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Valzhyna Mort
Tanya Kapitonava/Provided Valzhyna Mort, associate professor of Literatures in English.
Creative Writing Program

Faculty poet Valzhyna Mort reads her poem, “In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks”

Alumni Affairs & Development

"I wrote this poem when I couldn't write a different poem," Mort says. "And this inability to write made me feel homeless in language and in poetry."

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and at Columbia Law School, delivers the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture in Sage Chapel.
MLK Lecture

MLK lecture: Encourage democracy, fight suppression

Cornell Chronicle

Kimberlé Crenshaw ’81, a legal scholar, reflected on the ways Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s influence shaped her personal, academic and professional journey.

J. Robert Lennon
Lindsay France/Cornell University Writer J. Robert Lennon, the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, has previously played around with genre elements – from mazy, existential mysteries to dystopian satire – but his new novel, “Hard Girls,” is his first straight-up thriller.
Literatures in English

Lennon chases down literary thrills in new series

Cornell Chronicle

J. Robert Lennon’s “weird hike through the wilderness” of publishing has led him to a new and unexpected place: writing his first thriller, “Hard Girls,” published Feb. 20 by Mulholland Books.

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Early-career awards

Four early-career faculty win 2024 Sloan Research awards

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Anna Y.Q. Ho, Chao-Ming Jian, Rene Kizilcec and Karan Mehta are among 126 early-career researchers who have won 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Classics

Book brings elusive Greek technical writer into focus

A&S Communications

Hero of Alexandria's writings on things like pneumatics, pure geometry and catapults have influenced many others through the ages and his principles touch early modern inventions including the player piano and the fire engine.

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Jed Stiglitz

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
Government

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Dina Bishara

Assistant Professor
Government

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Stephen Coate

Kiplinger Professor of Public Policy
Government

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Victor Nee

Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor
Government

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K. Sabeel Rahman

Professor of Law
Government

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Africana Studies

How much do you know about Africana Studies on the Hill?

Cornellians

During Black History Month, test your knowledge of Cornell’s ground-breaking program with 10 trivia questions!

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Santiago Anria

Assistant Professor of Global Labor & Work
Government

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Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Statue of Mao
Asian studies

Speaker series focuses on China’s communist past and present

A&S Communications

A series of four lectures — two in the spring and two in the fall of 2024 — will focus on “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China."

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/Univ. of Ariz. A superdense neutron star is spewing out a blizzard of extremely high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula.
Astronomy

Cornell astronomers on newly approved UVEX NASA mission

Cornell Chronicle

The space telescope, targeted to launch in 2030, has Cornell astronomers Anna Y. Q. Ho and Shrinivas R. Kulkarni on the mission team.

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Music

A musical bridge: Cornell Wind Symphony makes transformative journey to Cuba

A&S Communications

… 300 enthusiastic audience members dressed in their Sunday best, Mendoza said. “We got a standing ovation, and the host …