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War Crimes

U.S. can accuse Russia of war crimes, but prosecution will be elusive

A&S Communications

Professor Oumar Ba comments on the likelihood of Russians being prosecuted for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

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Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine/Creative Commons license 4.0 Ukrainian refugees enter Poland, March 2022
Refugees

Amid refugee announcement, Biden seeks to relieve a backlogged asylum system

A&S Communications

Cristina Maria Garcia, professor of history and Latino studies, comments on President Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will admit 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.

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Graduate student research

Doctoral student’s work featured in Oxford Handbook chapter

A&S Communications

The chapter is an introduction to the ideas and links between AI and politics.

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Provided Mark Kreynovich ’19 and Dillon Carroll ’20 in Ukraine in 2018
Alumni

Recent grads on a mission to support Ukraine

Cornell Chronicle

Mark Kreynovich ’19, who was born in Ukraine, and Dillon Carroll ’20 are bringing medical and other supplies to Ukraine, translating, and coordinating housing for refugees.

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ESO/Babak Tafreshi/Provided The Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope looks skyward during a bright, moonlit night on the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile’s Atacama region, one of the highest and driest observatory sites in the world.
Astronomy research

Chasing data: Astronomers race to explore ancient galaxies

Cornell Chronicle

At a dizzying elevation in Chile, two astronomers had only hours left to collect data from light that had taken 11.5 billion years to reach Earth.

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Scott Pitnick/Syracuse University Fruit fly sperm with heads labelled with a red or a green fluorescent protein, swimming inside a female fruit fly’s reproductive tract.
Molecular Biology and Genetics

After mating, fruit fly sperm are no longer fully male

Cornell Chronicle

Long considered exclusively male, a new study revealed that by four days after a sperm enters a female fruit fly, close to 20% of its proteins are female-derived.

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Serge Petchenyi / Cornell University Classics students explore Sage chapel with instructor Verity Platt.
Active Learning

Active Learning Initiative awards 5 new grants

Cornell Chronicle

The Active Learning Initiative has announced its Phase IV grants. The winning proposals, from Classics, Government, History, the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, included collaborations that extend across Cornell.

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Faculty excellence

Ten A&S faculty honored with endowed professorships

A&S Communications

These professorships continue the College’s priority to recognize faculty excellence and accomplishments.

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Literatures in English

Amiri Baraka’s poetry topic of March 31 Abrams talk

A&S Communications

M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, poet and theorist Fred Moten will deliver a lecture on radical Black politics and the poetry of Amiri Baraka.

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Student honors

A&S sophomore earns spot in summer program in D.C.

A&S Communications

Mar’Quon Frederick, a government major, will spend the summers of 2022 and 2023 in the Institute for Responsible Citizenship's Washington Program.