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Psychology

Fear of majority-minority changes perceptions of race

Cornell Chronicle

The threat of demographic change may alter who white Americans perceive as racial minorities, potentially making more people vulnerable to discrimination, suggests new Cornell psychology research.

Illustration of nSWAT mechanism stretching DNA molecules
“Resonator” wave guides made of silicon nitride, represented here by gray bars, apply enough force to half-micron-wide plastic beads (blue) to perform a standard biophysical experiment, unzipping DNA molecules held in place by light emanating from the resonator at the point of each bead.
Physics

‘Lab on a chip’ can measure protein-DNA interactions

Cornell Chronicle

New nanophotonic tweezers developed by Cornell researchers can stretch and unzip DNA molecules as well as disrupt and map protein-DNA interactions, paving the way for commercial availability.

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Carla DeMello/Provided The Nobel Prize awarded to Hans Bethe in 1967
Physics

Hans Bethe’s Nobel Prize medal given to library

Cornell Chronicle

Bethe earned the medal for his theory on the energy production of stars. It now holds a special place in the library among the physicist's papers from his 60-year teaching career at Cornell.

Watercolor painting of a coastline with a sail boat
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection A watercolor ‘view’ by British artist John Thomas Serres (1759–1825) showing the South Foreland and Shakespeare's Cliff.
History of Art and Visual Studies

Watercolor views advanced the British empire

Cornell Chronicle

Watercolor 'views' of enemy coastline, commissioned by the eighteenth century British Royal Navy, are both art and navigational tool, writes Kelly Presutti.

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Photo by kremlin.ru/Creative Commons license 3.0 Vladmir Putin and Joe Biden at the 2021 Russia–United States summit
History

Keynes warned the world against using economic sanctions

The Guardian

In an op-ed in The Guardian, Nicholas Mulder argues that aiding allies is more effective than sanctioning foes.

Book cover: The Queerness of Home
History

Historian delves into LGBTQ life and the American home

Cornell Chronicle

The intimacy of domestic space was a crucial aspect of LGBTQ life in the postwar era, according to historian Stephen Vider, who explores that history in his new book.

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Provided A centrifugal concentrator tube containing purified GluER T36A enzyme. Its yellow color comes from the presence of the flavin cofactor within the enzyme, essential for its function.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Molecular Engines for Drug Synthesis

Cornell Research

Doctoral student Sophie Bender modifies enzymes—complex, machine-like biomolecules—to create precision tools for difficult chemical reactions.

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Alumni

Institute of Politics and Global Affairs Wrestles with Today’s Thorniest Issues

Cornellians

Launched in 2019, the institute (known as IOPGA for short) aims to help develop and nurture the next generation of public servants, offering programs that delve into complex issues and events, stress bipartisanship, and raise understanding of domestic and international affairs.

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David Rassmussen Larison in the Rocky Mountains on his first assignment for National Geographic in the early 1980s.
Alumni

James Larison ’70, PhD ’01, Reflects on his Career as a Nature Filmmaker

Cornellians

In a new memoir, the NatGeo veteran recalls globe-trotting adventures—and warns of climate change.

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Media studies

Media Studies Initiative launches new graduate minor

Media Studies

Beginning in spring 2022, a graduate minor in media studies will be available to students in fields across the Graduate School at Cornell University.

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Media studies

Artificial echoes and insect synthesizers

Media Studies

Two recent papers by Owen Marshall uncover the technological practices that brought human speech and insect feeding behavior under electro-acoustic control in the mid-20th century.

Book cover: The Economic Weapon
History

Economic sanctions evolved into tool of modern war

Cornell Chronicle

Economic sanctions have long been considered a nonviolent deterrent, but ironically they have become a tool of modern warfare, according to a new book by Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history.

Field of semiconductors
Physics

Semiconductor demonstrates elusive quantum physics model

Cornell Chronicle

With a little twist and the turn of a voltage knob, Cornell researchers have shown that a single material system can toggle between two of the wildest states in condensed matter physics.

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Public engagement

Faculty build network of community-engaged teachers, scholars

Cornell Chronicle

From teaching food science at the Ithaca Farmers Market to researching how youth feel about their race and ethnicity, this year’s Engaged Faculty Fellows are demonstrating the range of work that’s possible through community-engaged learning and research. The 2021-22 cohorts include 15 faculty from eight Cornell schools and colleges.

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Government

History repeats with effort to protect voting rights, end filibuster

A&S Communications

Prof. David Bateman comments on promised action on voting rights legislation this week