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After the midterms, Vice President Vance "is far from finished," @cornellgov professor Doug Kriner tells @Newsweek. "He still has a strong argument to make as the leader-in-waiting of the MAGA base, which is still a major force in Republican politics."
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Congratulations to @CornellPhysics professor J.C. Séamus Davis! He won the 2026 Michael Faraday Medal & Prize from the Institute of Physics (@PhysicsNews ) for leadership in discovery and exploration of macroscopic quantum phenomena and states of matter.
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In his talk Nov. 2 in Klarman Hall, @nytimes columnist John McWhorter argued that calls for a “reset” of U.S. democracy discount the nation’s progress and the many reasons that democracy is worth saving. @CornellCAS #America250 @Columbia news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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Remembering Laura Donaldson, professor emerita in @EnglishCornell in @CornellCAS, whose research focused on religion, Native American culture and gender studies. Donaldson died Oct. 18 at age 79. news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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Martha Stewart's Halloween costume was not funny, Cornell philosopher David Shoemaker says in @USATODAY : "I can only read this attempt as unfunny mockery of the homeless. For what are they being mocked? For being homeless? Where is the funny in that?"
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In his poetry collection "The Banality of Power" (@brokensleep ), teaching professor James Byrne anatomizes the everyday mechanics of harm, tracing how cruelty becomes procedure, how violence is normalized and how authority hides in plain sight.
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Taking advantage of the opportunities a college education affords and doing what you love are important in a successful startup journey, according to Paul Graham ’86 (@paulg), founder of startup incubator @ycombinator. @CornellCAS @CornellAlumni news.cornell.edu/stories/202…
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Cornell astronomy researcher Julie Rathbun will lead the next Planetary Science Workforce survey for @AAS_Office Division of Planetary Science to learn about demographics, educational background and employment experience of the planetary science workforce.
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Congratulations to @CornellHistory professor Cristina Florea! Her book "Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland" won the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize & received hon. mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, both from @aseeestudies
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In 1969, members of Charles Manson’s “family” murdered some of Hollywood’s beautiful people. In "Love and Terror," @CornellHistory prof. Claudia Verhoeven replaces the shopworn narrative of the crimes with a kaleidoscopic history drawn from new research.
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India, the world’s most populous nation, stands at a crossroads.
In “The Indian Economy: Navigating a Global Turning Point,” @CornellEcon professor @kaushikcbasu and co-authors offer an assessment of where India stands and what it must do next.
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"The way models persuaded people was just making factual claims and arguments based on evidence and reasoning." @CornellPsychDpt professor @DG_Rand tells @CBS about finding that conversations with partisan chatbots are more effective than political ads.
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Uranium ditelluride, a material that displays two different “flavors” of superconductivity at once, @Cornellphysics researchers have found, is the leading candidate for a topological superconductor, which would allow major advances in quantum computing.
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Cornell's new Humanities, Social Sciences + AI initiative, administered by A&S, aims to meet the urgent need to understand AI’s implications for culture, governance, ethics, communication, creativity, labor & social organization.
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The A&S-led AI initiative includes a program for postdoctoral fellows; a Distinguished Visitors and AI Practitioners-in-Residence Program; and a new interdisciplinary university-wide minor, AI & Society,
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Celebrated public intellectual Francis Fukuyama ’74 has been named the inaugural Freedom and Free Societies Professor at Cornell. He will be on campus in March 2027 to teach a one-credit @cornellgov course and give a public lecture March 5.
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Mathematics is as much an expression of the human spirit as music and literature, Cornell professor @stevenstrogatz writes in @TheAtlantic. As AI solves problems and changes the field, is mathematics for the machines now?
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A new A&S course, Career BRIDGE (Building Readiness, Insight, Direction, Growth, & Experience), will help students gain professional development skills and prepare for the workforce. It will include a spring break career trek to NYC to network.
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“To succeed with AI in the workplace, you need to know how to use the AI,” Prof @PhoebeSengers told @Forbes. AI literacy learned from classes is important, but it’s most useful when combined with hands-on experience, she says.
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