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Clear jar with a brain inside, with a person behind it — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Curator Tim DeVoogd keeps one of the brains in his office.

Psychology

Brains! Collection is a (slightly spooky) artifact of an earlier era

10/31/2023 Cornellians

Now overseen by the psychology department, the vintage cerebra draw many a visitor to the second floor of Uris Hall.

Bright yellow umbrella held by a person wearing a white sweater. It's not raining. — Nathan Anderson/Unsplash

Philosophy

Struggling with sarcasm: Cornell expert on why Musk’s Grok chatbot isn’t funny

11/7/2023 A&S Communications

The key to funny sarcasm is found in empathy, says professor David Shoemaker, who studies the moral psychology of humor.

Student stories

Rediscovering self-fulfillment during a leave

11/6/2023 A&S Communications

Through hosting a talk show and traveling around the Middle East, An Le ‘25 relearned the value of passion, exemplifying that the path to success is not homogenous.

Scholarship and teaching

Book reexamines scholarship, teaching in the era of COVID-19

11/2/2023 A&S Communications

Three years after the disruptions of 2020, teaching and research continue to be immensely different from pre-pandemic times, according to scholar Debra Castillo.

Illustration of a tree, a dinosaur and a bird

Astronomy

Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

11/2/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Telescopes could better detect potential chemical signatures of life in the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet more closely resembling the age the dinosaurs inhabited than the one we know today, Cornell astronomers find.

Cornell campus seen from above in autumn, with Cayuga Lake in the distance

Excellence in teaching

Weiss teaching awards honor exceptional faculty

11/2/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Three A&S faculty members are recipients of 2023 Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Awards, which honor a sustained commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students.

People in an audience, smiling — Cornell University file photo A. R. Ammons in 1998

Poetry

A. R. Ammons Reading Series: Reviving a beloved tradition

11/1/2023 A&S Communications

Over two decades since Ammons’s passing, an open mic tradition is being revived thanks to a gift from his student Beverly Tanenhaus ’70.

Philosophy

Apocalypse debate set for Nov. 9

10/30/2023 A&S Communications

Five professors will argue for the importance of their disciplines during the Logos Philosophy Debate Club’s annual debate.

Historical black and white image of a young man reading — Provided James John

History

James John, medieval historian, dies at 95

10/31/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A specialist in the study of Latin manuscripts and the history of universities, John was a part of the Cornell community for more than 50 years, teaching medieval intellectual history, historiography and paleography – the study of historical writing systems and manuscripts.

Physics

Bethe Lecture: Testing space propulsion on Earth

10/31/2023 A&S Communications

On Nov. 15, physicist and engineer John Foster will discuss the challenge of testing high power electric propulsion on the ground.

two people in auditorium — Chris Kitchen Dayal Meshri, right, and his daughter, Gita, left, in the newly renovated Baker 200 auditorium.

Alumni support

Meshri family funds Baker 200 restoration project

10/30/2023 A&S Communications

The Meshri Family Auditorium opened this fall, after a $6 million renovation.

Literatures in English

Humanists have the power and the tools to fight climate change

10/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Humanities scholars have an important role to play in the current political struggle to stave off environmental collapse, Caroline Levine argues in her new book.

Orange tube-like machine covered with lice — Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP/Schmidt/Lawrence The Icefin underwater vehicle has sonar, chemical and biological sensors that help researchers characterize sub-ice environments.

Astronomy

Underwater robot updates understanding of ice shelf crevasses

10/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Crevasses play an important role in circulating seawater beneath Antarctic ice shelves, potentially influencing their stability, finds Cornell-led research based on first-of-its-kind exploration by an underwater robot.

Pattern in green, blue and yellow — Provided A confocal microscopy image shows a bicontinuous microstructure with well-defined spacing.

Physics

Tiny networks intertwine to mimic design of bird colors

10/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The resulting materials could prove useful in a variety of applications, from making sustainable pigments to energy storage and filtration.

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Brains! Collection is a (slightly spooky) artifact of an earlier era

Struggling with sarcasm: Cornell expert on why Musk’s Grok chatbot isn’t funny

Rediscovering self-fulfillment during a leave

Book reexamines scholarship, teaching in the era of COVID-19

Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

Weiss teaching awards honor exceptional faculty

A. R. Ammons Reading Series: Reviving a beloved tradition

Apocalypse debate set for Nov. 9

James John, medieval historian, dies at 95

Bethe Lecture: Testing space propulsion on Earth

Meshri family funds Baker 200 restoration project

Humanists have the power and the tools to fight climate change

Underwater robot updates understanding of ice shelf crevasses

Tiny networks intertwine to mimic design of bird colors

Camille Suárez