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Community engagement

Engaged Conversations Series to focus on community partnerships

The Einhorn Center for Community Engagement has launched a set of speaker events and workshops designed for anyone incorporating CEL into curricula, research and other programs.

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Physics

'Flawed' material resolves superconductor conundrum

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers developed a more controlled way of making nickelates, a material that could potentially help pinpoint the key qualities that enable high-temperature superconductivity.

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Latin America

Cornell Latin American politics expert on El Salvador election

A&S Communications

President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele is on track to handedly win reelection on Sunday.

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Kelly Musick

Professor of Public Policy and Sociology, Brooks Senior Associate Dean of Research
Center for the Study of Inequality, Sociology

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Ann Druyan, writer, producer and widow of Carl Sagan, speaks at the 2015 Inauguration of the Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond.
Astronomy and cinema

‘Cosmos’ screening features ice cream and live Q&A with Ann Druyan

A&S Communications

As part of their “Voyager Spacecraft Week,” the Cornell Astronomical Society joins Cornell Cinema to present “Cosmos” Episode 6: “Traveler’s Tales” on Feb. 13.

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Lindsay France/Cornell University Klarman Postdoctoral Fellows pursue research on a wide variety of topics in the social sciences, sciences and humanities.
Klarman Fellows

Twelve new Klarman Fellows to pursue innovative, timely research in A&S

A&S Communications

This fifth cohort of Klarman Fellows is the largest since the program was launched in 2019.

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Public Engagement

Speaker series to examine antisemitism, Islamophobia

Cornell Chronicle

Leading academics from around the country will join Cornell experts in a semester-long series, “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined."

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Psychology

Mouse social calls and distress calls linked to different neurons

Cornell Chronicle

“Vocal communication is central to our experience as humans and fundamental to social success for animals generally,” said Prof. Katherine Tschida.

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M. Kelley et al. Color map showing predicted inelastic helium atom scattering signals from Nb(100).
Physics

Researchers develop new model to predict surface atom scattering

Cornell Chronicle

Helium beams are potentially very useful for understanding the surface characteristics of materials on the molecular level.

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Provided Harrison Award winner Dana Lerner ’14 playing ice hockey at Madison Square Garden in March 2023 (“A helmet was worn and is out of the frame,” she notes.)
Alumni

Rising stars: Harrison Award honors recent alumni leaders

Alumni Affairs & Development

Four special guests, including Arts & Sciences alumni, will be honored at the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Baltimore in February.

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Provided Fluorescence imaging of C. elegans fed with a new chemical probe developed in this study – a branched-chain fatty acid analog. The red signal derives from selective ‘click chemistry’ reaction between the probe and a red fluorescent dye.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Tiny worm offers window into important protein modifications

A&S Communications

“The more we understand protein modification and function, the better we understand its central role for human health and disease.”

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International relations

Cornell scholar: Biden should bypass Bibi, appeal directly to Israelis

A&S Communications

Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu is an impasse to Biden's "dream deal" approach to the Gaza crisis, says government scholar Uriel Abulof.

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Defense Visual Information Distribution Service An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle parked on a taxiway at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada
International relations

Iran has little incentive to dissuade proxy attacks against US troops

A&S Communications

"Mounting an attack with clearly identifiable Iranian forces is probably off the table," says David Silbey, associate professor of history, "but further proxy attacks are likely to continue.”

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Cornell Concert Series

Ukraine’s National Symphony Orchestra featured in Cornell Concert Series 

A&S Communications

The Cornell Concert Series event, featuring conductor Volodymyr Sirenko and cellist Natalia Khoma, takes place Feb. 10 in Bailey Hall. 

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Provided ‘Another Body’ documentary exposes harm of deepfake technology
Performing and Media Arts

‘Another Body’ documentary exposes harm of deepfake technology

A&S Communications

The film focuses on the gendered implications of deepfake technology; a free screening Feb. 7 will be presented by the Milstein Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, partnering with Cornell Cinema.