Three Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and authors will be on campus Dec. 1 to talk about their work covering immigration, an event hosted by the Distinguished Visiting Journalist program in the College of Arts & Sciences.
"Move: An Urgent Conversation with Award-winning Immigration Journalists and Authors" will feature journalists Sonia Nazario, Nadja Drost and moderator Molly O’Toole…
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Xi giving a speech at the U.S. Department of State in 2012, with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then Vice-President Joe Biden in the background. Seated in the front row is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold a virtual summit on Monday evening amid rising tensions between the countries.
Allen Carlson is an associate professor of government and expert on U.S.-China relations. He said a flurry of diplomatic pleasantries is unlikely to extend to the three most contentious and intractable issues between the U.S. and China.
“Many…
A new book, “Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern” (Cornell University Press), co-edited by a Cornell professor, explores what gender might have been before modern medicine, the anatomical sciences, and the modern division of gender difference into a binary form.
“The book is a collection of essays about trans, nonbinary and gender-complicated people across a broad geographic…
Mathematicians who study dynamical systems often focus on the rules of attraction. Namely, how does the choice of the starting point affect where a system ends up? Some systems are easier to describe than others. A swinging pendulum, for example, will always land at the lowest point no matter where it starts.
In dynamical systems research, a “basin of attraction” is the set of all the starting…
For his work developing new, more efficient ways of manipulating the magnetization in magnetic materials, F.R. Newman Professor of Physics Daniel C. Ralph has been awarded the 2022 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society (APS).
The McGroddy Prize recognizes outstanding work in the science and application of new materials, including the discovery of new…
ONEcomposer has begun a second season of celebrating the work of composers who have been historically erased, this year focusing on the life and legacy of Margaret Bonds.
Bonds has close ties to the composer featured last year, Florence B. Price. When the Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered her Symphony in E minor in 1933, Price became the first Black woman to have her music performed by a…
The son of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, will visit campus Nov. 9 for a film screening and discussion of “The Foreigner’s Home,” a documentary based on Morrison’s monthlong guest-curated 2006 series of cultural events at the Louvre.
Ford Morrison, the novelist’s son and co-producer of the film, will join in a discussion after the screening with Dominique Bourgois, editor of Toni Morrison’s French…
The newly released “Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s,” a decadal survey from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, identifies scientific priorities, opportunities, and funding recommendations for the next ten years of astronomy and astrophysics.
A quarter of the faculty from the Department of Astronomy in the College of Arts and…
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Ethiopia highlighted on map of African continent.
The yearlong war in Ethiopia appears to be escalating. The government has declared a national state of emergency as rival forces threaten to move on the capital, and on Nov. 3 the findings of a human rights investigation in the blockaded Tigray region will be released.
Oumar Ba, assistant professor of government in the College of Arts & Sciences, studies law, violence, race, humanity, and…
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Marylynn Salmon, right, staged this photo as a joke with a male friend in 1972, to highlight their very different reading materials.
As an undergrad, Marylynn Salmon ’74 sometimes found herself bored or distracted in classes, but she was never bored in Professor Mary Beth Norton’s Racism and Sexism in American History class.
“How much more fun it is to discuss Nancy Shippen’s mother-in-law than the Yalta Conference,” Salmon wrote in her diary from that year. “I’m afraid that I’ll never be an intellectual, but rather…
A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony, open to the public, and a talk open to members of the Cornell community. These events are the sixth in a series of Arts Unplugged events sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Marsalis, famed jazz trumpeter,…
Ella Maria Diaz, associate professor of English and Latino/a Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, won gold medals in the categories of Best Biography - English and Best Arts Book in the 23rd International Latino Book Awards for her new book “José Montoya” (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2020).
Her book chronicles the life and work of Montoya, an artist, poet, professor, and…
The German Quarterly has awarded the 2021 Max Kade Prize to Patrizia C. McBride, professor of German studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, for her article “The Edge of the Page: Alfred Polgar, the Feuilleton, and the Poetics of the Small Form.”
