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A black and white image of Tom Davis in suit and tie, wearing black plastic glasses and smiling.
Economics

Economist Tom Davis dies at 93

Cornell Chronicle

Tom E. Davis, professor emeritus of economics, was an expert on economic development in Latin America.

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Provided Dana Oshiro '24, right, a Laidlaw scholar, spent six weeks working with Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) and VinUniversity on projects to combat adverse childhood events.
Global experiences

Laidlaw scholars at Cornell gain global perspectives

Cornell Chronicle

Four current Laidlaw scholars share their summer research or leadership in action experiences.

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Global Grand Challenges

Cornell, global partners discuss the next ‘grand challenge’

Cornell Chronicle

Global Cornell will host a town hall in December for additional feedback and announce the new Global Grand Challenge theme in the coming year.

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Student honors

Town-gown awards honor food-related community partnerships

Cornell Chronicle

The awards celebrate cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Kim Benowski, left, a staff member from Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation, helps a student use a VR headset as she learns a complicated microscope technique in a molecular biology and genetics class.
Classroom innovation

Students visit virtual world to learn research technique

A&S Communications

Students experienced cryo-electron microscopy as part of a collaboration with Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation.

A star shining brightly onto the red surface of a planet.
Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian New observations of WASP-39b with the James Webb Space Telescope have provided a clearer picture of the exoplanet, showing the presence of sodium, potassium, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. This artist's illustration also displays newly detected patches of clouds across the planet.
Astronomy

Webb telescope shows exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before

Cornell Chronicle

“This is the first time we see concrete evidence of photochemistry – chemical reactions initialized by energetic stellar light – on exoplanets.”

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Campus events

Moderna scientist to speak about COVID vaccine development

A&S Communications

Melissa Moore led early-stage research teams developing Moderna’s platform technologies in mRNA design and delivery.

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Provided Miguel Algarín
Poetry and performance

Anthology celebrates Nuyorican Poets Cafe founder

Cornell Chronicle

A digital and print collection, co-edited by Karen Jaime, pays tribute to the late Miguel Algarín.

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Provided A mangrove-inspired map of South Asian diaspora in the distant future, created by a Cornell Summer Institute seminar led by Tao Leigh Goffe, will be the basis of the home website, designed by Trinidadian Agyei Archer, for an NEH-AHRC archive on the history of British indentureship.
Humanities

Goffe: Collaboration is key to major humanities grants

Cornell Chronicle

Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation will help make humanities research more accessible to scholars and the public.

Bryn Rosenfeld
Bryn Rosenfeld
Government

Professor wins award for book about middle class and democracy

A&S Communications

Bryn Rosenfeld, assistant professor of government, won for her book, “The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy.”

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Defense Visual Information Distribution Service An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle parked on a taxiway at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada
International relations

Public views drone strikes with other countries’ support as most legitimate

Cornell Chronicle

A first-of-its kind survey reveals that Americans consider tactical strikes, used with the consent of other nations, to be the most morally legitimate or appropriate.

Anil Menon
Chris Kitchen Anil Menon presents some of his current research at a Klarman fellows workshop.
Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow: How do past events affect political present?

A&S Communications

Anil Menon is researching the political legacies of forced migration, which is on the rise globally due to climate change and conflict.

Baobao Zhang
Klarman Fellows

Zhang, Klarman Fellow, named Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellow

A&S Communications

Zhang will work with the Center for New Democratic Processes to test whether public assemblies can be an effective method for increasing public participation in AI governance.

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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 … has had on nature.” The talk was a highlight of a two-day visit to Cornell in which Jóhannesson met with university …

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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.