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Dark comedy can lighten up fight against climate change

In his new book, “Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change,” Aaron Sachs demonstrates how laughter can give strength even when things seem most hopeless.
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Students’ island clean-up trip inspires multimedia projects

Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.
Jane Landers

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Noted life of an “Atlantic Creole” focus of Becker Lectures

This year's Carl Becker Lectures, April 25-27, will illuminate the extraordinary life of Captain Francisco Menéndez.
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Book goes underground to find how climate change shapes stories

Prof. Karen Pinkus confronts the global threat of climate change by using select literary works from the 19th century.
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Museum exhibit illuminates Pliny’s study of art, nature

Open now through June 11, “Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder” marks the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Roman author, natural philosopher and statesman.
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Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule

Music department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.
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Year of ‘Repair’ ends with research conference at Society for the Humanities

The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.
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‘Out Here’ film event shines light on rural LGBTQ life

A trio of short films showing the pleasures – and perils – of rural life for LGBTQ+ people will show April 26 as part of the Rural Humanities Initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Partnership Expands Horizons of Humanities Doctoral Career Possibilities

This flexible, on-campus summer internship gives students the chance to experience firsthand what is involved in becoming an acquisitions professional at a university press,
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Strong momentum marks 2030 Project’s early fundraising results

In 2022 Cornell University launched an initiative, to tackle climate change; in less than a year, donors have given more than $146 million in support.
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Art and community: Africana Library exhibits quilts

“Precious Scraps” showcases quilters and fabric artists from across the country, as well as from Cornell -- including Africana Prof. Riché Richardson.
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‘No one wins when immigrants cannot readily access healthcare’

By expanding access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, the Biden administration is taking an important step to expand access to healthcare for DACA beneficiaries, says professor Jamila Michener.
Britney Schmidt

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Britney Schmidt named one of Time’s 100 most influential people

Schmidt was recognized for contributions to climate science, following the recent publication of surprise results about the melting of the imperiled Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
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3 ways Banga may push World Bank to tackle climate change more aggressively

Ajay Banga, expected to become World Bank president, could push the bank to tackle climate change more aggressively in three ways, but that each approach carries risk, says professor Richard T. Clark.
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New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell

Two Arts and Sciences professors are among the 13 Cornell faculty members receiving Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
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Students can sign up for minor in public history

Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.
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New Beebe Lake seating area honors Hu Shih

In admiration of the contributions of literature and philosophy scholar Hu Shih 1914, friends and alumni of Cornell funded an outdoor seating area for quiet and contemplation.
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Humans need Earth-like ecosystem for deep-space living

Carl Sagan Institute researcher Morgan Irons examined the long-term physical needs of humans living far from Earth.
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Physicists take step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing

Realizing 2D particles called non-Abelian anyons in the real world is potentially useful for quantum computation: protecting bits of quantum information by storing them non-locally,
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Despite lasting peace, legacy of trauma in Northern Ireland remains

Consistent ‘severe’ threat levels speak to the strong and lasting appeal of narratives within Northern Ireland society.
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Book examines the mainline Christian ‘Worship Wars’

Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.
David Nirenberg

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Understanding history of anti-semitism can help us today

Scholar David Nirenberg is a historian of Christians, Jews and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.
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$9.5M to fund chronic fatigue syndrome research

The funding will enable Cornell experts from disparate fields to work together on the mysterious and debilitating condition.
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Intelligence leak creates significant problems on and off the battlefield

Leaked documents include information about Ukrainian defenses, says history professor David Silbey.
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Sociology research centerpiece of comedic video 

Professor Cristobal Young, on-screen, explains how he came to the conclusion that millionaire tax flight is 99% myth. He also shreds on guitar.
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Chinese state used parent-child relationships to serve political goals

Prof. Mara Yue Du will talk about “State and Family in China: Filial Piety and its Modern Reform” on April 13 in Olin Library.
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Ten Inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.
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A movement brings community, visibility to neurodiversity at Cornell

Students and staff are finding support, community, visibility and a voice through Neurodiversity @ Cornell.
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Brain Prize winner to speak on brain’s control of locomotion

