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New book reintegrates the science of language

Is language innate? How did we get language? While researchers continue to debate, a new book offers a revolutionary, unifying framework for understanding the processing, acquisition and evolution of language. The book, “Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing” by Cornell Professor of Psychology Morten H.
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Reunion 2016

Hear faculty explain gravitational waves and ponder this year's election mayhem — while connecting with old friends and making new Cornell memories — at Reunion 2016.
 Nina Terrero

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From a career in law to a career in journalism: Alumna Nina Terrero shares her story

Terrero advises students not to worry too much about their career paths, but instead take the time to appreciate their fellow Cornellians.
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Wild honeybees offer clues on preventing colony collapse

Over the past decades, millions of managed colonies of honeybees have died from varroa mites that transmit deadly viruses, yet wild colonies survive.Cornell researchers describe – in the March 11 issue of the journal PLoS One –experiments that help reveal how wild colonies endure mites and pathogens.
 Milton Konvitz
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Audio of Konvitz' American Ideals lectures now online

The legendary Cornell Professor Milton Konvitz, Ph.D. ’33, encouraged students to explore the origins of ideals embedded in the U.S. Constitution to understand civil rights and civil liberties.He referenced principles of intellectual history in such lectures as “The Hebrew Bible,” “Antigone” and “Revolution” in his “American Ideals” course, first offered in 1947.
 Paula Vogel

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Playwright Vogel returns to campus for Ph.D.

The Department of Performing and Media Arts will welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Paula Vogel to campus April 12-13 for a conversation and concert reading of her most recent play, “Indecent.”
 Ross Brann

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Brann on "The Cairo Geniza"

"Sacred Trash"1
 Paul Fleming
 Noliwe Rooks

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Rooks on Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"

"When My Friends First Came to Visit"
 Mary Beth Norton

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Norton on Bradstreet and Frost

"Two Poems and American History"
 Leslie Adelson

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Adelson on Kluge's "Plugging Up a Child's Brain"

"A Magical Thing"
 William Kennedy

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Kennedy on Vergil's "Aeneid"

Far-Flung Poems and Front-Page Headlines
 Kate Manne

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Manne on Williams' "Moral Luck"

"Forgiving Masters"
 Daniel Schwarz

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Schwarz on Joyce's "Ulysses"

"Reading and Teaching Ulysses as a Transformative Life Experience: 'And Yes she said'"
 Jonathan Culler

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Culler on Hopkins's "The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo"

 Cynthia Robinson

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Robinson on Millais' "Ophelia"

"Ophelia"
 Jonathan Boyarin

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Boyarin on Benjamin's "Illuminations"

 Courtney Roby

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Roby on "The Mynas Codex"

The object of my reflection is a book: There are probably a lot of books among the “transformative works” you find here, but this book, known as the “Mynas Codex,” is a very different kind of object from most of them. When I say “book,” you probably think of a text that can be read in many different places at once, each reader experiencing a more or less identical object, like this one:
 James Cutting

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Cutting on "The Sound of Music"

"The Sound of Mucus"My wife had died a horrible and lingering death when my daughters were 14 and 10. Devastated the three of us sought solace, and to begin to recoup our lives we reinstated a group activity the three of us had enjoyed when they were considerably younger. We watched movies. Indeed, we would watch the same films over and over.
 Austin Bunn

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Bunn on Agee and Evans's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"

"Plans for Work"
 Grant Farred

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Farred on Heidegger's "Was Heißt Denken?" (What is Called Thinking?")

I have long been troubled by Henri Bergson’s notion that all of us have only one idea. In spite of our best efforts to constantly do new work, we keep returning to this one idea. For academics, Bergson’s is a depressing proposition because a career marked by repetition is, surely, a career lacking in originality. And who would want that?
 Annette Richards

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Richards on Bach's Passacaglia in C minor

"Radical Sounds"
 Debra Castillo

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Castillo on Glickman's "Una tal Raquel"

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Three faculty win Simons Awards

Three Cornell faculty have been awarded Simons Fellowships in Theoretical Physics for their research. Eun-Ah Kim, associate professor of physics, Dong Lai, professor of astronomy and Maxim Perelstein, professor of physics were honored with the 2016 award from the foundation, which supports scientific research related to mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences and autism, as well as education and outreach efforts.
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Mortua lingua discipulorum auxilio reviviscit*

A new Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAC) class allows students to earn course credit while learning to converse in Latin.
 Robert Morgan

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Robert Morgan publishes new novel, poetry collection

English Prof. Robert Morgan's new book tells the story of a runaway slave and his journey to freedom, which involves a city dear to our hearts.
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ACS honors student, faculty in chemistry

Professor Geoffery Coates, Assistant Professor Yimon Aye and student Shivansh Chawla ’17, who works in Aye’s lab in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, were all recently honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) with 2016 awards.
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Music curriculum expands to reach students of diverse musical backgrounds

Through engaged learning activities, music classes are reaching out to a new generation of listeners.
 Beverly Gage

