Nicholas Sturgeon, Susan Linn Sage Professor Emeritus in the Sage School of Philosophy and an expert in the foundations of ethics, died Aug. 24 of complications from Parkinson’s disease at a local hospice. He was 77. Sturgeon was a professor in the Department of Philosophy, in the College of Arts and Sciences, from 1967 until his retirement in 2013.
When a shortened on-campus spring semester necessitated the cancellation of in-person events, theatre students in the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) did what they do best: they got creative. The team behind the popular semiannual student-run Festival24 quickly changed course and produced an online iteration of the event: Festival24.0.
From her COVID-19 supply tent in front of the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts in Collegetown on a recent morning, Bianca Santos-Declet ’23 invited passersby to grab a free face mask, bottle of hand sanitizer or touchless stylus tool.
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Seven graduate students were recently awarded Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarships. These awards provide recipients with funds to help with any aspect of doctoral study, from research expenses to personal living expenses.
The National Science Foundation has renewed its funding for the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF), with a five-year, $7.5 million grant to continue supporting academic and commercial research in nanofabrication – the design and manufacture of devices measured in nanometers.
Name and title: Nicholas Mulder, Assistant Professor, History Academic focus: European and international history from 1870 to the present, with a particular focus on the interwar period (1914-1945) and on questions of political economy. I am also interested in international organizations, international law and the history of war.
Name and title: Jason Simms, Assistant Professor, Performing & Media Arts Academic focus: Design in performing and media arts Current research project: The Hive, a social distancing performance and gathering venue Previous positions:
Name and title: Alexandra Domike Blackman, Assistant Professor, Government Academic focus: Middle Eastern politics, history, religion, gender Current research project:
Name and title: Kelly Presutti, Assistant Professor, History of Art & Visual Studies Academic focus: 19th-century European art, landscape, environmental history Current research project: A book on landscape representation and the changing politics of land use in post-Revolutionary France
Name and title: Chloe Ahmann, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Environmental anthropology, urban history, United States Current research project:
Emily Donald is a doctoral student in history from Brisbane, Australia studying modern southeast Asian history; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; and queer history. After attending the University of Queensland as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to its scholars, library collections, and commitment to graduate student learning. What is your area of research and why is it important?
Name and title: Alex Nading, Associate Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Medical anthropology, environmental studies, science and technology studies, labor Current research project:
Name and title: Erin Stache, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus: Polymer chemistry and sustainability Current research project: Depolymerization of commodity polymers Previous positions:
Name and title: Jerel Ezell, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center Academic focus: Health disparities and social inequalities Current research project:
Name and title: Isabel M. Perera, Assistant Professor, Government Academic focus: Health, labor and social policy, in comparative and historical perspective Current research project:
Name and title: Helena Aparicio, Assistant Professor, Linguistics Academic focus: I use a combination of experimental and computational methods to study how humans process and interpret language. Current research project:
Name and title: Laura Niemi, Assistant Professor, Psychology Academic focus: Moral psychology, social psychology, cognitive science, psychology of language Current research project: I study how people judge each other, make morally relevant decisions, and live out their values.
Name and title: Imane Terhmina, Assistant Professor, Romance Studies Academic focus: Francophone African literature and culture, postcolonial theory, affect theory, political philosophy, petrofictions/eco-topias, Afropolitanism Current research project:
Name and title: Todd Hyster, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus: Biocatalysis and organic synthesis Current research project:
Name and title: Natasha Raheja Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Documentary, ethnographic film, migration, borders, bureaucracy, nationalism, South Asia Current research project:
Name and title: Leslie S. Babonis, Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Academic focus: Evolutionary development, the origin of novelty, invertebrate biodiversity Current research project:
Name and title: Barum Park, Assistant Professor, Sociology Academic focus: Political sociology, social networks, social mobility Current research project:
Name and title: Casey Schmitt, Assistant Professor, History Academic focus: Early American and Caribbean history, slavery, labor, and human trafficking Current research project: My book manuscript titled: "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the Greater Caribbean, 1530-1690"
Name and title: Michele Belot, Professor, Economics Academic focus: Labor economics, health economics, behavioral economics Current research project: Randomized controlled trial testing interventions to support job seekers in their search Previous positions:
Name and title: Noah Tamarkin, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Social politics of genetics, race, citizenship and belonging, South Africa Current research project:
Name and title: Xin Zhou, Associate Professor, Mathematics Academic focus: Geometric analysis, calculus of variations, general relativity Current research project:
Name and title: Jason Sion Mokhtarian, Associate Professor and Herbert and Stephanie Neuman Chair in Hebrew and Jewish Literature, Near Eastern Studies Academic focus: Rabbinic Judaism, Iranian studies, Talmud in its Sasanian context, Jews of Persia Current research project:
Name and title: Amiel Bize, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Economic anthropology (value, capitalist margins, post-agrarian rural life, risk, gleaning) Current research project:
As with actors and opera singers, when measuring magnetic fields it helps to have range. Cornell researchers used an ultrathin graphene “sandwich” to create a tiny magnetic field sensor that can operate over a greater temperature range than previous sensors, while also detecting miniscule changes in magnetic fields that might otherwise get lost within a larger magnetic background.
In international relations, democracies including the United States have long claimed to have several advantages over authoritarian regimes – such as sound governance and effectiveness in wartime – based on the open marketplace of ideas and freedom of expression. And what could be more open and free – more democratic – than social media?
As a woman running for vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris will inevitably face attacks on her attitude, ethics, and even the tone of her voice, writes Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, in an op-ed in The Atlantic. Voters must undergo the process of trying to hold her accountable without being unfair.
About 10,000 demonstrators gathered in Bangkok, Thailand on Sunday to demand reforms, including of the monarchy, in a continuation of unrest that began earlier this year with the dissolution of the Future Forward Party. The Sunday protest is one of the largest anti-government protests in Thailand since 2014.
Belarusians took to the streets this week to reclaim their dignity, writes Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of English, in an op-ed in the New York Times. The government of Belarus, she says, has responded with brutal violence.
