鈥淧enumbra,鈥 is comprised of two dance pieces: 鈥渟eemingly perfect, radiant鈥 by faculty member Danielle Russo, assistant professor of the practice in performing and media arts (A&S) and 鈥淪ociety鈥 by guest choreographer Babatunji Johnson.
鈥淭he law is consistent with a dramatic recent policy shift, to suppress the ethnic diversity formally recognized since 1949," says one Cornell expert. "The next step may be the formal abolishment of 鈥榚thnic minorities.鈥"
New York Times White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs will share insights about his work covering immigration, homeland security, criminal justice and inequality in an event March 17 with Dean Peter John Loewen.
Use of Christian apocalyptic language by commanders reflects a climate shaped from the top down, says one Cornell expert. Another adds: the belief that Christians should actively bring about the end times rests on a misreading of the Book of Revelation.
Iran鈥檚 retaliation to the intensifying war may be swift, but the longer-term risks lie in how prolonged fighting could strain U.S. defenses and tempt rivals like China.
Presidents typically seek approval from Congress for prolonged military actions as an opportunity to convince the American public and cultivate buy-in from members, says professor David Bateman, but this administration couldn鈥檛 care less.
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The Pentagon, headquarters of the US Department of Defense
鈥淚t鈥檚 striking that Anthropic appears caught off guard by how its model is being used," says government professor Sarah听Kreps,听director of Cornell鈥檚 Tech Policy Institute.
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For the ancient Greeks, an image could be understood as a seal pressed on a material to leave a mark, as opposed to an inferior imitation (mim膿sis), scholar Verity Platt argues in a new book.
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A pro-Ukraine protest in London's Trafalgar Square
On听the fourth anniversary听of Russia鈥檚听full-scale invasion听of Ukraine, what鈥檚 notable is the lack of change in the last year, says David Silbey, a professor at Cornell University who specializes in military history and defense policy.
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H茅ctor Abru帽a, the 脡mile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频.
The Gustavus John Esseln Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society honors outstanding achievement in scientific and technical work that contributes to public well-being.
Masi Asare of Northwestern University and arts journalist Billy McEntee have been named winners of the 2024-25 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
Scholar of law Philippe Sands will give the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture in History on March 5, considering "Lessons from History and Literature, from Nuremberg to Pinochet and Beyond.鈥
The Department of Music is honoring the late Steven Stucky, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and beloved Cornell professor, with a series of concerts.
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Prof. Alexander Livingston talks with Upward Bound students over winter break during a pilot of the new summer program for high school students.
The new book explores what happened to 鈥渕ixed blood鈥 children born to Japanese women and foreign soldiers.
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Paul Chelimo, USA (left) and Mo Farah, Great Britain, medalists in the men's 5,000 meter run, Rio Olympic Games
China's criticism of the United Kingdom鈥檚 move to expand its British National (Overseas) visa pathway for Hong Kong residents illustrates how governments courting Beijing, amid frustration with Washington鈥檚 volatility, can find engagement with China difficult to manage.
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Andrew C. Weislogel, the interim chief curator at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, shows students a piece depicting staffage in an early scene of New York Harbor.
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A new student-led installation at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art explores the role of 鈥渟taffage" figures.
Released on Feb. 6 via Na茂ve Records, Hamasyan's album "Manifeste" marks a new chapter for one of the most visionary artists working at the intersection of jazz, progressive rock, and global music.
Ol煤f茅mi T谩铆w貌, professor of Africana studies, shares insight into Nigeria鈥檚 President Bola Tinubu's deployment of an army battalion to central Kwara state after suspected jihadist fighters killed at least 170 people on Tuesday night, hours after the United States said it had a small number of troops in the country.
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Three Arts Quad buildings: Klarman Hall, Lincoln Hall and Sibley Hall
In the public lecture culminating the Black History Month series, Blain will trace how Black women from Ida B. Wells to contemporary Black Lives Matter leaders have used the language and practice of human rights to confront racism and white supremacy.
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The first artist to win Album of the Year with a Spanish鈥憀anguage album, Bad Bunny reflects the mainstreaming of Spanish language music and artistry, says professor Karen Jaime.
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Students and alumni met for a summer networking event June 26 in New York City.
Rooted in the Afro-AmerIndian heritage of communities along the Caribbean coasts of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, Garifuna music blends West African rhythms, indigenous Carib influences and the Arawak language.
From midcentury melodramas to speculative visions of technology and the human body鈥攁nd even a French coming of age story about crafting world class cheese鈥擟ornell Cinema鈥檚 spring season offers a varied plate.
While market movements have been modest so far, they signal declining trust in the ability or willingness of future FOMC members to achieve the Fed's inflation objectives, says Cornell economist Ryan Chahrour.
A leading proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to moral psychology exploring questions of character, virtue and agency, John Doris writes about a movement to inform moral philosophy with psychological research, as well as the other way around.
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Mendi and Keith Obadike
The Obadikes have exhibited and performed their interdisciplinary work at The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.听Their projects include four books, two albums, and a series of large-scale public sound artworks.
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Danielle Russo in her studio at Yaddo
During her Yaddo residency, Danielle Russo developed a dance piece, enriching the work by drawing on ideas of ritual movement, personal memories and family history, and more.
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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds a meeting of the Population Strategy Headquarters
Prof. Kristin Roebuck comments on the plans of Japan鈥檚 Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to dissolve parliament next week and call a snap election.
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Artist鈥檚 concept of NASA鈥檚 Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from exoplanets鈥 atmospheres 鈥 worlds beyond our solar system 鈥 and their stars.
Tasked with studying exoplanet systems around small stars, the refrigerator-sized satellite is the first in NASA鈥檚 Astrophysics Pioneers program 鈥 small-scale missions designed to train early-career scientists, including Trevor Foote, Ph.D. 鈥24, a former member of the research group led by faculty member Nikole Lewis.
