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Credit: Natalia Roa Lopez/Provided Local beekeepers and researchers examine an open log with a Melipona favosa nest during a workshop led by ABC Colombia on how to transfer colonies to artificial hives to facilitate management and honey harvest.
Ecology and Environmental Biology

Beekeeping, hydropower: Cornell Atkinson awards nearly $1M in grants

Cornell Chronicle

Alison Power, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will study adaptive agricultural landscapes in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

Héctor Abruña
Jason Koski/Cornell University Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Abruña receives Global Energy Prize

A&S Communications

Abruña was selected in the “non-traditional energy” category for “foundational contributions spanning electrochemistry, batteries, fuel cells and molecular electronics.”

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Klarman Fellows

Childcare workers built movement to raise pay, include more families

Cornell Chronicle

In the early 1990s, labor activists responded to the exploitation of waged childcare workers by dissolving the usual labor divisions between workplace and home, according to a new account of the movement by a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow.

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Alumni

Your July 2024 reads

Cornellians

This month’s feature titles include an ancient guide to romance and “the first book authored by a geological formation,” both by A&S faculty.

Six musicians--a singer, four string players and a pianist--perform on stage
Provided A Chamber Music Collective performance in 2023
Music

Forte/Piano Summer Academy returns to Cornell

A&S Communications

The July 30-Aug. 3 experience for young artists will culminate with a series of concerts, presentations and roundtable discussions featuring distinguished performing artists, teachers and “rising stars."

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Moon Duchin

Professor
Mathematics

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Anton Mosunov

Lecturer
Mathematics

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Economics

Economist to study collective action with NSF grant

A&S Communications

From organizing a charity event to demonstrating against an authoritarian regime, collective action is one of the most basic and ubiquitous forms of strategic interaction in a society, says Marco Battaglini.

French politics

Youth vote factoring heavily in French elections

A&S Communications

In Sunday's election, Marine Le Pen's National Rally party was thwarted, but she will live to fight another day, says Cornell populism expert Mabel Berezin.

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Carolyn Michelle Smith

Visiting Lecturer
Performing and Media Arts

Research equipment at the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
Cornell University Research equipment at the Cornell High-Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
Physics

DOE funds new Cornell accelerator science trainee program

A&S Communications

The program’s goal is to “produce a diverse body of broadly educated fellows” in areas targeted by DOE’s Office of Science, including RF superconducting structures, high brightness electron sources for linear accelerators, physics of large accelerators and system engineering, and operation of large-scale accelerator systems.

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Economics

Belot research investigates employment match quality

ILR School

A new study examines the advantages and drawbacks of various measures of match quality and presents novel evidence from a survey sample of U.S. employees where several measures were collected simultaneously.

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Hyun-ho Joo

Senior Lecturer
Asian Studies

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Yu Wang

Assistant Professor
Science and Technology Studies

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Ashawari Chaudhuri

Lecturer
Science and Technology Studies