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Two people wearing suits speak, seated on a stage among plants
Jason Koski/Cornell University Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, president of Iceland, left, and Peter Katzenstein, the Einaudi Center’s Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
International politics

Iceland president: ‘Turn smallness into strength’

Cornell Chronicle

During a highlight of a two-day visit to Cornell, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson discussed his country’s commitment to peace, diversity and science-based climate solutions during a sold-out lecture held Nov. 10.

woman outside
Student awards

Senior wins award from SETI Institute for planetary research

A&S Communications

Ze-Wen Koh plans to pursue a doctorate in planetary science after graduation.

Two red shacks on log platforms in a bay
Erik Mclean/Unsplash Fishing community in Newfoundland
Science and Technology Studies

Designed for rural living

Cornell Research

Small communities struggle with infrastructure ill-suited to rural life. Phoebe Sengers is improving design processes for better outcomes.

Red white and blue flag merges with a red and yellow flag
Territory of American Canada/Creative Commons license 4.0 US and China flags
International politics

Biden, Xi meeting a chance to ‘step back from the brink’ of conflict

A&S Communications

Government professor Jessica Chen Weiss: "I hope that both leaders will come prepared to test the proposition that the two governments could begin a range of discussions in areas of shared concern and explore potential terms of coexistence.”

Six people stand in a group at the front of a classroom, conversing
Jason Koski/Cornell University David Hernandez ’23 talks with students in the Cornell University Panhellenic Council after giving a talk to the group on his experience as a student veteran at Cornell.
Student veterans

Breaking barriers: Peer outreach boosts student veterans

Cornell Chronicle

The number of undergraduate veterans enrolled at Cornell has nearly quadrupled over the past five years, thanks in part to outreach by a team of student veteran peer counselors.

Rocket blasting off from SpaceX, blazing fire and huge clouds of smoke behind.
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash Demonstration of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy
Tech policy

The promise and perils of the new space boom

TechStream

The rapid expansion of commercial space activity, as well as its integration into key government programs and services, represents a leap into uncharted waters.

A few dozen men sit and stand in a group, talking intensely
Karna Basu/karnabasu.com Men gather on a street corner in Delhi. Researching delayed age of marriage for men in India, sociologist Alaka Basu said that young, unmarried, unemployed men are poised to cause or be recruited to cause social and political trouble.
Sociology

‘Young, male and aimless’: Why are men in India delaying marriage?

Cornell Chronicle

Economic changes in India are forcing adaptations in traditional marriage practices, but not enough for a modernizing overhaul to this deeply traditional institution.

Book cover: Black Women's Rights
Literary scholarship

Book: Time for Black women to claim the right to lead

Cornell Chronicle

Extending her research on writing by Black women around the world, Carole Boyce Davies examines the stories of Black women political leaders in Africa and in the global African Diaspora.

Cornell's central campus with lake beyond
Graduate student research

Over 50 Students Receive NSF Graduate Fellowships

Cornell University Graduate School

The National Science Foundation offers approximately 2,000 fellowships per year to research-based master’s and doctoral students pursuing STEM studies.

Jennifer Wissink
Economics

Winter Session spotlight: Jennifer Wissink

Cornell Chronicle

Students can earn up to four credits in the three-week winter session – including Wissink's ECON 1110 Introductory Microeconomics course.

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Judith Byfield
History

Professor’s book wins American Historical Association prize

A&S Communications

Judith Byfield's book "The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria" was awarded the Martin A. Klein Prize.

boys outside a school
Gillian Harrill Actors from "Ghosts" walk around the schoolhouse during filming in Oklahoma.
Faculty creative works

Faculty members' film focuses on boarding school escape

A&S Communications

The film by Jeffrey Palmer and Austin Bunn has been entered into five film festivals; they’ll hear word of acceptance soon.

An airplane-shaped drone with narrow wings and a propellor on one end
Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle flies a combat mission over southern Afghanistan in 2008.
International relations

Latest U.S. drone transfer to Ukraine signals shift in ‘character of war’

A&S Communications

Lieutenant Colonel Paul Lushenko, senior policy fellow at Cornell's Tech Policy Lab, comments on the announcement of the inclusion of the MQ-9 Reaper in a U.S. defense aid package to Ukraine

Peter Enns
Peter K. Enns, the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences, Executive Director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and professor of government
Government

Cornell-led election survey seeks to improve science of polls

Cornell Chronicle

… collect data, but no way to systematically analyze what the best approach is,” said Enns, the Robert S. Harrison … fared slightly better. Mixed-method surveys performed best overall but showed wide variation. “This goes against … midterm survey project. But Barry said its insights into best practices – ideally to be updated every year or two – …

Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
Astronomy

A dream of discovering alien life finds new hope

Quanta

For Lisa Kaltenegger and her generation of exoplanet astronomers, decades of planning have set the stage for an epochal detection.