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Government

Cornell professor, pollster taking pulse of Latino voters

Cornell Chronicle

Univision last year tapped Sergio Garcia-Rios as director of polling throughout the presidential campaign.

NY Times journalist Marc Lacey speaking with students
Chris Kitchen/A&S Communications NY Times journalist Marc Lacey speaking with students
Distinguished Visiting journalists

First visiting journalist shares world of the NYT with students, faculty

A&S Communications

Marc Lacey '87 offered advice to students, visited classes and learned about faculty research.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Davis, Delimitrou, DiStasio win Sloan fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Damek Davis, Christina Delimitrou and Robert A. DiStasio Jr. have won 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships support early-career faculty members’ original research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics.

Government, Sociology

NYC panel discusses changing expectations for success

Cornell Chronicle

Professors from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Human Ecology and Cornell's Institute of Politics and Global Affairs shared their thoughts during “The State of the American Dream,” Feb. 6 in New York City.

Sociology

Hospitality, not medical care, key to patient satisfaction

Cornell Chronicle

Would you choose a hospital based on its Yelp reviews?Relying on hospitals’ patient satisfaction scores as a guide amounts to much the same thing, according to new Cornell research.

Linguistics

Linguistics grad student receives award for indigenous language presentation

A&S Communications

Doctoral student Carol-Rose Little and collaborator Morelia Vázquez Martínez (Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Macuspana) received a special distinction award in the best student presentation category from the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas during the society's winter meeting in January in New Orleans, La.

Africana Studies

Rooks to give talk on ‘underside’ of cannabis legalization

Society for the Humanities

This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Astronomy

Iconic ‘pale blue dot’ photo – Carl Sagan’s idea – turns 30

Cornell Chronicle

The photo of Earth was taken at a distance of 3.7 billion miles by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1.

English

Bibliographical Society of America honors English professor

A&S Communications

Derrick R. Spires, associate professor of English, was awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for his book “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States."

History, American Studies

Norton chronicles road to American Revolution in new book, ‘1774’

Cornell Chronicle

The book is the first in-depth recounting of 1774 as a critical “long year” for revolutionary change.

TRAPPIST-1 planetary system art
Astronomy

Astronomers will probe exoplanets with Webb telescope

Cornell Chronicle

This month marks the third anniversary of the discovery of a remarkable system of seven planets known as TRAPPIST-1. These rocky, Earth-size worlds orbit an ultra-cool star 39 light-years from Earth; 1 light-year is approximately 5.88 trillion miles.

Government, History

Panel discusses global uncertainties surrounding coronavirus

Cornell Chronicle

With the recent emergence of the coronavirus from China’s Hubei province, another “virus” has the potential to spread, a Cornell faculty member said Tuesday at a wide-ranging panel discussion on the outbreak.

Government

Face-to-face contact with police builds trust in fledgling states

Cornell Chronicle

After times of major conflict, such as the civil wars in Liberia from 1980 to 2003, peace often leaves a power vacuum, especially in remote areas not yet reached by a developing government.

PHYSICS

Inquiry-based labs give physics students experimental edge

Cornell Chronicle

New Cornell research shows that traditional physics labs, which strive to reinforce the concepts students learn in lecture courses, can actually have a negative impact on students. At the same time, nontraditional, inquiry-based labs that encourage experimentation can improve student performance and engagement without lowering exam scores. 

Near Eastern Studies, Cornell Cinema

Film screening and discussion to celebrate writer Kahanoff

Cornell Chronicle

Writer Jacqueline Kahanoff was born in 1917 to a French-speaking Jewish family in Cairo, and came of age intellectually in New York City and Paris.When she settled in Israel in 1954, she brought vast cultural experience with her. She also brought an opinion, unpopular with Israel’s ruling elite, that the culture of Jews from the Eastern Mediterranean region – known as the Levant – should be celebrated alongside those from Europe.