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Three small, colorful parrots cluster around a hand in a blue glove — Chris Kitchen Budgerigar parrots get a treat of millet in Cornell's Corson Hall aviary

Neurobiology and Behavior

Parrots, songbirds have evolved distinct brain mechanisms, Klarman Fellow finds

12/8/2023 A&S Communications

The study provides a clue into how parrot – and human – brains allow continuous, flexible vocal learning.

Cornelliana

Big Red books, perfect for gifting

12/8/2023 Cornellians

Need a present for the Cornellian on your list? Here are titles on University history, traditions, songs, famous alums—even recipes!

Two people -- characters in a film -- wearing large coats and gold jewelry

Performing and Media Arts

Winter Session Spotlight: Dr. Kristen Warner on Black Cult Media

12/6/2023 Cornell SCE

Students can take a deeper dive into cult cinema by enrolling in Black Cult Media (PMA 4403), an online three-credit course that will be offered for the first time during Cornell’s Winter Session, Jan. 2-19.

student with text from projector shining on his face — Chris Kitchen Franklin Zheng '25 experimented with AI in three of his classes this semester.

Classroom innovation

Welcoming AI into the classroom

12/5/2023 A&S Communications

Students are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence in everything from essay writing to computer code creation.

Statue facing a campus building; fall foliage

Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Cornell Center for Social Sciences announces 2023 fall grantees

12/5/2023 Cornell Chronicle

… conduct research and host conferences and workshops. Visit the CCSS website to learn more about grant …

Celebrating Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Collective hosts book talks, giveaways during December

12/4/2023 A&S Communications

… and information about obtaining free copies of the books, visit https://tonimorrison.cornell.edu/ithaca-reads/ or …

Faculty honors

Minawi wins Middle East Studies Association book prize

12/4/2023 A&S Communications

The award was given for “Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire.”

Person standing at a podium, holding a book, with a serious expression — Provided Manuel Muñoz, Sporting an appreciative T-shirt at the recent conference honoring his mentor.

Creative Writing Program

Giving voice to the often voiceless, alum wins a ‘Genius Grant’

12/6/2023 Cornellians

Fiction writer Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, draws inspiration from his upbringing in a Mexican-American farming family

five smoke stacks against a blue sky; the second from left belches smoke

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Researchers win grants to remove carbon from air, manufacturing

12/1/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Atkinson faculty fellow Phillip Milner has won a Carbontech Development Initiative grants to develop carbon removal technologies.

Malott Hall with a banner saying "curiosity, discovery, creativity" in front of it. — Malott Hall

Two Arts & Sciences Professors Elected to American Mathematical Society

12/1/2023 A&S Communications

Two professors in the Department of Mathematics were recently elected to the American Mathematical Society.

Oval shaped sea creature with an orange inside emits blue light — Elliot Lowndes/Provided A male ostracod, about the size of a sesame seed, will dance in harmony with other males underwater at night and secrete a glowing mucus to get attention from females.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Sea fireflies synchronize their sparkle to seek soulmates

11/30/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In sea fireflies’ underwater ballet, the males sway together in perfect, illuminated synchronization, basking in the blue-like glow of their secreted iridescent mucus.