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Government

Adam Schiff discusses impeachment inquiry, national security

Cornell Chronicle

Around the globe and from within, the nation now faces the most vigorous challenge to the idea of liberal democracy since World War II, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff said during an Oct. 10 visit to Cornell.

Alumni

Homecoming 2019: A beautiful time to be in Ithaca

Alumni Affairs & Development

Friends Alexandra Gutierrez ’20 and Elizabeth Farkouh ’21 had a full day on October 5, the Saturday of Cornell Homecoming 2019.

Music

Book reveals life and times of Anna Magdalena Bach

Cornell Chronicle

Anna Magdalena Bach has been called “history’s most famous musical wife and mother.”

Society for the Humanities

Conference spotlights ‘Energy Humanities’

Society for the Humanities

On the brink of ecological collapse, how do we think, write and speak about the various forms of energy we encounter? The Society for the Humanities’ annual fall conference, Oct. 18 and 19, will examine the human relationship to energy in its myriad forms.

What Makes Us Human?

Podcast describes efforts to ‘decolonize the screen’

A&S Communications

“The public is not hearing the stories that show a culture that is present and ever-changing," says Kiowa filmmaker and PMA professor Jeffrey Palmer.

Government

Pundits: Illiberalism poses threat to democracy

Cornell Chronicle

Liberal democracies occupy a tiny sliver of the human experience, and their hold on the West is crumbling, the conservative journalist and author Andrew Sullivan warned Oct. 3 at Cornell.Sullivan joined Ezra Klein, editor-at-large of Vox.com, at the Law School’s Landis Auditorium in the second installment of The Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series, titled “Is Illiberalism Corroding Our Democracy?”

Chemistry & chemical biology

Symposium bridges cancer research across Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

The second annual Intercampus Cancer Symposium, Oct. 11 at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, will highlight the wide range of cancer research taking place at Cornell’s Ithaca campus and at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

Physics

Researchers raise the temperature for exciton condensation

Cornell Chronicle

New Cornell-led research is pointing the way toward an elusive goal of physicists – high-temperature superfluidity – by exploring excitons in atomically thin semiconductors.

Economics

NYU prof. shares insight on game theory economics

A&S Communications

The economics department will welcome Ariel Rubinstein for its annual George Staller Lecture Oct. 28. “Ariel Rubinstein is one of the world’s most prominent economic theorists, with seminal work in game theory,” said Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics. “What makes him special is the philosopher’s touch that he brings to his writings.” 

Global Grand Challenge

Cornell tackles ‘migrations’ global challenge

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers from every corner of Cornell are mobilizing to tackle one of the grand challenges of the modern era.

In memoriam

Dick Archer, man behind Cornell stage productions, dies at 71

Cornell Chronicle

Associate professor of theater arts Dick Archer, who facilitated the creation of theater and dance productions at Cornell for 40 years and who was instrumental in the most critical design phases of the Schwartz Center, died Sept. 14 following a battle with cancer. He was 71.

Engaged Cornell

Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced

Cornell Chronicle

Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program.The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.

Teaching excellence

Six projects receive Innovative Teaching and Learning Awards

Cornell Chronicle

This year’s Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners will give Cornell students a host of new opportunities and experiences – from building their own musical instruments to using new software programs for imaging dynamic processes inside the human body.

Alumni visits

Attorney shares wide-ranging career path with students

A&S Communications

“Something within me just craves movement and change,” Stephen Robinson ’81 J.D. ’83 said during a Career Conversation with students.

English

Influential writer, teacher Robert Morgan celebrated Oct. 3

Cornell Chronicle

Robert Morgan, an influential American writer and one of Cornell’s most beloved professors, will be honored at a celebration on campus on the occasion of his 75th birthday.