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A display case showing a ceramic head-shaped object standing on a base; a woven cloth showing animal shapes; and a gold mask — Provided Anthropology Collections curator Frederic Gleach held an open house during the Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory that highlighted materials from the Andes, including the items pictured here: Andean textiles and ceramics, with a Sican gold mask

Anthropology

Conference celebrates 40 years of Andean studies at Cornell

11/22/2023 A&S Communications

“The conference showcased the true intergenerational and diverse group of scholars involved in Andean Studies,” said Prof. Cohen-Aponte.

computer screen showing the OpenAI log and text about ChatGPT — Rolf van Root/Unsplash

Government

The OpenAI meltdown will only accelerate the artificial intelligence race

11/22/2023 The Guardian

Optimists and ‘doomers’ are fighting over the direction of AI research – and those who want speed may have won this round, Sarah Kreps writes in an op-ed in The Guardian.

Circular cluster of fibrous strands; the strands in the center are purple

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Oral delivery a possibility for silica-based C’Dots

11/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

New research has shown that ultrasmall Cornell Prime Dots, or C’Dots, which are among the nanocarriers for therapeutics once thought to be viable only by injection, have the potential to be administered orally.

Graduate student research

Student Spotlight: Derek Berman

11/28/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

Derek Berman, doctoral student in geological sciences, studies the geophysical environment of Mars’ Jezero crater.

group of women — Jason Koski/Cornell University The executive board of Women Leaders of Color, a student group dedicated to uniting and empowering female students of color, outside Kennedy Hall.

Student leaders

New group unites, empowers female students of color

11/29/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Women Leaders of Color at Cornell aims to increase representation of women of color in leadership positions across professions.

Government

China expert, present at Xi visit to US, aims to cool tensions

11/30/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Professor Jessica Chen Weiss, an expert on U.S.-China relations, was among the attendees of the dinner following President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s historic summit on Nov. 15 in San Francisco.

Oval shaped sea creature with an orange inside emits blue light — Elliot Lowndes/Provided A male ostracod, about the size of a sesame seed, will dance in harmony with other males underwater at night and secrete a glowing mucus to get attention from females.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Sea fireflies synchronize their sparkle to seek soulmates

11/30/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In sea fireflies’ underwater ballet, the males sway together in perfect, illuminated synchronization, basking in the blue-like glow of their secreted iridescent mucus.