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Jess Shapiro

Program Manager, Nexus Scholars and Summer Experience Grant

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Alex Kamphorst

Career Development Associate

… to Ithaca from Miami, Florida. I earned both my bachelor’s degree in public relations and my master’s degree in leadership from the University of Miami, where I … to Ithaca from Miami, Florida. I earned both my bachelor’s degree in public relations and my master’s degree in …

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Laurel Carney

Program Coordinator

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Asian studies

Poets in Japan experiment at the edge of media

Cornell Chronicle

During the past century, experimental poets in Japan have been stretching the conventional definition of the genre by creating poems in unexpected places, according to a Cornell researcher.

A wooden box covered with bees, with more in the air; Thomas Seeley in a t-shirt and glasses, holding a jar, is watching them.
Peter Essick/Provided Thomas Seeley watching a swarm take off to move to its new home.
Neurobiology & Behavior

New book explains mysteries behind bee behavior

Cornell Chronicle

"The take-home message from my book is that these small creatures are extremely intelligent. They may well be the most intelligent of all the insects."

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Government

Student spotlight: Danielle Obisie-Orlu

Cornell University Graduate School

Danielle Obisie-Orlu, doctoral student in government with a focus on international relations, studies how memory and migration shape international relations and affairs under the guidance of Oumar Ba.

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Laura Gallup/Student and Campus Life Corey Ryan Earle ’07, the university’s longtime unofficial historian, speaks to a full house in his “Last Lecture” Dec. 4 in Uris Hall Auditorium.
American Studies

Learn local lore, Cornell historian Earle says in ‘Last Lecture’

Cornell Chronicle

Lecturer Corey Ryan Earle ’07, Cornell’s unofficial historian, gave the latest installment in the Last Lecture series, which invites a respected staff member or professor to give a lecture as if it were their final one.

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Literary studies

In ‘Fun Home’ and other books, queer narratives rework time

Cornell Chronicle

In “Never On Time, But Always in Time,” Kate McCullough of the College of Arts and Sciences examines four books to explore how queer narratives focus on the body and its senses to find alternative ways of experiencing and presenting time.

A painted portrait, from the 17th century, of a confident looking woman wearing an elaborate ruff and dark colored gown
Galleria Nazionale della Liguria a Palazzo Spinola, Genoa. Under sumptuary laws, women could be denounced for new and fashionable jewellery items, such as the randiglia, or metal support that propped up stylishly large ruffs, worn in this 1610 portrait, "Veronica Spinola Serra," by Guilliam van Deynum (c. 1575 – c. 1624).
History of Art and Visual Studies

Fashion police dictated gender norms in early modern Genoa

A&S Communications

Sumptuary laws – designed to “control luxury clothing consumption and the social ills it could encourage” – constrained women more than they did men.

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History of Art and Visual Studies

A story of environmental hope set in Bali

A&S Communications

… ecological awareness is a new phenomenon, but the Balinese custom of “borrowing” a stuffed greater-bird-of paradise … woven threads, metal wire, salt reed grass, coins, hair and jewel-like substances are just some of the …

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Mahmoud Sulaiman/Unsplash Daraa, Syria
International relations

Syria developments and foreign involvement: Cornell experts comment

A&S Communications

Cornell government and history scholars provide perspective on the end of 14 years of civil war and 24 years of the Assad dictatorship.

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Government

TikTok in ‘increasingly desperate’ situation

A&S Communications

We are one step closer to a world where TikTok will no longer be available on app stores, says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law and director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell.

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Ethics and public life

Ethics expert on dark discourse around death of UnitedHealthcare CEO

A&S Communications

The darker-than-darkly humorous comments and the horrified responses to them are compatible forms of righteous blame, says David Shoemaker, a professor in ethics and public life.

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Erik Hovenkamp

Professor of Law
Economics

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Nathan Kallus

Associate Professor
Economics