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Marine Le Pen with sholuder-length blonde hair and jacket, with hand upraised in the midst of a speech, with French flag in bakcground — JÄNNICK Jérémy, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Marine Le Pen at the Parliament of the Invisibles in Hénin-Beaumont on Sunday April 15, 2012.

Sociology

May Day strikes: French far-right gains ground as working people's party

5/1/2023 A&S Communications

Prof. Mabel Berezin comments on the May Day strikes in France.

In Memoriam

‘Heroic’ physicist Toichiro Kinoshita dies at 98

4/27/2023 A&S Communications

Toichiro Kinoshita, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died March 23. He was 98.

History

Historian explores limits of justice for enslaved women in Virginia

4/28/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The creation of slave laws throughout the antebellum South can be traced back to the legal system in Virginia.

Alice Paul toasting (with grape juice) the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, August 26, 1920

Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Passage of ERA legislation ‘long overdue’

4/27/2023 A&S Communications

The U.S. Senate is set to vote today on a measure that could allow the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to be added to the U.S. Constitution, a century after its introduction.

Cornell Cinema

Mars Rover documentary to screen at Cornell Cinema

4/27/2023 Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema will present a free screening of the documentary Good Night Oppy.

Faculty research

Arts and Sciences faculty featured on Academic Minute

4/27/2023 A&S Communications

Five faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences were featured on a “Cornell week” on The Academic Minute radio program from May 1-5.

person being filmed and three other people with cameras and audio recording devices — Provided Students in the Milstein Program practice with each other before they conduct interviews with civic leaders.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein first-years take advantage of community, opportunity

4/27/2023 A&S Communications

First-year students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity talk about their varied experiences.

The helm of the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine, USS Florida

History

'Parking missile subs in South Korea creates multiple risk scenarios'

4/26/2023 A&S Communications

The United States will deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in 40 years — part of a new agreement, signed Wednesday, and signaling Washington's commitment to defend Seoul against nuclear threats from North Korea.

Dean Ray Jayawardhana (left) moderates “Transcending Echo Chambers: Political Polarization and the Media” with panelists Andrew Morse ’96, S. E. Cupp ’00, Matthew Hiltzik ’94; and Alexandra Cirone, assistant professor of government.

Distinguished Visiting Journalists

Panelists: Good journalism can help combat divisions

4/26/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The panel was the centerpiece of Andrew Morse’s residency as Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College.

Person stands in front of a mostly full auditorium — Provided The course meets in Statler Auditorium—home to another iconic class, Intro to Wines.

Campus & Beyond

Popular course offers life lessons from faculty dream team

4/25/2023 Cornellians

Drawing on research in psychology and economics, the profs offer practical tools for relationships, finances, and more.

Illustration combining the front of an academic building with a historic photo of a man

Campus & Beyond

The notable lives behind (seven more) big red buildings

4/25/2023 Cornellians

In part two of our continuing series, we meet a celebrated scientific couple, a distinguished Chinese scholar, and much more.

American studies

MacArthur Fellow to give Krieger Lecture on 19th-Century Black political organizing

4/25/2023 A&S Communications

May 2, MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman will give a talk, “Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th-Century Black Political Organizing,” on the history of 19th century Black activism.

Psychology

Circumstances influence happiness as much as personality

4/25/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Surveys of happiness and life satisfaction overstate the importance of psychological traits, but a methodological change – simply asking someone how they’re doing – enables a fairer comparison.

Overcoming Climate Grief

It’s easy to feel overcome by discouraging news about climate change. But humans have faced seemingly insurmountable challenges before. Humanists at Cornell apply lessons from the past to help us address problems in the present – such as using gallows-style humor to help people cope with today’s climate change woes.

Dark comedy can lighten up fight against climate change

Person wearing PPE holding two small, colorful birds — Chris Kitchen Zhilei Zhao and parrots

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow studies vocal learning in parrots

4/25/2023 A&S Communications

… in three distinct fields: genetics, neuroscience, and chemistry. He engineered one of the first transgenic … aspects of human scent, and finally used clever tricks of chemistry to figure out precisely what mosquitoes find …

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Overcoming Climate Grief