This summer a group of seven Cornell students traveled with the Brooks School Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) director, former Congressman Steve Israel, and senior associate director, Erin King Sweeney, to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to get an inside look at these major political events.
Bodycam footage illustrates multiple instances in which Grayson made matters worse, says criminal law expert and professor of government Joseph Margulies.
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Beatrice Fenyes-Gartenberg
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Department of Performing & Media Arts
Three short documentaries produced in a Rural Humanities Seminar, taught by PMA Associate Professor Austin Bunn, are headed to film festivals this fall.
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Arpit Chaturvedi, Cornell MPA ’18 and Larasati Eka Wardhani MPA '25
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Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Arpit Chaturvedi Cornell MPA'18 and Larasati Eka Wardhani MPA'25 interviewed Luis Felipe López-Calva Ph.D. ‘99, global director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank Group during The World at a Turning Point: Cornell Conference on Development Economics and Law.
Harry Segal, senior lecturer in the Psychology Department and in the Psychiatry Department at Weill Cornell Medicine, says Trump’s awkward display at his rally was another clear sign of mental decline.
Fellows will spend the year developing a community-engaged course, project or publication, while also joining a network of scholars committed to advancing the university’s public engagement mission.
The George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize goes to Gainor for “The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory & Dramatic Criticism," which she co-edited.
Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking “super election” year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.
Six fellows from a broad swath of humanities fields will present their projects in progress during the annual Fall Fellows’ conference, on Friday, Oct. 25.
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have conditions that could support life. To find out, NASA has launched its next flagship science mission, Europa Clipper, and Cornell scientists will play a role.
Moon Duchin is a mathematician and public policy expert who has advised numerous U.S. states on redistricting and whose lab has been at the forefront of an emerging discipline that merges data science and elections.
On what would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday, Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute will celebrate his legacy in an interdisciplinary day of science, music and more as part of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series.
Rawlings Presidential Research Program Scholar Tejal Nair is working on research that connects math and computer science with technology in areas such as healthcare.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
In his new book, Prof. Jeremy Braddock explores the history of the Firesign Theatre, which used multitrack audio and avant-garde collage to put a countercultural spin on the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s.
“Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a renowned sportswriter, and has written extensively on baseball, soccer, and tennis. He is, however, first and foremost a poet of the highest order, full of formal sophistication, lyrical possibility, and musical syncopation."
Novelist Ling Ma, MFA ’16, and Nicola Dell, associate professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, have been awarded 2024 “genius grants.”
Serving children more nutritious meals didn't reduce their taste for sweets, but promoted healthier weight over time by reducing added sugar and fat consumption, a Cornell-led study found.
More than 75 people, including university leaders, donors and members of the College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Council, celebrated the start of the $110 million McGraw Hall renovation project Sept. 19 with a “groundbreaking” ceremony.
Cornell researchers have received a $150,000 NEH Digital Humanities Advanced Grant to create a 3D virtual modeling project based on the Casa della Regina Carolina, a large Pompeian house.
Cornell College of Arts & Sciences professor David Feldshuh shares methods for speaking with confidence and moving past fear into connection on the Cornell Keynotes podcast.
As John Marks '65, a government alum, outlines in his new book, coming at problems from a non-confrontational stance can be the best way to solve them.
Cornell students and high school students with disabilities or communication challenges met for 12 weeks to explore birds and build communications skills.
Klarman Fellow Romina Wainberg is writing a book that explores how early Latin American novelists depicted the act of writing in their fiction, with a particular focus on fictional representations of the writing process.
Paul Ortiz served as an adviser and on-camera expert for “American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos,” a three-part docuseries premiering Sept. 27 on PBS.
A classic psychedelic was found to activate a cell type in the brain of mice and rats that silences other neighboring neurons, providing insight into how such drugs reduce anxiety.
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Oona Cullen, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature with minors in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and media studies, studies questions of embodiment, narrative, and form as they relate to experiences of race and gender.
Cornell expert: “The center of gravity of this conflict is still in the east of Ukraine and Ukrainian disadvantages aren’t really going to be fixed by deep strikes inside of Russia."
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Susannah Sharpless, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature, studies 19th century American literature with a focus on women writers and the sea.
Peter Enns, professor in the Department of Government, will offer insights on the art and science of political forecasting and what his current forecast tells us about the 2024 election in an eCornell keynote address, Oct 1 at 2:30 p.m.
Beate Heinemann, professor at Universität Hamburg and director for particle physics at DESY in Germany, will share the stories of two outstanding women scientists in a public lecture.
The West Coast's first reed quintet will come to campus Sept. 30 – Oct. 4 as the new Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble, hosted by the Department of Music.
