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Atkinson Center

Cornell Atkinson awards $1.6M in seed grants

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability’s Academic Venture Fund will support 11 new projects across nine colleges; three include Arts & Sciences investigators.

book cover: The Consciousness Revolutions
Psychology

Book catalogues consciousness from amoeba to human and beyond

A&S Communications

In "The Consciousness Revolutions," Shimon Edelman traces the evolution of consciousness, from the most basic phenomenal awareness of bacteria to the pleasures and pains of human self-consciousness to the political possibilities of social consciousness.

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Savan DeSouza/Provided Graduate student Sam Levenson, left, and CLASSE Research Associate Matt Andorf show off the HERACLES beamline in Newman Lab.
Physics

HERACLES beamline to accelerate cathode research

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell is breaking new ground in electron beam research with the HERACLES beamline, a state-of-the-art electron gun that mimics the harsh environments of the world’s largest particle colliders.

Nic Vigilante
Nic Vigilante
Graduate student research

Student Spotlight: Nic Vigilante

Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral student in music with a concentration in music and sound studies, Vigilante studies how music, sound, and performance are used to create “unreality."

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Google DeepMind/Unsplash Generative AI
Technology

Kreps: Generative AI holds promise, peril for democracies

Cornell Chronicle

Popularized in 2022 by Open AI’s ChatGPT, generative artificial intelligence threatens to undermine trust in democracies when misused, but may also be harnessed for public good.

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Alumni engagement

Register now for Reunion 2023

A&S Communications

The College of Arts & Sciences will welcome alumni to campus June 8-11 with a host of events for Cornell Reunion 2023, celebrating the classes of 3s and 8s.

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Roger William Photography Some of the recipients of 2023 Distinguished Awards at the Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration, May 16 in G10 Biotech
Graduate student honors

Thirty-two receive awards recognizing inclusive excellence

Cornell University Graduate School

On May 16, several Arts and Sciences affiliated graduate students were among those honored for leadership and commitment to diversity, inclusion, outreach, and student engagement.

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Serge Petchenyi / Cornell University Students participate in an in-class discussion.
Active learning

CTI announces 2023 Active Learning Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients

Cornell Chronicle

These grants provide a unique opportunity for faculty who are new to active learning and want to learn more or for those who want to expand upon initial efforts in implementing these teaching strategies.

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National Cancer Institute/Unsplash Brain images
Neurobiology and Behavior

Diversity of neurons affects memory, study finds

Cornell Chronicle

Understanding this diversity could lead to better knowledge of the brain’s computational flexibility and memory capacity.

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Excellence in teaching and advising

A&S faculty honored for exemplary teaching, advising

A&S Communications

“Helping students realize their greatest potential is at the core of our mission in the College of Arts & Sciences."

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Provided Laura Chang, anthropology
Student achievement

13 Cornellians awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Awards

Einaudi Center

Six A&S students are among the thirteen from Cornell selected this year to research and teach English abroad with funding from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Ozan Varol
Provided Ozan Varol
Alumni

Rocket science can be a roadmap for life, says this astrophysics alum

Cornellians

Former law professor (and proud polymath) Ozan Varol ’03 inspires audiences with lessons rooted in space exploration.

Amanda Domingues
Amanda Domingues
Science and Technology Studies

Student Spotlight: Amanda Domingues

Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral candidate in science and technology studies with a focus on the anthropology of science, Domingues studies how investigators use scientific methods and humanities theories to reconstruct the lives of past humans.

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Orinoco14/Creative Commons license 2.0 Protein crystals
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Picking up good vibrations – of proteins – at CHESS

Cornell Chronicle

A new method for analyzing protein crystals – developed by Cornell researchers and given a funky two-part name – could open up applications for new drug discovery and other areas of biotechnology and biochemistry.

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A. Flecker/Cornell University Aquaculture ponds near Iquitos, Peru, July 2022
International studies

Einaudi seed grants finding fertile soil

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty from six colleges across Cornell tackle issues ranging from the health of endangered wild dogs to the spread of misinformation through social media.