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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.

Students discuss the 2008 New Student Reading Project, “Lincoln at Gettysburg,” with 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.

Photograph shows girls seated at desks in newly rebuilt catholic school in Tokyo, Japan.
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.

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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.

Book cover: The Language Game
Psychology

Why language is like charades – and could save us from AI

Cornell Chronicle

Language emerges from a continual flow of creative improvisation, not biologically evolved genes or instincts, argue authors of a new book.

Person wearing gray suit speaks at a podium that says 'NYC LEADING ON CLIMATE'
Photo by Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Furnas speaking at a December 2021 event in which then-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio signed a law that will eventually ban fossil fuel combustion in newly constructed buildings, among other provisions.
Alumni

Alum Leads Cornell’s ‘2030 Project’ on Climate Change

Cornellians

Fresh from sustainability success in New York City, environmental advocate Ben Furnas ’06 directs a new University initiative to marshal its resources to protect the planet.

Cornell Cinema
Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema receives grant, announces spring lineup

A&S Communications

"These awardees represent the best of what New York's vibrant communities have to offer," said Governor Kathy Hochul.

View from Mars: red landscape and robot
NASA-JPL-ASU/Provided NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance poses in a planetary selfie last September with the formation known as “Rochette.”
Astronomy

Rock stars on Mars: Students look for life on big red planet

Cornell Chronicle

For the past year, two Cornell doctoral students have been living, thinking and working on the red planet Mars, digitally commuting from our own blue world.

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Matthew Meiselman/Provided Dorsal neurons (green) express AstC peptide (magenta) in the female fly brain.
Neurobiology and Behavior

Temperature, reproduction link holds promise for insect control

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists have uncovered a set of neurons in fruit flies that could provide a target for controlling mosquitos.