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2020 New Faculty

Jason Sion Mokhtarian

A&S Communications

Name and title: Jason Sion Mokhtarian, Associate Professor and Herbert and Stephanie Neuman Chair in Hebrew and Jewish Literature, Near Eastern Studies Academic focus: Rabbinic Judaism, Iranian studies, Talmud in its Sasanian context, Jews of Persia Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Chaoming Jian

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 Name and title: Chaoming Jian, Assistant Professor, Physics Academic focus: Theoretical condensed matter physics Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Todd Hyster

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Name and title: Todd Hyster, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus:  Biocatalysis and organic synthesis Current research project:

2020 New Faculty

Jerel Ezell

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Name and title: Jerel Ezell, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center Academic focus: Health disparities and social inequalities Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Alexandra Domike Blackman

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Name and title: Alexandra Domike Blackman, Assistant Professor, Government Academic focus: Middle Eastern politics, history, religion, gender Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Amiel Bize

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Name and title: Amiel Bize, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Economic anthropology (value, capitalist margins, post-agrarian rural life, risk, gleaning) Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Michele Belot

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Name and title: Michele Belot, Professor, Economics  Academic focus: Labor economics, health economics, behavioral economics Current research project:  Randomized controlled trial testing interventions to support job seekers in their search  Previous positions: 

2020 New Faculty

Leslie S. Babonis

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Name and title: Leslie S. Babonis, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Academic focus: Evolutionary development, the origin of novelty, invertebrate biodiversity Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Helena Aparicio

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Name and title: Helena Aparicio, Assistant Professor, Linguistics Academic focus: I use a combination of experimental and computational methods to study how humans process and interpret language. Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Chloe Ahmann

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Name and title: Chloe Ahmann, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Environmental anthropology, urban history, United States Current research project: 

2020 New Faculty

Mikail E. Abbasov

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Name and title: Mikail E. Abbasov, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus: Chemical biology, chemical proteomics, activity-based protein profiling, drug discovery, cancer, neurodegeneration, immunology Current research project:

Government

Webinar to examine systemic racism, health equity

What can, and should, faculty members, staff, students and the community be doing in response to institutional racism and its role in shaping health equity?

Astronomy

Mars Perseverance to deliver ‘first zoom cameras’ to another world

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NASA is planning to launch its latest rover destined for Mars on July 30, with an anticipated arrival date on the red planet in February 2021. The rover, named Perseverance, will look for evidence of ancient life and collect soil and rock samples at a part of Mars just north of its equator known as Jezero Crater — the site of an ancient river.

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Humanities

Faculty research group addressing monuments, heritage

Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary group of scholars is exploring “Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage,” through a grant from the provost's Radical Collaboration task force focused on the arts and humanities.

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Equity

Pollack outlines new initiatives to promote racial justice

Cornell Chronicle

… a set of actions to enhance our existing programs to promote racial justice. While it was important to take … role in all aspects of our academic programs, including promoting faculty diversity, and he will now be instrumental … and anti-harassment training; ensuring equitable hiring, promotion and pay practices; and establishing a consistent …