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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.

Eli Clare
Samuel Lurie Eli Clare
CNY Humanities Corridor

Disability advocate Eli Clare to speak on COVID-19

Society for the Humanities

Disability justice advocate Eli Clare has been chosen as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor, and he will be hosted for two virtual talks by the Cornell Society for the Humanities in partnership with the Syracuse University Humanities Center.

Malott Hall with a banner saying "curiosity, discovery, creativity" in front of it.
Malott Hall
Mathematics

Cornell mathematicians featured at International Congress of Mathematicians

A&S Communications

Five Cornell mathematicians -- an unusually high number -- have been invited to speak at the world-renowned International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) this year.

Man with children watching others pulling nets in from the sea
Photo by pixpoetry on Unsplash
History

White House acknowledges ‘right to stay home’ for climate migrants

A&S Communications

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia comments on the report released this week by the White House on climate change and migration.

Farid Ferdows
alumni

For those who dream, Cornell is your place, says Farid Ferdows ’21

Alumni Affairs & Development

Farid Ferdows ’21 says that from his first day on campus, Cornell welcomed him.

class with teacher and students
Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University Darlene Campbell, senior lecturer in biology, works with students in class.
Comparative literature

Reshaping student experiences through new innovations in teaching

Cornell Chronicle

This fall, a new group of Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners are beginning work on projects to enhance student learning environments across Cornell.

Flag in the center of a circle with "E Pluribus Unum" across it
Flag of the U.S. Senate
Government

Progressives make sacrifices to win Manchin, Sinema

A&S Communications

Government professor David Bateman comments on the budget bill negotiations in Congress.

Jamila Michener, Assistant Professor of Government
Government

Michener testifies to House committee about health care

A&S Communications

Health is an exceptionally expensive resource in the United States, “though it should not be,” political scientist Jamila Michener told the House Rules Committee on Oct. 13.

The U.S. Capital.
Photo by Quick PS on Unsplash U.S. Capitol
Government

Battle with Bannon is 'political theater,' shows need for reform

A&S Communications

Prof. Doug Kriner, author of the book “Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power,” says the conflict indicates a need for reforms that would enable more powerful congressional oversight.

Students walking in front of Goldwin Smith Hall, with trees showing Autumn colors
Advising

Library marks advising milestone

Cornell Chronicle

Librarians have been vital to the A&S advising seminars program, which pairs students with faculty advisors in the college and connects them with campus resources essential to their well-being and academic success.

Maserati in front of elaborate house with fountain and sculpture in courtyard
Photo by Anastase Maragos on Unsplash
Psychology

Lavish wealth tolerated more for individuals than groups

Cornell Chronicle

Driving the effect, the researchers propose, is our tendency to see internal traits as more responsible for individual successes and failures than for group outcomes.

A black and white aerial image of Titan's river system.
NASA/JPL A radar image from the Cassini spacecraft of Titan’s liquid methane and ethane rivers and tributaries.
Astronomy

Titan’s river maps may advise Dragonfly’s sedimental journey

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led team of astronomers has published the final maps of Titan’s liquid methane rivers and tributaries, as seen by NASA’s late Cassini mission.

Goldwin Smith Hall
Awards

Weiss teaching awards honor 10 exceptional faculty

Cornell Chronicle

Three A&S faculty members have been selected to receive Stephen H. Weiss Awards honoring excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring, President Martha E. Pollack announced Oct. 18.

man looking at a piece of charcoal
Provided Sturt Manning, director of the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory, examines a charcoal sample at the New York State Museum in Albany.
Classics & Archaeology

New timeline clarifies Indigenous history in Mohawk Valley

Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration between the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory and the New York State Museum in Albany has established a more precise timeline for some of the most iconic archeological sites in the Mohawk Valley.

Andy Strominger
Physics

Hans Bethe Lecture to illuminate black hole paradox

A&S Communications

This year's Hans Bethe Lecture, “Probing the Edges of the Universe: Black Holes, Horizons and Strings,” will be on Wed., Oct. 27 at 7:30 pm in the David Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.