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Chris Kitchen Students Sneah Singhi ’26, left, and David Behdad ’25 work in the observation room at the B.A.B.Y Lab, which studies infant language acquisition.
Nexus Scholars

Nexus Scholars study climate change inequality and infant language learning

A&S Communications

The program provides undergraduates with summer opportunities to conduct research with and be mentored by faculty from across the college.

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Government

Cornell democracy expert: Trump’s election comments ‘reject democratic principles’

A&S Communications

Political scientist Rachel Riedl, director of the Center on Global Democracy and an expert on democracy and authoritarianism globally, comments on Donald Trump’s rhetoric about voting.

Government

Voting gender gap expected to factor heavily in 2024 election

A&S Communications

Prof. Sabrina Karim comments on how the gender gap between female and male voters in the U.S. is likely to become starker during the 2024 election cycle.

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Krystyna Golovakova

Lecturer of Ukrainian and Russian
Comparative Literature

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Saxbys at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Government

A decaf soy latte, with a shot of entrepreneurship

Cornellians

Government alum's Saxbys coffee chain operates on a unique model: its employees—and managers—are all college students.

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Hannsjörg Weber

Assistant Research Professor
Physics

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Cristina Schlesier

Lecturer
Physics

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Molly Womack

Assistant Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Gillian Harrill Actors from "Ghosts" walk around the schoolhouse during filming in Oklahoma.
Faculty creative works

PMA profs’ film earns spot in PBS film festival

A&S Communications

“Ghosts” tells the story of three Kiowa children who escaped a government boarding school in the winter of 1891.

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Current Events

What a Harris candidacy means: Cornell experts weigh in.

A&S Communications

As Vice President Kamala Harris garners crucial support for her presidential campaign, Cornell University experts discuss the potential implications and challenges she might face.

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Cornell University File Photo Nicolas van de Walle
In memoriam

Nicolas van de Walle, leading scholar of African politics, dies at 67

A&S Communications

Known for his scholarship on Africa’s politics, from political economy to democratization and electoral politics, van de Walle contributed decades of award-winning work on regime transitions and continuity, leadership succession, foreign aid, clientelism, political parties and governance.

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Photo by Nathan DeFiesta on Unsplash
Performing & Media Arts

Groundswell of Black women celebrity activism expected for Harris

A&S Communications

Prof. Samantha Sheppard, chair of performing & media arts, comments on celebrity reaction to Kamala Harris' campaign for president.

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Provided Artist Brandon Lazore is creating a digital mural about climate change in the Kettle Lakes Watershed in collaboration with New York State Water Resources Institute and the Cortland-Onondaga Federation of Kettle Lakes Associations
Performing and Media Arts

Digital murals to dental clinics: Einhorn Center grants support community-based projects

Cornell Chronicle

The Einhorn Center for Community Engagement recently award Engaged Opportunity Grants to 10 university-community project teams. The grants provide up to $5,000 to Cornell faculty and staff to include undergraduate students in community-engaged learning opportunities.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

A touch of gold has extra reach in degrading micropollutants

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell team used a new form of high-resolution optical imaging to better understand how adsorption – the clinging of molecules to surfaces – works on the semiconductor titanium dioxide with a gold particle added as a co-catalyst.

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Ananda Cohen-Aponte, associate professor of history of art and visual studies (center left), discusses a painting with Miguel Barrera ’24 (left), Osiel Aldaba ’26 and Emily Hernandez ’25.
Latin American art

Exhibition highlights once-overlooked colonial Latin American art

Cornell Chronicle

The exhibit brings a nuanced view to a complicated period in Latin American art, and it is doing so with the help of student curators.