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Sociology

With education funding cut looming, ‘irreplaceable data on schools’ at risk

A&S Communications

The real economic and social value of the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences research won’t show up in DOGE’s metrics.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Protein shuttling mechanism helps bacteria pump out antibiotics

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide spectrum of antibiotics from the cell.

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Ryan Young/Cornell University Postdoctoral researcher Christopher Petroff (center), doctoral candidate Virginia McGhee (left), doctoral student Azriel Finsterer (right) and Lara Estroff, the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry in Cornell Engineering (background), work on perovskites – a class of compound minerals that over the last decade have become the most exciting alternative to silicon.
The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative

Solar solutions: ‘Crazy’ perovskite offers sustainable alternative to silicon

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers are studying how the material can be recycled and grown to be more durable.

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Provided/Cornell University Graduate School Professor Natasha Holmes (left) and doctoral candidate Rebeckah Fussell
Graduate student research

Mentorship series: Rebeckah Fussell and Natasha Holmes

Cornell University Graduate School

In a series of interviews with faculty-graduate student pairs, the Cornell University Graduate School spoke with Rebeckah Fussell, a Ph.D. candidate in physics, and Natasha Holmes, Ann S. Bowers Associate Professor of physics.

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Government

The key to some nations’ public support for mental health care

Cornell Chronicle

Isabel Perera explains why some countries have failed to provide adequate services for the mentally ill while others expanded care.

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Alumni awards

Alumna playwright honored with Dramatists Guild award

A&S Communications

Playwright Gloria Oladipo '21 is also an award-winning cultural critic and journalist with The Guardian.

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Student honors

Junior wins international reporting honor

A&S Communications

Gabe Levin, editor in chief of the Cornell Daily Sun and a student in the College of Arts & Sciences, spent the summer of 2024 reporting on the Israel-Gaza war.

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Cornell Concert Series

Pianist Jonathan Biss featured on Cornell Concert Series Feb. 21 

A&S Communications

… Concert Series (CCS) production on Friday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.   Praised as “a superb pianist and … and mental health during the Midday Music series at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 20 in Lincoln Hall room B20. A …

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Fuel cell research

X-ray study sheds light on cost-effective fuel cell materials

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have captured an unprecedented, real-time view of how a promising catalyst material transforms during operation, providing new insights that could lead to replacement of expensive precious metals in clean-energy technologies.

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Jack Bryant

Visiting Associate Professor
Performing and Media Arts

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Ben Frahm

Visiting Assistant Professor
Performing and Media Arts

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Alumni

These alums are so inventive, they're in the hall of fame!

Cornellians

Cornellians are a creative bunch—and like Ezra himself, many have used their know-how and initiative to make a difference.

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Psychology

Power of babble: Babies elicit simpler speech from adults

Cornell Chronicle

Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech in response to babies’ babbling and early speech, supporting language development, new Cornell research finds.

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Philosophy

Cornell expert: Anti-trans executive order belies unfounded moral panic

Arts & Sciences Communications

Wednesday's executive order prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports discriminates not only against transgender people, but also against women, says philosophy professor Kate Manne.
 

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The World According to Sound “Media Objects,” a podcast collaboration between Cornell media experts and sound artists The World According to Sound, begins Feb. 6.
Media Studies

Media Objects podcast releases 'sonic essays' based at Cornell

A&S Communications

The series features the voices and research of 13 Cornell faculty members, more than half from A&S.