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Government

When Will Texas Stop Executing People Whose Death Sentences Are Unconstitutional?

6/22/2022 Slate

In commentary in Slate, Joseph Margulies, writes that the Supreme Court refused last week to hear an appeal from Terence Andrus, a prisoner on Texas’ death row.

Ryan Young / Cornell University Fernando Santiago ’86 received the Cornell New York State Hometown Alumni Award on June 22, at a ceremony at the Genesee Valley Club in Rochester.

Alumni

Rochester lawyer receives NYS Hometown Alumni Award

6/23/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Fernando Santiago ’86, the first person in his family to go to college, majored in government in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Person crouching in a field, tinkering with a device near a fence — Provided Gloire Rubambiza installs moisture sensors at the Cornell Orchards.

Science and Technology Studies

Researchers consider invisible hurdles in digital ag design

6/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Enabling farmers to tinker with their own systems and involving them early in the design process could better translate technology from the lab to the field.

History

Think twice before founding that free-market utopia

6/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, Raymond Craib writes that libertarian attempts to escape regulation and build communities structured entirely through market transactions often have calamitous consequences for local populations.

Near Eastern Studies

Ancient Jewish text preserves real-world remedies

6/21/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The Babylonian Talmud, a collection of rabbinic writings produced in ancient Persia, contains a great deal of medical knowledge, according to a recent book by the new director of the Jewish Studies Program.

Jason Koski/Cornell University Riché Richardson, professor of Africana studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Social Justice

Juneteenth marks emancipation’s progress and delay

6/16/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The holiday reminds professor Riché Richardson of exciting celebrations of her youth, but also of obstacles that stand in the way of fully achieving Black freedom.

Literatures in English

Pulitzer Prize winner Alison Lurie to be celebrated in July 1 memorial

6/15/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The service and reception honoring the acclaimed writer's life and work are open to the public.

History

How Herman Melville can help us cope with dark times

6/15/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Prof. Aaron Sachs’ new book tells the stories of two American writers, who he says show us how history can offer hope.

Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Yongjian Tang

6/14/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral candidate in physics from Guangdong, China, Yongjian Tang is a recipient of a 2022 Wu Scholarship.

Five clusters of bright orange light surrounding one cluster of dimmer magenta light — Krishna Mallayya/Provided An example of 3D X-ray diffraction data going through a phase transition upon cooling. The magenta plot shows special points associated with charge density wave formation as they were revealed by the machine learning algorithm X-TEC.

Quantum science

Harnessing machine learning to analyze quantum material

6/14/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Prof. Eun-Ah Kim's research, using a machine learning technique developed with Cornell computer scientists, sets the stage for insights into new phases of matter.

Colorful painting of cartoonish hills, animals, buildings and people — Victor Interiano/University of California Press The cover of Chiara Galli’s forthcoming book will feature this painting by Victor Interiano, a Salvadoran artist based in Los Angeles.

Klarman Fellows

New book documents lives of unaccompanied minors

6/14/2022 A&S Communications

For six years, Klarman Fellow Chaira Galli helped youths from Central America navigate the United States’ labyrinthine asylum process while doing an ethnographic study.

Performing and Media Arts

Filipino Performance Culture

6/13/2022 Cornell Research

Christine Bacareza Balance explores the rich milieu of the arts and of sensational politics in Filipino culture and history.

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Alumni experiences

Learn & travel with Cornell alumni, faculty this summer

6/13/2022 A&S Communications

A&S faculty will lead many courses on campus and join educational vacations as part of Cornell Adult University.

subway car with flowers growing in it — Wanda Field Artwork from Christel Robinson and Wanda Field appears throughout the book.

Classroom experiences

Students, formerly incarcerated people publish book of creative works

6/10/2022 A&S Communications

A performing and media arts class composed of Cornell students and formerly incarcerated people has produced a book of their writings, exploring their own stories and their discoveries about each other.

Giant white dish-shaped structure set in lush hills — Shami Chatterjee/Provided The 500-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, known as FAST, in Ghizou province, southwest China

Astronomy

Rapid-fire fast radio burst shows hot space between galaxies

6/9/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Sending out an occasional and informative cosmic ping from more than 3.5 billion light years away, these quick-fire surges provide a pathway for scientists to comprehend the perplexing, mysterious and million-degree intergalactic medium.

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