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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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Three A.D. White Professors-at-Large on campus this spring

This semester, visiting A.D. White Professors-at-Large will explore themes of democracy, reparatory justice and Latin American narratives during public talks.
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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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Where computer scientists and economists talk to each other

In a world that’s growing more connected every day, economists and computer scientists need to work together. Cornell researchers have thought this way for years, and the rest of the world is catching on.
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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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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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Students gain decision-making insight from alumna Cheryl Einhorn

“If you’re outside of your comfort zone, then you’re on the right track."
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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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War, love and loyalty: The ‘Iliad’ in Ithaca on March 12-13

A virtual event with translator Emily Wilson and a daylong community reading of portions of Homer’s epic poem highlight the spring Arts Unplugged event.
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Concert celebrates the wonders of space March 2

In a musical journey through the cosmos, the Cornell Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of “Ex Terra, Ad Astra,” a new work commissioned especially for this year’s Young Person’s Concert.
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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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Remembering William Kennedy, professor emeritus in comparative literature

Kennedy taught the history of European literature and literary criticism from antiquity to the early modern period.
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Remembering Molly Hite, professor emerita of English

Hite taught at Cornell from 1982 until her retirement in 2013.
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Astronomer Anna Ho and team win Scialog award

Ho’s project will look at supermassive black holes residing in the centers of distant galaxies.
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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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Prof’s new novel imagines a U.S. without Texas

Charlie Green’s new novel, “The Shah of Texas,” published Feb. 18 from Gold Wake Press.
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Documenting Uyghur history for the sake of the future

Zilala Mamat '26 has been traveling abroad to document the stories of Uyghur people.
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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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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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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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Bohannon, Manne event focuses on female body image, evolution

"Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and Getting the Story Right” takes place in person March 5; a virtual conversation between the two will be livestreamed March 6.
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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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Awards and Honors

Awards and honors received by faculty, postdocs and graduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Alumna playwright honored with Dramatists Guild award

Playwright Gloria Oladipo '21 is also an award-winning cultural critic and journalist with The Guardian.
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Junior wins international reporting honor

Gabe Levin, editor in chief of the Cornell Daily Sun and a student in the College of Arts & Sciences, spent the summer of 2024 reporting on the Israel-Gaza war.
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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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Media Objects podcast releases 'sonic essays' based at Cornell

The series features the voices and research of 13 Cornell faculty members, more than half from A&S.
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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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New Klarman Fellows to join the College of Arts and Sciences

Fellows will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
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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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Bowers student explores privacy, healthcare, satellite imagery

Vipin Gunda ’25 is excited about projects that apply his computer science knowledge to real-world challenges.
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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 Cinema preview: Vampires, courtroom drama, animation and more

The spring season of films at Cornell Cinema has begun.
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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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Latina/o Studies offers new way to connect with alumni

“Fridays with Alumni” kicks off Jan. 31 featuring Kim Cardenas '17 & Joseph De Los Santos '19,
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Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz wins Scialog Award

“This project sits at the cross-roads of neuroscience, ethology and artificial intelligence."
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Explore home space in a teenage sitcom during upcoming lecture

"Sanctuary from the Storm: Making (My) Room with The Torkelsons," will explore Sheppard’s fondness for the 1990s television show and what the show’s representation of home spaces can tell us about the way television influences living practices.
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PMA prof’s new audiobook capitalizes on hair-raising adventure

Austin Bunn's twist-laden thriller is set on one of the most extreme environments on earth.
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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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Fulginiti wins book prize

Fulginiti’s novel, “Il dolore degli altri” (“The Pain of Others”), was chosen from among 114 competing manuscripts and will be published soon by Italian publisher ExCogita.
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History department honors first women hired

The centerpiece is a wall-size homage to three of the first women hired and McGraw itself, drawn by Prof. Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik.
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Alums offer mentoring to students exploring career options

Melissa Lewin ’00 and her husband Rob ’99 are active backers of Cornell through their support of Cornell’s Public History Initiative and the archaeology program.
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Postdoc Peiwei Chen named HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow

The awardees are “outstanding early career scientists who have demonstrated a commitment to making foundational discoveries while building an inclusive culture in academic science,” said HHMI in a statement.
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Mice use their tongues to ‘see’ tactile targets

Cornell scientists have identified the neural pathway mice use to direct the tongue to tactile targets.
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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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‘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.”