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Nexus Scholar applications open for summer 2023

11/3/2022 A&S Communications

… insight into the world of astronomy.” For more information, visit the Nexus Scholars Program page on the College of Arts …

Election 2022

Fear of election violence highlights how political landscape has changed

11/3/2022 A&S Communications

Concerns about violence are growing as Election Day in the U.S. nears, says scholar Mabel Berezin: “The expectation of violence at the polls this year signals how much has changed in the American electoral landscape since 2018."

woman with test tubes and pipette — Chris Kitchen Margaret Keymakh in the Crickard lab.

Undergraduate research

Undergrad publishes research on genetic information exchange

11/2/2022 A&S Communications

A study by Margaret Keymakh '23 and others in her lab was just published in PLOS Genetics.

Three young people stand in a wood-paneled room — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Cornell Votes members Dana Karami ’23, center, vice president of operations; Patrick Mehler ’23, founding member and president; and Lauren Sherman ’24, incoming vice president of external operations, gather in Willard Straight Hall.

Elections

Students get out the vote, on campus and across the state

11/2/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“The youth have so much power, and we just don’t use it,” said Lauren Sherman ’24, Arts and Sciences student.

Horizontally-oriented abstract shapes in purple, green and black — Mohammad Arifuzzaman and David Artis/Provided Color-enhanced goblet cells (dark purple) in lung epithelium.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Common dietary fiber promotes allergy-like immune responses

11/2/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Inulin, a type of dietary fiber commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can also promote an allergy-related type of inflammation in the lung and gut, and other parts of the body, according to a preclinical study from Cornell researchers.

Person wearing a suit — Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Benjamin Netanyahu, January 2018

International politics

‘Fearmongering’ drives Netanyahu’s comeback in Israel

11/2/2022 A&S Communications

Government scholar Uriel Abulof comments that in Israel, Netanyahu’s comeback appears powered by politician Itamar Ben-Gvir and the far-right.

Brick building with stone columns; people walking on a lawn — Pascal Bernardon/ Unsplash Harvard University

American studies

History offers the best argument for continuing affirmative action

11/2/2022 Washington Post

Affirmative action still has a vital role to play for addressing the history of discrimination: perspective by Glenn Altschuler

China

People over numbers: Book charts China’s neopolitical turn

11/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Jeremy Lee Wallace explains how a few numbers came to define Chinese politics “until they did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up,” and the “stunning about-face” led by Xi Jinping within the Chinese Communist Party.

Eleven people pose on a staircase — Ryan Young/Cornell University The 11 Cornell students who will be helping delegations at COP27 in Egypt.

Climate

Cornell students to work at UN’s COP27 conference in Egypt

11/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Eleven Cornell students, including two from Arts & Sciences, will help delegations from specialized agencies and small countries gain a stronger voice at the United Nations’ COP27 conference.

Person wearing a bright yellow jacket places a ticket on a car windshield

Economics

Parking ticket reminders work, but not for all

11/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

New research by Cornell behavioral economists reveals that people who would benefit the most from gentle “nudges” to pay their fines – those who are least responsive to tickets in the first place – respond least to those reminders.

man in office — Dave Burbank Kenneth Roberts

Government

Polarization research in Ecuador underscores risks to U.S. democracy

10/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

When political parties stoke partisan conflicts – often by contesting formal state institutions, like systems for managing elections – actual democratic capacity may take a hit as public opinion polarizes.