“As Roman Catholic Church leaders meet this month for the Synod on Synodality, some women—both nuns and laypeople—have been invited to join the workshop," says Kim Haines-Eitzen.
On Nov. 14, NPR’s David Folkenflik ’91, Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist, will moderate a panel of noted journalists and faculty to discuss “Free Press in a Free Society: U.S. Newsrooms on the Front Lines.”
The collaboration aims for a breakthrough in understanding the neural mechanisms by which parental animals balance their own needs with the needs of their offspring.
Environmental historian Aaron Sachs will use a combination of gallows humor, history and silly videos to show how we can shift our attitude about climate change -- and how that shift might help us get to the next stage of climate activism.
Military historian David Silbey comments on Ukrainian forces using American-supplied, long-range missiles on the battlefield for the first time.
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The paper advances understanding of life in the context of other complex evolving systems. The image shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Ana Howie used her expertise in cultures of dressing and European imperialism to uncover a story tying Genoa’s elite families to globalized material trade – and Atlantic and Mediterranean slavery.
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Chemist Song Lin
“Every time there is some major event and information is at a premium, we see misinformation spread like wildfire," says professor Gordon Pennycook.
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The collaborators who created the concert "Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind": (seated l-r) playwright Virginia Grise, novelist Helena María Viramontes, and composer Martha Gonzalez. Standing is Kendra Ware, the production's director.
Held Oct. 20-21, “Lest Silence Be Destructive" will feature readings, discussions and the first public performance of a musical album based on Viramontes' work.
N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys Limited, will offer the keynote address during an India Conference at Cornell Oct. 13-15.
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Amit Vishwas ’10, M.Eng.,’14, Ph.D. ’19, research scientist in the College of Arts & Sciences, works on the ALPACA instrument, with Donald Campbell, professor emeritus of astronomy (A&S), looking on.
Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has received a New Innovator Director’s Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
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Michelle Seneca, left, and John Whitman, right.
Grace Aiono ‘26 has been awarded this year’s Giuseppe Velli Prize by the American Boccaccio Association (ABA) for the best undergraduate student essay on the works of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Economist Jens Ludwig will explore how “big data” and AI tools help us understand and improve human decision-making.
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Stella Ocker, Ph.D. ’23 won a Brinson Prize fellowship, which she began Sept. 1 at the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California
Wang was chosen for “advancing our understanding of transcription, replication, and chromatin dynamics through the lens of DNA mechanics and topology.”
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Class photo of the 111th United States Senate inside the chamber, 2010
We need to recognize and remember the mark made by Dianne Feinstein says professor Elizabeth Sanders, but it’s also time for older politicians to begin considering the length of their careers.
The first woman to win a consecutive Southeast Asian Writers Award, Veeraporn Nitiprapha will discuss her newest novel, “Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat,” on Oct. 5.
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The Cornell University Wind Symphony performs "A Place That Is Yours" by Catherine Likhuta
Three related grants aim to understand how stem cells function to fuel normal tissue maintenance and to repair injuries in actively regenerative tissues.
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C. elegans as seen through a microscope.
Lecturer Barbara Meyer has "made exciting discoveries regarding how disruptions in proper gene expression can have dramatic consequences in organism development and health as well as impact aging and lifespan,” said faculty host Prof. Richard Cerione.
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Alexa Easley is working to develop materials for low-energy carbon capture that are organic and easy to make on large scales and in realistic conditions.
Alexa Easley is working to develop materials for low-energy carbon capture that are organic and easy to make on large scales and in realistic conditions.
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St. Hovhannes Church of Chahuk (built in the 12th or 13th century and renovated in the 17th and 19th centuries) was destroyed between 1997 and 2009, as documented in a new report from Caucasus Heritage Watch.
Faculty researchers paint a picture of what will happen if multilateral organizations fail to protect Armenian cultural heritage as Azerbaijan shells the disputed region.
Enabled by a custom thermometer, Cornell researchers have observed superfluid fluctuation effects, possibly gaining new insight for quantum computing and the physics of the early universe.
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Leonardo Medrano Sandonas of the University of Luxembourg; background image by rawpixel.com on Freepik
Graphical depiction of the rational molecular design process, which involves a “needle-in-a-haystack” search for molecules with a desired set of properties
This concept can be used to identify molecules with targeted properties, which has important implications in the fields of rational molecular design and computational drug discovery.
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Nozomi Ando running crystallography experiments at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
The Mildred Cohn Young Investigator Award recognizes Nozomi Ando's advances in diffuse scattering and her dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM.
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Brenda Schertz teaches her students American Sign Language as well as deaf history, education and cultural norms.
Students can now minor in ASL, take advantage of an expanded set of upper-level classes, participate in a number of ASL events on campus and be part of an active student club.