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Pollack encourages voter registration

President Martha E. Pollack outlines voting resources available to the entire community prior to New York state’s deadline to register on Oct. 9.

Filmmaker Jeff Palmer tells Native Americans’ untold stories

Emmy-nominated filmmaker Jeffrey Palmer, assistant professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, tells Native Americans’ untold stories while pushing the limits of documentary film.

Fauci: Controlling coronavirus is ‘within our grasp’

As part of StayHomecoming, Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D. ’66, spoke with NBC News journalist Kate Snow ’91 in a virtual discussion that ranged from the search for a COVID-19 vaccine to Fauci’s experience battling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

Hayes, Lunine to chair Planetary Science 10-year survey panels

Cornell astronomy professors Alex Hayes and Jonathan Lunine have been named chairs for two of the six panels for the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032.

Physicist Teukolsky wins biennial Einstein Prize

Saul Teukolsky, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won the American Physical Society’s 2021 Einstein Prize for outstanding achievement in gravitational physics.

Site empowering student voters wins ‘Pitch for the People’

Voteology, a site helping students assess where their vote will have the most impact, won the inaugural Pitch for the People, a virtual competition focused on the humanities and social sciences.

Coors forum highlights free speech in age of ‘cancel culture’

Journalist Masha Gessen and linguist John McWhorter discussed free speech in the age of cancel culture as part of The Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series, Oct. 1.

A&S webinar Oct. 19 to discuss polling and its impacts

In “Between the Polls: How Voters Decide,” a webinar scheduled for Oct. 19 at 7 p.m., a panel of experts will examine how we learn about voters and their decisions and how those data drive election forecasts.

Nutrition professor wins $3.5M award from NIH

Shu-Bing Qian, a professor of molecular nutrition whose work explores how genetic information gets translated in order to make proteins in cells, has won a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award. 

Dark Laboratory to amplify Black, Indigenous voices

Dark Laboratory, a “humanities incubator” for storytelling with a special focus on Black and Indigenous voices in the Ithaca area, will go public Oct. 12 with a virtual gathering and website launch.

Seven postdocs honored with achievement awards

Seven postdoctoral researchers at Cornell were honored with a Postdoc Achievement Award as part of Cornell’s celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, Sept. 21-25.

Grant will help researchers prevent apple fire blight in US

A $779,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food Agriculture will help Cornell researchers prevent fire blight disease in apples and pears before it starts.