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Antonio Fernandez Ruiz
Neurobiology & Behavior

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz receives NIH award for ‘transformational’ project

A&S Communications

Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has received a New Innovator Director’s Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.

two women sitting on stage
Chris Kitchen Anderson, left, and Peraino, right traced the arc of Anderson's multi-decade career.
Arts Unplugged

Laurie Anderson visit offers a glimpse of her world

A&S Communications

The Sept. 26 talk was recorded and is now available to view on eCornell.

Three people in lab coats behind a clear wall inscribed with organic chemistry symbols
Lindsay France/Cornell University Chemist Song Lin
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Two chemistry professors win Cope Scholar Award

A&S Communications

Tristan Lambert and Song Lin have been honored for work in organic chemistry.

Black and white photo from 1914: a woman in a dark suit and hat highlighted by flowers stands on a wooden dock
Mary Crawford, awaiting the nine-day voyage to France in 1914
Alumni

New memoir spotlights pioneering female surgeon's WWI service

Cornellians

The book curates the diaries and letters of ‘double Red’ alum and Cornell trustee Mary Crawford 1904, MD 1907.

Book cover: The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism
Performing and Media Arts

Scholars spearhead anthology of women’s theater writing

Cornell Chronicle

The first wide-ranging anthology of theater theory and dramatic criticism by women and woman-identified writers contains entries by more than 80 scholars, including Cornell faculty and alumni.

A figure featuring four black and white grids with colorful shapes on each
Dan Mao/Provided Leveraging the geometric thinking in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice to predict new effects
Physics

Physicists realize fractionalization without a magnetic field 

A&S Communications

The Kim Group leveraged geometric thinking in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice to predict new effects, a novel approach.

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Kuzzat Altay/Unsplash A 2021 demonstration, "Stop Uyghur genocide," in Washington, D.C.
International studies

Uyghur children in China’s genocide: A symposium

A&S Communications

Reported violations of ethnic minority children’s rights by the Chinese government will be explored in a symposium Oct. 27.

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Economics

Staller Lecture to explore the economics of AI Oct. 12

A&S Communications

Economist Jens Ludwig will explore how “big data” and AI tools help us understand and improve human decision-making.

four people holding certificates
Roger William Photography for Cornell University. From left to right: Xuan Chen, Zachary Ulibarri, Sarah Gilbert, and Samantha Sanft. Not pictured: Alyssa Kaganer and Anusha Shankar.
Postdoctoral scholars

Six postdocs honored with achievement awards

Cornell University Graduate School

Cornell employs 790 postdoctoral scholars who are appointed across nearly 90 departments where they actively participate in the university’s research, teaching, and extension missions.

Aiono holding a copy of "the Decameron"

Student receives top honor for Boccaccio essay

A&S Communications

… Grace Aiono ‘26 has been awarded this year’s Giuseppe Velli Prize by the … Grace Aiono ‘26 has been awarded this year’s Giuseppe Velli Prize by the …

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ideepakmathur/Wikimedia Commons Ahmedabad, site of India's first Heat Action Plan, a comprehensive extreme heat early warning and preparedness plan.
Global Cornell

Global center promises design solutions for warming world

Global Cornell

A Cornell-led project team – with Global Hubs partners in India, the U.K, Ghana and Singapore – has received a two-year $250,000 design grant from the National Science Foundation to bring more comfortable days and nights to homes everywhere.

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Stella Ocker, Ph.D. ’23 won a Brinson Prize fellowship, which she began Sept. 1 at the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California
Astronomy

Cornell astronomy to offer Brinson Prize

A&S Communications

The Brinson Prize supports postdoctoral scholars in carrying out novel research in observational cosmology.

The U.S. Senate chamber (blue carpet, yellow walls) with the Senators seated at their deks
Senate Photo Studio/public domain Class photo of the 111th United States Senate inside the chamber, 2010
Government

‘Age alone’ should not dominate the decision for older politicians to resign

A&S Communications

We need to recognize and remember the mark made by Dianne Feinstein says professor Elizabeth Sanders, but it’s also time for older politicians to begin considering the length of their careers.

Michelle Wang, next to a microscope and with dangling wires and equipment behind her
Robert Barker, Cornell University Michelle Wang
Physics

Physicist Michelle Wang named Biophysical Society Fellow

A&S Communications

Wang was chosen for “advancing our understanding of transcription, replication, and chromatin dynamics through the lens of DNA mechanics and topology.”

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Provided The Cornell University Wind Symphony performs "A Place That Is Yours" by Catherine Likhuta
Humanities

Cornell celebrates 15 years at the heart of CNY Humanities Corridor

A&S Communications

… across departments but across campuses – has proven to be very successful, Fleming said. “The beauty of the corridor … or chapter is already done, but in the early stages when everything looks messy.” During its first year, the working … our readings of the film, and learning from the questions everyone asked, definitely enriched and strengthened the …