Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.
The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.
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Cornell Department of Music’s Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra
By expanding access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, the Biden administration is taking an important step to expand access to healthcare for DACA beneficiaries, says professor Jamila Michener.
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World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Ajay Banga, expected to become World Bank president, could push the bank to tackle climate change more aggressively in three ways, but that each approach carries risk, says professor Richard T. Clark.
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Students in the Monuments, Museums and Memory class view work at the Johnson Museum during a class trip.
Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.
Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.
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Understanding locomotion can unveil fundamental principles of how our nervous systems generate behavior and lead to treatment for human movement disorders.
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Austin Bunn, associate professor in performing and media arts, left, talks with Scott Ferguson, middle, and MIchael Kantor, right.
“From the Big Red to the Red Carpet” featured Scott Ferguson ’82 and Michael Kantor ’83, Emmy-winning producers of HBO’s “Succession” and PBS' “American Masters” series.
Vincent Brown, the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, will deliver this year’s Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture April 17.
Nita Farahany, a scholar who focuses on ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies, will be the featured speaker for an April 12 event hosted by the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.
Government scholar Sarah Kreps: The recent hearings on Capitol Hill and ongoing debates about a TikTok ban have shown how difficult it is to balance privacy concerns with core democratic principles of free speech.
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Professor Glenn Altschuler: results of the Tuesday election will affect the future of abortion and gerrymandering and shed key insight into constituent sentiment around judicial candidates.
Government scholar Paul Lushenko: U.S. political officials have learned from the incident of a Chinese high-altitude balloon able to gather intelligence.
Featuring a unique instrumentation of trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice, loadbang headlines a week of great musical performances April 11-17.
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Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen in 2021
Government professor David Bateman: "There is no historical precedent for one of the two major parties to nominate a candidate on trial or potentially convicted."
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Soldier at the Battle of Bakhmut, Nov. 2022
Bakhmut, Ukraine, by itself is not a particularly valuable piece of land for either side, says professor David Silbey, but Ukrainian control of it prevents a more general Russian advance northwest .
Government scholar Sarah Kreps comments on today's expected appearance of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew on Capitol Hill amidst app-related national security concerns.
Research in the realm of accelerator physics focuses a lot on where you get the particles from. My group’s expertise is creating and manipulating electron beams. We’re typically interested in studying a process called photon emission by way of using light to impinge on a specially engineered material that will emit electrons when illuminated. My group are experts in generating high brightness electron beams via photoemission, using light to generate electrons.
I joined the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2005. The project then was already in the middle of construction and primarily I worked on the pixel detector and getting that ready for data taking, which started in 2010. But already I was thinking about what we want to do in the future. So I got involved with the H luminosity LHC upgrade, the next major upgrade of the facility at CERN that will allow us to take data at a rate that is in order of magnitude higher than what we have been doing so far. Starting about 2014, we really started seriously to make the plans for this work which had been listed as the highest priority project for the LHC upgrades.
As a graduate student in Germany at a national research lab, students weren’t allowed to do many thing for themselves. My advisor sent me to Cornell for six months to learn how to do things. In Newman Lab, the students do everything – how to use the clean room, how to solder, etc. So after I finished my PhD I came back to Newman Lab and Cornell.
The psychology researcher is “one of the most prominent international contemporary scholars in the field of the cognitive and cultural foundations of language.”
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From left, Jack Donnellen, Aindri Patra, Shuqian Lyu and Alexander Burnett are four of the newest members of the Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program.
The destruction of replicated European sculpture collections can tell us as much as their creation.
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Manipulating the properties of atomic material helps Paul Malinowski understand the fundamental physics of how different quantum phases develop and are related to each other.
A world expert at using mechanical strain to precisely manipulate the properties of materials, Malinowski is particularly interested in superconductors.
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Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras
Government professor Kenneth Roberts: Extensive trade and investment relations has established China as an increasingly important economic power in Central America.
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High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is ubiquitous in single-use applications such as packaging and containers, labeled with the number two inside the triangular recycling symbol.
Making Plastics Sustainable
Over 100 pounds of plastic is produced every year for every person on the planet. If we keep going like this, by 2050 there could be more plastic by weight in the ocean than fish. Cornell researchers are at the forefront of developing sustainable plastics and innovative ways to recycle the plastics we already have.
On March 28, Andy Warner ’06, author of the memoir "Spring Rain" and several other books, will explore the power of graphic media to tell true stories.
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From Howard Eugene Stern, class of 1917
Hübner's winning article from the Journal of the History of Philosophy gives a new reading of Spinoza’s claim that minds and bodies are “one and the same thing.”
Astrophysicist Wendy L. Freedman will describe the current state of cosmology and her work with the Hubble Space Telescope that has led to some of the most precise measurements of the Hubble constant made to date.
