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Camille Suárez

Assistant Professor
American Studies Program, History, Latina/o Studies Program

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Provided A confocal microscopy image shows a bicontinuous microstructure with well-defined spacing.
Physics

Tiny networks intertwine to mimic design of bird colors

Cornell Chronicle

The resulting materials could prove useful in a variety of applications, from making sustainable pigments to energy storage and filtration.

Fall view of Goldwin Smith Hall
Philosophy

Apocalypse debate set for Nov. 9

A&S Communications

Five professors will argue for the importance of their disciplines during the Logos Philosophy Debate Club’s annual debate.

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Icefin/NASA PSTAR RISE UP/Schmidt/Lawrence The Icefin underwater vehicle has sonar, chemical and biological sensors that help researchers characterize sub-ice environments.
Astronomy

Underwater robot updates understanding of ice shelf crevasses

Cornell Chronicle

Crevasses play an important role in circulating seawater beneath Antarctic ice shelves, potentially influencing their stability, finds Cornell-led research based on first-of-its-kind exploration by an underwater robot.

Book cover: The Activist Humanist
Literatures in English

Humanists have the power and the tools to fight climate change

Cornell Chronicle

Humanities scholars have an important role to play in the current political struggle to stave off environmental collapse, Caroline Levine argues in her new book.

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Chris Kitchen Dayal Meshri, right, and his daughter, Gita, left, in the newly renovated Baker 200 auditorium.
Alumni support

Meshri family funds Baker 200 restoration project

A&S Communications

The Meshri Family Auditorium opened this fall, after a $6 million renovation.

John Foster
Physics

Bethe Lecture: Testing space propulsion on Earth

A&S Communications

On Nov. 15, physicist and engineer John Foster will discuss the challenge of testing high power electric propulsion on the ground.

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Provided James John
History

James John, medieval historian, dies at 95

Cornell Chronicle

A specialist in the study of Latin manuscripts and the history of universities, John was a part of the Cornell community for more than 50 years, teaching medieval intellectual history, historiography and paleography – the study of historical writing systems and manuscripts.

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Cornell University file photo A. R. Ammons in 1998
Poetry

A. R. Ammons Reading Series: Reviving a beloved tradition

A&S Communications

Over two decades since Ammons’s passing, an open mic tradition is being revived thanks to a gift from his student Beverly Tanenhaus ’70.

Cornell campus seen from above in autumn, with Cayuga Lake in the distance
Excellence in teaching

Weiss teaching awards honor exceptional faculty

Cornell Chronicle

Three A&S faculty members are recipients of 2023 Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Awards, which honor a sustained commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students.