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Woubshet finds poetry amid loss in the early era of AIDS

<p>Growing up in Ethiopia in the early 1980s and coming to the United States as a young teenager in 1989, Dagmawi Woubshet witnessed unprecedented expressions of mourning and loss in both countries in response to the AIDS crisis.</p>

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BIOLOGY

3-D scans of mating fruit flies uncover female biology

<p>Cornell researchers have used cutting-edge X-ray technology to noninvasively image fruit flies during and after mating.</p>

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EXOPLANETS

Astronomers create array of Earth-like planet models

<p>To sort out the biological intricacies of Earth-like planets, astronomers have developed computer models that examine how ultraviolet radiation from other planets’ nearby suns may affect those worlds, according to new research published June 10 in Astrophysical Journal.</p>

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PSYCHOLOGY

Re-examining the 'first impressions' adage

<p>What does it take to reverse a first impression? Cornell researchers were especially interested in implicit impressions – rapidly and uncontrollably activated positive and negative evaluations of others. Implicit impressions are assumed to be very difficult to revise.</p>

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LINGUISTICS

Asian, European languages not so different under the hood

<p>Editors and other language mavens have long recognized that sentences containing subject relative clauses – as in, “The man who called the woman is friendly” – are easier to understand than those containing object relative clauses, such as, “The man who the woman called is friendly.” And indeed, this observation is borne out in laboratory experiments with French, English, German and many other European languages.</p>

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PIONEERS

Two researchers awarded Department of Defense grants

<p>Cornell chemists William Dichtel and Jiwoong Park have received Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards. The highly competitive program supports research teams working in more than one traditional science or engineering discipline to accelerate breakthroughs in basic research.</p><p>This year, the DOD awarded 22 MURI grants totaling $149 million over the next five years.</p>

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CREATIVITY

Along with science, Cornellians produce science fiction, too

<p>Next time you’re in a cocktail party discussion about science fiction, you’ll have a lot to brag about. The university has produced more than its share of notables in the field, including several mainstream names.</p>

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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

To hunt and eat, bats listen for signals in prey mating calls

<p>Researchers find that bats listen in on katydid mating calls to locate their next meal.</p>

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ASTROBIOLOGY

Colorful life-form catalog helps discern if we’re alone

<p>While looking for life on planets beyond our own solar system, a group of international scientists has created a colorful catalog containing reflection signatures of Earth life forms that might be found on planet surfaces throughout the cosmic hinterlands. The new database and research, published in the March 16 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), gives humans a better chance to learn if we are not alone.</p>

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Alumni

Ruth Bader Ginsburg reminisces about her time on the Hill

During an inspiring, humorous and highly candid talk to more than 420 people Sept. 18, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shared how Cornell shaped her journey to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Graduate student life

Cornelia Ye award winners engage students with interdisciplinary teaching

Grobe, a PhD student in English language and literatures, takes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching spurred by his research focusing on documentary poetry and film.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

Polls produced by students reveal shifting attitudes

<p>Polls produced by Cornell students reveal shifting liberal attitudes.</p>

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Physics

Hawking’s black hole theorem observationally confirmed

Saul Teukolsky and other physicists at Cornell, MIT and elsewhere have confirmed Hawking's area theorem for the first time, using observations of gravitational waves.

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