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Illustration of neural pathways and circuit boards.
New major

Students can major in cognitive science come fall 2022

A&S Communications

The major combines interests in philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics and neurobiology and behavior.

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Physics

Collaborative faculty win Vaughn Award for cartilage research

Cornell Chronicle

Physics professor Itai Cohen is among four Cornell faculty members who received the 2022 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award for their collaborative research on the mechanics and composition of articular cartilage and its relevance to disease.

Line of soldiers wearing camouflage, snowy field
Sgt. Alexander Rector/U.S. Army photo Ukrainian soldiers take part in military drills
Government

Russia may be about to invade Ukraine. Russians don’t want it to.

Washington Post

For Putin, invading Ukraine comes with political risk at home, show surveys conducted by Bryn Rosenfeld and colleauges.

Person wearing protective lab gear handles virus test samples
Lindsay France/Cornell University CCTL Covid-19 Testing Lab at College of Veterinary Medicine
Economics

Economist helps solve COVID-19 missing data problems

Cornell Chronicle

Professor of economics Jörg Stoye proposes new methods of deriving the prevalence of a disease when only partial data is available — with applications for epidemiology and public health policy.

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Honey Lee Cottrell Cropped photo of On Our Backs staff at 19th and Castro Streets, San Francisco (left to right): Susie Bright, Lisa Palac, Greta Christina, Nan Kinney, Robin Simmons, Lulu Belliveau, Debi Sundahl, and Marcy Sheiner, 1990.
Cornell Library

Exhibition features pioneering erotic magazine

Cornell Chronicle

The first decade of On Our Backs, the women-run erotic magazine (1984-2006) is highlighted by “Radical Desire: Making On Our Backs Magazine” in the Carl A. Kroch Library,

Morten Christiansen
Faculty honors

Psychology professor elected to Denmark’s Royal Academy

A&S Communications

Morten H. Christiansen, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Ben Furnas
Climate

Former NYC sustainability head Ben Furnas ‘06 to direct University Climate Initiative

Cornell Chronicle

Ben Furnas, ’06, has been hired as executive director of The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative. Project leadership includes Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Toni Morrison

Cornell celebrates Morrison’s birthday with screening, roundtable

A&S Communications

Cornell will celebrate the birthday of alumna and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison MA ’55 from 3-5 p.m. Feb. 18 with a screening of the film “The Foreigner’s Home” (2017), followed by a roundtable discussion.

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Provided Catherine Zhang '22 on the set of Jeopardy! National College Championship
Student experiences

Two Cornellians will compete in ‘Jeopardy!’ Feb. 8

Cornell Chronicle

Andrés Quijano ’22 will compete at 7:30 p.m. on “Jeopardy!” and Catherine Zhang ’22 will compete at 8 p.m. on the “Jeopardy!” National College Championship, on ABC and Hulu.

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Bilal Ayadi/Unsplash Tunis, Tunisia
Government

Tunisia’s president threatened the judicial system. What do Tunisians think about these power grabs?

The Washington Post

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Alexandra Blackman, assistant professor of government, writes that a new survey reveals support for Tunisian President Kais Saied — but also support for democracy.

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Arts Unplugged

Science of the very, very small featured in next Arts Unplugged

A&S Communications

The event will explore the nanoscale and quantum innovations shaping our future. You can join online at eCornell!

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Humanities

Professor named chair of state humanities organization

A&S Communications

Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.

Glass building; tree-lined street
Laura Chichisan/College of Arts and Sciences Klarman Hall, College of Arts and Sciences
Klarman Fellows

A&S announces third cohort of Klarman Fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Seven exceptional early-career scholars will be awarded three-year fellowships to pursue independent research in the arts and humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

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Tommy Krombacher/Unsplash “Hydrogen fuel cells are enormously powerful, enabling you to run at an efficiency that simply does not exist for more traditional engines,” Abruña said.
Chemistry

New catalysts steer hydrogen fuel cells into mainstream

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists have discovered a class of nonprecious metal derivatives that can catalyze fuel cell reactions about as well as platinum at a fraction of the cost.

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Provided COULD students work together during their fall 2021 orientation.
Student outreach

Student group helps translate research into hometown projects

A&S Communications

A new organization, founded by students in the College of Arts & Sciences, offers support and guidance for students who want to translate their research at Cornell into projects that will benefit their hometowns.