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LGBTQ resources

Classroom tips, resources provided in new LGBTQ guide

Cornell Chronicle

Issued by the Provost’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and the Cornell LGBT Resource Center, the LGBTQ+ Resource Guide for Faculty and Staff offers best practices, including using gender-inclusive greetings in meetings and classrooms, integrating LGBTQ issues into curricula and hiring and more.

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Humanities

First group of Zhu Fellows named

A&S Communications

Four doctoral students studying fields in the College of Arts & Sciences are the inaugural recipients of the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities.

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European Union

In shadow of Ukraine war, EU elections face critical moment

A&S Communications

April elections in Hungary and France will be affected by the war in Ukraine, says comparative sociologist Mabel Berezin – even as war news draws public attention from them.

Spider, seen close-up, against dark background
Junpeng Lai/Binghamton University An orb-weaver spider perched in the hub of its wheel-shaped web. The “claw” at the tip of each leg is “hooked” gently onto strategically placed strands of web silk and positioned to “listen” to the miniscule vibrations induced by sound waves that pass through the web.
Animal behavior

Orb-weaver spider uses web to capture sounds

Cornell Chronicle

A study of orb weaver spiders finds their massive webs act as auditory arrays that capture sounds, possibly giving spiders advanced warning of incoming prey or predators.

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Molecular Biology and Genetics

DNA Shredder for Gene Therapy

Cornell Research

Ailong Ke explores the naturally occurring CRISPR-Cas3 system and its potential to treat human disease at the genetic level.

Bruno Shirley
Graduate School

Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture Ph.D. Candidate Wins Three Minute Thesis Competition

Cornell University Graduate School

Bruno Shirley presented his dissertation research in just three minutes to a panel of judges and a virtual audience from across campus and around the world.

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Taras Gren/Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine
International relations

To support Ukraine, the West must unleash the full power of the IMF and World Bank

Fortune

In a commentary in Fortune, Sarah Kreps, professor of government, writes that the U.S. and NATO policymakers are navigating a tight balancing act as Russia continues its deadly onslaught in Ukraine.

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Sociology

Women want to work, despite workforce precarity

Cornell Chronicle

Despite persistent gaps in workforce participation, when it comes to wanting to work, the gender gap has all but disappeared over the last 45 years, according to Cornell sociologist Landon Schnabel.

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Student honors

A&S sophomore earns spot in summer program in D.C.

A&S Communications

Mar’Quon Frederick, a government major, will spend the summers of 2022 and 2023 in the Institute for Responsible Citizenship's Washington Program.

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Chris Funkhouser Fred Moten
Literatures in English

Amiri Baraka’s poetry topic of March 31 Abrams talk

A&S Communications

M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, poet and theorist Fred Moten will deliver a lecture on radical Black politics and the poetry of Amiri Baraka.

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Faculty excellence

Ten A&S faculty honored with endowed professorships

A&S Communications

These professorships continue the College’s priority to recognize faculty excellence and accomplishments.

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Serge Petchenyi / Cornell University Classics students explore Sage chapel with instructor Verity Platt.
Active Learning

Active Learning Initiative awards 5 new grants

Cornell Chronicle

The Active Learning Initiative has announced its Phase IV grants. The winning proposals, from Classics, Government, History, the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, included collaborations that extend across Cornell.

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Scott Pitnick/Syracuse University Fruit fly sperm with heads labelled with a red or a green fluorescent protein, swimming inside a female fruit fly’s reproductive tract.
Molecular Biology and Genetics

After mating, fruit fly sperm are no longer fully male

Cornell Chronicle

Long considered exclusively male, a new study revealed that by four days after a sperm enters a female fruit fly, close to 20% of its proteins are female-derived.

The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)
ESO/Babak Tafreshi/Provided The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope looks skyward during a bright, moonlit night on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile’s Atacama region, one of the highest and driest observatory sites in the world.
Astronomy research

Chasing data: Astronomers race to explore ancient galaxies

Cornell Chronicle

At a dizzying elevation in Chile, two astronomers had only hours left to collect data from light that had taken 11.5 billion years to reach Earth.

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Provided Mark Kreynovich ’19 and Dillon Carroll ’20 in Ukraine in 2018
Alumni

Recent grads on a mission to support Ukraine

Cornell Chronicle

Mark Kreynovich ’19, who was born in Ukraine, and Dillon Carroll ’20 are bringing medical and other supplies to Ukraine, translating, and coordinating housing for refugees.