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Face-to-face contact with police builds trust in fledgling states

2/12/2020 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

After times of major conflict, such as the civil wars in Liberia from 1980 to 2003, peace often leaves a power vacuum, especially in remote areas not yet reached by a developing government.

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Film screening and discussion to celebrate writer Kahanoff

2/11/2020 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

Writer Jacqueline Kahanoff was born in 1917 to a French-speaking Jewish family in Cairo, and came of age intellectually in New York City and Paris.

When she settled in Israel in 1954, she brought vast cultural experience with her. She also brought an opinion, unpopular with Israel’s ruling elite, that the culture of Jews from the Eastern Mediterranean region – known as the Levant – should be celebrated alongside those from Europe.

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Yiddish course offers ‘laboratory’ for studying cultures

2/4/2020 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

"In the old world, Yiddish was the vernacular, the language of the everyday, the language of the home."

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Panel: Partisan politics, shifting powers shape impeachment

2/3/2020 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

“We’ve reached Hamilton’s and Madison’s nightmare, in that the party system has taken over the separation of powers system.”

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Arts and Sciences announces first class of Klarman Fellows

1/22/2020 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

Six of the world’s most promising early-career scholars will pursue leading-edge research projects across the sciences, social sciences and humanities during three-year terms.

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Biologist's research offers insight on molecular structures

1/14/2020 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

Elizabeth H. Kellogg, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, considers herself an explorer.

She devises and refines techniques for looking at the unmapped terrain within cells so she can discover molecular structures so small they are challenging to detect – yet essential to understanding cell function.

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Philosophy professor Manne wins book prize for ‘Down Girl’

1/6/2020 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won the 2019 American Philosophical Association’s Book Prize for her first book, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.”

The biennial prize is awarded in odd years for the best published book written by a younger philosophy scholar.

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Book provides a map for reading boundary-challenging author

12/4/2019 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

Spanish-language writer Roberto Bolaño is, at heart, “a novelist who began as a poet and never ceased wanting to be one.”

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Study reframes the history of LGBT mental health care

11/25/2019 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

"Clinical activists" in Philadelphia improvised new therapeutic approaches, guided by their own ethics and experiences.

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Struggle to save America's cities is focus of University Lecture Nov. 14

11/6/2019 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

City governments are often forced to rely on the private sector to support the public good. But it wasn’t always this way.

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Homecoming 2019: A beautiful time to be in Ithaca

10/8/2019 by : Kate Blackwood , Alumni Affairs & Development

Friends Alexandra Gutierrez ’20 and Elizabeth Farkouh ’21 had a full day on October 5, the Saturday of Cornell Homecoming 2019.

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Cornell Glee Club celebrates 150 years with 300 voices

6/14/2019 by : Kate Blackwood , Alumni Affairs & Development

Glee Club members overflowed the Bailey Hall stage, singing from sections on either side, as well.

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Peter Yarrow ’59 delights and unites in Reunion concert

6/7/2019 by : Kate Blackwood , Alumni Affairs & Development

Folk musician Peter Yarrow ’59 played solo during his Reunion 2019 concert, but his voice was not the only one filling Call Auditorium, not by a long shot.

The crowd joined Yarrow, formerly a member of the trio Peter, Paul and Mary, in several familiar tunes from the 1960s. The hour-long sing-along was based on the same theme that has driven his career: using music to make the world a better place.

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Musicians ♥ Cornell

5/13/2019 by : Kate Blackwood , Cornell Chronicle

Mary McDonald ’78 discovered her voice at Cornell.

Originally a French horn player, McDonald joined the Cornell University Chorus, the women’s vocal ensemble, during her sophomore year and won an audition for free voice lessons.

“I had never had formal voice lessons,” she says. “One day, I asked, ‘What about these notes up here?’”