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Molecular Biology and Genetics

CRISPR-Cas3 innovation holds promise for disease cures, advancing science

4/11/2019 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell researcher and colleagues have used a new CRISPR method for the first time in human cells – a major advance in the field.

Philosophy

It’s the sexism, stupid

4/11/2019 Politico

Cornell philosopher Kate Manne, author of "Down GIrl: The Logic of Misogyny," explains in this Politico op-ed why men are dominating the field of candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.

Performing & Media Arts

PMA presents theatrical re-imagining of ‘American Dream’ debate

4/11/2019 Performing & Media Arts

In 1965, the Cambridge Union Society invited African-American novelist James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, then-editor of the National Review, to debate the question, “Has the American Dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro?”

Psychology & Neurobiology and Behavior

Arts & Sciences alum named dean at UConn

4/11/2019 A&S Communications

Like many new Cornell students, Juli Wade ‘87 was unsure of her career path when she initially arrived on campus, but her experience working in the lab of Professor Elizabeth Adkins Regan, professor emerita of psychology and neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts & Sciences influenced her decision to pursue psychology.

Career development

Alum to discuss state department work related to nonproliferation

4/11/2019 A&S Communications

Eliot Kang ‘84, the principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), will talk about his work and career path April 18 as the 2019 Arts & Sciences Career Development Center’s Munschauer Speaker.

Research

Social scientists analyze the dynamics shaping China’s cities

4/9/2019 Cornell Chronicle

China’s enormous cities, their divisions and future plans have been at the heart of five social scientists’ research for the past three years.

Classics

Roman tragedy illuminated in original Latin

4/10/2019 A&S Communications

Ghosts, sacrifices, visions –Seneca’s ancient tale of the aftermath of the fall of Troy, “Troades” (“The Trojan Women”), is a Roman tragedy in the grand tradition. On April 21 and 24 Cornell classics students will stage the play in the original Latin (with English supertitles).

Astronomy

Study: Nearest exoplanets could host life

4/9/2019 Cornell Chronicle

The closest earth-like exoplanets are bombarded by high levels of radiation, but Cornell astronomers say life has already survived fierce radiation, and they have proof: you.

Romance Studies & Comparative Literature & Cognitive Science Program

New book explores the meaning of being a human animal

4/8/2019 A&S Communications

Philosopher Laurent Dubreuil and primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of being human.

In memoriam

Probability expert Harry Kesten, Ph.D. ’58, dies at 87

4/8/2019 Cornell Chronicle

Harry Kesten, Ph.D. ’58, the Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, whose insights advanced the modern understanding of probability theory and its applications, died March 29 in Ithaca. He was 87.

Performing & Media Arts

“An Evening at the Caffe Cino” pays homage to famed 1960s NYC theatre

4/8/2019 Performing & Media Arts

Considered the birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway—theatre that is more experimental and less commercial than mainstream staged productions—the Caffe Cino was a haven for budding playwrights and performers, as well as for the queer community, in New York’s Greenwich Village from 1958–1968. From April 18–20, 2019, “An Evening at the Caffe Cino” pays homage to the historic venue in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts’ Black Box Theatre.

English

Award-winning Poet Claudia Rankine to read at Cornell

4/8/2019

Award-winning poet and writer Claudia Rankine will read from her work for the Robert Chasen Memorial Poetry Reading on April 18 at 5 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall. The event will have free admission with ticket and is open to the public. Tickets are available at Willard Straight Hall Resource Center (4th/main floor) now and while supplies last. On April 18, doors will open at 4:30 p.m. for seating and books by the author will be available for purchase courtesy of Buffalo Street Books. This reading, which will conclude the Spring 2019 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of Cornell’s English Department.

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