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Society for the Humanities

Year of ‘Repair’ ends with research conference at Society for the Humanities

4/19/2023 A&S Communications

The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.

Person in the driver's seat of a pickup truck, seen through the back window — Provided A scene from Austin Bunn’s new short film “Campfire.”

Rural humanities

‘Out Here’ film event shines light on rural LGBTQ life

4/18/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A trio of short films showing the pleasures – and perils – of rural life for LGBTQ+ people will show April 26 as part of the Rural Humanities Initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences.

A red bordered rectangle made of felt with red hearts on it and a blank-faced brown-skinned woman with one pearl earring and long gray hair — Riche Richardson "Love Always: Timeless Toni Morrison" (2021)

Creative works

Art and community: Africana Library exhibits quilts

4/17/2023 Cornell Chronicle

“Precious Scraps” showcases quilters and fabric artists from across the country, as well as from Cornell -- including Africana Prof. Riché Richardson.

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Opportunities

Partnership Expands Horizons of Humanities Doctoral Career Possibilities

4/17/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

This flexible, on-campus summer internship gives students the chance to experience firsthand what is involved in becoming an acquisitions professional at a university press,

Green line winds through a background of pink — USGS/NASA Landsat8 Nile River

Climate

Strong momentum marks 2030 Project’s early fundraising results

4/17/2023 Alumni Affairs & Development

In 2022 Cornell University launched an initiative, to tackle climate change; in less than a year, donors have given more than $146 million in support.

In a natural areas, a stone bench is next to an interpretive sign — Jay Potter/Cornell University Bench honoring Hu Shih

Alumni

New Beebe Lake seating area honors Hu Shih

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In admiration of the contributions of literature and philosophy scholar Hu Shih 1914, friends and alumni of Cornell funded an outdoor seating area for quiet and contemplation.

Illustration: red sky and land, people in space suits, modular buildings — NASA/JPL/Provided Even on future cosmic outposts like Mars, depicted in this artistic rendering, humans must consider closely replicating natural conditions found on Earth, according to a new theory called Pancosmorio.

Astronomy

Humans need Earth-like ecosystem for deep-space living

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

… far from Earth. Dubbed the Pancosmorio theory – a word coined to mean “all world limit” – it was described in … in March in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. “For humans to sustain themselves and all of their … doesn’t exist anywhere else in our solar system. That’s one of the first problems we must solve.” Oxygen is another …

Person wearing blue gloves examines an instrument — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Ben Cosgrove, associate professor of biomedical engineering

Neurobiology and Behavior

$9.5M to fund chronic fatigue syndrome research

4/11/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The funding will enable Cornell experts from disparate fields to work together on the mysterious and debilitating condition.

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Engaged Cornell

New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell

4/13/2023 Cornell Chronicle

… minor. Michener has a joint appointment in A&S. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: Karim-Aly Kassam , the …

Government

‘No one wins when immigrants cannot readily access healthcare’

4/13/2023 A&S Communications

By expanding access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, the Biden administration is taking an important step to expand access to healthcare for DACA beneficiaries, says professor Jamila Michener.

Astronomy

Britney Schmidt named one of Time’s 100 most influential people

4/13/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Schmidt was recognized for contributions to climate science, following the recent publication of surprise results about the melting of the imperiled Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.

Modern building under a blue sky with textured clouds — Franz Mahr/World Bank World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

World Bank

3 ways Banga may push World Bank to tackle climate change more aggressively

4/13/2023 A&S Communications

Ajay Banga, expected to become World Bank president, could push the bank to tackle climate change more aggressively in three ways, but that each approach carries risk, says professor Richard T. Clark.

a circle fillied with small, irridescant squares — Steve Jurvetson/Creative Commons license 2.0 Quantum computer component

Physics

Physicists take step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Realizing 2D particles called non-Abelian anyons in the real world is potentially useful for quantum computation: protecting bits of quantum information by storing them non-locally,

Three people wearing matching yellow t-shirts look at two laptop computers — Ryan Young/Cornell University Florencia Ardón (center), founder of Neurodiversity @ Cornell and staff member in the Learning Strategies Center, with neurodiversity ambassadors Carol Anne Barsody M.A. ’23 (left), master’s student in archeology, and Becca McCabe, doctoral student in mechanical engineering, in Duffield Hall

Cornell community

A movement brings community, visibility to neurodiversity at Cornell

4/10/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Students and staff are finding support, community, visibility and a voice through Neurodiversity @ Cornell.

students looking at museum paintings — Chris Kitchen Students in the Monuments, Museums and Memory class view work at the Johnson Museum during a class trip.

Public history

Students can sign up for minor in public history

4/12/2023 A&S Communications

Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.

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