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Government

Sean Grayson due in court, attorney and legal scholar comments

A&S Communications

Bodycam footage illustrates multiple instances in which Grayson made matters worse, says criminal law expert and professor of government Joseph Margulies.
 

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John Munson/Cornell University Brenda Schertz teaches her students American Sign Language as well as deaf history, education and cultural norms.
American Sign Language

ASL program offers performance series, welcomes new faculty

A&S Communications

Lisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.

Book cover: Invisible Labor
Alumni authors

Your October 2024 reads

Cornellians

This month’s titles, featured in Cornellians, include "Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section" by A&S alum Rachel Somerstein ’04.

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Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons license 2.0 Donald Trump shown in 2022
Politics and psychology

Trump’s abrupt decision to play DJ, a sign of ‘accelerating cognitive decline’ says Cornell expert

A&S Communications

Harry Segal, senior lecturer in the Psychology Department and in the Psychiatry Department at Weill Cornell Medicine, says Trump’s awkward display at his rally was another clear sign of mental decline.

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Provided Luis Felipe López-Calva
Economics

World at a Turning Point interview

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Arpit Chaturvedi Cornell MPA'18 and Larasati Eka Wardhani MPA'25 interviewed Luis Felipe López-Calva Ph.D. ‘99, global director, Poverty and Equity Global Practice, World Bank Group during The World at a Turning Point: Cornell Conference on Development Economics and Law.

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Einhorn Center for Community Engagement

Engaged faculty network grows with 28 new fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Fellows will spend the year developing a community-engaged course, project or publication, while also joining a network of scholars committed to advancing the university’s public engagement mission.

Book cover: The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

J. Ellen Gainor wins book award from Theatre Library Association

A&S Communications

The George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize goes to Gainor for “The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory & Dramatic Criticism," which she co-edited.

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NASA/JPL-CalTech An artist's concept of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft.
Astronomy

Scientists supporting mission to assess Europa’s habitability

Cornell Chronicle

Jupiter’s moon Europa may have conditions that could support life. To find out, NASA has launched its next flagship science mission, Europa Clipper, and Cornell scientists will play a role.

Anna Ho
Astronomy

Astronomy professor Ho named Packard Fellow

Cornell Chronicle

The fellowship from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation includes $875,000 in unrestricted funds to be used for research over five years.

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Global Cornell

Global experts look abroad for lessons in super election year

Cornell Chronicle

Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking “super election” year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.

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Society for the Humanities

‘Silence’ theme of Society for the Humanities Fall presentations

A&S Communications

Six fellows from a broad swath of humanities fields will present their projects in progress during the annual Fall Fellows’ conference, on Friday, Oct. 25.

Book cover: On the Move
Climate

Brooks School to host author Abrahm Lustgarten ‘95 for lecture on climate migration

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell alumnus, and ProPublica climate reporter, Abrahm Lustgarten is author of “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America."

Moon Duchin
Mathematics

Mathematician and redistricting expert joins Brooks School as radical collaboration hire

Cornell Chronicle

Moon Duchin is a mathematician and public policy expert who has advised numerous U.S. states on redistricting and whose lab has been at the forefront of an emerging discipline that merges data science and elections.

Arts Unplugged

Celebration of Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday being held Nov. 9

A&S Communications

On what would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday, Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute will celebrate his legacy in an interdisciplinary day of science, music and more as part of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series.

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Media Studies

Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique

Cornell Chronicle

In his new book, Prof. Jeremy Braddock explores the history of the Firesign Theatre, which used multitrack audio and avant-garde collage to put a countercultural spin on the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s.