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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Cornell Votes members Dana Karami ’23, center, vice president of operations; Patrick Mehler ’23, founding member and president; and Lauren Sherman ’24, incoming vice president of external operations, gather in Willard Straight Hall.
Elections

Students get out the vote, on campus and across the state

Cornell Chronicle

“The youth have so much power, and we just don’t use it,” said Lauren Sherman ’24, Arts and Sciences student.

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Mohammad Arifuzzaman and David Artis/Provided Color-enhanced goblet cells (dark purple) in lung epithelium.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Common dietary fiber promotes allergy-like immune responses

Cornell Chronicle

Inulin, a type of dietary fiber commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can also promote an allergy-related type of inflammation in the lung and gut, and other parts of the body, according to a preclinical study from Cornell researchers.

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Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Benjamin Netanyahu, January 2018
International politics

‘Fearmongering’ drives Netanyahu’s comeback in Israel

A&S Communications

Government scholar Uriel Abulof comments that in Israel, Netanyahu’s comeback appears powered by politician Itamar Ben-Gvir and the far-right.
 

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Pascal Bernardon/ Unsplash Harvard University
American studies

History offers the best argument for continuing affirmative action

Washington Post

Affirmative action still has a vital role to play for addressing the history of discrimination: perspective by Glenn Altschuler

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Alejandro Luengo/Unsplash Chinese flag
China

People over numbers: Book charts China’s neopolitical turn

Cornell Chronicle

Jeremy Lee Wallace explains how a few numbers came to define Chinese politics “until they did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up,” and the “stunning about-face” led by Xi Jinping within the Chinese Communist Party.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University The 11 Cornell students who will be helping delegations at COP27 in Egypt.
Climate

Cornell students to work at UN’s COP27 conference in Egypt

Cornell Chronicle

Eleven Cornell students, including two from Arts & Sciences, will help delegations from specialized agencies and small countries gain a stronger voice at the United Nations’ COP27 conference.

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Economics

Parking ticket reminders work, but not for all

Cornell Chronicle

New research by Cornell behavioral economists reveals that people who would benefit the most from gentle “nudges” to pay their fines – those who are least responsive to tickets in the first place – respond least to those reminders.

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Dave Burbank Kenneth Roberts
Government

Polarization research in Ecuador underscores risks to U.S. democracy

Cornell Chronicle

When political parties stoke partisan conflicts – often by contesting formal state institutions, like systems for managing elections – actual democratic capacity may take a hit as public opinion polarizes.

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Provided Model for how inducible genes are regulated and distinct from constitutive (housekeeping) genes. Environmental signals induce transcription factors and cofactors to provide a helping hand in loading the transcription machinery. Otherwise they remain poised and ready, awaiting the signal. Most genes are constitutive and lack this helping hand, so they can only be transcribed infrequently.
Molecular biology and genetics

New research reveals how genes turn on and off

A&S Communications

Yeast has revealed for Cornell researchers a key mechanism in how genes are controlled.

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Physics

$1.25M grant to advance control of 2D materials

A&S Communications

The research will help give unprecedented insight into electron behavior and quantum phenomena.

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International speakers

Scholar offers talk about Brazilian crackdowns and feminist response

A&S Communications

Her talk is one of three in the African Diaspora Knowledge Exchange Series.

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Notable alumni

Morrison, Ginsburg to be honored with U.S. postage stamps

Cornell Chronicle

Both Morrison and Ginsburg graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences.

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Postdoctoral fellowships

Cornell joins Schmidt AI in Science postdoc research initiative

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell, including A&S, will recruit and train a cohort of up to 100 postdoctoral fellows in the fields of natural sciences and engineering. 

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Mordechai Aviam
Program on Freedom and Free Societies

Noted archaeologist to speak on new discoveries in Israel in Cornell lecture

A&S Communications

Israeli archaeologist Mordechai Aviam and his colleagues made headlines by finding possible evidence, near the Sea of Galilee, of the house of St. Peter.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Members of the Women of Color Athletes executive board, clockwise from back left, Tia Taylor ’25, track and field; Emily St. John ’23, soccer; Sydney Waiters ’24, soccer; Maddie Packer ’25, track and field; Aviva Muńoz ’23, swimming; and Sydney Moore ’24, volleyball, in Goldwin-Smith Hall. Not pictured: Meilee Key ’24 track and field.
Student athletes

Student group, Women of Color Athletics, creates space

Cornell Chronicle

A new group provides female athletes of color at Cornell with a community of women who understand their challenges.