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Public engagement

Faculty build network of community-engaged teachers, scholars

Cornell Chronicle

From teaching food science at the Ithaca Farmers Market to researching how youth feel about their race and ethnicity, this year’s Engaged Faculty Fellows are demonstrating the range of work that’s possible through community-engaged learning and research. The 2021-22 cohorts include 15 faculty from eight Cornell schools and colleges.

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Government

History repeats with effort to protect voting rights, end filibuster

A&S Communications

Prof. David Bateman comments on promised action on voting rights legislation this week

Joseph Bruchac
Provided Joseph Bruchac ’64, BA ’65
Alumni

Joseph Bruchac ’64, BA ’65, Explores the Native American Experience

Cornellians

Joseph Bruchac ’64, BA ’65, a member of the Abenaki tribe, has published more than 100 books in a wide variety of genres over a decades-long career.

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Mathematics, Physics

arXiv hits 2M submissions

Cornell Chronicle

The research-sharing platform is a free resource for scholars around the world in fields including physics, math and computer science, who use the service to share their own cutting-edge research and read work submitted by others.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Lymphoma cell metabolism may provide new cancer target

Cornell Chronicle

A new study uncovers a critical metabolic vulnerability in lymphomas that can be exploited to trick these cancers into starving themselves.

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Philosophy

Diet Culture Is Unhealthy. It’s Also Immoral.

New York Times

In a New York Times op-ed, Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, writes about personal and philosophical pressures placed on body image.

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Provided A high-resolution map of a photocatalyst particle shows the transition zones of reactivity and the corresponding spatial variation of photoelectrochemical performance across the inter-facet edge.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

3D semiconductor particles offer 2D properties

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have found that 3D semiconductor particles have 2D properties, which can be leveraged for photoelectrochemical processes that boost solar energy conversion technologies.

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Public engagement

Students engage with NYC Black ‘memory workers’ in Mellon seminar

A&S Communications

An interdisciplinary seminar in the fall semester took students from Ithaca to New York City to explore African American heritage sites and the people whose work keeps this history alive.

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Provided Praveen Gunendran ‘24 and Daniel Tuan ’24 created an app to help app artists within the music industry connect with one another.
Student entrepreneurs

Heart monitor, ‘tinder for musicians’ win Big Ideas Competition

Cornell Chronicle

Four teams of undergraduate students were named winners of the Big Ideas Competition at Cornell, with ideas that help musicians connect, detect heart problems, train unemployed young adults and help with pollution issues in developing countries.

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Books

What to read in 2022? A&S faculty weigh in

A&S Communications

A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.

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Undergraduate research

WARNING: Parents on Social Media

Cornell Research

A study of "sharenting" for a Spring 2020 interdisciplinary class project changed the academic trajectories of three Cornell undergrads.

Robert Strichartz
Provided Robert Strichartz
Mathematics

Robert Strichartz, math analyst, dies at 78

Cornell Chronicle

Robert Strichartz, professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on December 19 after a long illness. He was 78.

Ezinwa Osuoha
Ezinwa Ozuoha
Undergraduate research

A Corallary to War

Cornell Research

Did racism and a fractured political landscape make the United States more vulnerable to COVID-19? Undergraduate researcher and McNair Scholar Ezinwa Osuoha '22 compares disease outbreaks in different nations.

Book cover: Veronica Franco in Dialogue
Book cover: Veronica Franco in Dialogue
Romance studies

Marilyn Migiel wins MLA prize for book on ‘proto-feminist’ poet

Cornell Chronicle

Marilyn Migiel, professor of Romance studies, has won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for “Veronica Franco in Dialogue,” forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in spring 2022.

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In memoriam

Pioneering professor Trevor Pinch dies at 69

Cornell Chronicle

Trevor Pinch, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Science and Technology Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, who helped found multiple areas of study related to science, technology and sound, died Dec. 16.