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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Nearly 1,000 gather for conversation on safer fieldwork

Cornell Chronicle

Witnessing incidents of violence against people of color in the media, two ecology and evolutionary biology doctoral candidates have created a set of best practices on how researchers can stay safe while conducting fieldwork. What started as a list for their graduate field transformed into much more when Monique Pipkin and Amelia-Juliette Demery’s ideas began resonating at Cornell and beyond.

Alumni profiles

College Scholar graduate takes position in local DA’s office

A&S Communications

Ariana Marmora ’11 was a College Scholar with interests in government, philosophy, intellectual history, comparative literature and public service.

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Yeast epigenome map reveals details of gene regulation

Cornell Chronicle

The study is a major step toward improving understanding of development, evolution and environmental responses in higher organisms.

Walter LaFeber at a podium.
Jason Koski, Cornell University Walter LaFeber speaking at the 2016 Dedication of the LaFeber Research Study.
History

Walter LaFeber, revered history professor, dies

Cornell Chronicle

… And he loved Cornell.” Walter LaFeber gives the Commencement Address at the 1976 graduation at Schoellkopf … For more than 100 years, Cornell’s president presented the Commencement address. For the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976, …

Student perspectives

Could AI counter vaccine disinformation?

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

… with GPT-3, if possible. We liked the idea of programming a bot that could detect anti-vax discourse on twitter and … This question gives us a way to build this anti-vax bot and test its effectiveness in a formalized research … had much experience in NLP or web scraping of social media sites before this project. We’ve spoken to Professor Kreps’ …

Barbara Baird
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Baird honored among Distinguished Women in Chemistry, 2021

Cornell Chronicle

Barbara Baird, the Horace White Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been honored as one of the 2021 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

U.S.-China relations

Russekoff lecture focuses on U.S.-China relations

A&S Communications

Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, will be the featured speaker for this year’s Mitzi Sutton Russekoff ’54 Lecture, hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences on March 16.

Racism in America: Health. Mother holding her child
American Studies

Health inequities the focus of ‘Racism in America’ webinar on March 29

A&S Communications

The fourth webinar in our Racism in America series features faculty from A&S, CALS and Weill Cornell Medicine.

Music

Composer Roberto Sierra elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

Cornell Chronicle

The award is considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Baskin lab identifies pathway for treating deadly melanomas

Cornell Chronicle

Baskin said he is excited about this potential pathway for treating melanoma, which is dangerous because of its ability to spread from skin to other tissues.

Migrations Initiative

Migrations grants to fund research on racism, dispossession

Cornell Chronicle

Proposals are due April 15 for a new cycle of grants from the Migrations initiative, seeking to support work in migrations-related research, pedagogy and engagement with a specific focus on racism and dispossession.

Sociology

Latinos, Blacks less swayed by college-bound friends

Cornell Chronicle

In new research, Steven Alvarado reports that having college-bound friends increases the likelihood that a student will enroll in college. However, the effect of having college-bound friends is diminished for Black and Latino students compared with white and Asian students, especially for males and especially for selective and highly selective colleges, due to structural and cultural processes.

Charles Petersen
Klarman Fellows

Klarman postdoc conducting ‘radical critique’ of meritocracy

Cornell Chronicle

Charles Petersen, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in history, studies 20th-century American history to better understand the rise of social and economic inequality in recent decades.

History

Oluo offers practical antiracism strategies in MLK Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Author Ijeoma Oluo, the featured speaker at the virtual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, held March 1, said the white male in America has always enjoyed relatively unfettered passage – usually at the expense of others.

Psychology

Neuroimaging reveals how ideology affects race perception

Cornell Chronicle

The study appears in a special issue about political neuroscience.