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In Memoriam

Carol Warrior, assistant professor of English, dies at 56

Cornell Chronicle

“Carol was a bright light in our department and our college. Her brilliance and expertise was only matched by her kindness and generosity,” said Ella Diaz, associate professor of English and Latina/o studies. Gretchen Ritter, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, called Warrior “one of the rising stars of our faculty.”

Collaboration

Atkinson's Academic Venture Fund awards $1.5M to 12 projects

Cornell Chronicle

The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future’s Academic Venture Fund (AVF) supports collaborations that cut across disciplines to address today’s greatest sustainability challenges. In 2018, the fund awarded $1.5 million to a range of projects that will provide sustainable solutions around the world, from the Finger Lakes to the Pamir Mountains in Central Asia.

Government

What should the U.S. expect from Mexico's new president?

In this opinion piece on Fox News Online, Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, associate professor of government, discuses what the presidency of Mexico's new leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador – known by his initials as AMLO, might look like.

Student experiences

McNair scholars tout educational programs in DC visit

Cornell Chronicle

Thirteen students participating in the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at Cornell traveled to Washington, D.C., June 28 to advocate for federal programs assisting first-generation and low-income college students.

History

How the American asylum bureaucracy grew

Wall Street Journal

History Professor Maria Cristina Garcia writes in this Wall Street Journal editorial that the policy makers who crafted the 1980 Refugee Act never imagined that within a generation the U.S. would be flooded with requests.

Astronomy

Decade-long galaxy survey releases final catalog

A&S Communications

The last data release and final official survey paper from the major Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA (ALFALFA) survey, led by Cornell astronomers, has just been published in Astrophysical Journal Supplement.

Psychology

When last comes first: the gender bias of names

Cornell Chronicle

In new research, psychologists found that study participants, on average, were more than twice as likely to call male professionals – even fictional ones – by their last name only, compared to equivalent female professionals. This example of gender bias, say researchers, may be contributing to gender inequality.

Student internships

DC internship gives freshman insights into higher education policy

A&S Communications

As an aspiring public servant, Natalia Hernandez ’21 wanted an internship that would allow her to see how national higher education policies can affect students locally. Through a summer experience grant, Hernandez ‘21 is spending the summer working in Washington D.C. as a government relations and communications intern at the National Council of Higher Education Resources (NCHER).

Interdisciplinary

Altruistic behavioral economists put ideas into action

Cornell Chronicle

Why would five Cornell professors decide to teach a class when there was no budget to pay them to do it? If you’re the directors of Cornell’s Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Center (BEDR), you rely on research showing the importance of the class topic: Better Decisions for Life, Love and Money.

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Alumni

Alum fashions program to find and support ‘natural leaders’

A&S Communications

Since she was a child, Margo Hittleman ’81, Ph.D. ’07, was encouraged to speak up and try to change things that she thought were unfair. Looking back, she says many of the things that bothered her most related to systemic social injustice and exclusion, and she wanted to do something about it.

Astronomy

NASA awards its highest honor to Yervant Terzian

Cornell Chronicle

“Dr. Terzian has made an indelible impact on education and inspiring young minds," NASA said.

Jewish Studies

Documents illuminate U.S. Yiddish-speaking life until the Cold War

Cornell University Library

Newly digitized documents from the archives of the International Workers’ Order (IWO) and the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order – including three letters from artist Marc Chagall – cast light on the lives of Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants in the United States during World War II and the Cold War.

College Leadership

Ray Jayawardhana named dean of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Distinguished astrophysicist, renowned science writer and accomplished academic leader named the 22nd dean of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Classics

Ancient Latin puns revealed in new edited volume

Cornell Chronicle

Frontispiece of “Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature,” created by Lucy Plowe B.F.A. '20 Legal capriciousness, or hog soup? The Latin “ius verrinum” could mean either, as the new volume “Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature” explains.

Alumni

Alumna combines artistic side, technology skills for television career

A&S Communications

Jennifer Kahn '08 is a senior designer for the USA Network.