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Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Muna Ndulo, right, speaks as Chris Barrett, left, and moderator Paul Kaiser listen at the Einaudi Center’s Lund Critical Debate.
Government

Lund debate kicks off yearlong conversation on foreign aid

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty members discussed the value of international aid in the wake of the Trump administration’s policy that froze foreign assistance.

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American studies and history

Historian to explore state of American sports in 2025 Seymour Lecture

A&S Communications

… their biggest fans.” This semester, Baker is serving as a visiting professor of the practice in the American Studies …

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David Rand

Professor, Professor of Marketing and Management Communications, S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, and Professor of Information Science, A.S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
Psychology

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Watt Family Photographs/McNeese State University “Woods workers” posing with a large crane near Carson, Louisiana, 1920.
Africana studies

Redbones and racial nuance in Louisiana Lumber War

A&S Communications

Klarman Fellow Kendall Artz wants to push beyond the assumption – one replicated by scholars – that company rosters and state records hold all there is to know about racial expression.

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Physics

Nathan Seiberg explores frontiers of physics in 2025 Bethe Lecture

A&S Communications

Seiberg, professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will explore string theory and other aspects of scientific progress.

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Society for the Humanities

Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture

A&S Communications

Stacey Langwick, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, will speak on "Healing in a Toxic World: Reimagining the Times and Spaces of the Therapeutic."

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Provided Bryce Brownfield, Ph.D. ’23 (left) and Cameron Kitzinger ’22 work in their lab for Forage Evolution, which was recently admitted into Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures incubator.
Physics

Startup bets their superfast microbe can rewrite biotech

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers develop a new bacterium that can absorb DNA directly from its surroundings and incorporate it into its own genetic code.

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Psychology and philosophy

To disclose or not to disclose good deeds, that is the do-gooder dilemma

Cornell Chronicle

A new study explores how people feel about sharing their good deeds.

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Sunwoo Lee/Provided A neural implant developed at Cornell rests on a grain of salt. About 300 microns long and 70 microns wide, it’s the smallest neural implant capable of wirelessly transmitting brain activity data.
Neurobiology and Behavior

Neural implant smaller than salt grain wirelessly tracks brain

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year.

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Politics

What this year’s off-cycle elections mean for the national mood

A&S Communications

If Trump allies exceed expectations during Nov. 4 elections, despite his disapproval ratings, it will be a sign that Republicans can still benefit from Democrats’ continued unpopularity.

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Language Resource Center

Symposium celebrates 25 years of bridging language barriers

A&S Communications

“The Future of Language Advocacy” on Nov. 15 will feature Cornell Translator Interpreter Program founders Fatema Sumar ‘01 and alumna Joyce Muchan ‘97.

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Poetry

Summoning religion, mythology and memory ‘Within the Shop of the Divine’

A&S Communications

… lights the way into poems that connect people beyond death, visit holy sites, consider Satanic bargains and consult astrology. … that imagine a medieval chapel’s construction and that visit a holy site of pilgrimage off the British coast. Other poems in the …

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Nobel Prize-winning economist and former Cornell professor Richard Thaler, left, speaks on stage with Thomas Gilovich, the Irene Becker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology, in the Statler Auditorium.
Psychology

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler delights in the human side of economics

Cornell Chronicle

Richard Thaler, a Nobel laureate who was a professor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management from 1978 to 1995, spoke Oct. 17 at the Alice Statler Auditorium.

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Academic innovation

Academic integrity and generative AI focus of PWGIA event

Cornell Chronicle

A keynote and faculty panel on Nov. 12 will focus on how faculty can communicate their generative AI-related expectations to students, how students can take accountability for their work, and what this looks like in practice.

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Molecular biology and genetics

Faculty win Bezos grants to use AI for environmental challenges

A&S Communications

Cornell has won three of 15 major grants from the Bezos Earth Fund, awarded to leverage artificial intelligence in the fight against climate change and environmental challenges.