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Astronomy

Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

Cornell Chronicle

Telescopes could better detect potential chemical signatures of life in the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet more closely resembling the age the dinosaurs inhabited than the one we know today, Cornell astronomers find.

Book cover: Scholars in COVID Times
Scholarship and teaching

Book reexamines scholarship, teaching in the era of COVID-19

A&S Communications

Three years after the disruptions of 2020, teaching and research continue to be immensely different from pre-pandemic times, according to scholar Debra Castillo.

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Student stories

Rediscovering self-fulfillment during a leave

A&S Communications

Through hosting a talk show and traveling around the Middle East, An Le ‘25 relearned the value of passion, exemplifying that the path to success is not homogenous.

Bright yellow umbrella held by a person wearing a white sweater. It's not raining.
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Philosophy

Struggling with sarcasm: Cornell expert on why Musk’s Grok chatbot isn’t funny

A&S Communications

The key to funny sarcasm is found in empathy, says professor David Shoemaker, who studies the moral psychology of humor.

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University Curator Tim DeVoogd keeps one of the brains in his office.
Psychology

Brains! Collection is a (slightly spooky) artifact of an earlier era

Cornellians

Now overseen by the psychology department, the vintage cerebra draw many a visitor to the second floor of Uris Hall.

Movie screen outdoors, showing a black and white still of Jimmy Stewart, with red-lit windows behind it.
Joe Wilensky/Cornell University An outdoor showing of the classic Notorious, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema still lights up the silver screen

Cornellians

After more than a half-century in the Straight, the Hill’s iconic movie venue remains a film fan’s delight.

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Africana Studies and Research Center

Riché Richardson receives literary society award

A&S Communications

"Emancipation's Daughters" earned the 2022 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for Southern Literature.

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Government

Looking ahead: State elections ‘not always great predictors’ of what’s to come

A&S Communications

Virginia voters flipped the House of Delegates to Democratic control, but this is not necessarily an indication of what’s to come nationally in 2024, says David Bateman.

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Community outreach

Talk to consider roots of antisemitism, racism, Islamophobia

A&S Communications

A Nov. 16 talk sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts and Sciences will shed light on the history of hate movements in the U.S.

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David O. Brown/Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Works in 'Between Performance and Documentation'
History of Art and Visual Studies

Exhibit, symposium consider art ‘Between Performance and Documentation’

A&S Communications

Live events Nov. 16-17 will illuminate questions about performance, photograph and video – and the complex relationship between the three – posed in a current Johnson Museum exhibition.