Understanding locomotion can unveil fundamental principles of how our nervous systems generate behavior and lead to treatment for human movement disorders.
Mary Ann Radzinowicz

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Mary Ann Radzinowicz, Milton scholar, dies at 97

A noted Milton scholar who also worked on modern poetry and American literature, Radzinowicz taught at Cornell starting in 1980, after a 20-year academic career in Great Britain.
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Harvard historian to deliver Munday lecture

Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, will deliver this year’s Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture April 17.
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Milstein speaker to explore “The Battle for Your Brain”

Nita Farahany, a scholar who focuses on ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies, will be the featured speaker for an April 12 event hosted by the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.
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From Dr. Fauci to 'Succession:' A peek into the lives of two alumni filmmakers

“From the Big Red to the Red Carpet” featured Scott Ferguson ’82 and Michael Kantor ’83, Emmy-winning producers of HBO’s “Succession” and PBS' “American Masters” series.
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Archaic equation helps scientists control CO2 transformations

To manage atmospheric carbon dioxide and convert the gas into a useful product, Cornell scientists have dusted off a 120 year old electrochemical equation.
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Classicist: ‘Modern’ view of religion dates to 303 AD

Klarman Fellow Toni Alimi identifies three features of so-called modern religious views in “Divine Institutes” by the 4th century scholar Lactantius.
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TikTok fines ‘a potentially fruitful alternative’ to bans or lack of regulation

Government scholar Sarah Kreps: The recent hearings on Capitol Hill and ongoing debates about a TikTok ban have shown how difficult it is to balance privacy concerns with core democratic principles of free speech.
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Remember me? Gender, race may make you forgettable

Economist Michèle Belot says that systemic biases in the way we remember people could influence social networks important to career advancement.
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Expect ‘swift engagement’ for future spy balloons that enter U.S. airspace

Government scholar Paul Lushenko: U.S. political officials have learned from the incident of a Chinese high-altitude balloon able to gather intelligence.
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Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election ‘immensely consequential’

Professor Glenn Altschuler: results of the Tuesday election will affect the future of abortion and gerrymandering and shed key insight into constituent sentiment around judicial candidates.  

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New book helps students learn ancient Tocharian language

A new book by linguist Michael Weiss provides the first pedagogical grammar ever compiled for Tocharian B, an ancient Indo-European language.
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Ensemble-in-residence loadbang performs April 15

Featuring a unique instrumentation of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice, loadbang headlines a week of great musical performances April 11-17.
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Cornell expert: ‘For Beijing, the trip is a provocation that smacks of Taiwanese independence’

Professor Allen Carlson comments on a highly-sensitive diplomatic stopover in the United States by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen.
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‘Enormous consequences’ loom in the wake of Trump indictment

Government professor David Bateman: "There is no historical precedent for one of the two major parties to nominate a candidate on trial or potentially convicted."
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Cornell admits ‘extraordinary’ Class of 2027

“True to Cornell’s founding vision, these extraordinary students will bring a diverse range of ideas and experiences to enrich campus life together.”
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Whole-message AI communication seen as more useful

Cornell tech policy research: using AI to write entire messages in representative government appears to be more effective than using AI to generate individual sentences.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 carved portrait to adorn NYS Capitol

"We are both honoring Justice Ginsburg’s legacy as a trailblazer for justice and gender equality, and also celebrating New York’s history as the birthplace of the women’s rights movement.”
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Radar, AI identify Alaska Native Spanish flu victims burial site

The finding helps clarify the historical record for the Indigenous communities devastated by the 1918-19 pandemic.
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Russia’s quest for Bahkmut could lead to greater losses elsewhere

Bakhmut, Ukraine, by itself is not a particularly valuable piece of land for either side, says professor David Silbey, but Ukrainian control of it prevents a more general Russian advance northwest .
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Panel on political polarization and the media set for April 19

Distinguished alumni and Cornell faculty will explore whether media are helping or worsening the political divide and what can be done.
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For Newman Lab’s 75th Birthday, Some Fascinating Facts

You don’t have to be a nuclear physicist to appreciate these tidbits about the Hill’s first facility devoted to accelerator physics