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View from Mars: red landscape and robot
NASA-JPL-ASU/Provided NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance poses in a planetary selfie last September with the formation known as “Rochette.”
Astronomy

Rock stars on Mars: Students look for life on big red planet

Cornell Chronicle

… from lava. Those rocks are 196 million miles away, on Mars, and the Cornell doctoral students encountered them as … ancient life via the NASA Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover, which landed on the red planet Feb. 18, 2021 . …

Light blue and pink networks glow on a dark blue background
Matthew Meiselman/Provided Dorsal neurons (green) express AstC peptide (magenta) in the female fly brain.
Neurobiology and Behavior

Temperature, reproduction link holds promise for insect control

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists have uncovered a set of neurons in fruit flies that could provide a target for controlling mosquitos.

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Government

Fact checks effectively counter COVID misinformation

Cornell Chronicle

Journalistic fact checks are a more effective counter to COVID-19 misinformation than the false news tags commonly used by social media outlets, according to new Cornell research.

Maya Phillips
Literatures in English

New York Times critic at large wins 2020-21 Nathan Award

Cornell Chronicle

Maya Phillips, a critic at large for The New York Times, has been named winner of the 2020-21 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award committee comprises the heads of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale Universities.

Aisha Conte
Provided Aisha Conte, whose app, Auset’s Cabinet, provides information on holistic and natural remedies
Student entrepreneurs

Students honored with entrepreneurial fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Twenty-six students received funding to allow them to work on their businesses this summer.

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Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Center for Social Sciences awards 2022-23 Faculty Fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Social Sciences grant program, which supports social science research by Cornell faculty members, has awarded $85,000 to 10 professors for their 2022-23 CCSS Faculty Fellows program.

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Lindsay France/Cornell University Students and faculty engaged with the new Cornell Center for Cultural Humility are, left to right: Sanvi Bhardwaj ’24, event coordinator; Natalie Gosnell ’23, community outreach coordinator; Iman Alsmadi, first-year doctoral student, cultural humility trainer; Jerel Ezell, assistant professor of Africana studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, director; and Ru Liu, first-year doctoral student, cultural humility trainer.
Cornell Center for Cultural Humility

Center offers tools for culturally responsive research, practice

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Cultural Humility provides a new resource to understand and help break down barriers between people.

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Milstein Program

Milstein Program announces spring calendar of events

A&S Communications

Topics include “Life in the Slash," “Skin Deep: Crafting Tech onto the Body" and "Mining for Meaning: The Novel as Data Set."

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Faculty honors

Four assistant professors win 2022 Sloan fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Pamela Chang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, Daniel Halpern-Leistner and Peter McMahon have won 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Using a trowel at an archaeological dig site
Cornell Institute of Archaeology & Material Studies

Student podcast explores changing face of archaeology

A&S Communications

Cornell graduate students are collaborating with students across the country on the scholarly podcast.

Solina Kennedy '19. interviews Jane-Marie Law in her video
Provided Solina Kennedy '19, left, interviews Jane-Marie Law
Alumni accomplishments

Alumna unearths benefits of green burial in video

A&S Communications

Solina Kennedy '19 interviews Professor Jane-Marie Law for a new video, based on information she learned in a Cornell class.

Book cover: Free Will
Philosophy

Book explores free will and determinism

Cornell Chronicle

Cambridge University Press called upon Prof. Derk Pereboom to write a definitive overview of research on the free will debate.

Illustration of neural pathways and circuit boards.
New major

Students can major in cognitive science come fall 2022

A&S Communications

The major combines interests in philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics and neurobiology and behavior.

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Physics

Collaborative faculty win Vaughn Award for cartilage research

Cornell Chronicle

Physics professor Itai Cohen is among four Cornell faculty members who received the 2022 Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughn Award for their collaborative research on the mechanics and composition of articular cartilage and its relevance to disease.

Line of soldiers wearing camouflage, snowy field
Sgt. Alexander Rector/U.S. Army photo Ukrainian soldiers take part in military drills
Government

Russia may be about to invade Ukraine. Russians don’t want it to.

Washington Post

For Putin, invading Ukraine comes with political risk at home, show surveys conducted by Bryn Rosenfeld and colleauges.