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Archaeology

‘Ghost’ footprints from the Pleistocene made visible

A&S Communications

The fossilized footprints reveal a wealth of information about how humans and animals moved and interacted with each other 12,000 years ago.

Music, History of Art and Visual Studies, Southeast Asian Studies

Indonesian Gamelan performances this week

Department of Music

… The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble presents two days of Indonesian performances at … The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble presents two days of Indonesian performances at … Gusti Nyoman Darta and Bethany Collier, and the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble.​ Then on Saturday, Nov. 23 at 1 p.m., …

Veterans Day

Professor’s Vietnam War service determined his life’s path

Cornell Chronicle

Keith Taylor didn’t want to be a veteran.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Racker Lecture Series welcomes Richard Lifton Nov. 22

A&S Communications

This year’s Racker lecture series, sponsored by the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, will feature Dr. Richard P. Lifton, president of Rockefeller University, where he is also Carson Family Professor and head of the Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Alumnus novelist visits for talk with Milstein students

Rodman described writing as “"discovering your own autobiography through your fictional characters."

American studies, Government, History

Struggle to save America's cities is focus of University Lecture Nov. 14

A&S Communications

City governments are often forced to rely on the private sector to support the public good. But it wasn’t always this way.

Research abroad

Two doctoral students win Fulbright-Hays fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell doctoral students Mary-Kate Long and Jiwon Baik have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.The prestigious fellowships, managed at Cornell by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, will take Long to Myanmar and Baik to China.

What Makes Us Human?

Benefits of active learning explored in new podcast episode

A&S Communications

“Closing Achievement Gaps,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, examines how active learning helps students succeed. The podcast’s fifth season – “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality.

Government

An Indian nuclear power plant suffered a cyberattack. Here’s what you need to know.

The Washington Post

Debak Das, a doctoral candidate in the field of political science, writes in this Washington Post news piece about the circumstances surrounding the most recent cyberattack on the largest Indian nuclear power plant.

Climate Change

Anthropologists to speak on climate change

Society for the Humanities

… Theatre, on Monday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m., in advance of their visit to Cornell. Boyer and Howe created the “Not OK” … together, “Wind and Power in the Anthropocene.” The visit by Howe and Boyer, who are 2019-20 Invited Society …

Arts Unplugged

Cornell According to Sound offers sonic look at campus

A&S Communications

… and connects multitudinous sites of sound on campus together for the first time.” Hoff and Harnett are on campus … and crazy religious people speaking gibberish to get closer to the divine. “Those things are real. They are … 6 p.m. on Ho Plaza is dominated by the chimes, but in Collegetown they're ever so faintly audible, and instead the …

Performing & Media Arts

Community-based play imagines future of climate change in Ithaca

Performing & Media Arts

“The Next Storm” (November 15–23, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts) is a community-based play by the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), Ithaca-based theatre company Civic Ensemble, and playwright Thomas Dunn. Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Civic Ensemble co–artistic director and PMA senior lecturer, directs this wry comedy.

photo from space
Astronomy

Faculty appointed to Astro2020 survey

A&S Communications

Three Cornell astronomers have been appointed to panel membership for the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astro2020: Nikole Lewis assistant professor and deputy director of the Carl Sagan Institute, Professor Gordon Stacey and Professor

Physics

Researchers model avalanches in two dimensions

Cornell Chronicle

There’s a structural avalanche waiting inside that box of Rice Krispies on the supermarket shelf. Cornell researchers are now closer to understanding how those structures behave – and in some cases, behave unusually.

Government & American Studies

Student works for global change through Fulbright program

Cornell Chronicle

Nine Cornell students and new alumni received Fulbrights this year.