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 Isaac Kramnick

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Scholarship honors eminent professor and 'university citizen'

With contributions from his family, former students and colleagues, the fund honoring Isaac Kramnick will support students beginning this fall.
Book cover: The End of Pax Americana

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Book describes dislocation of ‘the West’

In his new book, Prof. Naoki Sakai examines a new order taking place that dislocates America and Europe from the center of world power.
ancient stone pillars, black and white image

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Season 4 of Antiquitas podcast features love and war

The fourth season of “Antiquitas: Leaders and Legends of the Ancient World,” a podcast from professor Barry Strauss, premieres Feb. 23.
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Ex-Ukraine ambassador offers gloomy view, sliver of hope

At a Cornell event on Feb. 22, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor said Russian President Vladimir Putin appears intent on provoking a “horrific conflict,” but that he holds out hope for a diplomatic path that would avert all-out war.
Book cover: The Language Game

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Why language is like charades – and could save us from AI

Language emerges from a continual flow of creative improvisation, not biologically evolved genes or instincts, argue authors of a new book.
Tiffany Norwood

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Tribetan CEO Norwood named Entrepreneur of the Year

Tiffany Norwood ’89 will be honored on campus April 28-29 at the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration event.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning alumna explores the human stories behind global migration

L.A. Times reporter Molly O’Toole ’09 is currently tracing a 9,000-mile route to the U.S.’s southern border.
2022 wu scholars

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Eight Graduate Students Receive Wu Scholarships

Eight graduate students, including four studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, were awarded 2022 Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarships.
Orange pill bottle, spilling green pills

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Electrosynthesis energizes sustainable drug development

A Cornell-led collaboration used electrochemistry to stitch together simple carbon molecules and form complex compounds, eliminating the need for precious metals or other catalysts to promote the chemical reaction.
 Cornell Cinema

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Cornell Cinema receives grant, announces spring lineup

"These awardees represent the best of what New York's vibrant communities have to offer," said Governor Kathy Hochul.
View from Mars: red landscape and robot

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Rock stars on Mars: Students look for life on big red planet

For the past year, two Cornell doctoral students have been living, thinking and working on the red planet Mars, digitally commuting from our own blue world.
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Temperature, reproduction link holds promise for insect control

Scientists have uncovered a set of neurons in fruit flies that could provide a target for controlling mosquitos.
Social media icons glow on a smart phone

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Fact checks effectively counter COVID misinformation

Journalistic fact checks are a more effective counter to COVID-19 misinformation than the false news tags commonly used by social media outlets, according to new Cornell research.
Maya Phillips

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New York Times critic at large wins 2020-21 Nathan Award

Maya Phillips, a critic at large for The New York Times, has been named winner of the 2020-21 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award committee comprises the heads of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale Universities.
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Milstein Program announces spring calendar of events

Topics include “Life in the Slash," “Skin Deep: Crafting Tech onto the Body" and "Mining for Meaning: The Novel as Data Set."
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Four assistant professors win 2022 Sloan fellowships

Assistant professors Pamela Chang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Daniel Halpern-Leistner and Peter McMahon have won 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Person wearing gray suit speaks at a podium that says 'NYC LEADING ON CLIMATE'

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Alum Leads Cornell’s ‘2030 Project’ on Climate Change

Fresh from sustainability success in New York City, environmental advocate Ben Furnas ’06 directs a new University initiative to marshal its resources to protect the planet.
Hand digging with trowel in dirt

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Student podcast explores changing face of archaeology

Cornell graduate students are collaborating with students across the country on the scholarly podcast.
Aisha Conte

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Students honored with entrepreneurial fellowships

Twenty-six students received funding to allow them to work on their businesses this summer.
Solina Kennedy '19. interviews Jane-Marie Law in her video

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Alumna unearths benefits of green burial in video

Solina Kennedy '19 interviews Professor Jane-Marie Law for a new video, based on information she learned in a Cornell class.
Clock tower peeking over a green hill with blue sky

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Center for Social Sciences awards 2022-23 Faculty Fellowships

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences grant program, which supports social science research by Cornell faculty members, has awarded $85,000 to 10 professors for their 2022-23 CCSS Faculty Fellows program.
Book cover: Free Will

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Book explores free will and determinism

Cambridge University Press called upon Prof. Derk Pereboom to write a definitive overview of research on the free will debate.
Five people facing the viewer

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Center offers tools for culturally responsive research, practice

The Cornell Center for Cultural Humility provides a new resource to understand and help break down barriers between people.
Illustration of neural pathways and circuit boards.

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Students can major in cognitive science come fall 2022

The major combines interests in philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics and neurobiology and behavior.
Line of soldiers wearing camouflage, snowy field

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Russia may be about to invade Ukraine. Russians don’t want it to.

