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Martha E. Pollack, president of Cornell University, announced her retirement in a surprising Thursday Instagram post. “After seven fruitful and gratifying years as Cornell’s president — and after a career in research and academia spanning five decades — I’m ready for a new chapter in my life,” Pollack wrote on Instagram. “Over the next two months, as I complete my service, I will work diligently to resolve the issues we currently face, and to facilitate a smooth leadership transition,” she concluded in the post. Pollack was facing calls from Pro-Palestinian protestors to force the university t…