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Government

Big data on political and economic will

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Massive data now help us understand the effects of mass incarceration, how money controls what politicians say, and what influences political agendas.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

To stay young and disease-free longer

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Lecturer Siu Sylvia Lee of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics is conducting research on aging.

History

It was the Year, 1774

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"While other historical works on the revolution tend to skip over the year 1774," says Mary Beth Norton, "noboday has ever paused to look seriously at the events of the year 1774, to see how the American population, which previously has been quite united in opposition to Britain, divides over various issues."

Titan near Jupiter
Astronomy

Titan: An Explorer's Utopia

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Alexander G. Hayes, assistant professor of astronomy, first began studying Titan as a graduate student, Hayes' research is described in this Cornell Research story.

Student Research

When they were undergraduate researchers

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Robert D. Guber ’15 studied alcoholic liver, diabetes, and obesity. Lipi Gupta ’15 worked on reducing beam emittance in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), a 768-meter ring that is part of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), to produce brighter s-rays. Sang Min Han ’15 examined toadfish to create a mathematical model for vertebrate vocalization. Swati Sureka ’15 engineered nucleic acid to develop DNA materials. Teresa O.

English

A scholar's voice

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Atop a cabinet, leaning against a wall of Dagmawi Woubshet’s office, is an enlarged framed cover of the May 17, 1963, issue of TIME magazine. Its portrait of writer James Baldwin stares into the room. Woubshet, associate professor of English, gestures to it several times as he talks about his research.

Information Science

Computational tools for the humanities

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In academic fields from physics to genetics, researchers rely on computers for everything from data analysis to modeling. One area of scholarship that has gone largely untouched is the humanities, where today’s researchers are far more often hunched over stacks of books than scanning graphs and charts on a screen.

Physics

Uncovering new insights into quantum materials

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Kyle Shen, associate professor of physics, creates and investigates artificial and unconventional materials with unusual electronic and magnetic properties. His research into these new materials and their potential applications is explored in this Cornell Resarch story.

Comparative literature

Studying the relationship between humanities, climate change

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Karen Pinkus, professor of Italian and comparative literature, is deeply concerned about the environment and believes that the humanities can bring a critical research component to solving the problems of climate change.

Graduate student research

Grad students talk about research opportunities

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This Cornell Research story explores the many avenues that graduate students pursue in their research projects and the multitide of Cornell supports available to them.More than 5,000 graduate students work at Cornell, studying in more than 80 fields.

Physics

In Search of New Physics Phenomena

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Despite the distance, Cornell researchers are actively involved in the cutting-edge particle physics experiments taking place at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.This Cornell Research story explores the many projects and discoveries Cornell faculty are undertaking as they pursue answers to some of the universe's greatest mysteries.

Performing & media arts

The page, the screen, the stage

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In the short story “How to Win an Unwinnable War,” a seventh-grade boy named Sam enrolls in a summer school class called How to Win a Nuclear War. The story traces Sam’s morbid reflections spurred by the course—“He wonders what the stars will see the day the war begins, the whole planet brightening, then going gray like a dead bulb”—as he simultaneously grapples with the dissolution of his parent’s marriage.

Linguistics

Cheyenne, how meaning is coded in language

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Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, many are endangered. An endangered language is one that is at risk of losing all of its native speakers.

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Classics

Classics professor studies ancient scientific and technical texts

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Courtney Roby, assistant professor of classics, had some big questions as she was working as an electrical engineer. See how she found the answers in classics.