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Olga Verlato
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Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow wins Middle East Studies dissertation award

A&S Communications

Olga Verlato's dissertation, “Languages of Power and People: Multilingualism, Politics, and Resistance in Modern Egypt and the Mediterranean,” received the Malcolm H. Kerr Award from the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

Klarman Hall

Pamela Karimi

Associate Professor, Architecture at Cornell AAP

Klarman Hall

Pamela Karimi

Associate Professor

A glass vial sits in a patch of sunlight on a square tiled floor, with shadow around it.
Hanning Jiang Inside this reaction vial, spotlit by concentrated sunlight, a piece of black polystyrene from a foam tray breaks down into a recyclable material.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Using sunlight to recycle black plastics: Researchers leverage additive to make materials chemically useful

A&S Communications

The researchers say that their method could create a closed-loop recycling process for this type of plastic.

Three people look intensely at a small black and red machine in a science laboratory
Jason Koski/Cornell University Itai Cohen, center, professor of Physics and Design Tech, works with Melody Lim, left, and Zexi Liang, right, at Cohen’s lab in the Physical Sciences Building.
Physics

Smallest walking robot makes microscale measurements

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers in physics and engineering have created the smallest walking robot yet. Its mission: to be tiny enough to interact with waves of visible light and still move independently, so that it can maneuver, and take images and measurements.

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Romaine Campbell

Assistant Research Professor
Economics

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Benjamin Goldman

Assistant Professor
Economics

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Jawad Addoum

Associate Professor of Finance
Economics

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Jenny Aker

Professor
Economics

The panelists sitting in arm chairs, all three looking at Prof. Jamila Michener talking into the microphone.
Chris Kitchen for Cornell University Ann Marimow ’97, the Fall Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist (far left) discussed the impact of Supreme Court decisions on ordinary Americans with panelists, from left, Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of government (A&S); Jamila Michener, associate professor of government (A&S) and of public policy in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy; and Michael Dorf, the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law.
Distinguished Visiting Journalist Program

A politicized Supreme Court meets a new moment for America

Cornell Chronicle

A panel of experts moderated by Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Ann Marimow '97 discussed the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions on ordinary Americans and the workings of American democracy.

Jeremy Peschard Pórtela with white shirt and black tie, a faint beard and mustache, in front of a sunlight building.
History

Student Spotlight: Jeremy Peschard Pórtela

Cornell University Graduate School

Jeremy Peschard Pórtela studies the histories of Latinos, immigration and mental health under the guidance of Prof. Maria Cristina Garcia.

Alexis Boyce, wearing headphones in front of a big microphone, smiles at the camera, wearing a bright colored, striped shirt.
Toral Patel Alexis Boyce in the recording studio.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Inclusive Excellence Podcast: Embrace discomfort and do it anyway

Cornell Chronicle

Alexis Boyce, Asian American Studies Program manager and co-chair of the Staff Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Committee, discusses the group’s ongoing efforts to address staff concerns and drive meaningful change.

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Student awards

New student awards honor Medieval studies faculty

A&S Communications

Medieval Studies has created new prizes for students. Submissions for both prizes are due Jan. 31 and will be judged by a faculty panel in the Medieval Studies Program.

A canoe covered in written messages, in an exhibit hall
Provided Anna Davidson, senior research associate and lecturer in natural resources in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, displayed a canoe covered in messages from people who live in the Mohawk River watershed in The Concourse at the Empire State Plaza in Albany this summer. It is now on display in Mann Gallery.
Music

Things to do: Apple Bake-Off, orchestra and wind, Mohawk River exhibit

Cornell Chronicle

Enjoy symphony concerts this weekend among other campus activities.

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Student honors

Sophomore's organization fosters conversations on racial justice, mental health

A&S Communications

"Poetry and artwork were my ways of processing the world around me."