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ASL program offers performance series, welcomes new faculty

Lisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.
Book cover: Invisible Labor

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Your October 2024 reads

This month’s titles, featured in Cornellians, include "Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section" by A&S alum Rachel Somerstein ’04.
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Trump’s abrupt decision to play DJ, a sign of ‘accelerating cognitive decline’ says Cornell expert

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.
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World at a Turning Point interview

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.
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Engaged faculty network grows with 28 new fellows

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.
Book cover: The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

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J. Ellen Gainor wins book award from Theatre Library Association

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.
Anna Ho

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Astronomy professor Ho named Packard Fellow

The fellowship from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation includes $875,000 in unrestricted funds to be used for research over five years.
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Scientists supporting mission to assess Europa’s habitability

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.
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Global experts look abroad for lessons in super election year

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.
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‘Silence’ theme of Society for the Humanities Fall presentations

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.
Book cover: On the Move

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Brooks School to host author Abrahm Lustgarten ‘95 for lecture on climate migration

A Cornell alumnus, and ProPublica climate reporter, Abrahm Lustgarten is author of “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America."
Moon Duchin

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Mathematician and redistricting expert joins Brooks School as radical collaboration hire

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.
Carl Sagan

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Celebration of Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday being held Nov. 9

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.
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Professor creates new work at national choreography center

Playing two roles during a prestigious residency, Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz will both choreograph a new dance work and document the process.
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Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique

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.
John Hopfield

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John Hopfield, Ph.D. ’58, wins Nobel Prize in physics

Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto were honored for their work in training artificial neural networks.
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Empowering research and building community: A Rawlings Scholar’s journey

Rawlings Presidential Research Program Scholar Tejal Nair is working on research that connects math and computer science with technology in areas such as healthcare.
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A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network

“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.
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Poet and sportswriter Rowan Ricardo Phillips to read Oct. 17

“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."
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A slice of wisdom from Russell Weiner ‘90

Russell Weiner ’90, CEO of Domino’s, shared career and life advice during a Sept. 20 talk on campus.
Ling Ma

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Author alum wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Ling Ma, MFA ’16, has earned raves for her fiction; a Cornell Tech prof also received one of the coveted fellowships.
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‘Hamilton’ star Daveed Diggs speaks on campus to sold-out crowd

Tony- and Grammy-award winner Daveed Diggs advises aspiring artists to “stop sweating the timeline” on their creative projects.
Ling Ma

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Novelist Ling Ma, MFA ’16, among 2024 MacArthur recipients

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.”
Pedro Conceição

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World at a Turning Point interview

UNDP's Dr. Pedro Conceição speaks with the Einaudi Center during the Oct. 3–5 CRADLE conference on the state of the global economy.
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Kids don’t need to love salads to maintain healthy weight

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.
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A weakened Hezbollah could open the door for a two-state solution

A Cornell government scholar says that the reality of a severely diminished Hezbollah in Lebanon may provide an opportunity for a path toward peace.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author from Jerusalem to speak Oct. 10

Nathan Thrall will talk about his most recent book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy.”
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Will Mexico’s first female president take a different line on security, economy?

Claudia Sheinbaum, being sworn in as Mexico's first female president today, faces several major challenges, says Gustavo Flores-Macías.
A crowd of about 75 people stands behind a low box full of dirt; six people in the front hold shovels with red handles during a ceremonial "groundbreaking" event

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Celebration kicks off McGraw Hall project

More than 75 people, including university leaders, donors and members of the College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council, celebrated the start of the $110 million McGraw Hall renovation project Sept. 19 with a “groundbreaking” ceremony.
Four people work at a plastic patio table in the midst of ancient ruins: they are archaeologists on an excavation site

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Modeling an ancient house and garden in 3D

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.
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To promote peace, I borrowed a principle from martial arts

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.
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Cornell Keynotes podcast: Conquering our biggest fear

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.
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‘Birding buddies’ build social and science communication skills

Cornell students and high school students with disabilities or communication challenges met for 12 weeks to explore birds and build communications skills.
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OpenAI restructuring ‘natural consequence’ of AI arms race

The latest changes at OpenAI mark a potential departure from the company's founding, says tech expert Sarah Kreps.
Paul Ortiz

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Cornell historian featured in ‘game-changing’ PBS series about Latinos

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.
Romina Wainberg

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Writing against productivity in Latin American fiction

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.
Oona Cullen

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Student spotlight: Oona Cullen

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.
Susannah Sharpless

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Student spotlight: Susannah Sharpless

Susannah Sharpless, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature, studies 19th century American literature with a focus on women writers and the sea.
Cameron Tardif

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Student spotlight: Cameron Tardif

Cameron Tardif, a doctoral candidate in history studies sport as a space of race and power in 20th-century United States and Canada.
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World Languages Days opened to public this year

First-year World Languages Day is open to the public which brings a day filled with various activities.
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Psychedelics excite cells in hippocampus to reduce anxiety

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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Freeing Ukraine to hit targets deep in Russia likely won’t change tide of war

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."
Alexandra Easley

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Postdoc spotlight: Alexandra Easley

Alexandra Easley is a postdoc in the department of chemistry and chemical biology; her research focuses on new approaches to carbon dioxide capture.
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Five postdocs honored with achievement awards

The Postdoc Achievement Awards recognize individuals who have made contributions to community and show commitment to promoting inclusion at Cornell and in society.
Peter Kim

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Vaccine pioneer to give Racker Lecture Oct. 3

Peter Kim ’79 will explore how vaccines work and provide an overview of some of the most influential vaccines in history.
Peter Enns

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Election forecasting topic of eCornell keynote address

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.
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Splinter Reeds on campus as Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble

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.
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Speaker Johnson walking tightrope to avoid government shutdown

Cornell expert: Trump and the far right have House Republicans in a bind.
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Ban on Chinese tech in connected vehicles ‘extremely difficult’ to enforce

Cornell expert: A ban will offer no protection unless it comes with an investment in U.S.-capabilities.  
Scott Emr

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Scott Emr awarded 2024 Horwitz Prize for discovering ESCRT pathway

“This award places Scott Emr in the company of many of the top figures in molecular biology and biomedical sciences from the past 50 years.”