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2020 New Faculty

Helena Aparicio

A&S Communications

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: 

2020 New Faculty

Chloe Ahmann

A&S Communications

… forward to teaching: I'm looking forward to teaching a First-Year Writing Seminar on “time travel" this fall and a …

2020 New Faculty

Mikail E. Abbasov

A&S Communications

Name and title: Mikail E. Abbasov, Assistant Professor, Chemistry & Chemical Biology Academic focus: Chemical biology, chemical proteomics, activity-based protein profiling, drug discovery, cancer, neurodegeneration, immunology Current research project:

Government

Webinar to examine systemic racism, health equity

What can, and should, faculty members, staff, students and the community be doing in response to institutional racism and its role in shaping health equity?

Astronomy

Mars Perseverance to deliver ‘first zoom cameras’ to another world

A&S Communications

… Mars just north of its equator known as Jezero Crater — the site of an ancient river. As part of the mission, Cornell … that are the eyes of the rover, and those cameras are the first zoom cameras that will ever be sent to another world. … their primary objective is to obtain images of the landing site, create 3D models of the landing site and do so in …

Person takes notes amidst old stone buildings
Humanities

Faculty research group addressing monuments, heritage

Cornell Chronicle

… in Zvarnots, Armenia—an example of post-Soviet industrial sites studied by Aleksander Mergold. Provided King-O’Brien … course, students developed plans for making an array of sites, institutions, things and traditions into so-called …

Carved metal disk set in stone
Equity

Pollack outlines new initiatives to promote racial justice

Cornell Chronicle

… of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we will consider the best semester to launch this initiative. To hold ourselves … team will support our residential life staff and become the first responders to reports of noncriminal offenses and … low-paid internships, with priority for underrepresented, first-generation and low-income students, with a view to …

Science and Technology Studies

New book explores maps as tools of political power

Cornell Chronicle

… and boundaries, as well as nationhood, are contested. “I first came to Israel/Palestine as a Fulbright fellow …

Government

Webinar examines free and fair elections in November

A&S Communications

The next event in the Democracy 20/20 Webinar series will examine whether the U.S. will be able to hold free and fair elections this fall and how challenges to such elections can be overcome. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, July 21 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. (ET). The event is free and the public is invited; registration is required.

History, Linguistics

Luce award will boost Southeast Asia grad studies

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) has received a $275,000 Luce Foundation award to strengthen graduate education in Southeast Asian studies by developing new mechanisms for sharing expertise and resources among major Southeast Asia centers across the United States.

Psychology

Study finds hidden emotions in the sound of words

Cornell Chronicle

… acquisition and how we might have evolved language in the first place. The research also explains why, when people are … subtle cues about what they refer to.” The researchers first asked study participants to rate the level of arousal … allowed early humans to get language off the ground in the first place, by making it easy to associate a word with its …

Mathematics

Stillman receives Jenks Prize for developing influential algebra software

A&S Communications

… and Geometry. More than 2,000 papers on the pre-print site arXiv refer to Macaulay2. “Macaulay and Macaulay2 have … outstanding software engineering in computer algebra. “First Macaulay and now Macaulay2 have been my lifelong …

Sociology

Alumna Spotlight: Youngmin Yi, Ph.D.

Cornell University Graduate School

… them from the beginning. I would tell myself two things. First, I would make sure that I understood research and …

Asian Studies, Romance Studies

Two doctoral alumnae named Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Two doctoral alumnae have been named 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows. They are Yagna Nag Chowdhuri, Ph.D. ’20, a recent graduate of the Asian literature, religion and culture doctoral program, and Valeria Dani, Ph.D. ’19, a graduate of the romance studies doctoral program. Chowdhuri and Dani are two of 22 fellows selected in 2020.

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Classics

The Emperor’s Closet—Power and Storage

Cornell Research

… she says. Civil wars racked the Roman Republic during the first century BCE. When the dust settled, the Roman senate … found a lot of evidence of craft production. It’s a type of site that has seen little thorough archaeological … at a phenomenon and compares what’s happening at different sites and different regions. The book owes a great deal to …