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History

'Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It'

Department of History

Brookings Fellow Jonathan Rauch will address misinformation in his talk "Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It."

Two students wearing lab coats examining a beaker of something yellow in a lab.
Cornell Univesity Amaya Garnenez works with Lejla Camdzic, right, in the Stache Lab.
Nexus Scholars

New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

Cornell Chronicle

The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.

Princess Mako wearing pearl earrings, necklace and pin, and a long sleeved green dress; she is holding white gloves and a fan.
Princess Mako during the New Year Greeting 2015 at the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
History

Japan’s imperial laws may doom the royal family

A&S Communications

Historian Kristin Roebuck comments on the consequences of the marriage of Japan's Princess Mako.

A rocketship-shaped skyscraper next to a building shaped like the prow of a ship, both steel-colored.
© Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons Gazprom
History

COP 26 ushers ‘new domain of geopolitics’ as Russia demands sanction relief

A&S Communications

Historian Nicholas Mulder comments on Russia's demand for sanction relief.

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Kannan Arunasalam/Provided Interview with subject Patsy Bansfield.
Comparative literature

Transdisciplinary film explores Trinidad and Tobago

A&S Communications

“We Love We Self Up Here” is a new documentary focused on the complex histories of labor and migration in Trinidad and Tobago.

woman looking into microscope
Courtesy Carnegie Institution for Science Archives Rubin measures spectra recorded on photographic plates at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in 1972.
Alumni

Alumna’s galactic quest proved existence of dark matter

Alumni Affairs & Development

Vera Cooper Rubin, MS ’51, was a pioneering astronomer whose studies on the Hill helped shape her life’s work.

a person wearing an Ithaca is Gorges tshirt with mug and water bottle
Alumni

The Cornellian behind the slogan ‘Ithaca is Gorges’

Alumni Affairs & Development

The man who designed the Ithaca is Gorges logo in the Seventies—the late Howard Cogan ’50, MPS ’80—never trademarked it.

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Doing the greatest good

Cornell launches $5B campaign ‘to do the greatest good’

Cornell Chronicle

A newly launched, major fundraising campaign aims to shape Cornell as the model university for the 21st century and beyond, building on its foundation of world-class academics, research and engagement.

Eli Clare
Samuel Lurie Eli Clare
CNY Humanities Corridor

Disability advocate Eli Clare to speak on COVID-19

Society for the Humanities

Disability justice advocate Eli Clare has been chosen as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor, and he will be hosted for two virtual talks by the Cornell Society for the Humanities in partnership with the Syracuse University Humanities Center.

Malott Hall with a banner saying "curiosity, discovery, creativity" in front of it.
Malott Hall
Mathematics

Cornell mathematicians featured at International Congress of Mathematicians

A&S Communications

Five Cornell mathematicians -- an unusually high number -- have been invited to speak at the world-renowned International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) this year.

Man with children watching others pulling nets in from the sea
Photo by pixpoetry on Unsplash
History

White House acknowledges ‘right to stay home’ for climate migrants

A&S Communications

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia comments on the report released this week by the White House on climate change and migration.

Farid Ferdows
alumni

For those who dream, Cornell is your place, says Farid Ferdows ’21

Alumni Affairs & Development

Farid Ferdows ’21 says that from his first day on campus, Cornell welcomed him.

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Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Darlene Campbell, senior lecturer in biology, works with students in class.
Comparative literature

Reshaping student experiences through new innovations in teaching

Cornell Chronicle

… developing a course on landscape design to protect wildlife, and re-envisioning teaching and assessment methods … and rural landscape design work to benefit birds and other wildlife at various scales. The course will incorporate new …

Flag in the center of a circle with "E Pluribus Unum" across it
Flag of the U.S. Senate
Government

Progressives make sacrifices to win Manchin, Sinema

A&S Communications

Government professor David Bateman comments on the budget bill negotiations in Congress.

Jamila Michener, Assistant Professor of Government
Government

Michener testifies to House committee about health care

A&S Communications

Health is an exceptionally expensive resource in the United States, “though it should not be,” political scientist Jamila Michener told the House Rules Committee on Oct. 13.