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Government & History

Belnick presidential forum focuses on election and democracy’s future

A&S Communications

Scheduled for Oct. 30 at 5 p.m. in Ives Hall, Room 305, the event is free and open to the public and a livestream is available.

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Provided Fall 2024 cohort of eLab
Entrepreneurship

eLab Welcomes 24 student startup teams to fall cohort

Entrepreneurship at Cornell

Twenty-four student teams, including several A&S students, have been selected for the Fall 2024 cohort of eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator.

Peter Lepage, wearing a black vest, stands in front of a large group of people assembled to talk about physics and honor his work
Csaba Csaki Attendees of LePageFest, Oct. 14-15, 2024
Physics

Two-day ‘LepageFest’ honors physicist and former dean of A&S

A&S Communications

The conference focused on the current status and future of heavy quark physics while highlighting the science Lepage has done throughout his career.

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Rulan Chao Pian Collection at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Chao discussing music with his daughter Rulan Chao Pian
Music & Asian studies

Events celebrate Chinese composer who also transformed language

A&S Communications

Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.

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Film students

Short films from PMA course selected for festivals

Department of Performing & Media Arts

Three short documentaries produced in a Rural Humanities Seminar, taught by PMA Associate Professor Austin Bunn, are headed to film festivals this fall.

Elijah Sheridan
Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Elijah Sheridan

Cornell University Graduate School

Elijah Sheridan, a doctoral student in physics from Lansing, Michigan, studies string theory under the guidance of Liam McAllister at Cornell.

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Government

Brooks students enjoy immersive experience at national conventions

Cornell Chronicle

This summer a group of seven Cornell students traveled with the Brooks School Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) director, former Congressman Steve Israel, and senior associate director, Erin King Sweeney, to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to get an inside look at these major political events.

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Government

Sean Grayson due in court, attorney and legal scholar comments

A&S Communications

Bodycam footage illustrates multiple instances in which Grayson made matters worse, says criminal law expert and professor of government Joseph Margulies.
 

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John Munson/Cornell University Brenda Schertz teaches her students American Sign Language as well as deaf history, education and cultural norms.
American Sign Language

ASL program offers performance series, welcomes new faculty

A&S Communications

Lisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.

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Justin T. Clark

Senior Lecturer
History

Book cover: Invisible Labor
Alumni authors

Your October 2024 reads

Cornellians

This month’s titles, featured in Cornellians, include "Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section" by A&S alum Rachel Somerstein ’04.

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Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons license 2.0 Donald Trump shown in 2022
Politics and psychology

Trump’s abrupt decision to play DJ, a sign of ‘accelerating cognitive decline’ says Cornell expert

A&S Communications

Harry Segal, senior lecturer in the Psychology Department and in the Psychiatry Department at Weill Cornell Medicine, says Trump’s awkward display at his rally was another clear sign of mental decline.

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Provided Luis Felipe López-Calva
Economics

World at a Turning Point interview

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Arpit Chaturvedi Cornell MPA'18 and Larasati Eka Wardhani MPA'25 interviewed Luis Felipe López-Calva Ph.D. ‘99, global director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank Group during The World at a Turning Point: Cornell Conference on Development Economics and Law.

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Einhorn Center for Community Engagement

Engaged faculty network grows with 28 new fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Fellows will spend the year developing a community-engaged course, project or publication, while also joining a network of scholars committed to advancing the university’s public engagement mission.

Book cover: The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

J. Ellen Gainor wins book award from Theatre Library Association

A&S Communications

The George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize goes to Gainor for “The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory & Dramatic Criticism," which she co-edited.