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History department begins three-year active learning initiative

Active learning methods encourage students to engage in their learning by thinking, discussing, investigating, and creating in their courses.
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'Can You Hear My Voice?' conference offers new ways to think about hiring practices

The all-day conference April 5 is for anyone who makes hiring decisions or who has an interest in creating a more inclusive workforce.
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Cornell alum to speak on the power of nonfiction comics in 21st century

On March 28, Andy Warner  ’06, author of the memoir "Spring Rain" and several other books, will explore the power of graphic media to tell true stories.
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Jewish Studies celebrates 50 years with speakers, conferences

The program now has four endowed faculty positions, 28 affiliated faculty from more than 15 departments and nearly 40 courses offered each year.
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How carbohydrates function to help or hurt humans: Aggarwal Lectures March 15-16

Chemical biologist Laura L. Kiessling of MIT will detail how carbohydrates function to help the body fight cancers and pathogens.
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Physics theory could be slam dunk for basketball coaches

A model based on density functional theory can suggest the best positioning for each player on the basketball court.
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Philippine study analyzes Marcos family return to power

A national survey points to theories based on continuity between former President Rodrigo Duterte and Bongbong Marcos and between the younger Marcos and the older – as well as ethnicity-based voting.
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Peace Games underscore options to war

A unique Cornell University-sponsored event in Washington, D.C. brought together congressional staff to search for nonviolent solutions to a simulated clash between superpowers.
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Dead & Co. to play benefit at Barton Hall, honoring legendary ’77 show

Remaining members of the Grateful Dead will return to play a benefit concert in Barton Hall on May 8 as part of the band’s final tour.
ASL professor Matilda Prestano performing sign language

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Students can learn ASL during summer, winter sessions

Interest in ASL is growing, prompting Cornell to increase opportunities for students to explore the language.
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Michener advocates ‘Broadening the Tent’ at White House

Equity and effectiveness are enhanced when more voices contribute to policymaking, Prof. Jamila Michener said.
Karolina Hübner

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Spinoza on mind-body identity: Hübner wins best article prize

Hübner's winning article from the Journal of the History of Philosophy gives a new reading of Spinoza’s claim that minds and bodies are “one and the same thing.”
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Alumni filmmakers share stories from the Big Red to the red carpet

Producers of "Succession" and "American Masters" on PBS will screen films and talk about their careers.
Wendy L. Freedman

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2023 Bethe Lecture: How fast is the universe expanding?

Astrophysicist Wendy L. Freedman will describe the current state of cosmology and her work with the Hubble Space Telescope that has led to some of the most precise measurements of the Hubble constant made to date.
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‘March Madness’ Contest Will Crown the Top Fictional Alum

Cornell history maven Corey Earle ’07 is running a Twitter poll with 64 contenders—and you can vote.
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Math communicator visits campus to explore math in everyday life

“Ellenberg is a distinguished mathematician and a master of public communication."
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Robot provides unprecedented views below Antarctic ice shelf

A U.S.-New Zealand research team recognized a shift as evidence of “ice pumping” – a process important to the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf.
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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16

 On Thursday, March 16, join the Cornell community to make a difference for students on Cornell Giving Day.
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Clown play captures complex emotions of cognitive loss

“Heading into Night: a Clown Ode on…(forgetting),” featuring Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, who developed the play with Professor Beth Milles, premiered this month.
Anna Kornbluh

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Literature, film, and critical theory professor delivers Culler Lecture

Anna Kornbluh, professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, will address "Immediacy: Some Theses on Contemporary Style" on Tuesday, March 7.
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Public history project reveals stories of Cornell changemakers

A new public history digital exhibition hosted by the Center for Teaching Innovation uses storytelling methods to look at Cornell’s past.
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U.S. has few options to counter rollback of elections protections in Mexico

Professor Gustavo Flores--Macías: the United States has few diplomatic options to push back on the Mexican government’s changes to electoral laws, which protestors claim threaten democracy.
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Postcards from Earth: Hologram project showcased at Intrepid

A yearslong effort to launch Cornell-made satellite technology into a neighboring solar system is making a terrestrial stop at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.
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Philosopher John Doris: ‘Moral psychologists have plenty to do’

John M. Doris reflected on his book "Character Trouble: Undisciplined Essays on Moral Agency and Personality" during a recent book talk.
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Students to develop their ideas for social change

