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Society for the Humanities

Performance studies professor visits for Society for Humanities lecture

A&S Communications

Fred Moten, professor of performance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and professor at the University of California-Riverside, will deliver the 2018 Invited Society Scholar Lecture at 4:30 p.m. March 21 in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The subject of Moten’s lecture will be “The Gift of Corruption.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Creative Writing Program

A journey to Cornell for creative writing

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on Nneoma Ike-Njoku, a first-year MFA student in creative writing, who hails fr

Performing & Media Arts

Student playwrights and screenwriters honored March 23

A&S Communications

The winning stage and screenplays from this year’s Heermans-McCalmon Writing Competition will be showcased Friday, March 23, at 4:30 p.m. in the Class of ’56 Dance Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Philosophy & Biology

Student melds humanities, sciences to find her intellectual community

Alumni Affairs & Development

Finding life balance is a quest that junior Kylie Long, an aspiring radiologist, appreciates.Her pathway of learning and discovery at Cornell has led her to pursue the humanities along with the sciences and to study ancient texts as well as conduct stem cell research. She asks life’s big questions, while also getting down-to-earth at a local potting studio. She likes quiet meditation as well as using her voice to blog about self-care.

Physics

Teukolsky to explore the Dark Universe in Spring Hans Bethe Lecture

A&S Communications

Einstein predicted black holes and gravitational waves – bizarre deviations from Newton’s theory of gravity – but it took almost a century before experiments proved him right. Those experimenters won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, but why do gravitational waves matter? And why is the recent detection of waves from colliding neutron stars causing such a stir?

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Government

Govt. professor has questions for new CIA director

Time Magazine

In this opinion piece in Time magazine, Joseph Margulies, professor of government and law and a civil rights attorney, writes about one of his clients and President Trump's new nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel.

Student experiences

Summer grants can support student research, travel

A&S Communications

Through departments or the college, A&S students can find various ways to fund their summer adventures.

American Studies

Dave Zirin to deliver 2018 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture

A&S Communications

Professional athletes have recently faced increasing criticism when they engage in political discourse, even though athletes have long had a history of political engagement. Dave Zirin, award winning sports editor for The Nation, will deliver the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture on “The History of the Activist Athlete” March 22 at 4:45 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

English

The Complete Archie

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Like generations of Cornell writers, I sat in the light of speech with poet and longtime English professor Archie Ammons morning after morning over coffee in the Temple of Zeus—first in the grand cavern that the café occupied on the left side of the Goldwin Smith lobby, later in the more modern but much diminished setting on the right, to which it was shifted in 1997.

English

Conference to celebrate 50 years of Dan Schwarz's teaching

Cornell Chronicle

Three of the conference’s keynote speakers are former students of Schwarz who are now professors.

Biochemistry Research and Honors Thesis

This week, senior Solveig writes about her excitement over being able to produce a physical proof of her two years worth of biochemistry research – an honors thesis.By Solveig van der Vegt '18, Biological Sciences major, Mathematics minor

English

Levine keeps the 'Norton Anthology of World Literature' fresh

A&S Communications

The 2017 edition adds new sections of oral works and poetry and politics.

Performing & Media Arts

Activist and artist to speak on empowerment in theatre

Performing & Media Arts

Award-winning activist, artist, director, and scholar Rhodessa Jones brings her techniques of “Creative Survival” to Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on March 20 and 22 for a public lecture and master class, respectively.

Music

Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis in concert with Cornell ensembles March 28

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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together

Cornell Chronicle

Joining different kinds of materials can lead to all kinds of breakthroughs.