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Language study

Language Resource Center podcast highlights indigenous languages

A&S Communications

… A new season of podcasts from the Language Resource Center (LRC) celebrates 2019 as the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages. The global celebration kicked off with a seminar in New York … A new season of podcasts from the Language Resource Center (LRC) celebrates 2019 as the …

Government

Trump’s emergency declaration doesn’t show his power. It shows his weakness.

The Washington Post

Government Professor Douglas Kriner joins colleague Josh Chafetz, a Cornell Law School professor, to write this opinion piece in The Washington Post about President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration and the contention it is a signal of his authoritarian impulses. 

Economics

Leading economic theorist Tapan Mitra dies at age 70

Cornell Chronicle

Tapan Mitra, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics and a leading economic theorist of his generation, died of cancer Feb. 3 in Ithaca, New York. He was 70.

Psychology

Do you really love your valentine? How to analyze unconscious negative feelings toward our partners

Newsweek

Vivian Zayas, associate professor of psychology, writes in this article in Newsweek with Yuichi Shoda, professor of psychology at the University of Washington, how thoughts and feelings people are not even aware of may shape their romantic relationships. 

Information Science

Study uses neural networks to define Dada

Cornell Chronicle

To make a Dadaist poem, artist Tristan Tzara once said, cut out each word of a newspaper article. Put the words into a bag and shake. Remove the words from the bag one at a time, and write them down in that order.

Institute for Comparative Modernities

Institute for Comparative Modernities partners with Tate Modern for conference

A&S Communications

Cornell’s the Institute for Comparative Modernities will partner with the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and the Africa Institute, Sharjah, to host “Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures,” a conference at the Tate Modern in London from Feb. 23-25.

Humanities

JFK letter to professor donated to library

Cornell Chronicle

Widely considered a classic, Clinton Rossiter’s book, “The American Presidency,” has garnered praise from scholars of political science since its publication in 1956. But one of its greatest accolades came directly from the Oval Office, in a personal letter from John F. Kennedy.

Interdisciplinary research

Social scientists take on data-driven discrimination

Cornell Chronicle

With big data, machine learning and digital surveillance pervasive in all facets of life, they have the potential to create racial and social inequalities – and make existing discrimination even worse.

Center for the Study of Inequality

New minor track focuses on inequities in health

A&S Communications

The track is especially relevant for students who are interested in careers in medicine, public health, social science research or public policy.

Research

Give and Go: The double movement of "Shut Up and Dribble"

LA Review of Books

In a commentary for the LA Review of Books, Mary Armstrong Meduski '80 Assistant Professor Samantha N Shephard launches a critique of the recent SpringHill Entertainment documentary, "Shut Up and Dribble". The documentary focuses on NBA athletes' historical relationship with civil rights issues and the power dyanmics of the league today. Sheppard, an expert in Black cultural production and production culture, criticizes the film's overly simplistic narrative of social change; one that omits women and other marginalized figures such as victims of HIV.

Mars Rovers

Built to last 90 days, Mars rover Opportunity ends mission after 15 years

Cornell Chronicle

Opportunity reshaped our understanding of ancient Mars: it was "more habitable, more Earthlike," says Cornell astronomer Steve Squyres.

History

Freedom on the Move launches database of fugitives from American slavery

A&S Communications

This public crowdsourcing project is helping to digitize tens of thousands of advertisements placed by enslavers who wanted to recapture self-liberating Africans and African-Americans.

Sociology

Tech wealthy have a responsibility to the state that made them

San Francisco Chronicle

Cristobal Young, associate professor of sociology, writes in this San Francisco Chronicle op-ed that those companies who make their money in Silicon Valley have a responsibility to pay their taxes to the "state that made them," rather than the growing trend of moving out of the high tax state right before t

Mathematics

Strogatz gives plenary session at World Government Summit in Dubai

A&S Communications

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, delivered a lecture at the World Governmental Summit in Dubai Feb. 11. In the lecture, he discussed how governments can harness the science of synchronized randomness to the benefit of society.

Performing and Media Arts

Performing and Media Arts to host interdisciplinary symposium

On March 15–16, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will host an interdisciplinary symposium titled “Feminist Directions: Performance, Power, and Leadership.” Over the course of the symposium, internationally acclaimed artists Tisa Chang (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre), Holly Hughes (University of Michigan), Leigh Fondakowski (Tectonic Theatre Project), Rhodessa Jones (Cultural Odyssey), Peggy Shaw (Split Britches), and Lois Weaver (Queen Mary University of London) will join local artis