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Public Engagement

Speaker series to examine antisemitism, Islamophobia

1/31/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Leading academics from around the country will join Cornell experts in a semester-long series, “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined."

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Neurobiology and Behavior

Two from Cornell named HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars

5/9/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Madineh Sedigh-Sarvestani, who will join the College of Arts and Sciences in July as an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior.

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National Science Foundation awards

Nine professors win NSF early-career awards

2/23/2023 Cornell Chronicle

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."

Two images of boggy land; people digging in it — Nuria Rodríguez/Provided Fieldwork and sampling in Tirez lagoon, central Spain, when the lagoon was still active (left) and after drought and desiccation, with only salt crusts remaining (right).

Astronomy

Spanish lagoon proposed as Mars ‘astrobiological time-analog’

2/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

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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Social science research

Misperceptions can threaten scientific advancement

5/5/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Peter Enns, professor of government, and co-authors made this massive collection of COVID-related survey data available at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

Science and Technology Studies

Big data can render some as ‘low-resolution citizens’

10/28/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers used India’s biometrics-based individual identification system to examine how the system works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.