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Bella Wang Lipson
Alumni authors

Alumna’s book wrestles with society’s expectations of women

A&S Communications

From Kate Chopin to Maya Angelou to Shakespeare, Nicole Lipson ’98 uses literature to grapple with gender roles.

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Provided Danielle Vander Horst, M.A. '19, with a collection of face pots during a 2018 research trip at the Colchester and Essex Museum, Colchester, United Kingdom
History of Art and Visual Studies

History of art staff member publishes research on face pots

A&S Communications

Danielle Vander Horst, M.A., '19 will continue her study of Romano-British face pots, pursuing a Ph.D. through Cornell's Employee Degree Program.

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Provided Center on Global Democracy
Government

Cornell scholars address global threats to democratic institutions

Cornell Chronicle

The Brooks School Center on Global Democracy hosted “Democratic Mobilizing: Comparative Responses to Backsliding Threats,” a hybrid event that attracted 120 participants and was streamed live from Goldwin Smith Hall on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University. Early spring reading on the Arts Quad
Alumni authors

Your March 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include a debut novel and a nonfiction book about the comedy troupe Firesign Theater, both by A&S authors.

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Olga Subach/Unsplash Newark, New Jersey
Government

Cornell expert: EPA regulations rollback
 will reduce quality of life

A&S Communications

Rolling back these regulations will reduce the quality of life for everyday Americans, says Talbot Andrews, who studies policy design and the changing environment.

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Provided Officially launching the Abruña Energy Initiative Level 3 electric vehicle fast-charging station: Interim President Michael Kotlikoff (left) and Héctor D. Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

First Level 3 EV fast-charging station opens on campus

Cornell Chronicle

The station will serve as part of a real-world “living laboratory” for existing and emerging electric-vehicle technologies developed at Cornell and elsewhere.

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Katharine Downey/Cornell University Damon Hollenbeck '25 pitches his business CRIT to a crowd at the 2024 Cornell Entrepreneurship Showcase: Student Pitches and Venture Panel.
Entrepreneurship

eLab welcomes 13 Startups to Spring 2025 cohort

Cornell Chronicle

A&S student Max Bohun ’25 and the business he co-founded, GradeWiz, has been accepted into Y Combinator’s winter '25 batch.

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Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Meagan Sundstrom, Ph.D. '24, winner of Cornell's 3MT competition
Graduate student research

Eight students advance to 3MT finals

Cornell University Graduate School

Students from several graduate fields, including physics in A&S, will compete in the final round of the 2025 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT) on March 19.

Jane Bennett
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Society for the Humanities

Jane Bennett to deliver Culler Lecture in Critical Theory

A&S Communications

Bennett, a founding scholar of the field of new materialism, will talk about the limits of “data” as the unit of humanistic study.

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Carnegie Institution for Science Archives Vera Cooper Rubin, MS ’51 using an image tube spectrograph on a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
Astronomy

Barrier-breaking astronomer graces a U.S. quarter

Cornellians

… American Studies Program … Astronomy … Pioneering Cornellians often make … a Cornellian has ever been depicted on a circulating U.S. coin. The program, which the U.S. Mint launched in 2022 in … next several months. Read the full story on the Cornellians website.  … … Barrier-breaking astronomer graces a U.S. …

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University. The A.D. White House
Visiting professors

Three A.D. White Professors-at-Large on campus this spring

A&S Communications

… Government … History … Romance Studies … This semester, visiting  A.D. White Professors-at-Large will explore themes … from Ithaca High School, focuses his scholarship on the comparative study of democracy and authoritarian governments …

Robert Fay
Provided Robert C. Fay
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemist Robert Fay, emeritus professor, dies at 88

Cornell Chronicle

Robert C. Fay, emeritus professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Feb. 6 in Fairfax, Virginia. He was 88.

Field of semiconductors
Government and technology

Cutting CHIPS funding could be ‘politically challenging’ for some GOP lawmakers

A&S Communications

Given its bipartisan support and national security implications, CHIPS funding will be difficult to cut, says professor Sarah Kreps.

Sona Jobarteh
Provided Sona Jobarteh
Cornell Concert Series

Cornell Concert Series hosts Sona Jobarteh, musician of the West African griot tradition

A&S Communications

A living archive of the Gambian people, Sona Jobarteh innovates to support a more humanitarian future.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University
Physics

Peer recognition crucial for success in physics research

Cornell Chronicle

Even when women receive similar amounts of recognition from peers as men for excelling in physics classes, they perceive significantly less peer recognition, new research has found.