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Government

TikTok ban reasonable given threat of Chinese surveillance

A&S Communications

The House of Representatives voted this week to ban TikTok from government-issued devices amid concerns that the Chinese-owned social media company’s access to U.S. data poses a national security threat.

History

‘Making it Work’: Flexibility During COVID-19

Cornell University Graduate School

Emily Donald, a doctoral student in history, planned to go to Thailand this summer. Instead, she remained in Ithaca. Like many scholars at Cornell and around the globe, Donald’s research was interrupted by the pandemic. “I’m lucky to be in a position where I can be flexible and shift things around to make it work,” she said.

Government

Roper Center collection remembers, amplifies Black voices

Cornell Chronicle

In 1946, the Minneapolis Tribune’s Minnesota Poll billed itself as “an impartial, scientific weekly survey of what Minnesotans think on leading topics of the day.”

Comparative Literature

Portland protestor used ‘insurrectionary nakedness’ to manage conflict

A&S Communications

Protests continue this week in Portland, Oregon in the wake of federal law enforcement being deployed to the city. On Saturday, the protest included the participation of a nude woman who confronted officers wearing nothing but a mask and hat.

Government

Webinar to examine systemic racism, health equity

What can, and should, faculty members, staff, students and the community be doing in response to institutional racism and its role in shaping health equity?

Astronomy

Mars Perseverance to deliver ‘first zoom cameras’ to another world

A&S Communications

NASA is planning to launch its latest rover destined for Mars on July 30, with an anticipated arrival date on the red planet in February 2021. The rover, named Perseverance, will look for evidence of ancient life and collect soil and rock samples at a part of Mars just north of its equator known as Jezero Crater — the site of an ancient river.

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Humanities

Faculty research group addressing monuments, heritage

Cornell Chronicle

An interdisciplinary group of scholars is exploring “Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage,” through a grant from the provost's Radical Collaboration task force focused on the arts and humanities.

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Equity

Pollack outlines new initiatives to promote racial justice

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell President Martha E. Pollack sent the following message July 16:

Science and Technology Studies

New book explores maps as tools of political power

Cornell Chronicle

Maps are more than two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional terrain. They are also powerful political tools to control territory, as Cornell sociologist and science studies scholar Christine Leuenberger explains in her new book, “The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine,” co-written with Izhak Schnell of Tel Aviv University.

Government

Webinar examines free and fair elections in November

A&S Communications

The next event in the Democracy 20/20 Webinar series will examine whether the U.S. will be able to hold free and fair elections this fall and how challenges to such elections can be overcome. The webinar will take place on Tuesday, July 21 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. (ET). The event is free and the public is invited; registration is required.