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New Beebe Lake seating area honors Hu Shih

While a student at Cornell, Hu Shih 1914 imagined and later led a literary movement resulting in the adoption of a common, accessible language in China. The language reforms that emerged with Hu Shih at Cornell went on to change an entire nation. A stone bench and interpretive sign invite community members to the northwest corner of Beebe Lake, where they can learn more about Hu Shih.

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Four different autism subtypes identified in brain study

People with autism spectrum disorder can be classified into four distinct subtypes based on their brain activity and behavior, according to a study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

$9.5M to fund chronic fatigue syndrome research

A Cornell multidisciplinary research center that studies chronic fatigue syndrome has received a five-year, $9.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health – funding that will enable experts to continue work on the mysterious and debilitating condition.

Critical metal needs rise while cars, trucks decarbonize

As automobile electrification speeds up, the world faces a need for critical metals to make these vehicles possible, with high demand setting off economic snags and supply-chain hitches.

Book examines the mainline Christian ‘Worship Wars’

Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used  internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.

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Understanding history of anti-semitism can help us today

Scholar David Nirenberg is a historian of Christians, Jews and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

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Some advice for life from Barry Beck '90, Cornell’s Entrepreneur of the Year

The latest Startup Cornell podcast features Barry Beck '90, who will be honored on campus April 13-14 as this year's Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year.

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Cornell, Micron bring nanoscience to middle schoolers

For day two of Chip Camp, Liverpool Central School District students came to the university to visit the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility for a crash course in the science of the very small. 

Sociology research centerpiece of comedic video

Professor Cristobal Young, on-screen, explains how he came to the conclusion that millionaire tax flight is 99% myth. He also shreds on guitar.

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Eleven doctoral candidates lobby on Capitol Hill

Ten Graduate School doctoral candidates, joined by one student from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medicine, traveled from Ithaca and New York City to Capitol Hill for Cornell Ph.D. Student Advocacy Day on March 29.

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Ten inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

Eight doctoral candidates and two postdocs were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes scholarly achievement and promotes diversity in doctoral education.

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Novelist Kamila Shamsie to speak on history, memory

Novelist Kamila Shamsie will give a reading and lecture on Friday, April 14, at this year’s Tagore Lecture from the South Asia Program

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