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Alumni news

Kapil Longani ’97: shaping NYC’s COVID-19 response

Cornell Chronicle

Since 2018, Kapil Longani ’97 has served as chief counsel to New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio. Since the start of the pandemic, Longani has helped shape the city’s plans for reopening schools, creating outdoor dining protocols, and thinking through legal issues around COVID testing and vaccine distribution.

Poetry

‘Playful uncertainty’ apparent in new poetry by Charlie Green

Cornell Chronicle

In “Feral Ornamentals,” Literatures in English senior lecturer Charlie Green finds whimsy in uncertainty and humor in the “terrifying,” creating new poems with a fact-based look at the natural world and a sense of exploration through process.

Astronomy

Astronomy to host 51 Pegasi b Fellow Samantha Trumbo ’13

Cornell Chronicle

As a 51 Pegasi b Fellow hosted by the astronomy department, Samantha Trumbo ’13, a doctoral student in planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, will follow up on her breakthrough research on Europa and other of Jupiter's moons.

History of Art and Visual Studies

Hassan honored for elevating the study of global modern art

Cornell Chronicle

Salah Hassan, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies, has been elected as the 2021 Distinguished Scholar by the College Art Association for his scholarship and curatorial work, which have been deeply formative in bringing recognition to the study of modern and contemporary African and African diaspora art.

Astronomy

Cornell Postdoc Jake Turner receives prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship

A&S Communications

“These outstanding young scientists are the future of astrophysics, and their impact on our understanding of the cosmos will be felt for decades to come."

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Research

DJs, Linnaeus, and Plantation History

Cornell Research

Professor Tao Leigh Goffe works at the intersection of environmental humanities, science, and technology. As a researcher, writer, and DJ, she is especially interested in histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization.

Staff transitions

College names new director of human resources

A&S Communications

The College of Arts & Sciences will welcome a new director of human resources, Taylor Shuler, beginning on April 1. Shuler, senior HR business partner in the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and Cornell Engineering HR Service Center, will take over for Sara Bloxsom, who’s worked in the dean’s office for more than 36 years, 27 of those directing the college’s human resources efforts and who is retiring this year.

Arts Unplugged

Panel to examine the intersection of artificial intelligence with ethics, politics and policy

A&S Communications

The April 15 Arts Unplugged virtual event will be moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin ’99, of CNBC and The New York Times.

Important conversations

Webinar explores issues for Southeast Asian refugee communities in U.S.

A&S Communications

An April 1 webinar, “Critical Refugee Studies: Militarism, Migration, and Memory-work,” will bring together three leading scholars of refugee studies to explore those questions as they relate to a range of humanitarian efforts, refugee and migration policies, as well as artistic/cultural practices and performances that have formed in the wake of U.S. wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

Psychology

Why we are more cautious when there's a light at the end of the tunnel

The Los Angeles Times

People tend to be more cautious when there’s a light a the end of the tunnel, writes Thomas D. Gilovich, professor of psychology, in a Los Angeles Times op-ed.

Student Research

Researching the cultural impacts of climate change on Italy

Department of History

Kevin Bloomfield, a Ph.D. candidate in history, publishes the paper - Beyond One-Way Determinism: San Frediano's Miracle and Climate Change in Central and Southern Italy in Late Antiquity, which examines the cultural impacts of climate change in Italy during the first millennium by studying scientific data and historical records.

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Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Plan now to attend April 19 panel on political polarization and the media

A&S Communications

Distinguished alumni and Cornell faculty will explore whether media are helping or worsening the political divide and what can be done.

Student experiences

Summer experience grant removes barriers of access for students

A&S Communications

Students can receive financial support for their remote and in-person summer work opportunities.

Economics

In pandemic, students with tech-savvy teachers fared better

Cornell Chronicle

“It is the courses that have intentional, structured peer interaction that have the least loss in learning."

Government

Voter suppression started way before Jim Crow. It’s a longstanding American tradition.

The Washington Post

David A. Bateman, associate professor of government, writes in the Washington Post that a new law passed by the Georgia legislature that would restrict access to voting is part of a nationwide push among Republicans to curtail ballot access, the latest wave of efforts to restrict voting, dating back to the 2000s.