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Sreang Hok/Cornell University. Early spring reading on the Arts Quad
Alumni authors

Your March 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include a debut novel and a nonfiction book about the comedy troupe Firesign Theater, both by A&S authors.

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Provided Center on Global Democracy
Government

Cornell scholars address global threats to democratic institutions

Cornell Chronicle

The Brooks School Center on Global Democracy hosted “Democratic Mobilizing: Comparative Responses to Backsliding Threats,” a hybrid event that attracted 120 participants and was streamed live from Goldwin Smith Hall on Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

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Provided Danielle Vander Horst, M.A. '19, with a collection of face pots during a 2018 research trip at the Colchester and Essex Museum, Colchester, United Kingdom
History of Art and Visual Studies

History of art staff member publishes research on face pots

A&S Communications

Danielle Vander Horst, M.A., '19 will continue her study of Romano-British face pots, pursuing a Ph.D. through Cornell's Employee Degree Program.

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Bella Wang Lipson
Alumni authors

Alumna’s book wrestles with society’s expectations of women

A&S Communications

From Kate Chopin to Maya Angelou to Shakespeare, Nicole Lipson ’98 uses literature to grapple with gender roles.

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Nareeta Martin/Unsplash Plastics bound for recycling
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Reducing plastic’s environmental impact with machine learning

Cornell Chronicle

Chemistry researchers have found ways to reduce the environmental impact of high-density polyethylene by developing a model that enables manufacturers to customize and improve those materials.

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Provided Alexander Cooper-Bohler '25 and Rutger Loof, M.A. Student, University of Amsterdam, with the freshly unearthed Hercules statue
Archaeology

A&S undergrad unearths miniature Hercules statue in Italy

A&S Communications

Each summer, CIAMS helps many Cornell students experience the thrill of archeological discovery.

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Provided Louis DiPietro
Linguistics

AI ring tracks spelled words in American Sign Language

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led research team has developed an artificial intelligence-powered ring equipped with micro-sonar technology that can continuously and in real time track fingerspelling in American Sign Language.

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ACT collaboration Part of the new image of the cosmic microwave background from ACT, that adds to Planck satellite measurements, showing the light’s vibration direction overlaid. These black polarization ‘sticks’ are used to work out how much radial-type (blue) or tangential-type (red) polarization there is around any place in the sky. This lets the team make a new image that reveals the velocity of the primordial plasma, with the blue radial-pattern showing where gas clumps are getting pulled inwards by gravity.
Cosmology

Clearest images yet of 380,000-year-old baby universe released

A&S Communications

The new results confirm a simple model of the universe and have ruled out a majority of competing alternatives, says the research team.

Eraldo Souza dos Santos,
Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow headed to Yaddo residency

A&S Communications

Eraldo Souza dos Santos will work on their next book project, “Everything Disappears,” a family memoir and meditation on the lived experience of Blackness and enslavement in modern Brazil.