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Two people -- characters in a play -- stand in a field full of flowers
Cherry Arts/Provided 'Rosa and Blanca' will be performed at Ithaca’s Cherry Arts Nov. 8-17.
German studies

German studies hosts evening with ‘Rosa and Blanca’ playwright

A&S Communications

Rebekka Kricheldorf will talk about writing comedy and more with Samuel Buggeln, the play’s director and artistic director of Cherry Arts, on Nov. 12 – one of several collaborations.

Dozens of people standing on a lawn, at a public rally
Heather Mount/Unsplash A rally in Texas
Politics and philosophy

‘Violent indifference to women’ and gender stereotypes affect top ticket

A&S Communications

The results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election aren’t due to a simple dislike or distrust of women, but a reflection of America’s violent indifference to women.

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Government

A new political landscape: Hispanic voters, Trump's transactional politics

A&S Communications

With about 45% of Hispanics voting for Trump, we’re witnessing an important realignment of a group previously thought to be squarely within the coalition supporting Democratic candidates, says professor Gustavo Flores-Macías.

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Justin St. Juliana

Senior Lecturer
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Economics

Economic woes: Can Trump fix inflation?

A&S Communications

Will President Donald Trump’s policies rectify the high prices Americans are seeing? Kaushik Basu, professor of economics at Cornell, says inflation is beyond the control of the party in power and is shaped by other actors.   

Four people stand with a mascot bear
Provided The grand prize winners for the Food Hackathon pose with Touchdown the Bear after the weekend.
Entrepreneurship

Food waste solution wins top prize at hackathon

Cornell Chronicle

The hackathon included more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students from almost all of Cornell’s Ithaca campus schools and colleges.

Illustration of a sign "Fake News" on an easel
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Psychology

Could ‘inoculation’ limit election misinformation?

Cornell Chronicle

A popular strategy for combating misinformation can help people distinguish truth from falsehood – when combined with reminders to focus on accuracy, Cornell-led research finds.

Person holding an LP in front of recording equipment in a studio
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection at the UCLA Library/Creative Commons license 4.0 Quincy Jones in his studio, 1980
Music

Jones understood all art, especially Black art, is ‘political’

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Music producing legend Quincy Jones understood the political aspect of art, says Cornell music scholar.

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AlexanderAlUS/Creative Commons license 2.0 The ideal crystalline structure of graphene, a hexagonal grid
Physics

Revealing the superconducting limit of ‘magic’ material

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have identified the highest achievable superconducting temperature of graphene – 60 Kelvin. The finding is mathematically exact and is spurring new insights into the factors that fundamentally control superconductivity.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Professor David Feldshuh, center, leads rehearsal for his new play, “Orlando's Gift.”
Performing and Media Arts

New Feldshuh play premieres Nov. 1 at Schwartz Center

Cornell Chronicle

“Orlando’s Gift,” a new play written and directed by David Feldshuh, professor of performing and media arts, and inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando,” will premiere Nov. 1 at the Schwartz Center.

Jennifer Lory-Moran, in multi-colored stripped shirt and long blond hair, is smiling while standing next to the controls for the Cornell chimes up in McGraw Tower.
Cornellians Jennifer Courtley Lory-Moran ’96, MAT ’97
Alumni News

Bells Are Ringing for This Veteran Chimesmaster

Cornellians

The Cornell Chimes' advisor for nearly a quarter-century, Jennifer Courtley Lory-Moran ’96, MAT ’97, recently marked a carillon milestone.

Jenna Barnes, dressed in jeans, open sweater and t-shirt, with long brown hair, seated and smiling.
Provided Jenna Kerner Barnes ’11
Alumni News

Alum’s Firm Sells Garments Long Seen as an Oxymoron: Comfy Bras

Cornellians

At Harper Wilde, "30 Under 30" honoree Jenna Kerner Barnes ’11 offers underclothes for customers of many shapes and sizes.

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Mathematics

Mathematician Al Schatz dies at 90

Cornell Chronicle

Alfred H. Schatz, an emeritus professor of mathematics who taught at Cornell for nearly 50 years, died at home on Oct. 11 after a long bout with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University. The A.D. White House
Campus architecture

The A.D. White House: Andrew’s abode is a campus gem

Cornellians

Commissioned by Cornell’s inaugural president, the villa later became an art museum—and has long hosted a humanities group.

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Chris Kitchen Jacob Anbinder examines documents held by Cornell University Library from the archives of New York's Regional Plan Association, one of the most influential urban planning organizations of the twentieth century.
History

Klarman Fellow presents findings on housing cost history

A&S Communications

This fall, Jake Anbinder, a historian with an interest in cities and strong ties to public policy, presented two conference papers elaborating on his award-winning book project.