“The article examines the work of Viennese essayist Alfred Polgar, who developed a unique writing style in response to the rise of mass…
Princess Mako during the New Year Greeting 2015 at the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
After intense scrutiny, Princess Mako of Japan married longtime partner Kei Komuro this week, giving up her status as a member of the imperial family.
Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, is a historian of modern Japan and is writing a book entitled “Japan Reborn: Race and the Family of Nations after World War II.” She says the Imperial Household…
Russia’s climate negotiators are expected to seek sanctions relief for green energy projects during next month’s climate summit in Scotland. This includes relief for state-run energy companies like Gazprom, which has been targeted by sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and has pursued the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany.
Russia’s demand to sever sanctions from…
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Interview with subject Patsy Bansfield.
“We Love We Self Up Here,” a new documentary focused on the complex histories of labor and migration in Trinidad and Tobago, is a transdisciplinary collaboration between Tao DuFour, assistant professor of architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning; Natalie Melas, associate professor of comparative literature in the College of Arts and Sciences; and…
Five Cornell mathematicians from the College of Arts and Sciences have been invited to speak at the world-renowned International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) this year – an unusually high number and a great honor for the Cornell researchers, according to the department chair.
The ICM is the largest conference of its kind and meets every four years; the Fields Medals – mathematics’ highest…
The White House released its report on climate change and migration this week, focusing on the drivers of migration due to climate pressure and the U.S. role in working with the international community to address it.
Maria Cristina Garcia, Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies, is an expert on U.S. migration and refugees, and is currently completing a book on the…
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats continue to negotiate the details of a domestic policy plan this week that will require the support of all 50 Democrats in the Senate. Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have continued to resist the price tag and breadth of the bill.
David Bateman, professor of government in the College of Arts & Sciences, is an expert on…
Health is an exceptionally expensive resource in the United States, “though it should not be,” political scientist Jamila Michener told the House Rules Committee on Oct. 13.
Her testimony about the relationship between poverty and health care was given during the “Ending Hunger in America: Family Budgets and Food Insecurity” roundtable convened by James McGovern (D-Massachusetts) committee…
The House Committee tasked with investigating events of Jan. 6 attack is expected to find Stephen Bannon, former adviser to President Donald Trump, in contempt of Congress this week. Bannon has refused to comply with a subpoena issued by the Committee, citing executive privilege.
Doug Kriner, professor of government at Cornell University and author of the book “Investigating the President:…
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is hearing a case brought by Armenia accusing Azerbaijan of racial discrimination. Among several requests, the country is seeking the protection of Armenian cultural heritage sites in Nagorno-Karabakh now under Azerbaijan’s jurisdiction as a result of the ceasefire ending the 2020 war.
Cornell University researchers Adam Smith and Lori Khatchadourian…
Black holes are paradoxically both the simplest and most complex objects in the universe, as shown by the still-mysterious set of laws Stephen Hawking discovered a half century ago. Resolving this paradox is a central goal of modern physics. In the Fall 2021 Hans Bethe Lecture, physicist Andrew Strominger will describe the compelling progress made towards this goal as well as future prospects for…
Britney Schmidt, associate professor of astronomy and of earth and atmospheric sciences, and her team set up their field site in Antarctica in 2018. They’re currently in Antarctica through February 2022.
Geographically and logistically, Antarctica is about as far away from anywhere as you can get on this planet. Yet in the scope of our solar system, Earth’s southernmost continent is right in our own backyard.
Britney Schmidt is in Antarctica through February 2022 with a small team of researchers to explore the confluence of glaciers, floating ice shelves and ocean using a submarine…
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI) and M. Barstow (University of Leicester)
White dwarf Sirius B. This burned-out stellar remnant is a faint companion to the brilliant blue-white Dog Star, Sirius, located in the winter constellation Canis Major.
Astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet that survived its star’s death. Known as MOA-2010-BLG-477Lb, the planet orbits a white dwarf some 6,500 light years from here, potentially offering a glimpse into our cosmic future. The researchers reported the new discovery in the journal, Nature.
Lisa Kaltenegger, who was not involved in the study, is director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan…
Students across the university can now minor in the growing field of moral psychology, with faculty approving the new area of study July 15. The curriculum will offer students interdisciplinary engagement with moral psychology theory and research as well as hands-on experience applying moral psychology to practical ethical issues. The minor will first be offered in the spring 2022 semester.
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A Cornell-led international team of researchers has received a $65,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for its project, “The Next Monsoon: Climate Change and Contemporary Cultural Production in South Asia.”
The grant will fund a three-day conference, tentatively scheduled for September 2022, and an open-access volume on the topic of humanistic approaches to climate…
The life and work of James Edward Oliver, a passionate supporter of women’s suffrage and a nationally recognized mathematician, will be celebrated in an evening of talks on Oct. 14. Laurent Saloff-Coste, the Abram R. Bullis Professor of Mathematics in College of Arts and Sciences (A&S); Carol Kammen, Tompkins County Historian and retired Cornell professor of history (A&S); and…
Undergraduate students interested in the intersection of religion and politics or society can now apply for a new prize, to be given out next spring.
The Joseph E. Connolly ’72 Memorial Prizes were established by Jay Branegan ’72, a close friend of Connolly, as well as other friends and family around the world. Connolly majored in government and history and wrote his thesis on the role…
Mary Beth Norton, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita of American History in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the George Washington Prize for her book, "1774: The Long Year of Revolution" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020). The prize will be presented next spring at a reception honoring Norton at Mount Vernon.
Norton said she is “thrilled and…
Three faculty members in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts & Sciences have been honored with national awards.
Song Lin, Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow and associate professor of chemistry, received the National Fresenius Award from Phi Lambda Upsilon, the national chemistry honor society. The American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded Todd Hyster,…
A new report shows French clergy sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years. Most of the victims of abuse were boys between the ages of 10 and 13.
Kim Haines-Eitzen, the Paul and Berthe Hendrix Memorial Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences, says while the report is shocking, it is representative of a long history…
The College of Arts & Sciences welcomed a new director of human resources, Donna Lynch-Cunningham, on Oct. 4. Cunningham was previously human resources divisional director for the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.
At Emory, Lynch-Cunningham was also the deputy Title XI coordinator for the graduate school, developed a yearlong onboarding program for…
When you consider some of the biggest innovations that have changed public health — pasteurization, disease eradication, water purification — you’ll see behind the scenes an entire network of unsung heroes and heroines, author Steven Johnson says. Not just the inventors or scientists who developed the technology, but the visionaries, evangelists, activists, artists, mothers, milkmaids, pilots,…
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German flag on top of Berlin Reichstag
Preliminary results of Germany’s federal election are in, and the left-leaning Social Democratic Party has narrowly won the largest share of parliamentary seats.
Mabel Berezin, a comparative sociologist whose research lies at the intersection of cultural and political sociology, says lost in the analysis of the election results is the political entrenchment of the extreme right-wing party.
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A neutrino interacts with an electron, the track of which is seen horizontally, and emerges as a neutrino without producing a muon, in the real tracks produced in the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN.
Astronomer Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, is featured in the new PBS NOVA/BBC documentary on neutrinos, “Particles Unknown,” airing Oct. 6.
Throughout “Particles Unknown,” Jayawardhana offers “his insight into the nature of neutrinos, their importance in the universe and how scientists have battled against the odds to detect them for almost a century,” said…
Physicist Eun-Ah Kim studies society – electron society. Her specialty is quantum condensed matter physics, which deals with particles the size of atoms or smaller.
