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Sreang Hok/Cornell University. Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute, associate professor of astronomy and author of “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos,” said the thousands of exoplanets detected to date suggest there are “billions and billions” of possibilities for life beyond Earth.
Astronomy

Sagan celebrated for scientific mind – and imagination

Cornell Chronicle

In person and online Nov. 9, thousands attended an interdisciplinary program of research presentations and music celebrating Carl Sagan’s legacy, on what would have been his 90th birthday.

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J Yeo/Unsplash Mineral deposit
Cross-disciplinary research

Microbe atlas could reveal how to mine critical metals sustainably

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led team will use a National Science Foundation grant to develop a catalog of microorganisms and how they interact with minerals.

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Career Development

Polishing resumes, building confidence: The impact of peer advisors

A&S Communications

Peer advisors in A&S Career Development help students accomplish their dreams and goals.

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Cornellians/Provided For Hoffstaetter de Torquat, the lake is his classroom.
Physics

New course sets sail on understanding physics–by boat

Cornellians

Students venture out onto Cayuga Lake for hands-on learning about wind speed, velocity, buoyancy, and more

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Provided Hadley Flanagan shows off a Coolseat bench, raising the seat to show the compost system underneath.
Global Cornell

Global experiences advance student learning

Cornell Chronicle

Over 70 undergraduates learned career-shaping lessons in the field last summer with support from Global Cornell. Students will share their international work at the November 19 Global Cornell Experience Showcase.

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Credit: AI-Generated Illustration Provided by BTPI The Brooks Tech Policy Institute, with support from the Jain Family Institute (JFI), has released a new report that offers “a high-level framework to analyze regulation of AI technologies.”
Government

BTPI releases new report on AI regulation

Cornell Chronicle

The Brooks Tech Policy Institute, with support from the Jain Family Institute (JFI), has released a new report that offers “a high-level framework to analyze regulation of AI technologies.”

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Gerry Monaghan is an unofficial tender of Sagan’s grave at Lake View Cemetery in Ithaca, stopping by to tidy the astronomer's gravesite and those of his parents, buried nearby.
Astronomy

At Carl Sagan’s gravesite, inspiration endures

Cornell Chronicle

On the eve of what would have been Sagan's 90th birthday, well-wishers commune at Lake View Cemetery, leaving notes and trinkets.

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Library of Congress Supreme Court
Distinguished Visiting Journalist Program

Polarized Supreme Court explored in Nov. 20 panel

A&S Communications

The panel, moderated by the Washington Post’s Supreme Court correspondent, Ann Marimow ‘97, the College's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist, will include Peter John Loewen, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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David Todd McCarty/Unsplash A Trump rally in New Jersey
Government

What the election of Donald Trump says about democracy globally

A&S Communications

Trump’s actions and signaling illustrate that the U.S. is not immune to the same democratic backsliding now occurring in an unprecedented number of wealthy countries, says Rachel Riedl, professor of government and policy and director of the Center on Global Democracy.
 

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Provided Nirbhay Narang '25 models the smart glasses he's created for people with hearing loss.
Computing and Information Science

Student creates AR glasses with transcriptions for people with hearing loss

A&S Communications

Nirbhay Narang ’25 has created smart glasses that use AI to provide transcriptions of conversations in real time.

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Cherry Arts/Provided 'Rosa and Blanca' will be performed at Ithaca’s Cherry Arts Nov. 8-17.
German studies

German studies hosts evening with ‘Rosa and Blanca’ playwright

A&S Communications

Rebekka Kricheldorf will talk about writing comedy and more with Samuel Buggeln, the play’s director and artistic director of Cherry Arts, on Nov. 12 – one of several collaborations.

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Heather Mount/Unsplash A rally in Texas
Politics and philosophy

‘Violent indifference to women’ and gender stereotypes affect top ticket

A&S Communications

The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election aren’t due to a simple dislike or distrust of women, but a reflection of America’s violent indifference to women.

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Government

A new political landscape: Hispanic voters, Trump's transactional politics

A&S Communications

With about 45% of Hispanics voting for Trump, we’re witnessing an important realignment of a group previously thought to be squarely within the coalition supporting Democratic candidates, says professor Gustavo Flores-Macías.

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Justin St. Juliana

Senior Lecturer
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Economics

Economic woes: Can Trump fix inflation?

A&S Communications

Will President Donald Trump’s policies rectify the high prices Americans are seeing? Kaushik Basu, professor of economics at Cornell, says inflation is beyond the control of the party in power and is shaped by other actors.