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Alumni

‘Follow your north star:' Alumna shares career path from footwear reporter to Fortune magazine

A&S Communications

Leigh Gallagher said memorable classes focused on French literature, psychology, history and a treasure trove of English classes on Chaucer, Milton, Dreiser and Faulkner.

Mathematics

Three mathematicians awarded prestigious Simons Fellowships

A&S Communications

Three out of the 40 coveted Simons Fellowships in Mathematics for 2018 have been awarded to Cornell mathematics faculty members: Professor Marcelo Aguiar, Associate Professor Lionel Levine and Professor Alex Vladimirsky.

Music

Concert celebrates Ensemble X's 20th anniversary

Twenty years ago, a musical collective of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty joined together to create an ensemble dedicated to presenting new musical works, and Ensemble X is still going strong. On Sunday, April 15 at 8:00pm at Barnes Hall, they will perform the blockbuster concert of their season in celebration.

Performing & Media Arts

Short-film festival screens work from New York State and Ivy League students

Department of Performing & Media Arts

Student filmmakers, most from central and upstate New York, will have their short films screened during the fifth annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF). During the festival, April 13 and 14 at Cornell University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, the public and a panel of industry judges will award prizes across several categories.

Performing & Media Arts

Acting students treated to advice from Tony-winning director

"I was fascinated to see him peel away our over-the-top emotions to find the game and beauty of the text."

Awards and Honors

Professor Jamila Michener wins Early Career Award

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Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government, was recently awarded The 2018 Early Career Award by the Midwest Women’s Caucus for Political Sciences. The annual award recognizes a female faculty member’s achievements in research and her contributions to political science.

Music

Professor emeritus, musician and scholar John Hsu dies

Cornell Chronicle

John Hsu, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, died March 24 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 86.Hsu joined the Department of Music in 1955 and was a member of the Cornell faculty for 50 years, retiring in 2005. He served as department chair from 1966 to 1971 and was named the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in 1976.

Medieval Studies Program

Christian martyrdom narratives explored in Medieval Studies talk

Cornell Chronicle

In a Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch, Eric Rebillard discussed his recent book, “Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs,” a collection of texts that describe the martyrdom of Christians executed before A.D. 260.

Astronomy & Physics

Cornell researchers build telescopes to measure universe’s earliest light

Cornell Chronicle

Teams of scientists, including researchers from the Cornell physics and astronomy departments, are collaborating on two of the largest telescopes ever built to take readings on the universe’s oldest light measurable, known as the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB.These telescopes will be placed in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile and will give scientists new tools to record the earliest signals from the universe.

Sociology

Princeton professor explores intersection between Jewish, American ghettos  

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Mitchell Duneier from Princeton will visit campus for a 4:30 p.m. talk April 11 about his book, "Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea." The talk will take place in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.

Ethics & Public Life

Students chosen for ethics conference at West Point

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Two Cornell students were chosen to participate in the West Point National Conference on Ethics in America last month based on essays they submitted and a recommendation from Cornell’s Program on Ethics & Public Life.

Choosing a major

Exploring Arts & Sciences? Visit the majors/experiential learning fair April 12

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Staff and faculty from departments and programs in the College of Arts & Sciences will offer a festive majors and experiential learning fair from 3:30-5:30 p.m. April 12 in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall.

English

Library preserves 'Bound for Glory' recordings and folk music history

Cornell Chronicle

Over the past 50 years the world has changed, but “Bound for Glory” has stayed almost exactly the same.

Interdisciplinary

Einaudi Center travel grants to send 100 graduate students packing

Cornell Chronicle

Zhiyu Gong (linguistics) will travel to China to record some of the last remaining speakers of the critically endangered Daur language. Kara Fikrig (entomology) will go to Colombia to study the feeding habits of mosquitoes that carry dengue fever and other diseases. Ali Abbas (applied economics and management) will spend time in Pakistan exploring collusion between citizens and the state in the property tax market.

Plant Biology

Researchers identify the cells that trigger flowering

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How do plants “know” it is time to flower? A new study uncovers exactly where a key protein forms before it triggers the flowering process in plants.Until now, no one has pinpointed which cells produce the small protein, called Flowering Locus T (FT). The study also points to an extensive intercellular signaling system that regulates FT production.