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Byline: Alisha Gupta

English

Alumna honored with BBC award

A&S Communications

Christine “Xine” Yao, M.A. '13, Ph.D. '16, was named one of the 2020 BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinkers. The program, now in its 10th year, affords early career academics a platform to share their ideas via BBC Radio 3 and other outlets.  “It is an amazing opportunity to work with the BBC to share my expertise and hopefully provoke different ways of understanding the world,” Yao said.

History

Historian Margaret Washington featured in History channel, CNN programs

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Margaret Washington, the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History, was recently featured in the History Channel documentary “Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution,” and will appear in a CNN program focusing on women’s history. 

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Astronomy virtual meeting taps Kaltenegger for lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Carl Sagan Institute, will give the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture on June 1 at the American Astronomical Society virtual meeting.

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Cornell linked to three 51 Pegasi b astronomy postdocs

Cornell will have connections to three of this year’s eight winners of 51 Pegasi b Fellowships in Planetary Astronomy. Two are coming to Ithaca for three years of postdoctoral work; another is a recent Cornell graduate.

Mathematics

Ph.D. student Ellen Abrams awarded early career prize

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Ph.D. student Ellen Abrams was awarded the 2018-19 Taylor and Francis Early Career Prize from the British Society for the History of Mathematics for her essay “‘An Inalienable Prerogative of a Liberated Spirit’: Postulating American Mathematics.”

Astronomy

AAS names Kaltenegger as Fred Kavli plenary lecturer

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Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor in the astronomy department and director of the Carl Sagan Institute, will give the Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting June 1.

Government & History

Professors to teach new fall course on impeachment

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Cornell students who carefully followed President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment can now take a course on the subject matter starting in the fall. The course, taught by Joseph Margulies, a professor of government and law, and Edward Baptist, professor of history, will look at the politics and history of impeachment in the United States.

Government

‘State of the Pod’ founder Yunyun Wang ’20 named Newman Civic Fellow

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Yunyun Wang ’20, a double major in information science, systems and technology (ISST) and government, has been named a Newman Civic Fellow, an honor given by Campus Compact that “recognizes and supports community-committed students who are changemakers and public problem-solvers” according to information on its website.

English

English professor honored for book on black politics

Derrick R. Spires, associate professor of English, was awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for his book, “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.” The award, given by the Bibliographical Society of America, honors research in the bibliography of American literature and history. The award carries a prize of $2,000 and a year’s membership in the organization.

English

Bibliographical Society of America honors English professor

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Derrick R. Spires, associate professor of English, was awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for his book “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States."