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Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Valzhyna Mort, center, discusses the risks writers take to speak out in many countries, with Suzanne Nossel, left, and David Folkenflik ’91.
Freedom of Expression

Paying a price to speak out, dissident writers help preserve freedoms

Cornell Chronicle

Speakers at “Dissident Writers: A Conversation” explored how writers keep freedoms open for others by taking risks to criticize governments or societies in environments where there is a cost.

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Provided Pietro Pucci in Athens, June 2017
Classics

‘Adventurous’ classical scholar Pietro Pucci dies at 96

Cornell Chronicle

Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died in Paris on April 7. He was 96.

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Simon Wheeler/Cornell University Cornell’s 2024 Bouchet Society inductees
Graduate student honors

Ten inducted into Bouchet Honor Society

Cornell University Graduate School

Eight Cornell doctoral candidates, including five connected to A&S, and two postdocs have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.

Wenbo Tang
Chris Kitchen Wenbo Tang studies memory to help develop therapies for memory-related diseases, and also to improve AI systems
Neurobiology & Behavior

Klarman Fellow: AI has a lot to learn from 'flexible and reliable' human memory

A&S Communications

Greater understanding of beneficial characteristics of the human brain, such as flexibility and reliability, will help Wenbo Tang develop therapies for human diseases – and improve AI systems.

Sarah McMorrow
Provided Sarah McMorrow
Student honors

JFK Award recipient merges passions for medicine and public service

Cornell Chronicle

Sarah McMorrow '24 received the Class of 1964 John F. Kennedy Memorial Award for her commitment to serving others.

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Natalie Kimbrough/Cornell University
Brooks School Tech Policy Institute

Brooks School Tech Policy Institute focuses on intersection of national security and tech policy

Cornell Chronicle

We live in an era in which rapid technological change shifts the global security balance in real time. No one knows that better than Sarah Kreps, director of the Brooks School Tech Policy Institute (BTPI), and John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Rachel Beatty Riedl, left, the Einaudi Center’s director and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, and Colleen Barry, Brooks School dean.
Provided Rachel Beatty Riedl, left, the Einaudi Center’s director and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, and Colleen Barry, Brooks School dean.
Government

Brooks School launches center to combat democratic decline

Cornell Chronicle

Rachel Beatty Riedl, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, will serve as the first director of the new Center on Global Democracy.

Ailong Ke
Molecular biology and genetics

Three faculty members elected AAAS fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Molecular biology and genetics professor Ailong Ke is among three Cornell faculty members elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Dr. Ella Street
Government

A new summer course taught by Dr. Ella Street investigates what it means to be free

Cornell SCE

New on the Summer Session roster this year is the online course GOVT 3796 Freedom taught by Dr. Ella Street, which runs June 3-21, 2024.

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Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Students in James Spinazzola's conducting class attend a extended reality (XR) orientation to learn how the immersive technology can help give students a sense of what it feels like to conduct an ensemble in real time.
Music

CTI grant recipients build student confidence, connection

Cornell Chronicle

James Spinazzola is one of the 2023-2024 recipients of an Innovative Teaching and Learning Grant, harnessing immersive technology to help students build confidence as they learn to conduct an ensemble.

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Paul Newman/Cornell University Community-Engaged Practice & Innovation Award recipients at the Einhorn Center’s 2nd Annual Community Engagement Awards
Faculty engagement

Faculty awarded for creative, innovative community engagement

Cornell Chronicle

Derek Chang, associate professor of history, is among 13 Cornell faculty members have received Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

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Photo by Eduard Delputte on Unsplash
Government

Prof. Sarah Kreps featured in new ‘Military Mysteries’ TV series

A&S Communications

“The stories are fascinating and gave me an opportunity to dig into history and evidence," said Prof. Sarah Kreps.

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Chris Kitchen Sebastian Young, left, and Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano, stand in the Guadalupe Maravilla exhibit at the Johnson Museum.
Research initiatives

Johnson Museum exhibit considers migration and its effects

A&S Communications

At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.

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Mathematics

Celebrating Cornell University luminaries in mathematics and statistics

Cornell Bowers CIS

In honor of Math and Statistics Awareness Month, we’re looking back on luminaries from the last century-plus whose excellence helped establish Cornell University as a leader in mathematical and statistical discovery.

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Moral psychology

Persistent questioning of knowledge takes a toll

Cornell Chronicle

A new study highlights how demoralizing it can be for a person to work in a climate of repetitive skepticism and doubt.