For Putin, invading Ukraine comes with political risk at home, show surveys conducted by Bryn Rosenfeld and colleauges.
Person wearing protective lab gear handles virus test samples

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Economist helps solve COVID-19 missing data problems

Professor of economics Jörg Stoye proposes new methods of deriving the prevalence of a disease when only partial data is available — with applications for epidemiology and public health policy.
 Morten Christiansen

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Psychology professor elected to Denmark’s Royal Academy

Morten H. Christiansen, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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Collaborative faculty win Vaughn Award for cartilage research

Physics professor Itai Cohen is among four Cornell faculty members who received the 2022 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award for their collaborative research on the mechanics and composition of articular cartilage and its relevance to disease.
Black and white photo (1984) of a eight people

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Exhibition features pioneering erotic magazine

The first decade of On Our Backs, the women-run erotic magazine (1984-2006) is highlighted by “Radical Desire: Making On Our Backs Magazine” in the Carl A. Kroch Library,
Morrison's son film poster

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Cornell celebrates Morrison’s birthday with screening, roundtable

Cornell will celebrate the birthday of alumna and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison MA ’55 from 3-5 p.m. Feb. 18 with a screening of the film “The Foreigner’s Home” (2017), followed by a roundtable discussion.
Ben Furnas

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Former NYC sustainability head Ben Furnas ‘06 to direct University Climate Initiative

Ben Furnas, ’06, has been hired as executive director of The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative. Project leadership includes Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Two Cornellians will compete in ‘Jeopardy!’ Feb. 8

Andrés Quijano ’22 will compete at 7:30 p.m. on “Jeopardy!” and Catherine Zhang ’22 will compete at 8 p.m. on the “Jeopardy!” National College Championship, on ABC and Hulu.
Busy street, white stone buildings, hazy sky

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Tunisia’s president threatened the judicial system. What do Tunisians think about these power grabs?

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Alexandra Blackman, assistant professor of government, writes that a new survey reveals support for Tunisian President Kais Saied — but also support for democracy.
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Professor named chair of state humanities organization

Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.
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A&S announces third cohort of Klarman Fellows

Seven exceptional early-career scholars will be awarded three-year fellowships to pursue independent research in the arts and humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
Logo for the Arts Unplugged showing an outline of a city with computer like design, spelling out "small"

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Science of the very, very small featured in next Arts Unplugged

The event will explore the nanoscale and quantum innovations shaping our future. You can join online at eCornell!
group of students in masks

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Student group helps translate research into hometown projects

A new organization, founded by students in the College of Arts & Sciences, offers support and guidance for students who want to translate their research at Cornell into projects that will benefit their hometowns.
Hand holding electric charger to car

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New catalysts steer hydrogen fuel cells into mainstream

Cornell chemists have discovered a class of nonprecious metal derivatives that can catalyze fuel cell reactions about as well as platinum at a fraction of the cost.
Book cover: Naked Agency

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Naminata Diabate wins ASA book prize for ‘Naked Agency’

“It is my hope that ‘Naked Agency’ will reframe the terms of the conversation on defiant disrobing by inviting readers to take seriously the circulation of women’s grievances and hopes and the (mis)use of their bodies’ images in our hyper-visual world.”
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Freedom seekers speak on new Underground Railroad site

The new “Voices on the Underground Railroad” website focuses on nine documented or rumored stops on the Underground Railroad in Central and Western New York.
man in parking lot

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Asian Studies alumnus wins Emmy for journalism work

Dexter Thomas PhD ’20 plans to continue working on stories “about difficult things that don’t have clear answers."
Samantha N. Sheppard

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Black sports history topic of Cornell Seymour Lecture

The talk “Reframing Boobie Miles: Racial Iconicity and the Transmedia Black Athlete,” by Dr. Samantha N. Sheppard, will explore the meaning of the black athlete, using Boobie Miles, as portrayed in the multimedia franchise “Friday Night Lights,” as her case study.
Kim Gallon

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Kim Gallon to deliver lecture on Black pandemic deaths data

Kim Gallon, associate professor of history at Purdue University, will demonstrate how computational humanities offers an opportunity to redefine “crisis” through the Black American experience and turn it into a defining moment for the recovery and reimagination of Black humanity.
Amalia Skilton

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Klarman Fellow Skilton studies language development across cultures

During a three-year Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship, Amalia Skilton will study joint attention behaviors – which include pointing – by doing field work in Peru's Amazon basin.
Women runners competing around a track.

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American perception of Olympics sabotage claim ‘doesn’t matter’ to China

Political scientist Sarah Kreps comments on China's claim that the U.S. plans to pay athletes to 'sabotage' the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
Book cover: Street Sounds

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Fahmy wins Urban History Association book prize

Ziad Fahmy won a 2021 book prize from the Urban History Association (UHA) for “Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt." Fahmy’s book was recognized for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History.
 A black and white photo of two hands playing a piano

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New piano joins historic instrument collection

A new Silbermann piano has joined the instrument collection at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
Event poster: Zalaznick Reading Series

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Cornell Reading Series features writers with diverse artistic range

Beginning Feb. 24, the Spring 2022 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series will feature a wide range of artistic styles and voices from around the world.
colorful painting

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Cornell ReSounds presented play | pen symposium Feb. 4-5

Cornell ReSounds welcomed an esteemed slate of musicians, composers, and instrument builders for a two-day virtual symposium.
solar panel

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Transforming solar energy with solution-processed materials

Thin-film solar cells made from solution-processed crystalline materials are promising alternatives to silicon wafers, the core component that converts light into electricity in most solar panels today.