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Science and Technology Studies

Big data can render some as ‘low-resolution citizens’

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers used India’s biometrics-based individual identification system to examine how the system works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.

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Provided Marylynn Salmon, right, staged this photo as a joke with a male friend in 1972, to highlight their very different reading materials.
Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

‘Still a long way to go:’ Looking back on the start of women’s studies at Cornell

A&S Communications

As Cornell's women's studies program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – along with the 30th anniversary of the LGBT studies program – faculty and alumni from the early days of the program are remembering the barriers they hurdled, as well as the support they received, as they sought to establish the program in 1972.

Jupiter with bands of swirling color and a red spot at top of sphere.
NASA/JPL An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, upper right, and the planet's swirling surface, was taken by the Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2020.
Astronomy

Juno craft provides first 3D view of Jupiter’s deep storms

Cornell Chronicle

“This answers questions that scientists have asked for 200 years," said co-author Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy.

Pedro Molina
Einaudi Center

Nicaraguan cartoonist finds refuge at Einaudi Center

Cornell Chronicle

Pedro X. Molina is now an APF fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

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Joe Martinez Wynton Marsalis
Music

Arts Unplugged: Marsalis offers Nov. 6 concert with wind symphony

A&S Communications

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony, open to the public, and a talk open to members of the Cornell community.

Patrizia C. McBride
German Studies

Patrizia McBride recognized with article prize

A&S Communications

Professor Patrizia McBride won the 2021 Max Kade prize for best article in The German Quarterly.

Ella Maria Diaz
Latina/o studies, English

Professor Ella Maria Diaz wins two book awards

A&S Communications

Professor Ella Maria Diaz wins two gold medals at the International Latino Book Awards for her book "José Montoya."

McGraw Hall
History

'Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It'

Department of History

Brookings Fellow Jonathan Rauch will address misinformation in his talk "Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It."

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Cornell Univesity Amaya Garnenez works with Lejla Camdzic, right, in the Stache Lab.
Nexus Scholars

New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

Cornell Chronicle

The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.

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Princess Mako during the New Year Greeting 2015 at the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
History

Japan’s imperial laws may doom the royal family

A&S Communications

Historian Kristin Roebuck comments on the consequences of the marriage of Japan's Princess Mako.

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History

COP 26 ushers ‘new domain of geopolitics’ as Russia demands sanction relief

A&S Communications

Historian Nicholas Mulder comments on Russia's demand for sanction relief.

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Kannan Arunasalam/Provided Interview with subject Patsy Bansfield.
Comparative literature

Transdisciplinary film explores Trinidad and Tobago

A&S Communications

“We Love We Self Up Here” is a new documentary focused on the complex histories of labor and migration in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Courtesy Carnegie Institution for Science Archives Rubin measures spectra recorded on photographic plates at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in 1972.
Alumni

Alumna’s galactic quest proved existence of dark matter

Alumni Affairs & Development

Vera Cooper Rubin, MS ’51, was a pioneering astronomer whose studies on the Hill helped shape her life’s work.

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Alumni

The Cornellian behind the slogan ‘Ithaca is Gorges’

Alumni Affairs & Development

The man who designed the Ithaca is Gorges logo in the Seventies—the late Howard Cogan ’50, MPS ’80—never trademarked it.

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Doing the greatest good

Cornell launches $5B campaign ‘to do the greatest good’

Cornell Chronicle

A newly launched, major fundraising campaign aims to shape Cornell as the model university for the 21st century and beyond, building on its foundation of world-class academics, research and engagement.