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A.D. White Professors

Cornell adds 3 A.D. White Professors to celebrated roster

Cornell Chronicle

Best-selling writer Cory Doctorow, filmmaker Louis Massiah ’77 and award-winning journalist P. (Palagummi) Sainath have been appointed as the latest Cornell A.D. White Professors-at-Large.

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Photo Provided by Cornell Cinema A scene from Dr.Strangelove
Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema explores textiles, 1980s nostalgia, and real-world events

A&S Communications

Real-world events inspire a collective lineup that is relevant to what professors are teaching and what students are learning.

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Donald S. Grasse

Visiting Assistant Professor
Government

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Career Development

From portfolios to pizza, fall A&S career events explore diverse fields

A&S Communications

"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."

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Sociology

Far-Right: The crisis itself or the result?

Einaudi Center

Institute for European Studies director Mabel Berezin joined Dora Mengüç (Dora Reports) before France's high-stakes parliamentary elections to discuss Europe's shift to the right.

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Markus Rauchenberger/U.S. Army photo Germany Army Leopard tank
History

Western weapons won't decide war in Ukraine

A&S Communications

None of the technological wonder solutions from the U.S. and other allies to Ukraine have fulfilled its war-winning vision, says war historian David Silbey.

Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer
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Asian American Studies Program

Mohawk community newspaper founder to give Kops Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer, founder and former editor of The Eastern Door newspaper, will be the featured speaker at the 2024 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, Sept. 10.

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Jan Burzlaff

Post Doctoral Fellow
Jewish Studies Program

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Lindsay France/Cornell University In a 2019 evolution course, Michelle Smith, now the Ann S. Bowers Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and associate dean for undergraduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) observes students in a hands-on activity. Smith and other DBER researchers study how to improve teaching in STEM courses.
Discipline-Based Education Research

NSF-funded postdocs to research education across disciplines

A&S Communications

Engaging with a whole set of mentors will allow the CIDER postdocs to approach questions about student learning and experiences across disciplinary boundaries and use techniques from multiple fields.

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Heather Ainsworth
College leadership

New A&S dean relishes ‘life in a university’

A&S Communications

Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.

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John Carruthers

Director of Graduate Studies, Regional Science Associate Professor, AAP-City and Regional Planning
Carl Sagan Institute

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ProtoplasmaKid/Creative Commons license 4.0 Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation building facade, Mexico City
Government

Mexican judiciary reforms represent ‘high stakes gamble’

A&S Communications

The United States and Canada voiced concerns over President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s sweeping plans to overhaul the judiciary in ways that critics claim could undermine the independence of the courts.

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Government

Hubs grant launches AI collaboration, new proposals due Oct. 4

Cornell Chronicle

What are the options for limiting harm to workers as AI use grows? This is one of the questions government professor Isabel Perera and a network of international colleagues are tackling in a research collaboration launched with a seed grant from Global Cornell’s Global Hubs initiative. This year’s cycle of Global Hubs seed grants recently opened.

Verity Platt
Verity Platt
Humanities Scholars Program

Verity Platt appointed director of Humanities Scholars Program

A&S Communications

The Humanities Scholars Program welcomes Verity Platt, professor of classics and history of art in the College of Arts & Sciences, as the program’s incoming director

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Physics

Sound drives ‘quantum jumps’ between electron orbits

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have demonstrated that acoustic sound waves can be used to control the motion of an electron as it orbits a lattice defect in a diamond, a technique that can potentially improve the sensitivity of quantum sensors and be used in other quantum devices.