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Moscow
History

Sanctions Against Russia Ignore the Economic Challenges Facing Ukraine

In a New York Times guest essay, Nicholas Mulder considers why the Russian economy has proven relatively resilient under sanctions.

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Provided Poem from an 1827 edition of Freedom's Journal
Graduate student research

Website sheds light on 19th century Black literary culture

A&S Communications

The site includes 700 poems that Charline Jao discovered and transcribed.

Dawn Upshaw
Brooke Irish Dawn Upshaw
Music

GRAMMY-winning soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Feb. 24

A&S Communications

Maria Schneiders’ “Winter Morning Walks” headlines the program in Barnes Hall.

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Unsplash Picture of a Greek statue
Classics

Juniors selected for Caplan travel fellowships

A&S Communications

Kim Montpelier ‘24, Austin Manning ‘24 and Shanzai Ikhlas ‘24 won fellowships through the classics department.

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NASA/Dartmouth/Alexa Halford/Creative Commons license 2.0 A high altitude research balloon, launching in 2015
Unidentified flying objects

In an age of drones and UAVs, why balloons are having a moment

A&S Communications

Countries have long used balloons to extend intelligence collection though more sophisticated technologies have replaced them in recent years, says drone researcher Paul Lushenko.

Silhouettes on a wall show a gun aimed at two hands held up in surrender; a scene of nighttime crime
Moral psychology

I, Judge and Jury

Cornell Research

How do you decide if a person in a difficult situation has acted criminally or not? John Doris reveals patterns in our moral judgments.

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Collab Media/Unsplash Milner's project aims to use renewable electricity to achieve low-cost capture of methane from various streams, including landfills.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Milner wins Scialog award to advance methane mitigation

A&S Communications

The Scialog initiative aims to catalyze advances in basic science that will enable technologies for removal of C02 and other greenhouse gases to become more efficient, affordable and scalable.

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Sloan Research Fellowships

Five early-career faculty win Sloan Research Fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Debanjan Chowdhury, physics, and Andrew Musser, chemistry, are among 126 researchers in the United States and Canada who this year have received two-year fellowships to advance their work.

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Britney Schmidt, center, and research team members
Climate research

Underwater robot helps explain Antarctic glacier’s retreat

Cornell Chronicle

First-of-their-kind observations beneath the floating shelf of a vulnerable Antarctic glacier reveal widespread cracks and crevasses where melting occurs more rapidly, contributing to the glacier’s retreat.

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Chris Kitchen Marten van Schijndel, left, and Helena Aparicio
Linguistics

Researchers use computational tools to understand linguistic processing

A&S Communications

Two recently-hired faculty in the Department of Linguistics are expanding the use of computer modeling and experimental techniques as they forge new paths of research in the discipline.