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Humanities

New novel reflects #MeToo moment

“Birds of Wonder,” a new novel by Cynthia Robinson, addresses sexual violence, porn addiction, and sexual tourism. “It’s an appropriate story for this #MeToo moment,” said Robinson, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art in the Department of the History of Art.

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Interdisciplinary

Nobel Laureate’s autobiographical play presented in Ithaca

Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann’s autobiographical play, based on his experiences as a Holocaust survivor in Zloczow, Poland (now Ukraine), will be presented as a staged reading in Ithaca, directed by Beth F. Milles. “Something that Belongs to You” will be shown on Sunday, April 15 at 6pm at Ithaca College’s Clark Lounge, Campus Center, and on Tuesday, April 17 at7pm at the Cherry Artspace on Ithaca’s West End.

Government

Two brothers find hope in prison, overcoming the odds

Darnell Epps ’21 is a government major at Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences and a research assistant for the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. His older brother, Darryl, was a member of the summer 2017 Justice in Education cohort at Columbia University and has counseled at-risk youth.

Global Cornell

Visiting doctoral student researches U.S. international policy

Jihed Hadroug, a visiting international student from France, is focused on U.S. and Middle Eastern studies and public diplomacy. He recently participated in a graduate research exchange through the College of Arts and Sciences and he talks about his experiencs in this article on the Global Cornell website.

Interdisciplinary learning

Molecular Diagnostics: from Lab to Viñedo

A recent Global Cornell story focuses on the course, Molecular Diagnostics: from Lab to Viñedo, which Integrates science, language and culture.

Government

Professor speaks on ‘Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping’

A&S Communications

The women, peace, and security agenda has been at the forefront of international politics over the past decade. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations has been integrating women into peacekeeping missions for nearly two decades. To what extent have peacekeeping operations achieved gender equality both within the organization and in host countries? In a “Chats in the Stacks” talk at Olin Library on Feb.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Study shows long-term monitoring essential to effective environmental policy

A&S Communications

… tourism, and fisheries viable.  Since the 1970s, monitoring sites have recorded declining concentrations of airborne … $22 trillion benefit to the US economy – at a cost of only 2-3% of that total benefit. By 2020, the 1990 Clean Air Act …

Interdisciplinary

CSI announces new partnership to improve public discourse on inequality

A&S Communications

The project aggregates and summarizes peer-reviewed studies on various social scientific questions.

Institute for Comparative Modernities

Speaker to address the roots of fascism in Europe

A&S Communications

On April 11, political theorist Eleni Varikas will speak on “The Colonial Genealogies of Fascisms in Europe" as part of the 2018 Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) New Conversations Series. The talk, at 4:45 pm in G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, is free and the public is invited.

Computer science

Students' app helps users choose wardrobe based on weather

A&S Communications

Beyond Ithaca, the app has been downloaded in more than 70 countries.

Student activism

A&S undergrad starts Hate Has No Home campaign on campus

A&S Communications

The campaign also encourages people to have conversations with people who don’t agree with them and listen to one another.

Humanities

Spring Environmental Humanities Lecture Series begins April 12

A&S Communications

Scholars in the new interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities argue that climate change, water security, environmental justice and other such challenges can’t be solved purely by economic and scientific solutions: Human culture is implicated in ecological conditions.The Spring 2018 Environmental Humanities Lecture Series will bring to campus two leading scholars in the field. All talks in the series are free and open to the public.

physics

Researchers pave an enlightened path to anyons and quantum computation

Cornell Chronicle

Their work provides a blueprint for future work involving other types of anyons and more complicated quantum states.

mathematics

Math Awareness Month speaker to examine card games, patterns, computation

A&S Communications

Which patterns in data are meaningful, and which are inevitable due to the size of the dataset?

physics

Breakthrough made in atomically thin magnets

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have become the first to control atomically thin magnets with an electric field, a breakthrough that provides a blueprint for producing exceptionally powerful and efficient data storage in computer chips, among other applications.