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Prof Beverly Gage Recasts Legacy of FBI Founder in Carl Becker Lecture Series

Prof. Beverly Gage, director of undergraduate studies in history at Yale University, shared insights into the life of J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in the Carl Becker lecture series last week sponsored by Cornell's Department of History. Gage focused on elements of Hoover’s character and accomplishments that she said are often overlooked. 
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Make your contribution to the Klarman Hall time capsule

We'd like to add your ideas as we collect the "best of the humanities" for our time capsule.
 Ruth Wilson Gilmore

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Scholar details emergence of police-state tactics

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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How technology and humanities intersect

Technology has changed all aspects of our lives, even ancient fields of study in the humanities. The College of Arts and Sciences’ fourth Big Ideas Panel, part of its New Century for the Humanities celebration, explored technology in the humanities March 15 in Klarman Hall’s Groos Family Atrium.
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Séamus Davis awarded St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal

Science Foundation Ireland presented its prestigious St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal March 16 to Séamus Davis, Cornell’s James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences. The presentation was made by Charles Flanagan, Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs and trade, as part of St. Patricks’ Day celebrations in Washington, D.C.
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Runaway slave ads portray grim period of U.S. history

Runaway slave advertisements – a common sight in North American newspapers in the 18th and 19th centuries – are frankly disturbing. They describe people as property, listing their physical attributes and family connections in chilling terms.
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Archaeology students try their hand at creating artifacts

Students in an archaeology class tried their hand at creating some of the pottery they normally dig up and study.
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Crafting new tools to explore thoughts, dreams and memories

Technological breakthroughs are giving Cornell Neurotech researchers unprecedented glimpses into the brain.
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New book sheds light on high U.S. incarceration rate

The U.S. incarcerates a greater proportion of its population than any other country in the world, with dire social and economic consequences for the incarcerated, their children and those who work in the criminal justice system. In his new book, “Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World” (Cambridge University Press), Peter Enns sheds new light on why.
 Roberto Sierra

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Lunches bring Latina/o Studies community together

Lunch talks hosted by the Latina/o Studies Program brings students together with Cornell faculty and administrators to discuss important topics.
 Dean Gretchen Ritter

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Legacy of Cornell-led diplomacy detailed at Carnegie Hall

A panel of Cornell professors and alumni explored Cornell's involvement in shaping U.S. foreign policy during a New York City event,
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Runway role-play becomes a luminous reality

Think “Game of Thrones” meets “Hunger Games.” For the annual Cornell Fashion Collective show on March 12, warriors, rangers and magicians – models draped in LED lights and electroluminescent tape – will role-play on the runway.
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'Sticky waves': Molecular interactions at the nanoscale

Like the gravitational forces that are responsible for the attraction between the Earth and the moon, as well as the dynamics of the entire solar system, there exist attractive forces between objects at the nanoscale.
 Roberto Sierra

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Roberto Sierra releases musical works in Spain

Congratulations to Roberto Sierra, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and professor of music, on the international release of his new CD “Boleros & Montunos” in Madrid, Spain.
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The superior social skills of bilinguals

A psychology professor's research shows that being bilingual can bring multiple benefits, even boosting problem-solving skills. 
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Lucinda Ramberg awarded Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize

Lucinda Ramberg has been awarded the first Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize by the Association for Feminist Anthropology (AFA) for her book Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion (Duke University Press).
 Neal Zaslaw

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Students produce rarely staged 1606 opera 'Eumelio'

Resurrecting a 17th-century Italian opera whose sole musical source was incompletely notated was a challenge musicologist Neal Zaslaw and a group of students were happy to accept.What started as a spring 2015 seminar project was unveiled March 19-20 as an opera complete with Baroque instruments, Arcadian shepherds, hellish demons and classical statuary in the auditorium of Klarman Hall.
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Cornell in Turin cited for study of 'model' community center

Students and faculty in the Cornell in Turin program were recognized recently for their work in Turin’s San Salvario neighborhood as part of their research studies of migration and services for immigrants in Italy.
 Mohammad Hamidian

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Alum wins physics prize named for Cornell Nobelists

Mohammad Hamidian, Ph.D. ’11, has been named the 2016 winner of the prestigious Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize for his discoveries of new forms of electronic matter at the nanoscale and at extreme low temperatures.
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Aching examines black bodies, Black Lives Matter

Gerard Aching, director of the Africana Studies and Research Center, sees connections between the messages in two popular books and the Black Lives Matter movement. 
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On slavery and literature in Cuba

Cuban poet and slave Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854) and his 1839 “Autobiografía de un esclavo,” the only slave narrative to surface in the Spanish-speaking world, are the starting point of an examination of 19th-century Cuban literature and social politics in Gerard Aching’s recent book, “Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba.”
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Understanding the mind

The mind that thinks our thoughts is a pretty special place. But is it distinct from the brain? Is there, in fact, a soul directing our thoughts or are they determined entirely by the output of our biology? Could that mouse scampering through your garden be thinking deep thoughts, or are humans really special?