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History

Cornell history scholars in residence at Institute for Advanced Study

9/10/2024 A&S Communications

Mara Yue Du, associate professor of history; Durba Ghosh, professor of history; and Rachel Weil, professor of history are pursuing research projects at the IAS campus in Princeton, New Jersey.

Detail of a woven cloth showing figures dressed in red and yellow — Jason Koski/Cornell University Detail of a Burmese cloth

Language study

Language ‘Sustainability through Collaboration’ Conference at Cornell

9/11/2024 A&S Communications

Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.

yello triangles with holes punched in them, all conntected, on a blue background — Provided The kirigami robot is a hexagonal tiling composed of approximately 100 silicon dioxide panels that are connected through more than 200 actuating hinges.

Physics

Microscale kirigami robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

9/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers created a robot less than 1 millimeter in size that is printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morphs into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawls.

Person writing on a dry-erase board with a window in the background — Chris Kitchen Neil Cholli often goes to the white board in his Uris Hall office to "think things through" while analyzing data on social mobility

Economics

Klarman Fellow to study consequences of the social safety net

9/12/2024 A&S Communications

Neil Cholli, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in economics, has received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how inequality affects economic growth and well-being in the U.S.

Astronomy

Scientist Britney Schmidt wins Blavatnik Award

9/12/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Schmidt received the award for “advancing climate science and planetary habitability studies through groundbreaking research on ice-ocean interactions and innovative exploration of Earth’s polar regions and icy planetary bodies.”

Four head shots of four writers, arranged in a square — Provided Clockwise from top left: Aisha Abdel Gawad, Andrew Boryga, Amanda Moore, and C. Michelle Lindley

Creative Writing Program

Freund Prize winners to read Sept. 26

9/12/2024 A&S Communications

The work of the four winning writers – Andrew Boryga, Aisha Abdel Gawad, C. Michelle Lindley and Amanda Moore – spans a wide range of forms and topics.

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Psychology

AI succeeds in combatting conspiracy theories

9/12/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Conversations with large language models can effectively reduce individuals’ belief in conspiracy theories, a finding that offers new insights into the psychological mechanisms behind the phenomenon as well as potential tools to fight conspiracies’ spread.

Old-looking books of different heights and colors standing in a row — Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Library Books by early Black writers will be featured in the library exhibit, “Black Print: African American Writing, 1773-1910."

Literatures in English

Black print history, community featured in exhibit

9/13/2024 Cornell Chronicle

The exhibit reveals how newspapers served as a powerful vehicle for literature, culture and community-building.

Public Engagement

Final speaker in series examining antisemitism, Islamophobia

9/16/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined” series concludes this semester with a talk by Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University.

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