an already strained federal workforce could get worse, says government scholar David Bateman.
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Your February 2025 reads

This month’s featured titles include books by A&S faculty and alumni: poetry, a kids’ book about Bali, and a short story collection.
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After three years of war in Ukraine, Cornell experts assess endgame

On he third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Cornell University experts discuss sanctions and the state of US and European support for Ukraine.
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Ellen Lust Leads Einaudi as New Director

Prof. Lust's research examines the role of social institutions and local authorities in governance, particularly in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
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Trump posture on Ukraine peace based on flawed assumptions

Prof. Bryn Rosenfeld comments on the summit between Pres. Trump and Putin.
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Experts call for 'accountability' before restoring Syria heritage sites

Cornell experts comment on the restoration of Syria's damaged and looted historical sites.
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Freelance Theater Critic and Editor Brittani Samuel Wins George Jean Nathan Award

The award committee praised Samuel for her “impressive breadth of address to the playgoing public,” foregrounding “the critic’s own social position in an effort to promote more thoughtful and empathetic theatergoing.”
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Decentralization in the Middle East and North Africa

Government professor Ellen Lust is coeditor of a new open-access book examining how decentralization affects communities in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Writer Melissa Harris-Perry to speak on community care and democracy

The Feb. 27 public lecture will be the third event in the Black History Month series organized and hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures.
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With education funding cut looming, ‘irreplaceable data on schools’ at risk

The real economic and social value of the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences research won’t show up in DOGE’s metrics.
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Mentorship series: Rebeckah Fussell and Natasha Holmes

In a series of interviews with faculty-graduate student pairs, the Cornell University Graduate School spoke with Rebeckah Fussell, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, and Natasha Holmes, Ann S. Bowers Associate Professor of physics.
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Pianist Jonathan Biss featured on Cornell Concert Series Feb. 21 

Biss is a performer, teacher and musical thinker whose on-stage repertoire ranges from the core canon to contemporary commissions. He will perform works by Franz Schubert and Tyson Gholston Davis. 
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Awards and Honors

Awards and honors received by faculty, postdocs and graduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Cornell expert: Anti-trans executive order belies unfounded moral panic

Wednesday's executive order prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports discriminates not only against transgender people, but also against women, says philosophy professor Kate Manne.  
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Dismantling of USAID will have “clear costs at home and abroad”

Such a retreat from current U.S. commitments dangerously disrupts protections to life and liberty, says Rachel Beatty Riedl, professor of government and director of Cornell University’s Center on Global Democracy.
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Dadi leads Climate Congress symposium with Getty Foundation grant

The conference, in Lahore, Pakistan, featured more than thirty guest scholars, curators, artists, and other practitioners and twenty-seven emerging scholars.
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U.S.-Canada relationship entering ‘sad chapter’

The U.S. president's collective actions against Canada have needlessly harmed a long-cherished and close relationship says Jon Parmenter, a professor of North American history.
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Your January 2025 reads

This month’s featured titles – most by A&S authors – include a work of nonfiction about honeybees, a kids’ picture book, and a novel set in rural Nova Scotia.
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New research project investigates U.S./U.K. LGBTQ data

Researchers from Cornell and the University of Edinburgh are investigating how data about LGBTQ communities is used (and misused) by governments, companies and community organizations.
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Cornell media arts expert: ‘Nickel Boys’ challenges viewers

The film's snub in the Best Cinematography category may be due to the use of an immersive first-person camera style, says film scholar Kristen Warner.
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What’s next for TikTok? Kreps outlines possible paths forward

With the U.S. Supreme Court upholding a federal law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S., Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law, discusses possible paths forward for the popular app.
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YAMATO The Drummers of Japan featured on Cornell Concert Series February 2 

Described as the “epitome of the Japanese spirit,” Yamato will bright their show “Hito no Chikara”, The Power of Human Strength to Baily Hall.
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Student spotlight: Nianpo Su

Nianpo Su, doctoral candidate in linguistics, studies how syntactic principles determine the structure of sentences in human languages.
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‘Politics, not policy’: Meta ending fact-check program

Psychology professor Gordon Pennycook, a misinformation expert, says he supports using crowdsourced fact-checking, "but removing third-party (professional) fact-checking strikes me as a major mistake.”
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Cornell expert on Jean-Marie Le Pen: a ‘driving force’ for French far-right

“Le Pen wasn’t responsible for the political events which moved the right forward across Europe. Yet, the French National Front created the institutional framework necessary to take advantage of crisis events," says Mabel Berezin.
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Trudeau resignation surrounded by uncertainty, says Cornell expert

Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of government, says it is unclear how a new Liberal leader will be selected in Canada, and whether the Liberal caucus will agree to Trudeau’s wish to stay on until a new leader is chosen.  
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President Carter pushed the U.S. ‘to act as a force for good in the world.’

Carter's presidency ultimately set in motion many of the trends that have shaped the world we live in today, says Ruth Lawlor, assistant professor at Cornell University and historian of American foreign relations.
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TikTok heading to SCOTUS: ‘Constitutional freedoms versus national security’

“The Supreme Court’s decision to hear the TikTok case reflects an inclination to make its mark on a potentially landmark decision – how to balance constitutional freedoms against national security in an era of globalized technology."
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Cornell expert: Kenya femicide crisis part of a global trend

Kenyan women are taking to the streets and calling for President Ruto to declare femicide a national crisis following the murders of 97 women over three months; professor Sabrina Karim sees it as part of a global trend.  
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Your December 2024 reads

This month’s featured titles include a history Harlem by a government alum and a prof’s memoir about his education under Apartheid.
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Student spotlight: Danielle Obisie-Orlu

Danielle Obisie-Orlu, doctoral student in government with a focus on international relations, studies how memory and migration shape international relations and affairs under the guidance of Oumar Ba.
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Syria developments and foreign involvement: Cornell experts comment

Cornell government and history scholars provide perspective on the end of 14 years of civil war and 24 years of the Assad dictatorship.
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TikTok in ‘increasingly desperate’ situation

We are one step closer to a world where TikTok will no longer be available on app stores, says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law and director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell.
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Ethics expert on dark discourse around death of UnitedHealthcare CEO

The darker-than-darkly humorous comments and the horrified responses to them are compatible forms of righteous blame, says David Shoemaker, a professor in ethics and public life.
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Cornell democracy experts provide insight on South Korea martial law episode

Calls for impeachment are following South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration and subsequent lifting of martial law. Cornell University experts provide insight on what other democracies should take away from the events of the last two days.
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Cornell expert available on South Korea imposing martial law

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says he will lift the declaration of martial law he had imposed overnight; his actions could reinvigorate South Korea’s tradition of expressing political dissent through candlelight rallies, says Sidney Tarrow, an emeritus professor of government.