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Near Eastern Studies

Cornell brings sounds of Middle East to local K-12 teachers

A&S Communications

Participants came from four schools and two school districts, including Ithaca.

Music

Aditya Deshpande ’22 wins Cornell Concerto Competition

Cornell Chronicle

Aditya Deshpande ’22 performed Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major to win the 16th Cornell Concerto Competition, held Dec. 9 in Barnes Hall. He will perform the concerto with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra at a concert on campus in March.

Music

Ariana Kim’s quartet earns Grammy nomination

Cornell Chronicle

The album, “Blueprinting,” features recordings of new works written for the quartet by five contemporary American composers.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Undergrad's project part of effort to save Javan rhinos

Cornell Chronicle

Rhinoceroses are instantly recognizable by their rumpled gray skin, immense snouts and iconic horns, but not so much their voices.That could change thanks to the efforts of Montana Stone ’19, who is working to document the vocalizations of Javan rhinos through a collaboration with the Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program and Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park. 

Physics

Celebrating arXiv's growth at the library, future at CIS

Cornell Chronicle

It’s not official unless there’s cake.On the cusp of arXiv’s move to Computing and Information Science (CIS) in January, members of Cornell University Library and CIS celebrated 17 years of the scientific research repository’s growth under library stewardship, and wished it continued success.

Faculty excellence

German Studies professor receives honor from MLA

A&S Communications

Patrizia C. McBride, director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and professor of German Studies, received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) for her book “The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany.”  

Astronomy

El Moutamid named affiliate of African Academy of Sciences

A&S Communications

Maryame El Moutamid has been named an affiliate member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). Moutamid is a research associate at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science and an affiliate of the Carl Sagan Institute. Moutamid’s research concerns planetary ring dynamics and satellite orbital dynamics and their connections with giant planet interior structure.

Classics

Twitter has become the modern-day Colosseum

Fortune

Michael Fontaine, a professor in the classics department and specialist in latin literature and Roman society, published an opinion piece for buisnFortune.

Student exploration

Major dilemma: Four stories about choosing a major based on what you love

A&S Communications

Many students enter college planning to study one thing, but along the way, through the A&S exploration process, they find another field they are totally connected to.

R4 Initiative

Panel explores how AI can solve problems, enrich learning

Cornell Chronicle

An avalanche of digital data, combined with sophisticated algorithms to analyze it, heralds a technological transformation as important as the emergence of the internet, said panelists at the launch of the Cornell-r4 Applied AI Initiative, held Dec. 6 at Cornell Tech.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Podcast examines what influences physical attractiveness

A&S Communications

The podcast showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about the relationship between humans and love.

Astronomy

NASA’s InSight captures first ‘sound’ of Martian wind

Cornell Chronicle

“Listening to this sound from the [lander’s] pressure sensor reminds me of a windy summer afternoon," said astronomer Don Banfield.

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

New initiative to lead industry innovation, social impact through AI

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell-r4 Applied AI initiative will bring together cross-disciplinary scholars and industry experts to help solve business and societal problems.

Faculty excellence

2018 Affinito-Stewart research grants awarded; 2019 proposals sought

Cornell Chronicle

Nine Cornell faculty members have been awarded Affinito-Stewart research grants for the 2018-19 academic year.

Government

Almost half of U.S. adults have seen a family member jailed, study shows

The Washington Post

A study by a Cornell research team that included Peter Enns is featured in this Washington Post story about incarceration rates in the U.S.