It can be demoralizing for a person to work in a climate of repetitive skepticism and doubt about what they know, a new study shows.
“I’m not talking about healthy, well-founded skepticism. I’m talking about failures-of-exchange when a person is persistently overlooked, unheard, brushed off and explained to,” said Laura Niemi, assistant professor of psychology in the College of Arts…
President Biden has announced plans to triple the rates of tariffs on steel and aluminum from China amid pressure from labor unions concerned about the survival of the U.S. steel industry amid Chinese competition.
Allen Carlson is an associate professor of government at Cornell University, and an expert on Chinese foreign policy. Carlson says it’s crucial to note that President Biden…
Of the 300 Iranian missiles and drones launched against Israel on Saturday, nearly all were shot down well before reaching Israeli territory.
David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University where he specializes in military history and defense policy. Based on the evidence, he says the Iranian attack seemed designed more for show, than an attempt to actually inflict…
Whether life exists anywhere besides Earth is a burning question that, at long last, may soon be answered.
The clues we find on exoplanets could be as strange as a bioluminescent glow or a rainbow hue, as astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger describes in her accessible new book, “Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos.”
The director of the Carl Sagan Institute (CSI) and…
… & Sciences Career Development will celebrate the Class of 2024 during its second annual senior celebration, April 25, … in your journey. … Career development senior celebration (2024) … April 25 event celebrates class of 2024 …
Physicist Keefe Mitman, selected as an Einstein Fellow in the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, has chosen to do his research at Cornell University, working with Nils Deppe, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S).
The Hubble Fellowship Program enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA…
“The world begins at a kitchen table,” poet laureate Joy Harjo wrote.
Inspired by this line, a kitchen table appears at the center of a live dance performance – which is paired with an exhibition of dance-related visual art – April 25-27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Student-artists will reimagine the Kiplinger Theater in the evening-length work, titled “This table has…
Ukraine parliament passed a bill on Thursday overhauling mobilization rules. It must be signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky before it becomes law.
David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University specializing in military history, defense policy and battlefield analysis.
Silbey says: “Ukraine’s recent bill changing the rules of mobilization is both a sign…
The Klezmatics, world-renowned klezmer performers from New York City’s East Village, are coming to the Cornell Concert Series. Their concert takes place Sat., April 13 at 7:30 pm in Bailey Hall.
The Klezmatics’ music is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while also incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and antifundamentalism, and…
Richlove Nkansah ’26 was buzzing with excitement the week before spring break – she had just launched her business and was headed to California to pitch it to a group of Silicon Valley Cornell alumni and entrepreneurs.
Nkansah is the co-founder, with Harmony Prado ’24, of CultureCare, a digital platform for BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color) therapists to manage their practice and…
The room on the Kiplinger Theatre stage is paneled in wood and faded yellow-green floral wallpaper. The lamps, beige and dim, barely disturb the shadows dominating every corner. Old family photos march up the wall. A taxidermy deer head gazes down upon a mustard yellow couch draped with a crocheted color-block throw. The stairs, carpeted in gray shag, look as though they might creak under the…
The newly assembled Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), nearly the size of a five-story building, was unveiled April 4 at an event in Xanten, Germany, attended by numerous German municipal officials – as well as Fred Young, himself.
“It is especially pleasing to participate in what is a celebration of the result of 20-some years of involvement in the creation of this significant…
Two Cornell seniors have been selected as junior fellows of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and will spend next year conducting research with the organization in Washington, D.C.
McKenzie Carrier ’24, a government and Spanish major in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Margot Treadwell, ’24, a student in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, will both be assigned to…
The April 8 solar eclipse was “definitely life-changing,” said Emma Linscomb ’27, a member of Cornell’s Society of Physics Students.
“Experiencing it with a bunch of other people was such a special thing,” she said, “especially people you go to school with.”
Linscomb was one of more than 400 students who rode in eight charter buses filled with Cornellians to Rochester, New York, to…
There are two more opportunities this semester to delve deeply into science through the art of film at Cornell Cinema in the College of Arts & Sciences.
The last two showings of the cinema’s “Science on Screen” initiative will include:
Worlds Collide – "Particle Fever," CLASSE, and the Future of Particle Physics, with post-doc Xuan Chen, Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based…
“Any poem, any language” is the theme of “Sweet Poetry,” the Language Resource Center’s (LRC) second annual celebration of National Poetry Month. Sweet Poetry will be on Wed., April 17, from 5-7 p.m. in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall.
During the event, tasty treats will be served while Cornell community members offer live poetry recitations in multiple languages. The event booklet,…
Former National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley '69 will explore “U.S. National Security Policymaking and the Future of U.S.-China Relations” in a fireside chat on Wednesday, April 17, with Jessica Chen Weiss, the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the government department in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is also a faculty member in the Cornell Jeb E…
Today, Kiss announced that it has sold its catalog, name and likeness to Pophouse Entertainment Group. Specific plans for Kiss’ avatars has not yet been revealed, but Pophouse teased that fans can look forward to a variety of entertainment.
Benjamin Piekut, professor of music at Cornell University, says the recordings can be endlessly reconfigured to bring Kiss to life for new audiences.
