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Person speaks to an audience in a room lighted blue — Evangeline Shaw/Unsplash Being a woman or racial minority can help someone stand out when few others look like them but they are more likely to be confused in settings where others share the same attributes.

Economics

Remember me? Gender, race may make you forgettable

4/3/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Economist Michèle Belot says that systemic biases in the way we remember people could influence social networks important to career advancement.

Light shines through gossamer fabric of a large, inflated balloon against a dark sky — NASA/Dartmouth/Alexa Halford/Creative Commons license 2.0 A high altitude research balloon, launching in 2015

International relations

Expect ‘swift engagement’ for future spy balloons that enter U.S. airspace

4/3/2023 A&S Communications

Government scholar Paul Lushenko: U.S. political officials have learned from the incident of a Chinese high-altitude balloon able to gather intelligence.

Grand building interior, two staircases lead up to a door framed by columns — Daderot/Creative Commons license 1.0 Wiscosin state capitol building, state Supreme Court entrance

American studies

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election ‘immensely consequential’

4/3/2023 A&S Communications

Professor Glenn Altschuler: results of the Tuesday election will affect the future of abortion and gerrymandering and shed key insight into constituent sentiment around judicial candidates.
 

Linguistics

New book helps students learn ancient Tocharian language

4/3/2023 A&S Communications

A new book by linguist Michael Weiss provides the first pedagogical grammar ever compiled for Tocharian B, an ancient Indo-European language.

Fireworks burst under a colorful night sky

Student experiences

Cornell admits ‘extraordinary’ Class of 2027

3/31/2023 Cornell Chronicle

“True to Cornell’s founding vision, these extraordinary students will bring a diverse range of ideas and experiences to enrich campus life together.”

Music

Ensemble-in-residence loadbang performs April 15

3/31/2023 A&S Communications

Featuring a unique instrumentation of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice, loadbang headlines a week of great musical performances April 11-17.

Person wearing business clothes sits at a desk, smiling — Official photo by Makoto Lin/Office of the President. Creative Commons license 2.0 Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen in 2021

International relations

Cornell expert: ‘For Beijing, the trip is a provocation that smacks of Taiwanese independence’

3/31/2023 A&S Communications

Professor Allen Carlson comments on a highly-sensitive diplomatic stopover in the United States by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen.

Red, sun-lit leaves foreground massive stone pillars on a court building — Colin Lloyd/Unsplash Courthouse steps

Government

‘Enormous consequences’ loom in the wake of Trump indictment

3/31/2023 A&S Communications

Government professor David Bateman: "There is no historical precedent for one of the two major parties to nominate a candidate on trial or potentially convicted."

White domed building lit up at night — Michael/Unsplash State Capitol Building, Madison, Wisconsin

Tech policy

Whole-message AI communication seen as more useful

3/30/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell tech policy research: using AI to write entire messages in representative government appears to be more effective than using AI to generate individual sentences.

Two people look at a piece of art portraying the face of Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Darren McGee/NYS Governor’s Office New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, right, and artist Meredith Bergmann discuss the Ruth Bader Ginsburg portrait that will be installed at the Great Western Staircase in the state capitol.

Government

Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 carved portrait to adorn NYS Capitol

3/30/2023 Cornell Chronicle

"We are both honoring Justice Ginsburg’s legacy as a trailblazer for justice and gender equality, and also celebrating New York’s history as the birthplace of the women’s rights movement.”

three people use a wheeled machine on a grassy plot of land — Anahma Shannon of Kawerak, Inc./Provided Thomas Urban, research scientist in the College of Arts and Sciences, uses ground-penetrating radar to search for communal graves at Pilgrim Hot Springs in Alaska, in collaboration with employees of the National Park Service and Kawerak, Inc.

Archaeology

Radar, AI identify Alaska Native Spanish flu victims burial site

3/29/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The finding helps clarify the historical record for the Indigenous communities devastated by the 1918-19 pandemic.

Large brown rodent, sniffing the air — Provided Giant African pouched rat.

Psychology

Bomb-sniffing rodents undergo ‘weird’ vaginal transformations

3/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Female giant African pouched rats, used for sniffing out landmines and detecting tuberculosis, can undergo astounding reproductive organ transformations, according to a new study.

Solder wearing battle-worn clothing, eating out of a cup — Viktor Borinets/Ministry of Defense, Ukraine Soldier at the Battle of Bakhmut, Nov. 2022

International relations

Russia’s quest for Bahkmut could lead to greater losses elsewhere

3/28/2023 A&S Communications

Bakhmut, Ukraine, by itself is not a particularly valuable piece of land for either side, says professor David Silbey, but Ukrainian control of it prevents a more general Russian advance northwest .

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Panel on political polarization and the media set for April 19

3/28/2023 A&S Communications

Distinguished alumni and Cornell faculty will explore whether media are helping or worsening the political divide and what can be done.

Black and white photo of a person standing in front of large equipment — Rare and Manuscript Collections One of the Newman Lab synchrotrons

Physics

For Newman Lab’s 75th Birthday, Some Fascinating Facts

3/28/2023 Cornellians

You don’t have to be a nuclear physicist to appreciate these tidbits about the Hill’s first facility devoted to accelerator physics

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