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Five people working on laptops at a long table
Sociology

Women want to work, despite workforce precarity

Cornell Chronicle

Despite persistent gaps in workforce participation, when it comes to wanting to work, the gender gap has all but disappeared over the last 45 years, according to Cornell sociologist Landon Schnabel.

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Student honors

A&S sophomore earns spot in summer program in D.C.

A&S Communications

… taking the time to study the issues and trying to find the best ways to help communities in need — low-income, …

Fred Moten, with a mostly white beard and black glasses in front of a microphone
Chris Funkhouser Fred Moten
Literatures in English

Amiri Baraka’s poetry topic of March 31 Abrams talk

A&S Communications

M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, poet and theorist Fred Moten will deliver a lecture on radical Black politics and the poetry of Amiri Baraka.

Arts Quad view from a drone
Faculty excellence

Ten A&S faculty honored with endowed professorships

A&S Communications

… that our faculty are recognized and supported as among the best in the world,” said Ray Jayawardhana, Harold Tanner …

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Serge Petchenyi / Cornell University Classics students explore Sage chapel with instructor Verity Platt.
Active Learning

Active Learning Initiative awards 5 new grants

Cornell Chronicle

The Active Learning Initiative has announced its Phase IV grants. The winning proposals, from Classics, Government, History, the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, included collaborations that extend across Cornell.

Clear tube with red and green lights inside
Scott Pitnick/Syracuse University Fruit fly sperm with heads labelled with a red or a green fluorescent protein, swimming inside a female fruit fly’s reproductive tract.
Molecular Biology and Genetics

After mating, fruit fly sperm are no longer fully male

Cornell Chronicle

Long considered exclusively male, a new study revealed that by four days after a sperm enters a female fruit fly, close to 20% of its proteins are female-derived.

The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)
ESO/Babak Tafreshi/Provided The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope looks skyward during a bright, moonlit night on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile’s Atacama region, one of the highest and driest observatory sites in the world.
Astronomy research

Chasing data: Astronomers race to explore ancient galaxies

Cornell Chronicle

… was closing. On a break between observations, Stacey chatted on Zoom with the Ithaca team. He finds the work of … European Southern Observatory . As De Breuck and his team chatted with the Cornell astronomers in the control room and …

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Provided Mark Kreynovich ’19 and Dillon Carroll ’20 in Ukraine in 2018
Alumni

Recent grads on a mission to support Ukraine

Cornell Chronicle

… ’19 and Dillon Carroll ’20 were first-year roommates and best friends at Cornell, and share a commitment to service, …

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Graduate student research

Doctoral student’s work featured in Oxford Handbook chapter

A&S Communications

… to autonomous weapons or advanced robotics or diplomacy and trade. “This is an introduction to the ideas and links …

People walking through barriers
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine/Creative Commons license 4.0 Ukrainian refugees enter Poland, March 2022
Refugees

Amid refugee announcement, Biden seeks to relieve a backlogged asylum system

A&S Communications

Cristina Maria Garcia, professor of history and Latino studies, comments on President Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will admit 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.

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vectored byFOX 52 Seal of the International Court of Justice.
War Crimes

U.S. can accuse Russia of war crimes, but prosecution will be elusive

A&S Communications

Professor Oumar Ba comments on the likelihood of Russians being prosecuted for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

David Esparza
David Esparza
Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: David Esparza

Cornell University Graduate School

… On a personal level, I feel accomplished since I am the first student in my family to pursue a Ph.D. and, thus, the first to receive a GRF. On a professional level, the GRF … to learn about the natural world by experiencing it firsthand – and it also provides me with an opportunity to …

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Natalie Wolchover speaks March 15 in Lewis Auditorium.
Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Visiting journalist: Science writing is ‘good for the world’

Cornell Chronicle

On March 15, award-winning science journalist Natalie Wolchover, the College's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist, gave a master class on “Bringing Science to Life Through Storytelling.”

Liliana Colanzi
Romance studies

Professor’s book wins major literary prize

A&S Communications

… A book by Liliana Colanzi won a prize honoring the best short stories in Latin American and Spain. … Colanzi has won the Ribera del Duero prize, honoring the best short stories in Latin America and Spain, for her book … Aura Estrada literary award in 2015 and was named among the best Latin American writers under 40 by the Hay Festival …

graphic showing a hydrogen fuel cell
Abruña Group A completely precious metal-free alkaline fuel cell using Co-Mn spinel oxide cathode and carbon-coated Ni anode
Sustainable energy

Carbon-coated nickel enables fuel cell free of precious metals

Cornell Chronicle

The new discovery could accelerate the widespread use of hydrogen fuel cells, which hold great promise as efficient, clean energy sources for vehicles and other applications.