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In the first round of Brazil’s elections Oct. 2, former leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva face off against right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro; Cornell government professors react.
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Faculty and journalist experts considered the consequences of the ongoing conflict during “Aftershocks: Geopolitics Since the Ukraine invasion."
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The researchers will conduct public opinion surveys on how governments respond when asteroids and comets threaten cities, countries, or at the extreme, even the entire earth.
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Cornell faculty reflect on what will happen after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Ann Simmons, Moscow bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, and Mark Landler, London bureau chief for the New York Times, join Professors Peter Katzenstein and Jessica Chen Weiss for the Sept. 22 Arts Unplugged event.
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This year, 15 new faculty are bringing innovative ideas in a wide range of topics to the College of Arts & Sciences’ nexus of discovery and impact, including climate change, astronomy, identity studies and the economy.
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Klarman Fellows pursue research in any discipline in the College, including natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and the creative arts as well as cross-disciplinary fields. The application deadline is October 14.
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Two students in the College explored legal careers this summer thanks in part to grants from the Humanities Scholars Program.
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Assistant Professor Bryn Rosenfeld’s book, "The Autocratic Middle Class," has won the 2022 Best Book Award from the APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section, an Organized Section of the American Political Science Association and an honorable mention for the 2022 William Riker Award for the best book in political economy published in the past two years from the APSA Political Economy section.
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