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Big Ideas

How technology and humanities intersect

Cornell Chronicle

Technology has changed all aspects of our lives, even ancient fields of study in the humanities. The College of Arts and Sciences’ fourth Big Ideas Panel, part of its New Century for the Humanities celebration, explored technology in the humanities March 15 in Klarman Hall’s Groos Family Atrium.

American Studies

Scholar details emergence of police-state tactics

Cornell Chronicle

We are living in a prison industrial complex, according to Ruth Wilson Gilmore, professor of earth and environmental sciences at the City University of New York.Gilmore gave the American Studies Program’s annual Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture March 3 on “Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police.”

History

Runaway slave ads portray grim period of U.S. history

Cornell University Library

Runaway slave advertisements – a common sight in North American newspapers in the 18th and 19th centuries – are frankly disturbing. They describe people as property, listing their physical attributes and family connections in chilling terms.

Physics

Séamus Davis awarded St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal

A&S Communications

Science Foundation Ireland presented its prestigious St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal March 16 to Séamus Davis, Cornell’s James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences. The presentation was made by Charles Flanagan, Ireland’s minister for foreign affairs and trade, as part of St. Patricks’ Day celebrations in Washington, D.C.

Cornell Neurotech

Crafting new tools to explore thoughts, dreams and memories

Cornell Engineering Magazine

Technological breakthroughs are giving Cornell Neurotech researchers unprecedented glimpses into the brain.

Government

New book sheds light on high U.S. incarceration rate

Cornell Chronicle

The U.S. incarcerates a greater proportion of its population than any other country in the world, with dire social and economic consequences for the incarcerated, their children and those who work in the criminal justice system. In his new book, “Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World” (Cambridge University Press), Peter Enns sheds new light on why.

Archaeology

Archaeology students try their hand at creating artifacts

A&S Communications

Students in an archaeology class tried their hand at creating some of the pottery they normally dig up and study.

Latina/o Studies

Lunches bring Latina/o Studies community together

Cornell Chronicle

Lunch talks hosted by the Latina/o Studies Program brings students together with Cornell faculty and administrators to discuss important topics.

Foreign policy

Legacy of Cornell-led diplomacy detailed at Carnegie Hall

Cornell Chronicle

A panel of Cornell professors and alumni explored Cornell's involvement in shaping U.S. foreign policy during a New York City event,

Taking a Break from Work...By Working!

By: Eric Reinhard '18 Does the title confuse you? I don’t blame you if it does. Why would someone take a break from work only to work more? Well, I’m here to tell you that I do just that (I promise I’m not crazy).

Music

Students produce rarely staged 1606 opera 'Eumelio'

A&S Communications

Resurrecting a 17th-century Italian opera whose sole musical source was incompletely notated was a challenge musicologist Neal Zaslaw and a group of students were happy to accept.What started as a spring 2015 seminar project was unveiled March 19-20 as an opera complete with Baroque instruments, Arcadian shepherds, hellish demons and classical statuary in the auditorium of Klarman Hall.

Drawn out microscope images of different biochemical structures
Chemical Biology

'Sticky waves': Molecular interactions at the nanoscale

Cornell Chronicle

Like the gravitational forces that are responsible for the attraction between the Earth and the moon, as well as the dynamics of the entire solar system, there exist attractive forces between objects at the nanoscale.

Runway Fashion

Runway role-play becomes a luminous reality

Cornell Chronicle

Think “Game of Thrones” meets “Hunger Games.” For the annual Cornell Fashion Collective show on March 12, warriors, rangers and magicians – models draped in LED lights and electroluminescent tape – will role-play on the runway.

Study Abroad

Cornell in Turin cited for study of 'model' community center

Cornell Chronicle

Students and faculty in the Cornell in Turin program were recognized recently for their work in Turin’s San Salvario neighborhood as part of their research studies of migration and services for immigrants in Italy.

Music Release

Roberto Sierra releases musical works in Spain

A&S Communications

Congratulations to Roberto Sierra, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities and professor of music, on the international release of his new CD “Boleros & Montunos” in Madrid, Spain.