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NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik ’91 will lead a panel discussion on the role of dissenting writers in Russia, China, Belarus and elsewhere in a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Journalist program on April 17.
“Dissident Writers: A Conversation" will feature Folkenflik in conversation with Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America; and Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort,…
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Magnus Fiskesjö, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences, recently updated the Uyghur bibliography he began in 2017. The bibliography is hosted by the Uyghur Human Rights Project, "one of the most active and well-known organizations dedicated to the issue," he says.
Since 2017, the Chinese government has imprisoned more than one million Uyghurs in China's far…
While Florida’s Supreme Court ruling on Monday allowed the state to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, in a separate decision released on the same day, the justices said that a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to an abortion could go on the November ballot.
Landon Schnabel, a professor at Cornell University, studies inequality, how it changes…
Cólm Tóibín, the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, will visit campus April 11 to deliver the Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading, part of the Spring 2024 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series in the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts & Sciences. The reading will feature works by Irish and Irish American writers.
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The video game industry is grappling with existential questions — how will AI affect game production and creation? Will massive consolidation (and layoffs) alter the work culture? How can the industry handle an exponential growth in audience base, and what will be the effects of industry regulations?
With a lifelong love of video games and a decades-long career in tech, business, and gaming,…
Azahara Oliva, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the international Suffrage Science Award for Life Sciences in 2024. Launched on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, the award aims to “create a self-perpetuating cohort of talent that can encourage others to enter science and reach senior leadership roles,” said…
Nora Brown, Ph.D. ’23, is an alumna of the genetics, genomics, and development doctoral program at Cornell, during which she was co-advised by Mariana Wolfner and Andrew Clark. She is now a postdoc at MIT.
What was your research focus at Cornell?
My thesis work was focused on understanding the function and evolution of a major class of male reproductive proteins called seminal fluid…
Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture in the Department of Classics and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, will deliver the Townsend Lectures in the Department of Classics at Cornell on April 10, 12 and 15.
Since 1985, the Prescott W. Townsend Memorial Fund has supported annual lectures given by scholars of international reputation…
Applications for the Cornell Summer Experience Grant are open and students should apply here by April 15.
“We provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions,” said Jennifer Maclaughlin, director of career development for the College of Arts & Sciences, adding that a total of $500,000 is available for A&S…
Cornell faculty and alumni took part in a wide-ranging discussion focused on nationalism around the world during a March 26 New York City event featuring NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik ’91, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts & Sciences.
The event, held at Cornell’s ILR Conference Center on Lexington Avenue, featured Mabel Berezin, the…
In the wake of the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the port city’s role as the second largest exporter of American coal has come into clear focus. With coal exports expected to be snarled for more than a month, coal shipping executives are eager for a return to business as usual.
But residents who have experienced effects of the transport and storage of coal in…
Theda Skocpol, Harvard scholar and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell, will present the public lecture “Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy – Roots and Responses” on April 9 at 4 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
The event is part of Skocpol’s A.D. White Professors-at-Large (ADW-PAL) visit April 8-12 and is co-sponsored by the Department of Government. She was elected in…
The “butterfly effect” was in full bloom on March 14-15 as campus and community members celebrated the environmental and literary legacies of former Cornell professor Vladimir Nabokov.
The celebrations began with a packed crowd listening to a March 14 talk celebrating the opening of Cornell University Library’s “From Nabokov’s Net” exhibit in Mann Library. Events continued on March 15 with a…
Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has been awarded a MIND Prize (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery) from the Pershing Square Foundation. The Foundation’s announcement said that the prize aims to “change the paradigm of neuroscience research by creating a community of next-frontier thinkers who can uncover a deeper understanding of the brain and cognition.” The seven 2024…
Every time Shiqi Lin traveled back home to China on breaks from college in the U.S., she was sure to pack two things: her phone and a sound recorder.
Armed with these digital tools, she would walk through teeming neighborhoods bustling with new construction to archive disappearing landscapes and interview people whose lives had been upended by China’s massive drive toward urbanization.
“I…
The Cornell and Ithaca communities can see a unique blend of mime and mathematics during two days of events planned by the Cornell Department of Mathematics to celebrate April as Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM). The math-themed events and speakers are scheduled on April 19 and 20.
The MAM Public Lecture will feature Tim Chartier, the Joseph R. Morton Professor of Mathematics and…
As a government and Africana studies double major, Alec Giufurta ’21 pursued a wide range of coursework as a Cornell student, but his passions always focused on public service. This passion still motivates him as a first-year student at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. A great deal of what he loved about his time at Cornell matches what he loves about Berkeley Law.
“The…
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“I want you to remember a time when you were in a setting where you felt like you didn’t belong. I want you to remember how you felt in that setting, maybe isolated or out of place, and how much you felt like you wanted to continue going back to that setting—probably not much. These feelings are all too familiar for undergraduate women pursuing their studies in science, and in physics…
Mary Mulvanerton, long-time department manager for the Department of Astronomy and associate director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS), passed away on March 6 at the age of 64, after an extended illness. She’s being remembered by friends and colleagues as a mentor, advisor, friend and fierce advocate for the work of the department.
"Mary was a…