Ten enterprising Cornell students will attend the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) 2023 Annual Meeting in March.
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Astronomers discover metal-rich galaxies in early universe

Cornell astronomers discovered a companion galaxy estimated at 1.4 billion years old while scanning images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
City street winds past modern buildings beside a river: Lagos, Nigeria

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High stakes and high risk in Nigeria landmark election 

Perspective from professor Rachel Beatty Riedl on the “opportunity of historic turnover" as Nigerians will head to the polls Feb. 25 for a fiercely-competitive presidential election. 
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Physicists create new model of ringing black holes

Gravitational waves produced from colliding black holes interact with each other, producing nonlinear effects – “what happens when waves on the beach crest and crash.”
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Single gene causes stinging cell to lose its sting

“This one gene controls a switch between two alternative cell fates," said Professor Leslie Babonis.
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Nine professors win NSF early-career awards

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."
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Color coding aids evaluation of new solar tech materials

Cornell chemistry researchers discovered a method to evaluate complex materials for solar energy harvesting.
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Cornell repatriates ancestral remains to Oneida Indian Nation

The remains, unearthed in 1964, had been kept in a university archive for six decades. They were returned on Feb. 21 at a small campus ceremony.
Karen Vogtmann

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Mathematician Vogtmann elected to National Academy of Sciences

Karen Vogtmann is among 120 members and 30 international members who were elected in 2022, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Sophie Lewis

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Family abolition focus of upcoming lecture

Sophie Lewis will offer a deep dive into the history of radical movements and explore family abolition, which she characterizes as a turning away from the privatization of care.
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Life on Mars? Better tools needed to get the answer

Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of ancient life may not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, says a Cornell-led study.
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The U.S. should deter — not provoke — Beijing over Taiwan. Here’s how.

What will fundamentally change the calculus between the U.S. and China? Jessica Chen Weiss analyzes the situation in The Washington Post.
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War’s aftermath brought modern painting to Taiwan

“Transcending Fragments” is the first detailed account of the life and art of Fong Chung-Ray.
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Renowned string quartet to perform in Cornell Concert Series

Hailing from Cremona, Italy, the birthplace of the violin, Quartetto di Cremona will perform works by famed Italian composers Boccherini, Puccini, Respighi and Verdi.
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After one year of war, how to break the stalemate in Ukraine?

February 24 will mark one year since Russian tanks rolled over the border into Ukraine; two Cornell historians provide insight.
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Summer Experience Grant applications now open

Summer Experience Grants help support students to take unpaid or minimally-paid summer positions.
Migrants carry everything they own to find a better life in a new home.

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Migrations announces winners for creative writing, art

Four winners of the competition by the Migrations Global Grand Challenge are affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Researchers create custom technology in quest to understand memory

A pair of researchers in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior are designing new technology and research methods to discover how brain circuits support learning and memory.
Angie Torres-Beltran

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Student Spotlight: Angie Torres-Beltran

A doctoral candidate in government from central Florida, Torres-Beltran studies how women’s political participation is influenced by gender-based violence and interactions with state institutions.
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Campus rallies to support Syria, Turkey earthquake survivors

With about 70 students on campus from Syria and Turkey affected by the devastation in their countries, students, faculty and administrators have mobilized to create relief efforts.
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Researchers use computational tools to understand linguistic processing

Two recently-hired faculty in the Department of Linguistics are expanding the use of computer modeling and experimental techniques as they forge new paths of research in the discipline.
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Underwater robot helps explain Antarctic glacier’s retreat

First-of-their-kind observations beneath the floating shelf of a vulnerable Antarctic glacier reveal widespread cracks and crevasses where melting occurs more rapidly, contributing to the glacier’s retreat.
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Five early-career faculty win Sloan Research Fellowships

Assistant professors Debanjan Chowdhury, physics, and Andrew Musser, chemistry, are among 126 researchers in the United States and Canada who this year have received two-year fellowships to advance their work.
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Milner wins Scialog award to advance methane mitigation

The Scialog initiative aims to catalyze advances in basic science that will enable technologies for removal of C02 and other greenhouse gases to become more efficient, affordable and scalable.
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Juniors selected for Caplan travel fellowships

Kim Montpelier ‘24, Austin Manning ‘24 and Shanzai Ikhlas ‘24 won fellowships through the classics department.
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Website sheds light on 19th century Black literary culture

The site includes 700 poems that Charline Jao discovered and transcribed.