By harnessing the power of machine learning to analyze data produced by experiments into electron behavior, Eun-Ah Kim, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), together with collaborators in A&S, the…
Schuster worked in the Kotlikoff lab as an undergrad.
Though the COVID-19 pandemic — combined with a boom in application numbers — made this year’s cycle an unusually competitive one for students applying to medical and law schools, Cornell students successfully navigated the process and are headed to some of the country’s top professional schools this fall.
Sukhmani Kaur ’21 knows exactly what she will specialize in at Harvard Law School.
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A startup that makes cultured mozzarella and ricotta cheeses without cows recently received record funding from investors looking to tap the growing market for environmentally friendly dairy alternatives.
Adrienne Bitar, lecturer in American studies, specializes in the history and culture of American food. She says:
“Plant-based and cultivated (or “lab-grown”) alternatives to animal…
Natalie Wolchover, an award-winning science writer with Quanta Magazine, has been named the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist (DVJ) Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences for spring 2022.
The program brings accomplished journalists to Cornell each year to interact with faculty, researchers and students. Marc Lacey ’87, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, was…
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A student looks at the cover of the Cornell Daily Sun from Sept. 12, 2001, at Kroch Library.
“I was born five days after September 11.”
“I was just a month old when the attacks happened.”
“My mom has told me stories of carrying me around the house while we were watching the news.”
Most of the members of Cornell’s Class of 2023 were infants when the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 occurred. This fall, 20 of them are exploring that time period in a new class, “Introduction…
New York Times best-selling science and technology writer Steven Johnson will visit campus Sept. 22 to meet with students and faculty and offer a talk to the Cornell community, “20,000 More Days: How We Doubled Global Life Expectancy in Just 100 years.”
Johnson is the author of 13 books, including “The Ghost Map,” “Mind Wide Open,” “Where Good Ideas Come From,” and his newest,…
Two recent College of Arts and Sciences’ doctoral graduates, Sadia Shirazi PhD ‘21 and Dexter Lee Thomas PhD ’20, have been named Emerging Voices Fellows by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Cornell will also be hosting an ACLS post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History.
Thomas and Shirazi are two of 48 new fellows in the program, which “identifies and assists a vanguard…
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A 1993 rally on Ho Plaza
Faculty, staff, students and alumni are planning a series of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cornell’s women’s studies program, now Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS), as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activism and advocacy on campus.
“TRANS*forming the Future: 50 years of Feminist and LGBT studies at Cornell,” kicks off Sept. 16 from 4:30-6 p.m…
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, will give the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture on Sept. 9 at 5 p.m.
The event is currently scheduled to be held in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, with a simultaneous livestream. A limited number of tickets for the in-person…
At a summer networking event, Surita Basu ’23 was relieved to hear from Cornell alumni whose careers have gone in many different directions.
“It definitely reinforces the idea that your first position out of college does not have to determine what kind of work you will do for the rest of your career and that it is always possible to challenge yourself and try new things,” said Basu, an…
As evacuations continue from Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed that two suicide bombers detonated in Kabul today, killing at least 12 U.S. service members.
David Silbey, adjunct associate professor of history, studies wars of the 20th century and the asymmetric responses (guerrilla warfare, insurgency and terrorism) to the wars that evolved after 1945. He recently published…
Miriam Shearing '56 served as chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
The Nevada county commissioner who told Miriam Shearing ‘56 that women don’t belong in the courtroom could never have predicted how those words would motivate Shearing throughout her life, eventually leading her to the state’s top judicial position, chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
“I knew I wouldn’t get an appointment (from that county commission). I realized that if I want the job…
Ever heard whale song on the Slope? Body percussion in the Johnson Museum? Musical sets including those sounds, as well as the Cornell Chimes, jazz, poetry, violin and other acoustical music will take place Sept. 4-5 during the ReSounds Festival on campus.
The festival kicks off a yearlong project focused on innovation in acoustic instruments and includes installations at the Johnson Museum…
