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Society for the Humanities

Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture

A&S Communications

… teaching-research hospital in Tanzania, which is used as a site of medical training, together with the hospital’s …

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Provided Bryce Brownfield, Ph.D. ’23 (left) and Cameron Kitzinger ’22 work in their lab for Forage Evolution, which was recently admitted into Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures incubator.
Physics

Startup bets their superfast microbe can rewrite biotech

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers develop a new bacterium that can absorb DNA directly from its surroundings and incorporate it into its own genetic code.

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Psychology and philosophy

To disclose or not to disclose good deeds, that is the do-gooder dilemma

Cornell Chronicle

A new study explores how people feel about sharing their good deeds.

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Sunwoo Lee/Provided A neural implant developed at Cornell rests on a grain of salt. About 300 microns long and 70 microns wide, it’s the smallest neural implant capable of wirelessly transmitting brain activity data.
Neurobiology and Behavior

Neural implant smaller than salt grain wirelessly tracks brain

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year.

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Politics

What this year’s off-cycle elections mean for the national mood

A&S Communications

If Trump allies exceed expectations during Nov. 4 elections, despite his disapproval ratings, it will be a sign that Republicans can still benefit from Democrats’ continued unpopularity.

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Language Resource Center

Symposium celebrates 25 years of bridging language barriers

A&S Communications

“The Future of Language Advocacy” on Nov. 15 will feature Cornell Translator Interpreter Program founders Fatema Sumar ‘01 and alumna Joyce Muchan ‘97.

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Poetry

Summoning religion, mythology and memory ‘Within the Shop of the Divine’

A&S Communications

A Saint Anthony statue that glows in the dark lights the way into poems that connect people beyond death, visit holy sites, consider Satanic bargains and consult astrology.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Nobel Prize-winning economist and former Cornell professor Richard Thaler, left, speaks on stage with Thomas Gilovich, the Irene Becker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology, in the Statler Auditorium.
Psychology

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler delights in the human side of economics

Cornell Chronicle

Richard Thaler, a Nobel laureate who was a professor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management from 1978 to 1995, spoke Oct. 17 at the Alice Statler Auditorium.

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Academic innovation

Academic integrity and generative AI focus of PWGIA event

Cornell Chronicle

A keynote and faculty panel on Nov. 12 will focus on how faculty can communicate their generative AI-related expectations to students, how students can take accountability for their work, and what this looks like in practice.

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Molecular biology and genetics

Faculty win Bezos grants to use AI for environmental challenges

A&S Communications

Cornell has won three of 15 major grants from the Bezos Earth Fund, awarded to leverage artificial intelligence in the fight against climate change and environmental challenges.

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International politics

Plan to conduct nuclear tests comes with enormous risks, says Cornell expert

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Where and how the tests will happen are important questions, says military historian David Silbey, as last confirmed nuclear test by the United States was in 1992.

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Government

SNAP benefit lapse: U.S. ‘officially losing’ war on poverty

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The loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits November 1 if the government shutdown holds benefits will have profound repercussions for democracy, says government scholar Jamila Michener.

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Asian studies

Indonesian women created a political voice through gendered care work

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In "Domestic Nationalism," Chiara Formichi argues that during the 1920s to 1950s, Indonesian women’s domestic activities contributed to nation-building as a political project.

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Jordan Picket, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/Provided Benjamin Anderson, associate professor of history of art and visual studies, surveys the walls on the acropolis in Sardis, Turkey.
Archaeology

The long, deep dig: Collaboration excavates the ancient city of Sardis

Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration between Cornell and Harvard has continuously excavated the ancient city.

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Patrick Shanahan Cornell historian Corey Earle shared stories of remarkable women throughout Cornell’s history during an Oct. 25 brunch as part of the Trustee Council Alumni Meeting.
Cornell history

TCAM brunch highlight’s women’s history at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell historian Corey Earle shared stories of remarkable women throughout Cornell’s history during an Oct. 25 brunch as part of the Trustee Council Alumni Meeting.