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Government

In South Carolina, Democrats debated when a dictator is really a dictator. So what’s the answer?

The Washington Post

After the focus on dictatorships in the South Carolina democratic debate on Tuesday, Valerie Bunce, the Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and government professor at Cornell, and Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, discuss differing types of dictatorship and authoritarian regimes

Physics

Physicist illuminates Big Bang in spring Hans Bethe Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

This lecture has been cancelled.Leftover radiation from the Big Bang – the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – carries clues about the fundamental nature of the universe, which was only 400,000 years old when the CMB was released.

Music, Science and Technology Studies

Moog festival to feature talks, music, exhibition

Cornell Chronicle

The strange oscillations that first emanated from the small synthesizer factory of Robert Moog, Ph.D. ’65, more than a half-century ago in the quiet village of Trumansburg, New York, have become signature sounds reverberating throughout the history of electronic music – from Wendy Carlos to Daft Punk; from Emerson, Lake and Palmer to Flying Lotus.

Comparative Literature

‘Dramas of desperation’: Book examines naked protest in Africa

Cornell Chronicle

Insurgent nakedness is the most universal and yet the most highly context-driven mode of dissent, writes Naminata Diabate, assistant professor of comparative literature.

Government

‘Making the turn’: from inmate to scholar

Cornell Chronicle

It is 4 p.m., and Darryl Epps has just put in a full day at work. Yet his day is only half over.

Astronomy

InSight detects gravity waves, low rumbles and devilish dust

Cornell Chronicle

Don Banfield ‘87, principal research scientist at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, is the science lead for a suite of sensors aboard InSight.

Performing & Media Arts

“Transformation,” collaborations with guest artists inspire annual Locally Grown Dance

Department of Performing & Media Arts

Student dancers of the performing and media arts department will explore “the politics of expression in the dancer’s body” in this year’s Locally Grown Dance, according to the event page. Each of the four dance pieces will incorporate the idea of transformation — either literally, figuratively or both. 

Government

Roper Center gives voice to American public opinion

Cornell Chronicle

With voting to select this year’s presidential nominees in full swing, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell has launched a series of initiatives to help inform citizens and journalists and support the democratic process.Their goal: to bring public opinion back to the public.

Alumni

Paramount exec can manufacture explosions, but says story still makes the movie

A&S Communications

Lee Rosenthal ’87 fell in love with filmmaking as an English major at Cornell.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Expanding bone cancer therapy radium-223 for other cancers

Cornell Research

Radium-223 is highly effective for treating bone metastases in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancers. Despite the therapeutic potential of radium-223, its current formulation approved by the Food and Drug Administration is effective only for patients with bone metastases. Justin J.

Physics

Physics tool helps track cancer cell diversity

Cornell Chronicle

The team of economists and physicists took a novel approach to analyzing the behavior of breast tumor cells.

Performing and Media Arts

Stratford wins essay award from Northeast Modern Language Association

Aoise Stratford, lecturer in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, recently won the CAITY (Contingent/Adjunct/Independent Scholar/Two-Year Caucus) Essay Award from the Northeast Modern Language Association.

Sociology

Salaam promotes value of resilience, faith in MLK Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Criminal justice activist Yusef Salaam, one of “The Exonerated Five” wrongly accused and convicted in the Central Park jogger case in New York City three decades ago, offered wisdom and hope to students and community members in the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Feb. 17 in Sage Chapel.

Milstein Program

Entrepreneur facilitates workshop on design thinking, ethnographic interviewing

Dr. Virginia Rath, a scientist, design research consultant and serial entrepreneur, led Cornell students in a workshop on Jan. 29, encouraging attendants to employ design thinking skills to innovate solutions. During the workshop, students practiced qualitative approaches to design thinking such as user observations and ethnographic interviews to help them understand stakeholders.