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highway surrounded by smouldering brush; a white pickup truck
Marcus Kauffman/Unsplash Fire near Lowell, Oregon in 2017
History

Environmental degradation focus of LaFeber-Silbey lecture March 10

Cornell Chronicle

Historian Daniel Immerwahr will re-establish the central importance of forests and fire to the settlement of the American West in the nineteenth century during this year's LaFeber-Silbey Lecture.

person holding glass to flame
Noël Heaney/Cornell University Karl Termini works with glass heated to 4,500 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, depending on the type of glass.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Glass blower crafts intricate creations for Cornell scientists

A&S Communications

The work of Karl Termini, scientific glassblower in the College of Arts & Sciences, saves departments money and time and ensures that scientists get exactly what they need.

Roald Hoffmann
Public Engagement

Nobel laureates show support for Ukraine

A&S Communications

The letter, signed by 163 Nobel laureates, was drafted by Cornell Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann.

Book cover: Revolution, An Intellectual History
History

New history of revolution offers hope for “our troubled present”

Cornell Chronicle

Enzo Traverso's research reinterprets the history of 19th and 20th century revolutions through a constellation of images, from Marx’s ‘locomotives of history’ to Lenin’s mummified body to the Paris Commune’s demolition of the Vendome Column.

Sabrina Karim
Awards

Assistant professor wins NSF early-career award

Cornell Chronicle

Sabrina Karim, Hardis Family Assistant Professor of government, has received an NSF early career award.

Campus buildings, cloudy sky, lake
Faculty honors

Six A&S professors named 2022 Simons fellows

Cornell Chronicle

"These outstanding physicists and mathematicians are pushing the boundaries of our understanding," said Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Three solders crouch behind a tank
Sgt. Alexander Rector/U.S. Army Ukrainian soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 92nd Mechanized Brigade, participate in a platoon live-fire exercise in Yavoriv, Ukraine Dec. 1, 2021
History

The Crisis in Ukraine Has Disturbing Echoes of the 1930s

Time Magazine

In a Time Magazine op-ed, professor Cristina Florea writes that today’s world is arguably very different from the world of the 1930s, but current events in Europe have disturbing parallels in the 1930s.

Student walking across Cornell Arts Quad
Supporting the College

Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16

A&S Communications

Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.

Tiffany Norwood
Alumni

Tribetan CEO Norwood named Entrepreneur of the Year

Cornell Chronicle

Tiffany Norwood ’89 will be honored on campus April 28-29 at the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration event.

City street crowded with scooters, signs and people walking
Jiachen Lin/ Unsplash Taichung, Taiwan
International relations

Ukraine invasion heightens anxiety in Taiwan

A&S Communications

A U.S. delegation arrived in Taiwan to show support for the nation this week. Allen Carlson, associate professor of government and an expert on China, says Taiwan was on edge even before Russian President Vladimir Putin began his assault on Ukraine.

Paper money – Russian rubles – shown up close
Government

Russia is about to plunge into financial crisis. How will citizens react?

The Washington Post

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, professor Tom Pepinsky writes that Russian president Vladimir Putin doesn’t have good options if he wants to stop a bank run.

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Social Media

Countering Russian misinformation a ‘comparatively easy’ problem to solve

A&S Communications

Twitter just announced it will begin labeling content from Russian state-affiliated media websites. Professor Sarah Kreps says that in some cases, false tags actually lead to more social media sharing of bogus COVID-19 claims.

Sianne Ngai
Society for the Humanities

Sianne Ngai to give Culler lecture on inhabiting error

Cornell Chronicle

Sianne Ngai, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago, will explore this question wrong ways of thinking in this Society for the Humanities event March 9.

Two people conversing
Psychology

The Spontaneous Origins of Language

Wall Street Journal

Which came first, grammatical rules or their exceptions? In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Morten Christiansen, professor of psychology, writes that for decades, linguists bet on rules – but disorder and flux may turn out to be language’s most essential traits.

2022 wu scholars
2022 Wu Scholarship recipients. Top row, left to right: Shiping Cao, Yue Deng, and Zihan Hu. Bottom row, left to right: Hui Ji, Yubo Su, Yongjian Tang, and Hui Zhou. Not pictured: Shan-Chi Hsieh.
Graduate School

Eight Graduate Students Receive Wu Scholarships

Cornell University Graduate School

Eight graduate students, including four studying in the College of Arts and Sciences, were awarded 2022 Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarships.