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Community outreach

Biology students highlight community service projects

Cornell Chronicle

Students shared their experiences performing community service in the Ithaca area as part of the Office of Undergraduate Biology’s Biology Service Leaders (BSL) Showcase Feb. 9 in Corson Mudd Hall.

English

Shonni Enelow wins George Jean Nathan Award

A&S Communications

Shonni Enelow, assistant professor of English at Fordham University, has been chosen as the winner of the 2015-2016 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her book “Method Acting and Its Discontents” (Northwestern University Press, 2015).

Award

Physicist Brad Ramshaw receives 2017 Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize

Arts & Sciences Communications

Brad Ramshaw, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded the Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize for 2017. 

History

If Kushner is the man for the job, family ties shouldn't matter

The Hill

In this opinion piece in The Hill, historian Barry Strauss, contends that Trump's appointment of his son-in-law as a senior advisor has plenty of precedent.

Cornell Cinema

Faculty critique documentary 'I Am Not Your Negro'

Cornell Chronicle

… According to Woubshet, “this evasion was curious at best, and disingenuous at worst.” Instead, he suggested, …

History

New book charts collision of wealth and populist politics in the Gilded Age

A&S Communications

The Civil War came as a crushing blow to the moneyed elite of Boston, who had been deeply embedded in the cotton economy of the early 19th century as textile manufacturers

Sociology

Gender gap found in Ph.D. fields and in program prestige

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers found that the share of men receiving their degrees from the most prestigious doctoral programs is about 6 percent higher than the share receiving their degrees from all other programs.

Creative Works

PMA professor produces political cabaret Feb. 19

Cornell Chronicle

With protests multiplying around the country, this is a good time to be Sara Warner, whose research area is theatre and social change. 

Physics

Gottfried receives 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award

Cornell Chronicle

Kurt Gottfried, emeritus professor of physics and a recognized expert on nuclear arms control, has been awarded the 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

Psychology

Chocolates and roses really do spell 'love,' researchers find

A&S Communications

… asked to evaluate an image of an ad for an online dating site. They found that as Valentine’s Day neared, people …

Student Research

When they were undergraduate researchers

Cornell Research

Robert D. Guber ’15 studied alcoholic liver, diabetes, and obesity. Lipi Gupta ’15 worked on reducing beam emittance in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), a 768-meter ring that is part of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), to produce brighter s-rays. Sang Min Han ’15 examined toadfish to create a mathematical model for vertebrate vocalization. Swati Sureka ’15 engineered nucleic acid to develop DNA materials. Teresa O.

Open book with Arabic writing
Outreach

Teach-In at Cornell: Combatting Islamophobia through education

In response to the recent Executive Order barring U.S. entry to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries, Cornell’s Department of Near Eastern Studies will hold a teach-in Feb. 17 in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall from 10 a.m. to noon. The event is free and the public is welcome.

Creative writing

MFA graduate earns accolades for young adult novels

A&S Communications

… from the New York Public Library on its annual list of the best children’s and young adult literature. “Justin” and …

Performing and Media Arts

Winners of playwriting contest honored Friday

A&S Communications

Winners of the Heermans-McCalmon Playwriting Contest will be showcased Friday during an event at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.Staged readings of first-place winner Molly Karr’s ‘18 screenplay “Whole Hearted” and Aleksej Aarsaether’s ‘17 play, “The Diary of an American Girl” will be presented at 4:30 p.m. in the Class of ‘56 Dance Theatre. Aarsaether also won an honorable mention in the screenwriting category.

Romance studies

Traverso says left must mourn defeats to move forward

A&S Communications

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of real socialism and the Cold War, but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since.