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Music, Science and Technology Studies

Moog festival to feature talks, music, exhibition

Cornell Chronicle

… pioneer Suzanne Ciani. “When Machines Rock” also brings together panels and presentations by Moog specialists and … Haunt, a music venue in downtown Ithaca. “We’re trying to get the community up to the hill and get the hill down to the Haunt to create a vibrant …

Comparative Literature

‘Dramas of desperation’: Book examines naked protest in Africa

Cornell Chronicle

… headlines, and sometimes, as in the Chevron Texaco case, gets things done. Yet Naminata Diabate , assistant professor …

Astronomy

InSight detects gravity waves, low rumbles and devilish dust

Cornell Chronicle

Don Banfield ‘87, principal research scientist at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, is the science lead for a suite of sensors aboard InSight.

Government

‘Making the turn’: from inmate to scholar

Cornell Chronicle

It is 4 p.m., and Darryl Epps has just put in a full day at work. Yet his day is only half over.

Performing & Media Arts

“Transformation,” collaborations with guest artists inspire annual Locally Grown Dance

Department of Performing & Media Arts

… Florian Lochner and Ayo Janeen Jackson, both of whom visited in the fall semester.   Ceynowa describes his piece, …

Government

Roper Center gives voice to American public opinion

Cornell Chronicle

… years earlier. “Although who is leading the polls often gets more attention,” said Enns, “it is important to …

Alumni

Paramount exec can manufacture explosions, but says story still makes the movie

A&S Communications

… filmmaking class at Cornell and he couldn’t wait to get at it. “I never had that experience before,” said … a sense of humor are things I call on every day. If you can get in front of a group of people and get through a sketch, you can do anything.” …

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Expanding bone cancer therapy radium-223 for other cancers

Cornell Research

Radium-223 is highly effective for treating bone metastases in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancers. Despite the therapeutic potential of radium-223, its current formulation approved by the Food and Drug Administration is effective only for patients with bone metastases. Justin J.

Physics

Physics tool helps track cancer cell diversity

Cornell Chronicle

The team of economists and physicists took a novel approach to analyzing the behavior of breast tumor cells.

Performing and Media Arts

Stratford wins essay award from Northeast Modern Language Association

Aoise Stratford, lecturer in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, recently won the CAITY (Contingent/Adjunct/Independent Scholar/Two-Year Caucus) Essay Award from the Northeast Modern Language Association.

Sociology

Salaam promotes value of resilience, faith in MLK Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Criminal justice activist Yusef Salaam, one of “The Exonerated Five” wrongly accused and convicted in the Central Park jogger case in New York City three decades ago, offered wisdom and hope to students and community members in the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Feb. 17 in Sage Chapel.

Milstein Program

Entrepreneur facilitates workshop on design thinking, ethnographic interviewing

Dr. Virginia Rath, a scientist, design research consultant and serial entrepreneur, led Cornell students in a workshop on Jan. 29, encouraging attendants to employ design thinking skills to innovate solutions. During the workshop, students practiced qualitative approaches to design thinking such as user observations and ethnographic interviews to help them understand stakeholders. 

Government

Cornell professor, pollster taking pulse of Latino voters

Cornell Chronicle

Univision last year tapped Sergio Garcia-Rios as director of polling throughout the presidential campaign.

NY Times journalist Marc Lacey speaking with students
Chris Kitchen/A&S Communications NY Times journalist Marc Lacey speaking with students
Distinguished Visiting journalists

First visiting journalist shares world of the NYT with students, faculty

A&S Communications

… Marc Lacey '87 offered advice to students, visited classes and learned about faculty research. … editor for The New York Times and the first Distinguished Visiting Journalist in a new College of Arts & Sciences … Global Grand Challenge, focused on migrations. Lacey also visited the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research to …

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Davis, Delimitrou, DiStasio win Sloan fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Damek Davis, Christina Delimitrou and Robert A. DiStasio Jr. have won 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships support early-career faculty members’ original research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics.