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Linguistics

Removing barriers through remote opportunities

Cornell Chronicle

Many Graduate School students, alumni and staff, including linguistics alumna Carol-Rose Little, Ph.D. ’20 have learned to use remote and hybrid environments to their benefit.

Government

Juneteenth reverberates with triumph, pain, past and present

Cornell Chronicle

The holiday celebrates the day enslaved people gained their freedom. But they lacked political power then, as Black people too often do today, says associate professor Jamila Michener.

Crowd of people holding signs during BLM protest
Racism in America

Reunion panel steers racism conversation toward action

Cornell Chronicle

The panel suggested listening to scholarly experts, implementing new initiatives and engaging students and faculty in organizations beyond the university.

Sociology

Trends favor Le Pen victory, ‘somersaults’ in French politics

A&S Communications

Mabel Berezin, professor of sociology, says that regional elections in France on June 20 could serve as an early indicator of what may come in the 2022 presidential election.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Magnetic tweezers reveal polymers’ hidden properties

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers were able to stretch and twist individual molecules of a conjugated polymer and measure its mechanical and kinetic properties, gaining insights that could eventually lead to more flexible and robust soft electronic materials.

Margaret Washington
Juneteenth

Radio interview discusses Juneteenth

Cornell Chronicle

On June 15, the "All Things Equal" podcast featured Cornell Arts & Sciences Professor of American History Margaret Washington for a discussion of Juneteenth.


Francesco Sgarlata
Klarman Fellows

Klarman postdoc tackles ‘theory of everything’ with first principles

Cornell Chronicle

Physicist Francesco Sgarlata is taking a bottom-up approach to finding a theory of quantum gravity.

Mathematics

Who's afraid of big numbers?

New York Times

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Humanities

Podcast episode explores creation: medieval poems to Thai temples

Cornell Chronicle

A new episode of “The Humanities Pod” explores the language and materiality of belief through literary and anthropological methods of humanities research.

Astronomy

Astronomers seek gravitational waves with renewed NSF grant

Cornell Chronicle

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