With the 2026 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize, the American Astronomical Society recognizes Anna Y. Q. Ho鈥檚 pioneering investigations of extreme explosions powered by stellar death.
A Cornell historian and military expert doubts a NATO military response to the US annexation of Greenland would not happen, Despite tough talk from European leaders.
Tiktok has signed a deal to spin off its U.S. business, but it remains unclear how effectively the new framework will address the initial national security threat concerns, says government professor Sarah Kreps.
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Record album cover: Songs in Flight
Based on poems by A&S alumna Tsitsi Ella Jaji, M.A. 鈥06, Ph.D. 鈥08, the songs by Shawn Okpebholo bring to life individual stories preserved by the Cornell-based Freedom on the Move project.
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Cornell chemists have found a way to encapsulate a molecule鈥檚 quantum mechanical information so they can feed that 鈥 rather than simpler structural information 鈥 into ML algorithms, providing up to 100 times more accuracy than the current most popular method
Gratitude not only makes you feel good, but it helps you live up to your best self and be a better member of society, psychology professor Thomas Gilovich has found.
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From left, Wilson Kan, Marian Caballo and Reya Babu are all graduating this December.
Thailand and Cambodia have long had fraught relations, professor Tom Pepinsky says after Thailand鈥檚 military launched air strikes along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
Scholars converged at Cornell to talk about lessons policymakers and elected officials could glean from their research into the COVID pandemic to help deal with the next public health emergency.
鈥淐hile's vibrant democracy faces a new challenge in a highly polarized second-round presidential election" Dec. 14, says Ken Roberts, professor of government.
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Caitie Barrett, an archaeologist who investigates everyday life, doing field work in Pompeii in summer 2025
Based on a 2018 conference co-organized by Caitie Barrett, professor of classics, and Jennifer Carrington, Ph.D. 鈥19, the book focuses on houses and households during a period when Egypt was ruled by Greeks and then by Romans.
Legal scholar Gail Heriot will describe a chain of unintended consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 in her talk "Why We Walk on Eggshells," Dec. 8.
The leaked peace initiative, which would allegedly require Kyiv to surrender territory and significantly reduce the size of its army and some types of weaponry, is largely an attempt to put pressure on Zelensky, says David Silbey.
Coordinated efforts across Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments "test whether American public schools belong equally to all families鈥攐r whether some families' faith gets privileged by law while others' gets diminished by the state.鈥
Japan鈥檚 refusal to retract remarks about military intervention if China moved to seize Taiwan has left relations between the two countries the worst they've been in a decade, says Allen Carlson, associate professor of government.
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C茅cile McLorin Salvant at the 2025 Ljubljana Jazz Festival
Salvant, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and three-time Grammy Award winner, is an artist celebrated for bringing historical depth, dramatic flair, and exceptional musical insight to jazz standards and original works.
President Prabowo鈥檚 decision to confer the title underscores how Suharto鈥檚 legacy continues to shape Indonesian politics today, says a Cornell government professor who studies political and economic systems in Southeast Asia.
The novel, published anonymously in 1605, is "a very funny critique of court life that resonates for anyone dealing with very hierarchical institutions in which the exercise of power is often inscrutable and seemingly random,鈥 says professor Kathleen Perry Long.
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John Reppy above Barrowdale in the English Lake District
John Tomasi, the inaugural president of Heterodox Academy, will speak on 鈥淭he University at a Crossroads 鈥 and How We Can Build Cultures of Open Inquiry鈥 as part of a series of events organized by the Provost鈥檚 Committee on the Future of the American University.
The two-day event features performances of Farrenc鈥檚 chamber music on historical instruments, a reimagining of the salon culture in collaboration with the Johnson Museum of Art, and scholarly presentations.
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鈥淲oods workers鈥 posing with a large crane near Carson, Louisiana, 1920.
Klarman Fellow Kendall Artz wants to push beyond the assumption 鈥 one replicated by scholars 鈥撎齮hat company rosters and state records hold all there is to know about racial expression.
Stacey Langwick, associate professor of anthropology in the 麻豆视频 & 麻豆视频, will speak on "Healing in a Toxic World: Reimagining the Times and Spaces of the Therapeutic."
Seiberg, professor in the School of Natural 麻豆视频 at the Institute for Advanced Study, will explore string theory and other aspects of scientific progress.
Author and historian Kevin Baker will examine the paradox at the heart of modern American sports: while there are more games and sports than ever before, access has become increasingly limited and costly.
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Book cover: Within the Shop of the Divine
A Saint Anthony statue that glows in the dark lights the way into poems that connect people beyond death, visit holy sites, consider Satanic bargains and consult astrology.
鈥淭he Future of Language Advocacy鈥 on Nov. 15 will feature Cornell Translator Interpreter Program founders Fatema Sumar 鈥01 and alumna Joyce Muchan 鈥97.
If Trump allies exceed expectations during Nov. 4 elections, despite his disapproval ratings, it will be a sign that Republicans can still benefit from Democrats鈥 continued unpopularity.
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Fence with warning signs, rural Idaho
Where and how the tests will happen are important questions, says military historian David Silbey, as last confirmed nuclear test by the United States was in 1992.
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Molecular biology and genetics
Cornell has won three of 15 major grants from the Bezos Earth Fund, awarded to leverage artificial intelligence in the fight against climate change and environmental challenges.
In "Domestic Nationalism," Chiara Formichi argues that during the 1920s to 1950s, Indonesian women鈥檚 domestic activities contributed to nation-building as a political project.
The loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits November 1 if the government shutdown holds benefits will have profound repercussions for democracy, says government scholar Jamila Michener.
Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate Nov. 6.
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