As the deadline to apply for on-campus housing nears, students consider their options during a pandemic that is likely to persist into the fall.
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Professor Details Career Defending CIA Blacksite and Guantanamo Detainees, Believes Politicians Who Support Torture Can Redeem Themselves
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Prof. Joseph Margulies, government and law, considers his celebrated 16 years advocacy for the rights of CIA blacksite detainees as a “failure.”
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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | ‘Nature Nut’ Professor Studies Butterflies to Delve Deeper Into Evolution
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Prof. Robert Reed, ecology and evolutionary biology, uses butterflies as a model system to understand genetic changes and evolution.
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CORNELL CLOSE UPS | Professor Highlights Benefits of Finance, Encourages Ethics in the Field
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“Many students, perhaps, in particular in business schools, have this notion that they must follow this set path,” Prof. Hwang said. “They basically have their first five years after school mapped out. This seems dangerous.”
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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | Prof. David Gries Shares Cornell History of Programming, Reacts to Facebook Memes
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“I’m happy with [the attention]. I have nothing against that. There’s also a t-shirt now on the Slope Day.”
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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | Computer Science Passion Led Professor to Academy Award
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The professor and his colleagues are responsible for writing the code that was used to make Gollum, the animated character in The Lord of the Rings movies, look more realistic by making his skin appear more translucent. That work resulted in Marschner, as part of a team, winning a technical Oscar from the Academy Awards.
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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | Hotel Professor Brings the World to His Classroom, Takes His Classroom to the World
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“The problem in many professional schools is that you either have professors with just pure academic training or professors from the real world without any advanced academic training, so the former have trouble connecting their teaching to the real world and the latter end up telling a bunch of stories ‘war’ don’t hang together with a good theory.”
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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | Award-Winning Poet, Professor Captures ‘Spirit of Caribbean’
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“The spirit of Caribbean-ness and those kinds of things, they’re so intertwined in the psyche,” he said. “Yes, you suffer from this wound, this immense desire to want to be there, to be engaging with the physical landscape and so on and so forth — but those things are inside of you.”
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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | Professor Shares Beauty of Math with Students Traumatized by Subject
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“The goal [of the class] is not to teach a lot of hard math, but more to teach why anyone would love math, what’s beautiful about it or fun, which a lot of students have never had.”
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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | From the Olympic Village to Cornell: Dining Director Brings Innovation to C.U.
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Before coming to Cornell, Cutler found a passion for the food and beverage services, a passion that carried him through multiple professions around the world. His professional career began in the 2004 Olympic villages in Athens.
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CORNELL CLOSE-UPS | Cook House Dean Fosters Out-of-Classroom Connections
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“I study resiliency and I think it also applies to individuals,” she said. “I hope students see what it is to be a resilient individual, what it means to cope with adversity and defeat, but to do so in a way that you’re always learning from it.”