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American studies

History offers the best argument for continuing affirmative action

Washington Post

Affirmative action still has a vital role to play for addressing the history of discrimination: perspective by Glenn Altschuler

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Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license Benjamin Netanyahu, January 2018
International politics

‘Fearmongering’ drives Netanyahu’s comeback in Israel

A&S Communications

Government scholar Uriel Abulof comments that in Israel, Netanyahu’s comeback appears powered by politician Itamar Ben-Gvir and the far-right.
 

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Mohammad Arifuzzaman and David Artis/Provided Color-enhanced goblet cells (dark purple) in lung epithelium.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Common dietary fiber promotes allergy-like immune responses

Cornell Chronicle

Inulin, a type of dietary fiber commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can also promote an allergy-related type of inflammation in the lung and gut, and other parts of the body, according to a preclinical study from Cornell researchers.

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Cornell Votes members Dana Karami ’23, center, vice president of operations; Patrick Mehler ’23, founding member and president; and Lauren Sherman ’24, incoming vice president of external operations, gather in Willard Straight Hall.
Elections

Students get out the vote, on campus and across the state

Cornell Chronicle

“The youth have so much power, and we just don’t use it,” said Lauren Sherman ’24, Arts and Sciences student.

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Chris Kitchen Margaret Keymakh in the Crickard lab.
Undergraduate research

Undergrad publishes research on genetic information exchange

A&S Communications

A study by Margaret Keymakh '23 and others in her lab was just published in PLOS Genetics.

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Academic opportunities

Students can now choose new minor in data science

A&S Communications

The minor is distinctive in including courses from many disciplines, from across Cornell’s schools and colleges.

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Election 2022

Fear of election violence highlights how political landscape has changed

A&S Communications

Concerns about violence are growing as Election Day in the U.S. nears, says scholar Mabel Berezin: “The expectation of violence at the polls this year signals how much has changed in the American electoral landscape since 2018."

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Student research experiences

Nexus Scholar applications open for summer 2023

A&S Communications

The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.

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Cornell University file photo Just a few hours after the final votes are cast and long before they all are counted, professors Peter Enns, Steve Israel and Suzanne Mettler (l-r) will offer analysis of the 2022 midterm elections at an in-person event at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.
Election 2022

Experts will offer day-after election analysis

Cornell Chronicle

The in-person event The Day After: What Happened on Election Night and What Happens Next will be held November 9 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Room 155.

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NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Webb’s First Deep Field is galaxy cluster SMACS 0723
Astronomy

A dream of discovering alien life finds new hope

Quanta

For Lisa Kaltenegger and her generation of exoplanet astronomers, decades of planning have set the stage for an epochal detection.