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Shonni Enelow wins George Jean Nathan Award

A&S Communications

Shonni Enelow, assistant professor of English at Fordham University, has been chosen as the winner of the 2015-2016 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her book “Method Acting and Its Discontents” (Northwestern University Press, 2015).

Cornell Cinema

Faculty critique documentary 'I Am Not Your Negro'

Cornell Chronicle

“The history of the Negro is the history of America, and it is not a pretty story,” says the late writer James Baldwin in director Raoul Peck’s documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”

Award

Physicist Brad Ramshaw receives 2017 Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize

Arts & Sciences Communications

Brad Ramshaw, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded the Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize for 2017. 

Anthropology

Einaudi Center launches dissertation development program

Cornell Chronicle

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies will lead a campuswide effort to help doctoral students strengthen their dissertation research proposals with a new grant from the New York-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC).

Community outreach

Biology students highlight community service projects

Cornell Chronicle

Students shared their experiences performing community service in the Ithaca area as part of the Office of Undergraduate Biology’s Biology Service Leaders (BSL) Showcase Feb. 9 in Corson Mudd Hall.

Faculty honors

PMA professor honored with playwriting fellowship

Arts & Sciences Communications

Aoise Stratford, a visiting assistant professor in Performing and Media Arts, was named the 2017 Blaine Quarnstrom Guest Playwright at the University of Southern Mississippi in January. Stratford spent five days on the Southern Mississippi campus at the beginning of the year giving public talks, having her work read and teaching a series of intense hands-on playwriting workshops for students across the undergraduate and graduate programs in theatre and English.

Interdisciplinary

Mathematical models predict how we wait in line, traffic

Cornell Chronicle

In a new interdisciplinary study combining mathematics and engineering, researchers simulated models to show that drivers obey digital signs that direct them toward less-congested routes--but sometimes the signs don't keep pace with highway realities.

In Memoriam

Ted Lowi, renowned political scientist, dies at 85

Cornell Chronicle

Theodore Jay Lowi, the charismatic Cornell professor of government whose dream of an undergraduate program in Washington became reality and whose seminal books – “The End of Liberalism,” “American Government” and “American Political Thought: A Norton Anthology” (co-edited with Isaac Kramnick) – became standards in political science discourse, died Feb. 17 in Ithaca, New York.

Romance Studies

Society for the Humanities Invitational lecture to explore Freudian psychoanalysis

A&S Communications

Like a black hole – which cannot be perceived directly, but is known only by the way it warps space-time – the object of psychoanalysis is an object we know solely by its effects.

Global

International collaboration results in play about borders

A&S Communications

"Root Map" is an international collaboration that includes academics and artists with diverse cultural heritages across Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America.