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What Makes Us Human?

Inequalities in the workplace explored in new podcast episode

Cornell Chronicle

“Workplace Rankings,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, explores power and status in the workplace. The podcast’s fifth season – “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality.

Person working in a lab
Jason Koski/Cornell University Qihao Li, a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of Héctor Abruña, carries out a rotating disk electrode experiment to assess the electrocatalytic activity for one of the lab’s materials.
Education

Putting The ‘Science’ Back Into Science Labs

Forbes

This Forbes news article focuses on the work of Natasha Holmes, Ann S. Bowers Assistant Professor of Physics, and her efforts to innovate student learning.

Archaeology

‘Ghost’ footprints from the Pleistocene made visible

A&S Communications

The fossilized footprints reveal a wealth of information about how humans and animals moved and interacted with each other 12,000 years ago.

Music, History of Art and Visual Studies, Southeast Asian Studies

Indonesian Gamelan performances this week

Department of Music

The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble presents two days of Indonesian performances at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art with visiting guest artists from Java and Bali. On Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m., guest artists Gusti Sudarta (Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Denpasar) and Darsono Hadiraharjo (SEAP Visiting Critic) will perform excerpts of traditional wayang (shadow puppetry), providing audiences a rare opportunity to experience both Balinese and Javanese forms of this vital art form.

Veterans Day

Professor’s Vietnam War service determined his life’s path

Cornell Chronicle

Keith Taylor didn’t want to be a veteran.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Racker Lecture Series welcomes Richard Lifton Nov. 22

A&S Communications

This year’s Racker lecture series, sponsored by the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, will feature Dr. Richard P. Lifton, president of Rockefeller University, where he is also Carson Family Professor and head of the Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Alumnus novelist visits for talk with Milstein students

Rodman described writing as “"discovering your own autobiography through your fictional characters."

American studies, Government, History

Struggle to save America's cities is focus of University Lecture Nov. 14

A&S Communications

City governments are often forced to rely on the private sector to support the public good. But it wasn’t always this way.

Research abroad

Two doctoral students win Fulbright-Hays fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell doctoral students Mary-Kate Long and Jiwon Baik have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.The prestigious fellowships, managed at Cornell by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, will take Long to Myanmar and Baik to China.

What Makes Us Human?

Benefits of active learning explored in new podcast episode

A&S Communications

“Closing Achievement Gaps,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, examines how active learning helps students succeed. The podcast’s fifth season – “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality.

Government

An Indian nuclear power plant suffered a cyberattack. Here’s what you need to know.

The Washington Post

Debak Das, a doctoral candidate in the field of political science, writes in this Washington Post news piece about the circumstances surrounding the most recent cyberattack on the largest Indian nuclear power plant.

Climate Change

Anthropologists to speak on climate change

Society for the Humanities

How can we illustrate the gravity of climate change? Is it possible to grasp such a loss? Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, working to humanize the abstract concept of climate change and provide opportunities for dialogue, will deliver a free public lecture, “Of Flood and Ice,” on Wednesday Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House.

Arts Unplugged

Cornell According to Sound offers sonic look at campus

A&S Communications

The creators of The World According to Sound will share the audio they've collected on campus -- from fish and frogs to Latin speakers and synthesizers -- in four live performances.

Performing & Media Arts

Community-based play imagines future of climate change in Ithaca

Performing & Media Arts

“The Next Storm” (November 15–23, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts) is a community-based play by the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), Ithaca-based theatre company Civic Ensemble, and playwright Thomas Dunn. Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Civic Ensemble co–artistic director and PMA senior lecturer, directs this wry comedy.

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Astronomy

Faculty appointed to Astro2020 survey

A&S Communications

Three Cornell astronomers have been appointed to panel membership for the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astro2020: Nikole Lewis assistant professor and deputy director of the Carl Sagan Institute, Professor Gordon Stacey and Professor