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What Makes Us Human?

Unequal Happiness

… asked how inequality might affect psychological well-being. For one thing, we can expect rising inequality to make the … how much money that person already has. A $10,000 windfall for example boosts the happiness of someone of modest means … a bunch of Teslas in the office parking lot. So the person buys a bigger house in a more affordable neighborhood …

What Makes Us Human?

The Need for Trees

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fourth season, "What Does Water Mean for Us Humans?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about the relationship between humans and love. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Tuesday through the spring semester.

Active learning

Professors, students laud active learning physics lab course

A&S Communications

Students said they gained confidence and discovered the pleasure of experimentation.

Philosophy & Classics

NEH supports faculty research, preservation projects

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty members Denise N. Green ’07 and Rachana Kamtekar have received grants for preservation and research projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The awards were announced Dec. 12 by the National Humanities Alliance (NHA).

Interdisciplinary research

History of Capitalism initiative takes big-picture approach

A&S Communications

The initiative is a collaboration between the Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences, the ILR School and faculty in other departments and programs across Cornell.

Government

Government professor featured in new documentary

A&S Communications

… the policy decisions that have given rise to a powerful for-profit college industry. … in Washington, D.C. that have given rise to a powerful for-profit college industry.  Director Alexander Shebanow … deeply absorbed your book. “His questions tapped into the very themes I had tried to convey,” she said, “particularly  …

Government

Sabrina Karim receives grant to study women’s participation in peacekeeping

A&S Communications

Sabrina Karim, assistant professor of government, has been awarded a Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) grant to assess the barriers affecting women's participation in eight selected United Nations peacekeeping troop and police contributing countries. The $294,843 award will cover a post-doc position for 18 months, a research assistant, and time for Karim to conduct the study.

Linguistics

Grad student works with indigenous speaker to document fading tongue

A&S Communications

… culture — she has heard from oral accounts that one of her foremothers was a Bororo. With around 900 speakers, Bororo … these interactions, Harmath-de Lemos made a point of being very cognizant of community traditions and protectiveness of …

Music

Ariana Kim’s quartet earns Grammy nomination

Cornell Chronicle

The album, “Blueprinting,” features recordings of new works written for the quartet by five contemporary American composers.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Undergrad's project part of effort to save Javan rhinos

Cornell Chronicle

Rhinoceroses are instantly recognizable by their rumpled gray skin, immense snouts and iconic horns, but not so much their voices.That could change thanks to the efforts of Montana Stone ’19, who is working to document the vocalizations of Javan rhinos through a collaboration with the Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program and Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park. 

Near Eastern Studies

Cornell brings sounds of Middle East to local K-12 teachers

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… Participants came from four schools and two school districts, including Ithaca. … Near Eastern Studies (NES) lounge as the students in the Listening to the Middle East course sat silent and intent. … the Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services, gives K-12 teachers a six-session professional …

Music

Aditya Deshpande ’22 wins Cornell Concerto Competition

Cornell Chronicle

Aditya Deshpande ’22 performed Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major to win the 16th Cornell Concerto Competition, held Dec. 9 in Barnes Hall. He will perform the concerto with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra at a concert on campus in March.

Physics

Celebrating arXiv's growth at the library, future at CIS

Cornell Chronicle

… It’s not official unless there’s cake.On the cusp of arXiv’s move to … It’s not official unless there’s cake. On the cusp of  arXiv’s move … including the Simons Foundation and 230 libraries from 26 countries. Beasley, who described the celebration as …

Faculty excellence

German Studies professor receives honor from MLA

A&S Communications

Patrizia C. McBride, director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and professor of German Studies, received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) for her book “The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany.”  

Astronomy

El Moutamid named affiliate of African Academy of Sciences

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Maryame El Moutamid has been named an affiliate member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). Moutamid is a research associate at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science and an affiliate of the Carl Sagan Institute. Moutamid’s research concerns planetary ring dynamics and satellite orbital dynamics and their connections with giant planet interior structure.