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International studies

Sudan’s return to peace hinges on re-empowering civilian government

5/1/2023 A&S Communications

Prof. Rachel Beatty Riedl comments on the violence in Sudan.

A red brick building with a white painted cupola on top with a weather van, with three large archways in front and a side building. A cannon sits in front. — Aurbanski, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Outside view of the Fairfax County Courthouse, Fairfax, VA

History

The danger of today’s jurisprudence reproducing slavery-era ideas

5/1/2023 Washington Post

In a Washington Post op-ed, Prof. Tamika Nunley says judges shouldn't draw on laws addressing slave ownership to adjudicate legal questions involving human embryos.

a drawing showing a round disk of gray with a green arrow encircling it hovering above a purple disk with a red arrow going in the other direction. Gold colored thick lines run from the bottom disk. — Provided. This image schematically shows the measurement principle. A flake of an atomically thin superconductor (shown in purple) on a substrate is patterned into a disk and covered by a spin-coated ionic gel. The pickup loop of the magnetic probe (shown in silver), with a concentric field coil (shown in dark gray) is approached to the sample. A current in the field coil produces a magnetic field, which results in an opposing screening current in the superconducting sample. The strength of the screening current is

Physics

Magnetic imaging unlocks crucial property of 2D superconductor

5/1/2023 Cornell Chronicle

“I’m excited that we can use this tool now and apply it to this large class of really fascinating superconductors, which are a rich playground in condensed matter physics for realizing extraordinary superconducting phenomena.”

Kristina Hugar, Ph.D. ‘15, Ecolectro’s chief science officer, conducts research in the startup’s laboratory space at Cornell’s McGovern Center.

Sociology

Integrating STEM majors won’t end gender segregation at work

5/1/2023 Cornell Chronicle

… earning STEM degrees and a larger share earning degrees in health, social sciences, humanities and education. The … fields that funnel graduates into a limited number of professions, including many STEM fields, would be most … engineers, for example, women are more likely to focus on health-related applications. The census data doesn’t contain …

Marine Le Pen with sholuder-length blonde hair and jacket, with hand upraised in the midst of a speech, with French flag in bakcground — JÄNNICK Jérémy, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Marine Le Pen at the Parliament of the Invisibles in Hénin-Beaumont on Sunday April 15, 2012.

Sociology

May Day strikes: French far-right gains ground as working people's party

5/1/2023 A&S Communications

Prof. Mabel Berezin comments on the May Day strikes in France.

In Memoriam

‘Heroic’ physicist Toichiro Kinoshita dies at 98

4/27/2023 A&S Communications

Toichiro Kinoshita, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died March 23. He was 98.

History

Historian explores limits of justice for enslaved women in Virginia

4/28/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The creation of slave laws throughout the antebellum South can be traced back to the legal system in Virginia.

Alice Paul toasting (with grape juice) the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, August 26, 1920

Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Passage of ERA legislation ‘long overdue’

4/27/2023 A&S Communications

The U.S. Senate is set to vote today on a measure that could allow the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to be added to the U.S. Constitution, a century after its introduction.

Cornell Cinema

Mars Rover documentary to screen at Cornell Cinema

4/27/2023 Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema will present a free screening of the documentary Good Night Oppy.

Faculty research

Arts and Sciences faculty featured on Academic Minute

4/27/2023 A&S Communications

Five faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences were featured on a “Cornell week” on The Academic Minute radio program from May 1-5.

person being filmed and three other people with cameras and audio recording devices — Provided Students in the Milstein Program practice with each other before they conduct interviews with civic leaders.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein first-years take advantage of community, opportunity

4/27/2023 A&S Communications

… Mia Desravines’ ’26 says her first year at Cornell has been “all about the … Cornell, I had this project in mind,” said Gabrielle Best ’26, who’s leading the COVID stories project. “I had an … podcasts, as well as transcriptions,” said Arshia Agrawal ’26. “We’re also recording one author’s story in Spanish.” …

The helm of the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine, USS Florida

History

'Parking missile subs in South Korea creates multiple risk scenarios'

4/26/2023 A&S Communications

The United States will deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in 40 years — part of a new agreement, signed Wednesday, and signaling Washington's commitment to defend Seoul against nuclear threats from North Korea.