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Government

Cornell scholar: Netanyahu’s policy failures on display following attack

A&S Communications

The sense of collective shock in Israel is larger than after the surprise attack on the country which started the Yom Kippur War, says Uriel Abulof.

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Simon Wheeler/Cornell University Author N.K. Jemisin speaks at the Bartels World Affairs Lecture Oct. 4 in in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium.
Bartels World Affairs Lecture

Author Jemisin builds ‘the world from scratch’

Cornell Chronicle

At the Bartels World Affairs Lecture Oct. 4, Jemisin spoke on how to investigate our world and beliefs about it, and how to use what we learn to imagine and construct a better future.

Claudia Goldin
Cornell University file photo Claudia Goldin ’67 speaks on campus in 2014
Economics

Claudia Goldin ’67 wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Cornell Chronicle

Goldin’s pioneering research has revealed the reasons for gender gaps in labor force participation and earnings.

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Economics

October India conference features government, corporate leaders

A&S Communications

N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys Limited, will offer the keynote address during an India Conference at Cornell Oct. 13-15.

Amit Vishwas uses a screwdriver to work on ALPACA, a round metal top with metal boxes and cables protruding
Ryan Young/Cornell University Amit Vishwas ’10, M.Eng.,’14, Ph.D. ’19, research scientist in the College of Arts & Sciences, works on the ALPACA instrument, with Donald Campbell, professor emeritus of astronomy (A&S), looking on.
Astronomy

Cornell-built instrument to transform Green Bank Telescope

A&S Communications

The new camera "is actually a very different way of observing the sky,” said A&S research scientist Amit Vishwas ’10, M.Eng.,’14, Ph.D. ’19.

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Provided The collaborators who created the concert "Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind": (seated l-r) playwright Virginia Grise, novelist Helena María Viramontes, and composer Martha Gonzalez. Standing is Kendra Ware, the production's director.
Creative Writing Program

Performance and conference honor Viramontes

A&S Communications

Held Oct. 20-21, “Lest Silence Be Destructive" will feature readings, discussions and the first public performance of a musical album based on Viramontes' work.

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Alexandra Werth

Assistant Professor
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Allison Godwin

Associate Professor
CDER

Tung-Hui Hu
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Digital humanities

Poet and scholar of digital media to deliver annual Digital Humanities Lecture

A&S Communications

Tung-Hui Hu will talk on “The Grid vs. the Set: Early Attempts at Classifying Data” October 18.

U.S. House of Representatives in 2019
NATO/Creative Commons license 2.0 Speech by the NATO Secretary General at a Joint Meeting of the US House of Representatives and Senate
Politics

With McCarthy out, ‘we are slouching towards political chaos’

A&S Communications

With our government stalled, our democracy is threatened like never before, says comparative sociologist Mabel Berezin.

Manuel Munoz
Creative Writing Program

Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

Cornell Chronicle

In his writing, Muñoz draws on his roots growing up in a Mexican-American family of farmworkers in California’s Central Valley.

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David Levine Illustrating the humor in "Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change,”
Climate 2030

‘Climate Change Comedy Hour’ on Nov. 2

A&S Communications

Environmental historian Aaron Sachs will use a combination of gallows humor, history and silly videos to show how we can shift our attitude about climate change -- and how that shift might help us get to the next stage of climate activism.

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Chris Kitchen Michelle Seneca, left, and John Whitman, right.
Linguistics

Coming home: Gayogohó:nǫˀ language programs expand reach

A&S Communications

This summer, 40 members of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ diaspora came from all over the U.S. for a language camp on their ancestral homeland.

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Religion

Synod of Synodality ‘much needed listening session’

A&S Communications

The gathering in Rome is unique both in structure and theme, says Daniel Gallagher, a professor of practice in the classics department.

Antonio Fernandez Ruiz
Neurobiology & Behavior

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz receives NIH award for ‘transformational’ project

A&S Communications

Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has received a New Innovator Director’s Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.