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Provided Gabe Levin
Student honors

Junior wins international reporting honor

A&S Communications

Gabe Levin, editor in chief of the Cornell Daily Sun and a student in the College of Arts & Sciences, spent the summer of 2024 reporting on the Israel-Gaza war.

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Robin Herrod/McKnight Center for the Performing Arts Jonathan Biss
Cornell Concert Series

Pianist Jonathan Biss featured on Cornell Concert Series Feb. 21 

A&S Communications

Biss is a performer, teacher and musical thinker whose on-stage repertoire ranges from the core canon to contemporary commissions. He will perform works by Franz Schubert and Tyson Gholston Davis. 

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Fuel cell research

X-ray study sheds light on cost-effective fuel cell materials

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of how a promising catalyst material transforms during operation, providing new insights that could lead to replacement of expensive precious metals in clean-energy technologies.

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Alumni

These alums are so inventive, they're in the hall of fame!

Cornellians

Cornellians are a creative bunch—and like Ezra himself, many have used their know-how and initiative to make a difference.

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Psychology

Power of babble: Babies elicit simpler speech from adults

Cornell Chronicle

Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech in response to babies’ babbling and early speech, supporting language development, new Cornell research finds.

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Philosophy

Cornell expert: Anti-trans executive order belies unfounded moral panic

Arts & Sciences Communications

Wednesday's executive order prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports discriminates not only against transgender people, but also against women, says philosophy professor Kate Manne.
 

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The World According to Sound “Media Objects,” a podcast collaboration between Cornell media experts and sound artists The World According to Sound, begins Feb. 6.
Media Studies

Media Objects podcast releases 'sonic essays' based at Cornell

A&S Communications

The series features the voices and research of 13 Cornell faculty members, more than half from A&S.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Frederick M. Ahl
Classics

Frederick Ahl, innovative classics scholar, dies at 83

Cornell Chronicle

A scholar of Greek and Roman epic and drama and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, Ahl was a member of the Cornell faculty for more than 52 years.

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Provided Anne Thompson
Distinguished Visiting Journalist

NBC News’ Anne Thompson named Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Cornell Chronicle

Thompson is NBC News’ chief environmental affairs correspondent.

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Sgt. Corban Lundborg/U.S. Air Force Photo USAID workers in Beira, Mozambique in 2019
Government

Dismantling of USAID will have “clear costs at home and abroad”

A&S Communications

Such a retreat from current U.S. commitments dangerously disrupts protections to life and liberty, says Rachel Beatty Riedl, professor of government and director of Cornell University’s Center on Global Democracy.

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History of Art and Visual Studies

Dadi leads Climate Congress symposium with Getty Foundation grant

A&S Communications

The conference, in Lahore, Pakistan, featured more than thirty guest scholars, curators, artists, and other practitioners and twenty-seven emerging scholars.

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Psychology

Short and sweet: Supportive texts give partners a boost

Cornell Chronicle

Supportive texts from a significant other can help people cope with stressful events in their daily lives, Cornell psychology research finds.

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Bing Hui Yau/Unsplash The Canada-U.S. border at the Niagara River
History

U.S.-Canada relationship entering ‘sad chapter’

A&S Communications

The U.S. president's collective actions against Canada have needlessly harmed a long-cherished and close relationship says Jon Parmenter, a professor of North American history.

Benjamin Widom
Chris Kitchen
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Benjamin Widom, influential physical chemist, dies at 97

Cornell Chronicle

Benjamin Widom, Ph.D. ’53, Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 97.

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Klarman Fellows

New Klarman Fellows to join the College of Arts and Sciences

A&S Communications

Fellows will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.