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Music

ONEcomposer partners with Philadelphia Orchestra for Florence Price premiere

2/4/2021 A&S Communications

Cornell music faculty are working with the Philadelphia Orchestra to bring to light the works of a historically erased composer.

Department News

Trustees approve new Department of Literatures in English name change

2/4/2021 A&S Communications

Faculty members say the change from the Department of English to the Department of Literatures in English better reflects the world and the department’s diverse fields of study.

Asian Studies

Book: Thai poet uses Buddhist principles to “re-enchant” the modern world

2/4/2021 Cornell Chronicle

In “Teardrops of Time,” Arnika Fuhrmann places Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong among the most significant of the 20th century.

German Studies

Student Spotlight: David Dunham

1/25/2021 Cornell University Graduate School

After earning an undergraduate degree from New York University, David Dunham, doctoral student in Germanic studies from Springfield, Virginia, chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the strength of the Germanic studies field and the university’s location in Ithaca.

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Cornell Library

Library’s A&S digitization program seeking applications

1/28/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences is seeking applications to create online collections that will support teaching and scholarship at Cornell and beyond.

Performing and Media Arts

Native Storytelling panel at Sundance features Jeffrey Palmer

1/28/2021 Department of Performing & Media Arts

Palmer and other filmmakers will discuss the impact and importance of Indigenous voices in cinema at the Beyond Film event, free online on Jan. 30.

Students, sitting far apart, meet for class in Milstein Hall — Jason Koski/Cornell University

Sociology

Pandemic reshaped ‘small world’ campus networks

1/28/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Through courses alone, more than 90% of students were linked by three or fewer degrees of separation.

Government

Some GOP members didn’t accept Biden’s win. What happens when an anti-democratic faction rocks a democracy?

1/27/2021 Washington Post

In a Washington Post op-ed, Cornell government professors Rachel Beatty Riedl and Kenneth Roberts write that Republican leaders’ response to the armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and other recent events suggested that some are unwilling to accept the legitimacy of free and fair elections, a problem not just for the Republican Party but for U.S. democracy more broadly.

Psychology

Computer model reveals how cortical areas develop and evolve

1/27/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Little is known about how higher cortical areas in the brain develop after the primary areas are in place. A new study by Cornell and Yale researchers, including professor emerita of psychology Barbara Finlay, uses computer modeling to show that the development and evolution of secondary visual cortical areas can be explained by the same process.

History

Professor emerita to discuss latest work in ‘Book Breaks’

1/26/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Mary Beth Norton will discuss her book, “1774: The Long Year of Revolution,” in the next “Book Breaks” discussion, hosted Jan. 31 by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Cross-campus team probes gene-environment interactions

1/26/2021 Cornell Chronicle

The new method will help researchers studying genetic and environmental interactions and how they influence disease risk.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Study: Did cobras first spit venom to scare pre-humans?

1/27/2021 Cornell Chronicle

New research by Harry Greene, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology, suggests that for some cobras, the venom evolved additional complexity to deter potential enemies– possibly including bipedal, larger-brained hominins like Homo erectus, our extinct close relative.