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The Cornell Way to Latke

By Sarah Austin | December 9, 2019

With the first snow of the season comes the thoughts of Christmas. With Christmas comes eggnog, gingerbread cookies and yule logs. This year, we don’t just get one holiday on December 25th, but we get Hanukkah, too: the Jewish Festival of Lights. In addition to Christmas trees and string lights illuminating the windows of households all around the world, there will be hanukiot, the traditional lamps lit on every night of Hanukkah in the window sills as well. Christmas may have monopolized the flavor game with peppermint and gingerbread, but add something new to your holiday palate: a Hanukkah latke.

Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company Reminds Us of The Specialness of Ithaca’s Music Scene

After months of deliberations, Ithaca's Common Council passed the 2020 budget last Wednesday, which calls for a modest property tax increase and a $34,000 provision of funds for the "Green New Deal."

Ithaca Common Council Passes 2020 Budget

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New 'Terminator' Predestines Its Own 'Dark Fate'

The Flu Blues: Influenza and Vaccines

Cornell's Rockefeller Hall, often a hub of literary talks.

Grad Student Explores Race, Gender of Classic Shakespeare in Thesis Workshop

By John Yoon | November 14, 2019

“It’s been interesting to be a grad student at a time when the field’s stance on whether race is a proper analytic for the Renaissance has been shifting so drastically,” Kim said.

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A Look at Past Cornell-Affiliated Nobel Prize Laureates: How their Legacy will Inspire Generations of Scientists to Come

By Tamara Kamis and Louis Chuang | October 9, 2019

In light of the announcement of the 2019 Nobel Laureates, we highlighted 3 of the 50 Cornell faculty and alumni, past and present, who have been awarded Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Physiology and Medicine.

Football

Cornell will take the field for Homecoming at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Scouting Georgetown: Traditionally an Ivy Punching Bag, Hoyas Won’t Be Easy This Time Around

By Luke Pichini | October 3, 2019

Georgetown enters Saturday’s game on a three-game win streak.

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Red Dominates Siena in Narrow One-Goal Win

By Ken Choi | September 25, 2019

Cornell men’s soccer took a total of 29 shots throughout a commanding 90 minutes on Tuesday, yet junior midfielder Harry Fuller’s precise penalty in the eleventh minute was all that mattered in a 1-0 win against Siena College at Berman Field.

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Big Red Hacking For a 5th Year and Beyond!

By Caroline Chang | September 23, 2019

Sixty-seven teams representing Cornell and other universities such as Princeton and Binghamton came together to brainstorm and develop projects ranging from website applications to hardware prototypes that centered around this year’s theme of “Community Superheros.”

communication

Cornell’s Social Media Lab Develops Social Media Education Program for Adolescents

By Adam Wang | September 23, 2019

The program consists of several modules, each of which covers a specific issue in social media. Some of them, such as “How to Be an Upstander,” which deals with cyberbullying, aim to teach students certain actions that they could take to play positive roles online. Other modules, such as “Is It Private Information?” teach students how to protect their personal information.

Ithaca

One Suspect Apprehended, One at Large in Green Street Parking Garage Shooting

By Sarah Skinner and Maryam Zafar | September 4, 2019

Acting Ithaca Police Department Chief Dennis Nayor told reporters that there is nothing that would indicate any current public threat. The shooter and suspect are both male, Nayor said. The suspect has been taken into custody and the victim was transported via ambulance.

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Doris Duke Scholars: The Future of Environmental Conservation Leadership

By Tamara Kamis | August 13, 2019

Under the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program, students spend their first summer conducting independent research projects and their second summer doing paid internships.

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America Reacts to Toni Morrison’s M.A. ’55 Death: Throughout Her Life, Morrison’s Work Moved Cornellians and The Nation

By Maryam Zafar | August 6, 2019

Here, The Sun collected responses to Morrison’s influence, featuring statements by former President Barack Obama, professors who worked with her and the students who studied Morrison’s work in Goldwin Smith Hall — where she, too, studied over sixty years ago.

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Bill Nye ’77 Tells Cornell University Class of 2019 to Change the World

By Alex Hale | May 26, 2019

Nye told graduates of Cornell University’s class of 2019 that this time was the most exciting time of human history. In a speech littered with science jokes and references to his eponymous show, Nye touched on everything from climate change to education for women.