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Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Cornell Center for Social Sciences announces 2023 fall grantees

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty member Douglas Kriner and graduate student Aaron Childree received grants in CCSS's fall round, among 16 awards across eight Cornell schools and colleges.

Toni Morrison at Cornell
Celebrating Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison Collective hosts book talks, giveaways during December

A&S Communications

"The project makes Ithacans aware that this Nobel writer lived in Ithaca for two years."

Mostafa Minawi
Faculty honors

Minawi wins Middle East Studies Association book prize

A&S Communications

The award was given for “Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire.”

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Provided Manuel Muñoz, Sporting an appreciative T-shirt at the recent conference honoring his mentor.
Creative Writing Program

Giving voice to the often voiceless, alum wins a ‘Genius Grant’

Cornellians

Fiction writer Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, draws inspiration from his upbringing in a Mexican-American farming family

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Researchers win grants to remove carbon from air, manufacturing

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Atkinson faculty fellow Phillip Milner has won a Carbontech Development Initiative grants to develop carbon removal technologies.

Malott Hall with a banner saying "curiosity, discovery, creativity" in front of it.
Malott Hall

Two Arts & Sciences Professors Elected to American Mathematical Society

A&S Communications

Two professors in the Department of Mathematics were recently elected to the American Mathematical Society.

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

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.

Jessica Chen Weiss
Government

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

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.

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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

Cornell Chronicle

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

Derek Berman
Graduate student research

Student Spotlight: Derek Berman

Cornell University Graduate School

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

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Patrick Shanahan Krystyna Golovakova works with students in her Ukrainian language class.
Ukrainian program

Classes, events show 'Ukraine is not only a country at war'

A&S Communications

Cornell's Ukrainian program is bringing the country’s culture to campus through language learning, folk tradition and history.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Oral delivery a possibility for silica-based C’Dots

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.

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Harrison College Scholars

Cornell student creates alternative remedy to relieve period pain

Cornell Chronicle

Armita Jamshidi ‘25, a computer science major and Harrison College Scholar, founded Aunt Flo’s Kitchen and is a new member of eLab.

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

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.

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

A&S Communications

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