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Cornell Music announces Mayfest Chamber Music Festival

Department of Music

Under the artistic direction of pianists Miri Yampolsky, senior lecturer of music, and Xak Bjerken, professor of music, Cornell University’s Department of Music presents Mayfest, its annual springtime festival of world-class chamber music, from May 17–21. Mayfest will feature numerous guest artists from the world’s finest orchestras, and will

Graduate students

Five inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

Astronomy

Cornell to offer new astronomy minors

A&S Communications

Beginning in Fall 2019, students will have two new minors to choose from in astronomy: astrobiology and data science.

What Makes Us Human?

Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ explored in new podcast episode

A&S Communications

“A Water-Filled Journey,” the newest episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast, examines Odysseus’ complex relationship with water.

Student organizations

Poetry night explores ideas of citizenship

A&S Communications

Who has the power to dream and to detain? What constitutes culture and national identity? What is citizenship?These are some of the questions that members of Marginalia, an undergraduate poetry review society, grappled with during an April 18 poetry open mic night called “Radiant Voices: Citizenship.”

Mellon Mays program

Philosophy professor to address ‘White Backlash’ in Mellon Mays talk

A&S Communications

How does one “deploy love” in the process of critically engaging whiteness? George Yancy, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows’ 2019 distinguished guest speaker, will examine this question in “A Letter of love: An Encounter with White Backlash.” He will also address what it means for whiteness to be in crisis, which he argues is a positive way of beginning to undo it. The talk will take place on Friday, April 26, at 4.30 p.m. in HEC Auditorium (GSH 132). 

Why Cornell? Ambassador Nick Answers

This week, Ambassador Nick explains how he made the decision to attend Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences. By Nick Smith '20, Economics major

Physics

Lecturer to examine the point of basic research

Cornell Chronicle

Why should resources – financial or intellectual – be dedicated to the pursuit of theoretical knowledge when the world has so many pressing problems? On April 24 particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will examine the significance of performing basic research in his latest public talk as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. The talk will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall’s Schwartz Auditorium and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at 9 p.m. at the West Pavilion of Clark Hall.

Physics

Polka dot pattern upends superfluid hypothesis

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell professor collaborated with researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London, where experiments were conducted using special confinement chambers constructed at Cornell.

Chemistry & biology

What’s all the talk about Sirtuins?

Sirtuins’ connection to cancer is a big topic in life sciences research. What are they and why are they important to the hunt for cancer therapies?

Media Studies

‘World According to Sound’ creators to be artists in residence

A&S Communications

Chris Hoff ’02 and Sam Harnett, co-creators of the 90-second public radio show and podcast, “The World According to Sound,” will be artists in residence this fall as part of Cornell’s multidisciplinary Media Studies Initiative.In advance of their residency, Hoff and Harnett will give an audio presentation May 1 at 8 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

American Studies Program & Cornell Cinema

Photographer Balog to highlight human element amid climate change April 22

Cornell Chronicle

For four decades, environmental photographer James Balog has traveled the world capturing the connections between humans and nature in vivid detail.The Cornell community will have the opportunity to explore these connections, too, when Cornell Cinema hosts a free screening of “The Human Element” on Earth Day, April 22, at 7 p.m.

Humanities

Daylong ‘Odyssey’ event to feature community, campus readers

A&S Communications

… will be using a new translation of Homer’s “Odyssey” by Emily Wilson, the first translation by a woman. The … part of the reading at any time of day. Learn more about Emily Wilson’s translation here . …

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ceci, Zamudio elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Two Cornell faculty members with expertise in psychology and evolutionary biology have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 17.

History

New York Times columnist to speak on meritocracy

A&S Communications

Our contemporary power structure claims to be based on merit and aims for diversity, but it has lost a sense of duty and responsibility that the traditional aristocracy represented, says author and political essayist Ross Douthat. In “Meritocracy and the Public Good:  Who Wins?  Who Loses?” Douthat will explore what the costs of this structure are to the common good. Sponsored by the program on Freedom and Free Societies, the talk will be held Thursday, April 25, at 5:30 p.m.