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Three solders crouch behind a tank
Sgt. Alexander Rector/U.S. Army Ukrainian soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 92nd Mechanized Brigade, participate in a platoon live-fire exercise in Yavoriv, Ukraine Dec. 1, 2021
History

The Crisis in Ukraine Has Disturbing Echoes of the 1930s

Time Magazine

In a Time Magazine op-ed, professor Cristina Florea writes that today’s world is arguably very different from the world of the 1930s, but current events in Europe have disturbing parallels in the 1930s.

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Supporting the College

Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16

A&S Communications

Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.

Tiffany Norwood
Alumni

Tribetan CEO Norwood named Entrepreneur of the Year

Cornell Chronicle

Tiffany Norwood ’89 will be honored on campus April 28-29 at the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration event.

City street crowded with scooters, signs and people walking
Jiachen Lin/ Unsplash Taichung, Taiwan
International relations

Ukraine invasion heightens anxiety in Taiwan

A&S Communications

A U.S. delegation arrived in Taiwan to show support for the nation this week. Allen Carlson, associate professor of government and an expert on China, says Taiwan was on edge even before Russian President Vladimir Putin began his assault on Ukraine.

Paper money – Russian rubles – shown up close
Government

Russia is about to plunge into financial crisis. How will citizens react?

The Washington Post

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, professor Tom Pepinsky writes that Russian president Vladimir Putin doesn’t have good options if he wants to stop a bank run.

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Social Media

Countering Russian misinformation a ‘comparatively easy’ problem to solve

A&S Communications

Twitter just announced it will begin labeling content from Russian state-affiliated media websites. Professor Sarah Kreps says that in some cases, false tags actually lead to more social media sharing of bogus COVID-19 claims.

Sianne Ngai
Society for the Humanities

Sianne Ngai to give Culler lecture on inhabiting error

Cornell Chronicle

Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago, will explore this question wrong ways of thinking in this Society for the Humanities event March 9.

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Psychology

The Spontaneous Origins of Language

Wall Street Journal

Which came first, grammatical rules or their exceptions? In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Morten Christiansen, professor of psychology, writes that for decades, linguists bet on rules – but disorder and flux may turn out to be language’s most essential traits.

2022 wu scholars
2022 Wu Scholarship recipients. Top row, left to right: Shiping Cao, Yue Deng, and Zihan Hu. Bottom row, left to right: Hui Ji, Yubo Su, Yongjian Tang, and Hui Zhou. Not pictured: Shan-Chi Hsieh.
Graduate School

Eight Graduate Students Receive Wu Scholarships

Cornell University Graduate School

Eight graduate students, including four studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, were awarded 2022 Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarships.

Isaac Kramnick
Student scholarships

Scholarship honors eminent professor and 'university citizen'

A&S Communications

With contributions from his family, former students and colleagues, the fund honoring Isaac Kramnick will support students beginning this fall.

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Government

Ex-Ukraine ambassador offers gloomy view, sliver of hope

Cornell Chronicle

At a Cornell event on Feb. 22, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor said Russian President Vladimir Putin appears intent on provoking a “horrific conflict,” but that he holds out hope for a diplomatic path that would avert all-out war.

Book cover: The End of Pax Americana
Asian Studies

Book describes dislocation of ‘the West’

Cornell Chronicle

In his new book, Prof. Naoki Sakai examines a new order taking place that dislocates America and Europe from the center of world power.

Crowd of people in a stone-floored courtyard; one person listens in the middle
Tim Bowden ’08, MA ’09 O’Toole interviews Venezuelan migrants in a park in the southern Mexico city of Tapachula in February 2022.
Distinguished Visiting Journalist Program

Pulitzer Prize-winning alumna explores the human stories behind global migration

Cornellians

L.A. Times reporter Molly O’Toole ’09 is currently tracing a 9,000-mile route to the U.S.’s southern border.

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History/Classics

Season 4 of Antiquitas podcast features love and war

A&S Communications

The fourth season of “Antiquitas: Leaders and Legends of the Ancient World,” a podcast from professor Barry Strauss, premieres Feb. 23.

Orange pill bottle, spilling green pills
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Electrosynthesis energizes sustainable drug development

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration used electrochemistry to stitch together simple carbon molecules and form complex compounds, eliminating the need for precious metals or other catalysts to promote the chemical reaction.