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Education Innovation

CTI explores 'The Art of Teaching' in new series

Cornell Chronicle

Through a series of facilitated faculty conversations, the series aims to shine a spotlight on unique aspects of a variety of teaching formats, from the discussion to the studio, from the field site to the lab to the seminar.

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Eric Ryan Anderson Chief Adjuah
Cornell Concert Series

Chief Adjuah featured on Cornell Concert Series March 7

Department of Music

NPR has hailed Adjuah as “ushering in a new era of jazz."

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Chris Kitchen Charlie Green
Faculty books

Prof’s new novel imagines a U.S. without Texas

A&S Communications

Charlie Green’s new novel, “The Shah of Texas,” published Feb. 18 from Gold Wake Press.

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Provided Saniyem Iminova, an Uyghur woman who's the daughter of a Uyghur general who fought during the Uyghur war for independence, holds a photo of her relatives.
Student research

Documenting Uyghur history for the sake of the future

A&S Communications

… the stories of Uyghur people last summer, when she visited Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan on a trip funded by Yale … scanners, a Canon camera and a microphone setup. She won a Community-Engaged Student Grant from the David …

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

Trump posture on Ukraine peace based on flawed assumptions

A&S Communications

Prof. Bryn Rosenfeld comments on the summit between Pres. Trump and Putin.

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Awards and Honors

Freelance Theater Critic and Editor Brittani Samuel Wins George Jean Nathan Award

A&S Communications

The award committee praised Samuel for her “impressive breadth of address to the playgoing public,” foregrounding “the critic’s own social position in an effort to promote more thoughtful and empathetic theatergoing.”

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Brian Crane named director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology

Cornell Chronicle

Brian Crane began as Director of the Weill Center for Cell and Molecular Biology on January 1, 2025. He is only the second Director in the History of the Weill Institute since its founding by inaugural Director Scott Emr in 2008.

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Cornell University file photo Melissa Harris-Perry delivers the 2015 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell
Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures

Writer Melissa Harris-Perry to speak on community care and democracy

A&S Communications

The Feb. 27 public lecture will be the third event in the Black History Month series organized and hosted by the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures.

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Philosophy and Science

Bohannon, Manne event focuses on female body image, evolution

A&S Communications

"Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and Getting the Story Right” takes place in person March 5; a virtual conversation between the two will be livestreamed March 6.

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Sociology

With education funding cut looming, ‘irreplaceable data on schools’ at risk

A&S Communications

The real economic and social value of the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences research won’t show up in DOGE’s metrics.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Protein shuttling mechanism helps bacteria pump out antibiotics

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide spectrum of antibiotics from the cell.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Postdoctoral researcher Christopher Petroff (center), doctoral candidate Virginia McGhee (left), doctoral student Azriel Finsterer (right) and Lara Estroff, the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry in Cornell Engineering (background), work on perovskites – a class of compound minerals that over the last decade have become the most exciting alternative to silicon.
The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative

Solar solutions: ‘Crazy’ perovskite offers sustainable alternative to silicon

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers are studying how the material can be recycled and grown to be more durable.

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Provided/Cornell University Graduate School Professor Natasha Holmes (left) and doctoral candidate Rebeckah Fussell
Graduate student research

Mentorship series: Rebeckah Fussell and Natasha Holmes

Cornell University Graduate School

In a series of interviews with faculty-graduate student pairs, the Cornell University Graduate School spoke with Rebeckah Fussell, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, and Natasha Holmes, Ann S. Bowers Associate Professor of physics.

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Government

The key to some nations’ public support for mental health care

Cornell Chronicle

Isabel Perera explains why some countries have failed to provide adequate services for the mentally ill while others expanded care.

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Alumni awards

Alumna playwright honored with Dramatists Guild award

A&S Communications

Playwright Gloria Oladipo '21 is also an award-winning cultural critic and journalist with The Guardian.