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New Frontier Grant

Conference explores post-Covid-19 global health biopolitics

A&S Communications

A conference May 5-7, “The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid-19,” will combine biopolitical and anthropological inquiry to spark a cross-disciplinary dialogue about (post-) pandemic discourses and practices of global health.

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Student experiences

Ask an Ambassador: Get off campus to explore Ithaca

A&S Student Ambassador

The streets of Collegetown and of Ithaca have become filled with memories for me.

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Psychology

Brain’s ‘blue spot’ key to healthy aging, early Alzheimer’s detection

Cornell Chronicle

Specialized MRI scans revealed dramatic changes over the human lifespan in the locus coeruleus, a finding that helps characterize healthy aging patterns.

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Joe Wilensky/Cornellians The hexagonal living room features cypress walls, a huge stone fireplace, and natural light.
Alumni

Alum still lives in the house Frank Lloyd Wright designed for him

Cornellians

Centenarian Roland Reisley ’46, BA ’45, an A&S physics alum, has resided in the Hudson Valley home for more than seven decades.

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Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Cornell’s 2025 Bouchet Society inductees. Back row (left to right): Don Long, Andrea Robinson, Salma Rebhi and her son, Zhuang Han, and Aspen Omapang. Front row (left to right): Jamila Walida Simon, Marguerite Pacheco, Libby Indermaur, and Belen Sotomayor
Graduate student honors

Nine inducted into Bouchet Honor Society

Cornell University Graduate School

Salma Rebhi, doctoral candidate in Romance studies, is among Cornell’s Bouchet scholars inducted at the annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Graduate Education.

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Provided A portion of this year’s Expanding Your Horizons volunteers
Graduate student research

Hundreds of grad student volunteers host conference for budding scientists

Cornell University Graduate School

Over 300 graduate students came together to offer this year’s annual Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference, putting in countless hours of volunteer work to host middle and high school students from across the state for a day of hands-on learning experiences on April 5.

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Oleksandr Zhabin/Unsplash Kyiv, Ukraine
International politics

Even if a ‘peace’ deal is reached, Russia won’t give up on Ukraine

A&S Communications

Cornell experts Bryn Rosenfeld and David Silbey comment on a 72-hour ceasefire in Ukraine starting May 8, declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin to mark the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II.

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Physics

Don Hartill, longtime physics professor, Lansing mayor, dies at 86

Cornell Chronicle

Donald Hartill, a professor of physics emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and a driving force behind decades of experimental research in particle physics, died on April 16. He was 86.

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John Wisniewski/Creative commons license 2.0 Massapequa Lake, Massapequa, New York
History

‘Self-indigenizers’ using executive bully pulpit in school mascot fight

A&S Communications

The Long Island community of Massapequa is getting support from President Donald Trump for refusing to change its school mascot from Native American imagery, despite a state mandate, a fascinating example of self-indigenization says historian Jon Parmenter

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Cornell University File Photo Nicolas van de Walle
Government

Conference on African political economy honors van de Walle

A&S Communications

“Politics, Markets, and Governance in Africa: A conference in honor of Nicolas van de Walle,” set for May 8-9, will focus on the core themes of African political economy, regimes, and modes of electoral and social participation and contestation.