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Online cultural critic wins 2019-20 Nathan Award

Cornell Chronicle

Soraya Nadia McDonald, cultural critic for The Undefeated, a website that explores the intersection of race, sports and culture, has been named winner of the 2019-20 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

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Philosophy

Philosophy professor Manne wins book prize for ‘Down Girl’

Cornell Chronicle

Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won the 2019 American Philosophical Association’s Book Prize for her first book, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.”The biennial prize is awarded in odd years for the best published book written by a younger philosophy scholar.

Global Learning

Vice provost illuminates Cornell’s global role and impact

Cornell Chronicle

"I would like to see every student at Cornell have the opportunity to have an international experience."

In memoriam

Eminent historian Isaac Kramnick dies at 81

Cornell Chronicle

Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government Emeritus, a renowned scholar of English and American political thought and history, and a longtime champion of undergraduate education, died Dec. 21 in New York City. Kramnick was 81.Cornell President Martha E. Pollack said Kramnick was “a beloved Cornellian; a teacher and leader who, in his time at Cornell, touched the lives of generations of students, faculty and staff.”

International Studies

New Einaudi Center director launches book in Zambia

Cornell Chronicle

Prof. Rachel Riedl discovered that religious expression is ubiquitous in the public sphere in sub-Saharan Africa.

Physics

Understanding Quantum Matter Data

Cornell Research

Eun-Ah Kim, professor of physics, has received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create new data science approaches to meet the data-driven challenges of strongly correlated quantum matter (SCQM), Cornell Research reports. This project, undertaken with Kilian Q.

Physics

Physicist Paul Ginsparg awarded Compton Medal

A&S Communications

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has awarded the 2020 Karl Taylor Compton Medal for Leadership in Physics to Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics and information science and founder of arXiv. The medal and $10,000 prize is presented by AIP every four years to “highly distinguished physicists who have made outstanding contributions through exceptional statesmanship in physics.”

Center for the Study of Inequality

Anti-LGBT discrimination has a huge human toll. Research proves it.

Washington Post

Nathaniel Frank, founder and editor of the "What We Know" Research Portal, an initiative of Cornell University's Center for the Study of Inequality, argues in the Was

Music

Joy Zhang ’21 wins Cornell Concerto Competition

Cornell Chronicle

… Human Ecology, Zhang studies flute with Elizabeth Shuhan, visiting lecturer in the Department of Music. …

Sociology

Research Portal Presents Link between Discrimination and Health Harms for LGBT Population

A&S Communications

In a review of thousands of peer-reviewed studies, the What We Know Project (WWKP), an initiative of Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality, has found a strong link between anti-LGBT discrimination and harms to the health and well-being of LGBT people.

College Scholar Program

New College Scholars study death, food, migration

A&S Communications

Students in the program design a plan for their own interdisciplinary curriculum around a topic that doesn’t fit into a traditional major.

Classics

Professor publishes Placentius’ pugnacious pig poem

Classics professor Michael Fontaine explores the poem’s possible influence on George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.”

What Makes Us Human?

New podcast episode explains inequalities of place

A&S Communications

“ZIP Codes Matter,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, shows how inequality can be tracked across America simply by looking at ZIP codes. The podcast’s fifth season – “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality.

English, Comparative Literature

The Magic of Poetry

Cornell Research

Jonathan D. Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, wants to restore the magic of literary text for ordinary readers.

Mathematics

The Ordered Patterns of Chance

Cornell Research

Mathematician Lionel Levine researches the abelian sandpile—a mathmatical model that captures aspects of the real world but with simpler rules; in this Cornell Research article, Levine calls it a "toy universe."