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Africana Studies, American Studies Program

NYC takes ‘significant, systemic steps’ toward desegregation of schools

A&S Communications

Today, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced major changes to the way the city’s middle and high schools admit their students. Those changes include eliminating all admissions screens for middle schools for at least one year; eliminating a policy that allows some high schools to give students who live nearby first claim at spots in the school; and issuing grants to be used by schools to develop diversity and integration plans.

Graduate student research

Grad student receives funding for research on COVID-19, incarceration

A&S Communications

Erin McCauley, a doctoral candidate in the fields of sociology and policy analysis and management, recently received funding from the National Institute for Drug Abuse to support her research analyzing the effects of COVID-19 on jails. 

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Researchers detect possible exoplanet radio emission

Cornell Chronicle

The team has already begun a campaign using multiple radio telescopes to follow up on the signal.

English, John S. Knight Institute

Cornell team seeks mercy for Lisa Montgomery

Cornell Chronicle

A team of Cornell faculty, graduate students and undergraduates is fighting to save Lisa Montgomery from federal execution next month, supporting her bid for clemency from courtrooms to recording studios to a social media campaign urging followers to #SaveLisa and consider #HerWholeTruth.

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Academic Minute

Cornell faculty featured on ‘The Academic Minute’

Cornell Chronicle

The program, airing on 70 stations, covers new and emerging topics in higher education.

Teacher stands near students, who are writing at a table
Graduate school

ELSO Expands Services to All Multilingual Graduate Students

Cornell University Graduate School

Cornell’s English Language Support Office (ELSO) has expanded to support all multilingual graduate students – both from the U.S. and abroad. Previously available only to international students for whom English was not their first language, now multilingual graduate and professional students from anywhere in the world can participate in ELSO programs, including tutoring, workshops, and classes.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Students pitch business ideas to former Etsy CEO

Cornell student Ryan Tremblay ‘22 won first place in a student pitch competition Oct. 28, judged by Chad Dickerson, former CEO of Etsy and Cornell Tech fellow.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

‘Roaming’ molecular fragments captured in real time

Cornell Chronicle

Sometimes atoms, like pets and adventuresome hikers, slip loose and wander off into the wild. Their final destination isn’t known, and their trajectory can be all over the map. It’s not so easy to track their path.

Government

COVID-19 healthcare issues reflect pre-existing inequalities

A&S Communications

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country, federal data shows more than a third of Americans live in areas where hospitals are running critically short on intensive care beds. The data has caused some panic about the possibility of health care rationing over the coming months.

McGraw Tower in spring
Academic diversity

New curriculum requirements bring host of new courses to A&S

A&S Communications

As course enrollment opens up this week, students in the College of Arts & Sciences have access to dozens of new courses for spring 2021, thanks in part to the College’s new curriculum, which took effect this fall for students in the class of 2024.

Music

Chorus and Glee Club present virtual Readings & Carols

Department of Music

… celebration including singalong carols (featuring the virtually assembled choirs), seasonal poetry readings, and …

Astronomy

Ground broken in Chile for alum-backed telescope

The telescope itself will arrive in mid- to late 2022, with first light anticipated in 2023.

Government

‘The devil is in the details’ for NYC solitary confinement ban

A&S Communications

Today New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm is set to introduce a bill that prohibits solitary confinement as a means of punishment. On Friday, the New York City council will hold a hearing on the proposed bill, fast-tracking the process to stop the controversial practice.

Physics

Physics professor advances breakthrough research on black hole paradox

Cornell Chronicle

Tom Hartman has discovered a mathematical technique for calculating the physics of a black hole.

Government

Middle class actually enables autocrats in post-Soviet countries

Cornell Chronicle

Rosenfeld spent more than a year doing research in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.