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Engaged Cornell

Grants fund community-engaged learning curricula

Cornell Chronicle

The Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI) recently awarded Engaged Curriculum Grants to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university.

Asian Studies & Linguistics

An A&S education: Taking time to explore then finding your path

A&S Communications

Back in high school, Chloe Kalani ’23 was a science nerd — into every science and engineering fair and a member of the science club. But she also loved the humanities. When she came to Cornell, she thought she’d continue on the scientific path, majoring in chemistry and Asian studies and planning to become a technical translator.

Psychology

Psychology professor offers alphabetical guide to human nature

Cornell Chronicle

 Life doesn’t come with a user’s manual, but Shimon Edelman, professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has created an alphabetical reference guide.

Vijay Varma
Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow models black hole collisions, tests Einstein's theory

Cornell Chronicle

Vijay Varma is among six inaugural cohort members in the Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship program.

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Arts Unplugged

Cornell community honors Toni Morrison with “The Bluest Eye” reading

A&S Communications

A total of 122 readers, plus a number of Cornell musicians, paid tribute to Toni Morrison M.A. ’55 Oct. 8 during a marathon reading of “The Bluest Eye.”

Government

Ban on Nigeria rogue police unit may not end abuses

A&S Communications

Authorities in Nigeria disbanded a controversial police unit following nationwide protests to end police brutality. The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) had been linked to several recent cases of kidnapping, murder and extortion that fueled citizens’ outcry over its tactics and government protection.

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American Indian & Indigenous Studies

Faculty research university’s ties to Indigenous dispossession

Cornell Chronicle

A faculty committee is exploring Cornell’s history as a land-grant institution and the nation’s dispossession of Indigenous peoples.

Alumni

Alum’s film to be available for online sneak peek Oct. 16

Ezra

Director Robert H. Lieberman ’62 takes viewers on a journey into the vast and little-known country of Mongolia in his latest film, “Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan,” in a one-week online sneak peek beginning Oct. 16. Cornell Cinema and Cinemapolis of Ithaca are presenting the advance showings, ahead of the film’s international release. The film will be available for two-day rental, for $12.

Africana Studies and Research Center, Government

Cornell’s Adult University hosting 2020 election seminar

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s Adult University (CAU) is hosting free and pay-to-view live online seminars open to the public this fall, beginning with “The 2020 Presidential Election – an Online Seminar,” Oct. 30 and 31 and Nov. 7. Registration is open for all offerings at CAU, which is part of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions.

Performing & Media Arts

Filmmaker Jeff Palmer tells Native Americans’ untold stories

Cornell Chronicle

Jeff Palmer grew up taking long walks with his father in the Wichita Mountains of southwestern Oklahoma. Palmer’s father, a linguist and a native Kiowa speaker, told him ancient Kiowa stories about the granite-capped peaks and rolling hills around them.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Researchers disrupt signaling pathway to treat colitis

Cornell Chronicle

The white blood cell TH17 helps the immune system fight infection by promoting inflammation. But it can be too much of a good thing: Excessive inflammation from TH17 overload has been tied to autoimmune disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and arthritis.

Physics

Physics graduate student receives DOE grant

A&S Communications

Christopher Morrison Pierce, a doctoral candidate in the field of physics, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program.

Alumni, Student Experiences

Site empowering student voters wins ‘Pitch for the People’

Cornell Chronicle

In the 2016 presidential election, stronger turnout among college students could have flipped the outcomes in several states that were decided by razor-thin margins.

Jewish Studies Program, Anthropology

‘Yeshiva Days’ records Lower East Side Jewish life

Cornell Chronicle

The book chronicles a side of Jewish life that outsiders rarely see.

Rays of Hope

Lending a hand in the time of COVID

A&S Communications

Rubin Smith ’21 started volunteering at Cayuga Medical Center (CMC) and the Ithaca Free Clinic way before the COVID-19 pandemic began, but he’s continued that work, spending time three days a week helping patients and visitors at both places.