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History of Art & Performing & Media Arts

Bollywood biopic debuts at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Bollywood director Nandita Das brings her breakout 2018 film “Manto,” the story of maverick writer Saadat Hasan Manto during the Partition of India, to Cornell on Thursday, March 14.

Interdisciplinary

Symposium welcomes artists, public to explore feminist performance

Cornell Chronicle

The history of feminist performance is one of radical storytelling, of showing how the personal is political, and of carving out spaces in which women can feel, in the words of performance artist Holly Hughes, “at last, fully human.”An interdisciplinary symposium at Cornell March 15-16 will explore what this history can teach us about the future of feminism, and how we can use performance to reflect the changes we want to see.

Biological Sciences

Biology students teach STEM curriculum in Colombia

A&S Communications

Eight Arts & Sciences students spent winter break in Colombia, collaborating with Colombian undergraduate students from the University of Magdalena to teach students at a public school in the coastal city of Santa Marta. The students spent their time carrying out STEM enrichment projects in the school, which primarily serves students from disadvantaged communities.

History

Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American tradition

The Washington Post

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History

Seymour lecture focuses on women's soccer protests

In 2016, the majority of women's soccer teams in Latin America were designated "inactive" by FIFA. Women players launched protests, still ongoing, for better conditions in the sport. Historian Brenda Elsey of Hofstra University will explore the implications of these protests in this year's Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History.

History & Classics

Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History

Time Magazine

Barry Strauss, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, wrote in this op-ed in Time that ancient Rome was a macho society, often misogynistic, where women did not enjoy equal citizen rights. But, he says, if we look hard at history, we discover some women who made their mark. 

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Tackling cancer biology research across colleges and campuses

Ezra Magazine

Cancer biologist Richard Cerione is seeking to understand what makes a cancer cell more aggressive and more invasive, in a cross-college collaboration with biomedical engineer Claudia Fischbach.

Mathematics

Six assistant professors win NSF early-career awards

Cornell Chronicle

Two operations research and information engineers, two electrical engineers and two mathematicians from Cornell have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program awards. Over the next five years, each researcher will receive up to $500,000 “to build a firm scientific footing for solving challenges and scaling new heights for the nation, as well as serve as academic role models in research and education,” according to the NSF website.

Science & Technology Studies

AAAS panel examines field of science communication

A&S Communications

Women make up the majority of the field of science communications (in some Cornell courses in the field, up to 90 percent), but until it became a professional field practitioners were more often male. “Science communication is now lower status, lower paid and has all the ghettoizing characteristics of other gendered professions,” said Professor Bruce Lewenstein at the recent Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Conference in Washington, D.C.

College Scholar Program

New College Scholars explore interdisciplinary studies

A&S Communications

"The College Scholar Program is the pinnacle of the liberal arts experience at Cornell...it allows students to leverage all of the expertise across all the departments in the College of Arts & Sciences and beyond."

Latino/a Studies

Bilingual performance explores the experience of Ithaca's Latinx community

A&S Communications

Performers told stories from their lives and shared music, dance and poetry about being Latinx in Ithaca, in Habla/Speak, a bilingual collective creation performance.

Government

Study: Nearly half of Americans have had a family member jailed, imprisoned

Cornell Chronicle

A groundbreaking Cornell-led study shows that nearly 1 in 2 Americans have had a brother or sister, parent, spouse or child spend time in jail or prison.

Mathematics

Math professor honored with the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition

A&S Communications

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) recently honored Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, as the 2019 recipient of the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition.

In Memoriam

Economist Richard Schuler dies at age 81

A&S Communications

Richard Schuler, professor emeritus in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts & Sciences and professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering in the  College of Engineering, passed away Feb. 13 at the age of 81. Services were held Feb. 18 at Saint Catherine’s of Sienna Church in Ithaca.

History

'Ten Caesars' offers lessons from history's great leaders

Cornell Chronicle

Stepping into the shoes of a god isn’t easy, as historian Barry Strauss makes clear in a new book that traces the biographies of 10 of the men who succeeded Julius Caesar.