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History

Historian examines India's 'gentlemen' terrorists

A&S Communications

In her new book, “Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947,” historian Durba Ghosh examines the interplay between India’s militant movement and the nonviolent civil disobedience led by Gandhi, and how Indians reconcile these responses to colonial rule in their narrative of modern India’s birth.

Annelise Riles
Anthropology

Annelise Riles receives lifetime achievement award

A&S Communications

Annelise Riles, professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Jack G. Clarke ’52 Professor of Far East Legal Studies at Cornell Law School, has received the Anneliese Maier Award for lifetime achievement across the social sciences and humanities from the German government and the Humboldt Foundation.

Jewish Studies Program

Big Galut(e) Klezmer Ensemble Brings Epic Yiddish Tale to Life

A&S Communications

“Monish,” by I.L. Peretz, is the story of an irascible Satan, his irresistible wife Lilith, and a young Jew who just wants to be left alone with his books. On Wednesday, February 21 at 7:30 pm the Cornell Jewish Studies Program and Cornell Department of Music present an evening of music and dance, inspired by Peretz’s classic poem.

Government

Should the U.S. try to deter cyberattacks by promising nuclear retaliation?

The Washington Post

Sarah Kreps, associate professor of government, wrote a recent article in The Washington Post examines the idea of nuclear retaliation on a country that launches major cyberattacks on crtical U.S. infrastructure. 

Government

Government professor comments on new Liberian president

The Washington Post

Sabrina Karim, assistant professor of government, breaks down some of the issues surrounding Liberia's new president, former football star George Weah, in this Washington Post story.

Performing & Media Arts

Three Cornellians score Oscar nominations

A&S Communications

Three Cornellians were among those celebrating Jan. 23 when nominations were announced for this year’s Academy Awards.Reed Van Dyk and Trevor White, both ’07, received nominations, Van Dyk for his writing/directing on the documentary “DeKalb Elementary,” and White for production of “The Post.” David Greenbaum ’98 is co-head of production for Fox Searchlight Pictures, which had two nominated films, “Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.”

Government

I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right

The Conversation

Sabrina Karim, assistant professor of government, recently visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. In this editorial in The Conversation, she explains what the Bangladeshi government has done right so far, and the challenges they are still facing.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Research probes key protein's role in cancer cell growth

Cornell Chronicle

Two new studies led by Hening Lin, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, offer new insights into oncogene RAS, the most frequently mutated gene of its type in human cancer.

Music

Stephen Spinelli performs on 2018 GRAMMY-winning recording

The 2018 GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance was awarded to Donald Nally and The Crossing, for their recording of Gavin Bryar's "The Fifth Century." Stephen Spinelli, director of the Cornell Chorale and Chamber Singers, was one of The Crossing's 24 singers on the album. 

History of Art

Benjamin Anderson wins Charles Rufus Morey Book Award

A&S Communications

Benjamin Anderson’s recently published “Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art” (Yale University Press, 2017) has won the 2018 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award of the College Art Association (CAA).

Education innovation

Zamudio to study effects of active learning as Menschel Teaching Fellow

Cornell Chronicle

Kelly Zamudio, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will analyze the effects of activity modules on classroom learning goals as the 2017-18 Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Cornell.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Aye Lab takes its protein-assessing tool to the next level

Cornell Chronicle

In 2016, Yimon Aye, Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow and assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, introduced the world to “T-REX” – a chemical method for targeting and modulating single proteins to analyze and screen for specific oxidation-reduction (redox) events, which are vital to many basic functions of life.

Cognitive Science

Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: a linguistic paradox explained

Cornell Chronicle

Languages have an intriguing paradox. Languages with lots of speakers, such as English and Mandarin, have large vocabularies with relatively simple grammar. Yet the opposite is also true: Languages with fewer speakers have fewer words but complex grammars.Why does the size of a population of speakers have opposite effects on vocabulary and grammar?

Neurobiology & Behavior

Lactation hormone cues birds to be good parents

Cornell Chronicle

Toppling a widespread assumption that a “lactation” hormone only cues animals to produce food for their babies, Cornell researchers have shown the hormone also prompts zebra finches to be good parents.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Fish study IDs genes that regulate social behaviors

Genes in an area of the brain that is relatively similar in fish, humans and all vertebrates appear to regulate how organisms coordinate and shift their behaviors, according to a new Cornell study.