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China

Roundtable weighs Chinese political developments

Cornell Chronicle

A panel of professors including Jessica Chen Weiss in government weighed in recently on China's civil rights crackdowns.

Music

Chorus, Glee Club realize dream of Latin American tour

A&S Communications

After two years of planning and lots of help from alumni, 96 members of the Glee Club and Chorus spent three weeks singing and teaching in Guatemala and Mexico.

Environmental Humanities

Feb. 26 symposium to explore oil's impact on humanity

A&S Communications

Oil shapes human life and affects human values in profoundly connected ways across the planet. Yet rarely is oil – or other forms of energy – considered beyond technology and policy. A Feb. 26 symposium, “Oil and the Human: Views From the East and South,” will consider the relationship of oil with everyday life, human choices, politics and art across Africa, Latin America, Russia and East Asia. The event will be held in the A.D. White House from 1-4 p.m.

Humanities

Society for the Humanities Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Arts & Sciences Communications

For 50 years, the Society for the Humanities has fostered path-breaking scholarship in the humanities. It has sponsored numerous internal grants, workshops and funding opportunities for Cornell faculty and graduate students in the humanities, as well as hosting over 100 annual lectures, workshops, colloquia and conferences organized by Cornell’s distinguished humanities faculty.

Breakthrough Discovery

Cornell theorists affirm gravitational wave detection

Cornell Chronicle

Professor Saul Teukolsky and senior research scientist Lawrence Kidder in the physics and astronomy departments contributed to the historic discovery about gravitational waves that proved Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

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Humanities

‘Dramatic’ plaster casts installed in the Groos Atrium of Klarman Hall

Once, she soared above the heads of Cornell greats like A.A. Ammons and Roald Hoffmann as they debated the great questions of their time in the Cast Gallery of Goldwin Smith, later turned into the Temple of Zeus café. Then for years she lay forgotten, abandoned to dust and mold and neglect.

Humanities

NEH chair to deliver Society for the Humanities lecture

Cornell Chronicle

 William D. Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will deliver the Society for the Humanities’ annual Future of the Humanities Lecture Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. in Klarman Hall Auditorium. His topic: “The Common Good and the NEH at 50.”

Economics

Kaushik Basu's immersion in Indian politics

Cornell Chronicle

At the jam-packed first installment of Cornell University Library’s Chats in the Stacks series for the spring semester Feb. 4 in Mann Library, World Bank chief economist and Cornell professor Kaushik Basu spoke about his new book, “An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policymaking in India.”

Latin American Studies

Conference highlights work in Latin American studies

Cornell Chronicle

 Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students from a variety of disciplines will share their research and work on Latin America at the inaugural conference of the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), Feb. 19 at the A.D. White House.

Chemistry

Center for Materials Research grants aid New York companies

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Materials Research JumpStart program, funded by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), has helped 71 New York state small businesses develop and improve their products through university collaborations.