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The Carol Tatkon Center: A Great Resource at Cornell

This week, Ambassador Meredith explains why the Carol Tatkon Center is such a useful resource for students at Cornell.By Meredith Chagares ’19, History major

Interdisciplinary learning

Students explore climate change through scripts

A&S Communications

… not just about good sentences, but about which forms are best for which arguments. So, for example, charts are great … can help us to think about the world to come—both the best possibilities and the most frightening. The arts can …

Government

How hawkish is the Chinese public?

Cornell Chronicle

Chinese Communist Party officials often invoke the outrage of the Chinese people when disputing a foreign government’s actions or demands. International observers are often skeptical of these claims about the overarching feelings of 1.3 billion people.But not much is known about what citizens of the People’s Republic of China actually think about their country’s foreign policy. A Cornell scholar of Chinese politics and foreign relations is among the first to ask that question.

English

English professor surprised with Windham-Campbell Prize

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Ishion Hutchinson, associate professor of English Language and Literature, was honored March 13 as one of eight winners of the annual Donald Windham-Sandy M.Campbell Literature Prize. The award offers $165,000 prizes in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Hutchinson, along with poet Kwame Dawes, received the prize for outstanding work in poetry.  

Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Alumni share career paths after FGSS degree

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"The knowledge you have at this age will be so relevant in your future."

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

New lecture series honors EEB professor

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The series will engage faculty and students from diverse disciplines to help foster the growth of the study of human evolution.

What Makes Us Human?

Podcast explores ‘What Does Water Mean for Us Humans?’

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The new season of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast and essay series, titled “What Does Water Mean for Us Humans?” showcases the newest thinking by Cornell faculty across academic disciplines about the relationship between humans and water.

Career development

Pathways program guides students through internship process

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The program is one of several new initiatives to support first-generation students.

Latina/o Studies

Ella Diaz wins prestigious book award

Latina/o Studies Program

Associate Professor Ella Maria Diaz’s book, "Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force" (University of Texas Press, 2017), is the recipient of the 2019 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) book award.

Linguistics

Cornellians win Cook Awards for improving campus climate for women

Students, staff and faculty members who exceeded their job responsibilities to enhance the atmosphere for women at Cornell were recognized at the 20th Cook Awards luncheon March 12 in Warren Hall. Colleagues, family and academic leaders including deans, vice provosts, President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff attended the celebration.

Performing & Media Arts

New play addresses activism, intent and justice

Performing & Media Arts

The events of August 2017 brought worldwide attention to the issue of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, who had long been persecuted and oppressed by the Burmese government and military. Despite the initial reaction to the violent displacement of over a million men, women, and children—as well as the deaths of thousands—global media outlets were slow to follow up on their first reports. With information about the genocide scarce and the call to action not nearly loud enough, it was cle

Graduate student research

Einaudi Center funds Cornell dissertations with global impact

Einaudi Center

Twelve graduate students will spend this year refining their dissertation plans and testing the waters of global research, with help from faculty mentors and intensive workshops, in the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program.

Government

Study: Tug at heartstrings with big stats, human stories

Cornell Chronicle

A new study sheds light on the types of statistical and narrative evidence that are most effective at changing behavior.

Mathematics

How Pi Made Us Modern

New York Times

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences and author of "The Joy of X," explains the origin and meaning of pi in a New York Times op-ed. 

Jewish Studies

Holocaust Memorial Museum curator to visit Ithaca

A&S Communications

Historian Judith Cohen, Chief Acquisitions Curator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington DC, will visit Ithaca March 24-25. The visit is hosted by the Ithaca Descendants of Holocaust Survivors and co-sponsored by Cornell’s Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. Additional sponsors include Ithaca College Jewish Studies and the Ithaca Area United Jewish Community.