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Economics

The most important meeting yet for global pandemic response–and drugmakers

Fortune

As global health leaders meet to chart the future of pandemic response, equity between nations must take top priority, Basu writes.

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Mathematics

Modeling suggests friendships may lead to lopsided elections

Cornell Chronicle

Have you ever thought about not voting because your candidate’s victory seems assured? Think again.

Physics
Physics

Three professors elected as APS fellows

A&S Communications

Kyle Shen, Kin Fai Mak and Lawrence Gibbons named APS fellows.

Ben Fried
Graduate students

Student spotlight: Ben Fried

Cornell University Graduate School

Ben Fried is a doctoral candidate in English language and literature from Ottawa, Canada.

St. James AME Zion Church
Provided St. James A.M.E. Zion Church is believed to be the oldest religious structure in Ithaca and one of the first A.M.E. Zion churches in the country.
Community engagement

Community partnerships honored at 2021 TOGO awards

Cornell Chronicle

The Underground Railroad Project at St. James A.M.E. Zion Church, the Foodnet Meals on Wheels program, and Khuba International and the Learning Farm received collaboration awards for partnering with Cornell to improve the lives of Tompkins County residents.

Lamin Johnson
Alumni

Lamin Johnson ’21: sparking connections through art

Alumni Affairs & Development

The Class of 2021 grad and spoken word artist is known for writing thoughtful and poignant poetry.

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Provided The Krieger family (from left): Neil, Susan, Jonathan, and Hilary.
Alumni

Alum memorialized with campaign to promote his made-up word

Cornellians

Neil Krieger ’62 coined a word during a freshman writing seminar more than six decades ago.

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History

The fruits of their labors

Slate

Historian Lawrence Glickman writes in this Slate piece about the origins of Thanksgiving as the "free enterprise holiday."

Roberto Sierra
Music

Sierra wins Latin Grammy for guitar sonata

Cornell Chronicle

Composer Roberto Sierra won for “Music from Cuba and Spain, Sierra: Sonata para Guitarra.”

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Student awards

Two juniors receive Caplan Travel Fellowships

A&S Communications

Garrett Emmons '23 and Hannah Master '23 won fellowships worth $5,000 to study and conduct research in Italy and Israel, respectively.

Pregnant woman in tight red dress with hands on stomach.
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Sociology

Declining birth rate reflects difficulty of combining work and child rearing

A&S Communications

Prof. Vida Maralani comments on the declining birthrate in the U.S.

Wynton Marsalis leading a class of students
Jason Koski/Cornell University Students in the class Elements of Music (Music 1101) listen to A.D. White Professor-in-Large Wynton Marsalis (left) Nov. 2 in Lincoln Hall.
A.D. White Professor-At-Large

Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’

A&S Communications

Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

A border wall painted different colors blocking a section of beach with the ocean visible.
Photo by Barbara Zandoval on Unsplash Tijuana border wall.
Government

Migration treaty violations, trade central to U.S.-Mexico-Canada summit

A&S Communications

Prof. Gustavo Flores-Macías comments on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada summit on Nov. 18, 2021.

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Chris Kitchen Molly O'Toole
Distinguished Visiting Journalist Program

Humanizing the immigration issue

A&S Communications

Molly O’Toole '09, this semester's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow, shared career advice, political insights and anecdotes from her work and life during two recent talks.

Black Americans gathering
Society for the Humanities

Prof. to speak on Black print culture and democracy

Society for the Humanities

At this year’s Invitational Lecture for the Society for the Humanities, “Defining Democracy: How Black Print Culture Shaped America, Then and Now,” associate professor of literatures in English Derrick Spires will counter the racist notion that little to no Black print culture existed before the Civil War.