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Ailong Ke
Molecular biology and genetics

Three faculty members elected AAAS fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Molecular biology and genetics professor Ailong Ke is among three Cornell faculty members elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Rachel Beatty Riedl, left, the Einaudi Center’s director and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, and Colleen Barry, Brooks School dean.
Provided Rachel Beatty Riedl, left, the Einaudi Center’s director and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, and Colleen Barry, Brooks School dean.
Government

Brooks School launches center to combat democratic decline

Cornell Chronicle

Rachel Beatty Riedl, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, will serve as the first director of the new Center on Global Democracy.

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Brooks School Tech Policy Institute

Brooks School Tech Policy Institute focuses on intersection of national security and tech policy

Cornell Chronicle

We live in an era in which rapid technological change shifts the global security balance in real time. No one knows that better than Sarah Kreps, director of the Brooks School Tech Policy Institute (BTPI), and John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Sarah McMorrow
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Student honors

JFK Award recipient merges passions for medicine and public service

Cornell Chronicle

Sarah McMorrow '24 received the Class of 1964 John F. Kennedy Memorial Award for her commitment to serving others.

Wenbo Tang
Chris Kitchen Wenbo Tang studies memory to help develop therapies for memory-related diseases, and also to improve AI systems
Neurobiology & Behavior

Klarman Fellow: AI has a lot to learn from 'flexible and reliable' human memory

A&S Communications

Greater understanding of beneficial characteristics of the human brain, such as flexibility and reliability, will help Wenbo Tang develop therapies for human diseases – and improve AI systems.

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Graduate student honors

Ten inducted into Bouchet Honor Society

Cornell University Graduate School

Eight Cornell doctoral candidates, including five connected to A&S, and two postdocs have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.

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Provided Pietro Pucci in Athens, June 2017
Classics

‘Adventurous’ classical scholar Pietro Pucci dies at 96

Cornell Chronicle

Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, died in Paris on April 7. He was 96.

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Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Valzhyna Mort, center, discusses the risks writers take to speak out in many countries, with Suzanne Nossel, left, and David Folkenflik ’91.
Freedom of Expression

Paying a price to speak out, dissident writers help preserve freedoms

Cornell Chronicle

Speakers at “Dissident Writers: A Conversation” explored how writers keep freedoms open for others by taking risks to criticize governments or societies in environments where there is a cost.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chen, Wolfner, Ryan elected to arts and sciences academy

Cornell Chronicle

Professors Peng Chen, Mariana Wolfner ’74 and Timothy A. Ryan, M.S. ’86, Ph.D. ’89, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on April 24.

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Distinguished Visiting Journalist

NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91 talks ‘Freedom of Expression’

A&S Communications

Reflecting on his time on campus as this year's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist during the university's Freedom of Expression theme year, David Folkenflik '91 says "freedom of expression isn't at its most potent as an issue or principle when it's easy. In some ways, it matters most when it’s hard."