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Library study honors Interim President Hunter Rawlings

3/7/2017 by : Amanda Bosworth , Cornell Chronicle

The Hunter R. Rawlings III Research Study, a bright office space overlooking the Arts Quad and Goldwin Smith Hall on the sixth floor of Olin Library, was dedicated March 3.

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Alice Fulton reveals poetic inspirations

5/2/2016 by : Amanda Bosworth , Cornell Chronicle

Poet and professor Alice Fulton describes what inspires her work.

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Scholar details emergence of police-state tactics

3/18/2016 by : Amanda Bosworth , Cornell Chronicle

We are living in a prison industrial complex, according to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the City University of New York.

Gilmore gave the American Studies Program’s annual Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture March 3 on “Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police.”

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NEH chair calls for the restructuring of academic humanities

2/25/2016 by : Amanda Bosworth , Cornell Chronicle

We are living through an “extended moment of making fun of philosophers” in America, according to National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chair William D. Adams, who spoke on the past and future of the humanities in Klarman Hall auditorium Feb. 24.

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Lecture launches Shoah Foundation archives at Cornell

11/5/2015 by : Amanda Bosworth , Cornell Chronicle

In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, neighbors killed lifelong neighbors, husbands killed wives and parents killed children. It was an intimate conflict, according to Philip Gourevitch ’86, staff writer for The New Yorker and an experienced reporter on the Rwandan genocide.

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Local Native Indian history buried in obscurity

9/21/2015 by : Amanda Bosworth , Cornell Chronicle

Ithaca is dotted with buried Native American sites, according to Kurt Jordan, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, who also has an appointment with theAmerican Indian Program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Yet these sites are incredibly difficult to comprehend because centuries of residential and commercial development has altered the landscape.

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Peter Katzenstein sees no new Cold War

9/15/2015 by : Amanda Bosworth , Cornell Chronicle

An international studies professor says the U.S. is not entering a new Cold War with Russia, but rather a Cold Peace.