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Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Infectious disease experts join forces, host global meeting

Cornell Chronicle

In recent years, Cornell has amassed an impressive stable of experts in an emerging field for modern times: The ecology and evolution of infectious disease.

Romance Studies

Conference in Spain on work of Edmundo Paz Soldán

Arts & Sciences Communications

A conference on the writing of Bolivian author Edmundo Paz-Soldán, professor of Spanish literature in the Department of Romance Studies, was held at the University of Seville, Spain, on May 25. The conference explored Paz-Soldán’s “narrative path,” and featured speakers from Spain, France, Bolivia and Belgium.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Beyond milkweed: Monarchs face habitat, nectar threats

Cornell Chronicle

In the face of scientific dogma that faults the population decline of monarch butterflies on a lack of milkweed, herbicides and genetically modified crops, a new Cornell study casts wider blame: sparse autumnal nectar sources, weather and habitat fragmentation.

Awards and Honors

Four on faculty receive Carpenter advising awards

Cornell Chronicle

Deputy Provost John Siliciano presented Cornell faculty members Sahara Byrne, (Kit-Yee) Daisy Fan, María Cristina García and James P. Lassoie with 2016 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards May 28 at a trustee-faculty dinner.

Humanities & Arts

Faculty reflect on life-changing works at Klarman dedication

Cornell Chronicle

“Me, my partner and [Flaubert’s] ‘Sentimental Education’ were on vacation in the south of France. And it wasn’t pretty,” said literary theorist Paul Fleming during the May 26 “Transformative Humanities: Faculty Reflections on Life-Changing Creative Works” panel celebrating the dedication of Klarman Hall.

Sustainability

New cross-college Environment and Sustainability major being explored

Arts & Sciences Communications

The new major would allow students to explore the social, ethical, and public policy dimensions of environmental issues.

Student honors

A&S Merrill scholars honor teachers

Cornell Chronicle

Jason Lefkovitz invited his high school history teacher, David Miles, to join him at the 28th annual Merrill Presidential Scholars Convocation luncheon.He also invited Ronald Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, as each of the 33 Merrill scholars was asked to bring to the event two teachers who have made a great impact on their lives, academic and otherwise. Nine of the scholars are Arts & Sciences students.

Celebrating the Humanities

Klarman Hall feted as 'place of community, intersection'

Cornell Chronicle

"The space itself is a perfect expression of our commitment to the humanities," says Dean Gretchen Ritter '83.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Vikram Gadagkar MS ’10, PhD ‘13, receives Simons Fellowship

Arts & Sciences Communications

Vikram Gadagkar MS ’10, PhD ‘13 was recently awarded a prestigious three-year, $234,150 Simons Foundation fellowship with the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB). SCGB seeks to expand understanding of the role of internal brain processes in the arc from sensation to action, thereby discovering the nature, role and mechanisms of the neural activity that produces cognition.

Romance studies

Mellon seminar tours a changing, urbanized Amazon

Cornell Chronicle

A 10-day journey to cities in the Brazilian rainforest gave students a firsthand look at the complex conditions of urbanization in the Amazon. The field trip in March, part of the spring seminar Forest Cartographies, focused on issues of community, housing, resettlement, deforestation, political ecology, anthropology and archaeology.

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Asian studies

Asian Studies department marks 70th anniversary

A&S Communications

As Asia continues to expand its influence in the world, Cornell’s Department of Asian Studies has grown to reflect the importance of the region globally and now offers more Asian languages for study than any other American university.

Sociology

Kendra Bischoff wins National Academy of Education fellowship

Cornell Chronicle

Kendra Bischoff, assistant professor of sociology and the Richard and Jacqueline Emmet Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been chosen as a 2016 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow.The $70,000 fellowships are the oldest source of support for education research, nationally and internationally, for those who have recently earned doctoral degrees.

Mathematics

52nd annual Topology Festival held

Arts & Sciences Communications

Cornell's Topology Festival may be the longest running annual conference on a specific topic in math in the United States. The 52nd Topology Festival was held May 13-15 in Mallott Hall, with speakers from Israel, Germany, Sweden, and across the United States addressing topics in topological combinatorics.

Classics

How Anti-Trade Nativism Wrecked the Ancient Greeks

Barry Strauss, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies in the Department of History, writes in this Wall St. Journal opinion piece that the protectionist and nativist viewpouints espoused by today's politicians are nothing new. "While nationalism will always be fodder for politicians, today’s leaders need to understand the consequences," Strauss writes.

Student honors

Millie Kastenbaum '16 receives town-gown leadership award

Senior Millie Kastenbaum, a government major in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been named the inaugural winner of the Cornell Division of University Relations’ Campus-Community Leadership Award. The award will be presented annually to a graduating senior who has shown exceptional town-gown leadership and innovation.