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Hand holding a smart phone showing the TikTok icon — Solen Feyissa/Unsplash

Government

TikTok in ‘increasingly desperate’ situation

12/9/2024 A&S Communications

We are one step closer to a world where TikTok will no longer be available on app stores, says Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law and director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell.

Looking down a desolate street damaged by war — Mahmoud Sulaiman/Unsplash Daraa, Syria

International relations

Syria developments and foreign involvement: Cornell experts comment

12/9/2024 A&S Communications

Cornell government and history scholars provide perspective on the end of 14 years of civil war and 24 years of the Assad dictatorship.

Book cover: Borrowing Paradise — Provided

History of Art and Visual Studies

A story of environmental hope set in Bali

12/9/2024 A&S Communications

"Borrowing Paradise," a new book for children, brings a community-centered Balinese Hindi ritual to life.

A painted portrait, from the 17th century, of a confident looking woman wearing an elaborate ruff and dark colored gown — Galleria Nazionale della Liguria a Palazzo Spinola, Genoa. Under sumptuary laws, women could be denounced for new and fashionable jewellery items, such as the randiglia, or metal support that propped up stylishly large ruffs, worn in this 1610 portrait, "Veronica Spinola Serra," by Guilliam van Deynum (c. 1575 – c. 1624).

History of Art and Visual Studies

Fashion police dictated gender norms in early modern Genoa

12/10/2024 A&S Communications

Sumptuary laws – designed to “control luxury clothing consumption and the social ills it could encourage” – constrained women more than they did men.

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Literary studies

In ‘Fun Home’ and other books, queer narratives rework time

12/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

In “Never On Time, But Always in Time,” Kate McCullough of the College of Arts and Sciences examines four books to explore how queer narratives focus on the body and its senses to find alternative ways of experiencing and presenting time.

Person wearing a red jacket speaks at a podium, to an auditorium full of students — Laura Gallup/Student and Campus Life Corey Ryan Earle ’07, the university’s longtime unofficial historian, speaks to a full house in his “Last Lecture” Dec. 4 in Uris Hall Auditorium.

American Studies

Learn local lore, Cornell historian Earle says in ‘Last Lecture’

12/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Lecturer Corey Ryan Earle ’07, Cornell’s unofficial historian, gave the latest installment in the Last Lecture series, which invites a respected staff member or professor to give a lecture as if it were their final one.

Government

Student spotlight: Danielle Obisie-Orlu

12/11/2024 Cornell University Graduate School

Danielle Obisie-Orlu, doctoral student in government with a focus on international relations, studies how memory and migration shape international relations and affairs under the guidance of Oumar Ba.

A wooden box covered with bees, with more in the air; Thomas Seeley in a t-shirt and glasses, holding a jar, is watching them. — Peter Essick/Provided Thomas Seeley watching a swarm take off to move to its new home.

Neurobiology & Behavior

New book explains mysteries behind bee behavior

12/12/2024 Cornell Chronicle

"The take-home message from my book is that these small creatures are extremely intelligent. They may well be the most intelligent of all the insects."

Asian studies

Poets in Japan experiment at the edge of media

12/12/2024 Cornell Chronicle

During the past century, experimental poets in Japan have been stretching the conventional definition of the genre by creating poems in unexpected places, according to a Cornell researcher.

a person with a virtual reality headset with other people watching — Simon Wheeler A students tries out a VR installation during the Art+Tech exhibit.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Exhibit highlights art/tech intersections in student work

12/16/2024 A&S Communications

The event invited undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines to display their projects at the historic A.D. White House.

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