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Awards

Aye, Shepherd win Young Investigator awards from Navy

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell assistant professors Yimon Aye and Robert Shepherd are among 33 scientists selected from among 360 applicants to receive Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP) awards, which support early-career academic scientists and engineers.

Nilay Yapici and Kyle Lancaster
Awards

Brito, Lambert, Yapici, Lancaster receive Sloan Fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Ilana Brito, Guillaume Lambert, Kyle Lancaster and Nilay Yapici have been named recipients of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships that support early career faculty members’ original research and broad-based education related to science, technology and economic performance.

German Studies

Patrizia McBride explores montage and storytelling

Cornell Chronicle

German Studies Professor Patrizia McBride discussed how her new book "The Chatter of the Visible" explores montage and modernist aesthetics in 1920s and '30 Germany at a talk in Olin Library February 15th. 

English

Literary critic’s new book explores the nuances of penning a poem  

Arts & Sciences Communications

David Orr, professor of the practice in the English Department, gives a literary critic’s perspective on the craft that is behind penning some of the best works in poetry.

Government

Four unintended (and dangerous) consequences of Trump's plan to kill NAFTA

CNBC

Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, associate professor of government, writes in this CNBC op-ed that NAFTA has not been the windfall for Mexico that President Trump seems to think, and that killing NAFTA would have serious consequences for the U.S.

Asian Studies

Professor awarded grant for literary translation

A&S Communications

Nick Admussen, assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies, has been named one of 15 recipients of the 2017 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of “Floral Mutter."

Chemistry

Polymer additive could revolutionize plastics recycling

Cornell Chronicle

The discovery also could spawn a whole new class of mechanically tough polymer blends.

Sociology

Sociologist discusses links between breastfeeding, fertility

Cornell Chronicle

The Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) Program launched its lunch series Feb. 14 in Rockefeller Hall with a talk by sociologist Vida Maralani.

Music

Students re-create music, vibe from jazz's earliest days

Cornell Chronicle

Five student musicians, calling themselves The Original Cornell Syncopators, are celebrating the centennial of the first jazz record's release by recreating the historic recording session. 

Mathematics

Steve Strogatz tackles Albert Einstein

Cornell Chronicle

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell, was selected for the 2016 volume of Princeton University Press’ The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016.