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Astronomy

Scientists puzzled over lack of carbonate on Mars

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists can’t quite reconcile the carbon dioxide amounts on Mars today from epochs gone by.

English

A scholar's voice

Cornell Research

Atop a cabinet, leaning against a wall of Dagmawi Woubshet’s office, is an enlarged framed cover of the May 17, 1963, issue of TIME magazine. Its portrait of writer James Baldwin stares into the room. Woubshet, associate professor of English, gestures to it several times as he talks about his research.

Music

CU Winds completes tour of Haiti, Dominican Republic

Cornell Chronicle

Fifty student musicians traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on a tour that was “genuinely transformative."

Anthropology

Lessons we can learn from an exchange of dolls

Arts & Sciences Communications

In reaction to the current immigration ban, Hirokazu Miyazaki, professor of anthropology, writes this opinion piece in the Japan Times, telling the story of Sidney Gulick, who, frustrated with the immigration ban of 1924, decided to turn his attention to the next generation.

Environment & Sustainability

Renewable fuels alone can't stop climate change

A&S Communications

In discussions about climate change, many people seem to think the only real problem is replacing fossil fuels, and once that’s done nothing much really needs to change. “That’s not only false, it’s a really dangerous way of thinking,” said Karen Pinkus, professor of Romance studies and comparative literature in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Classics

Renowned Vatican Latinist joins classics faculty

A&S Communications

'I had the unique experience of writing (and speaking) Latin day and night for a decade,' Dan Gallagher says.

Asian studies

Asian Studies alum shares passion with Utah students

A&S Communications

The language requirement in the College of Arts & Sciences helped ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball ’05 discover a culture that’s become her life’s work.Lowey-Ball, who came to Cornell with interests in physics and cognitive science, was already fluent in French, so she decided to venture in a completely different direction to fulfill her language requirement — Indonesian.

Education Innovation

$2.7 million grant expands Arts & Sciences Active Learning Initiative

Arts & Sciences Communications

Six new projects will be launched in music, classics, economics, mathematics, physics and sociology.

Romance studies

Traverso says left must mourn defeats to move forward

A&S Communications

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of real socialism and the Cold War, but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since.

Performing and Media Arts

Winners of playwriting contest honored Friday

A&S Communications

Winners of the Heermans-McCalmon Playwriting Contest will be showcased Friday during an event at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.Staged readings of first-place winner Molly Karr’s ‘18 screenplay “Whole Hearted” and Aleksej Aarsaether’s ‘17 play, “The Diary of an American Girl” will be presented at 4:30 p.m. in the Class of ‘56 Dance Theatre. Aarsaether also won an honorable mention in the screenwriting category.