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Racism in America

Faculty examine racism ‘embedded’ in US health care

Cornell Chronicle

During the “Racism in America: Health” webinar on March 29, four Cornell faculty members elaborated on ways the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed race-based discrepancies in health care and health outcomes under the American health care system.

Graduate student honors

Grad student wins fellowship to connect research to policy

A&S Communications

Gregor-Fausto Siegmund, a doctoral student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was recently awarded the Ecological Society of America’s Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award.

Alumni honors

Alumna chosen for Soros Fellowship for New Americans

A&S Communications

Archana Podury ’18, has been named a 2021 fellow in the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans program, a merit-based graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants.

Global

Nyabola to speak at Race and Racism Across Borders event

Cornell Chronicle

Writer, activist and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola will discuss her upcoming book, Travelling while Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move, as part of Global Cornell’s Race and Racism Across Borders webinar on April 12.

Alumni news

Kapil Longani ’97: shaping NYC’s COVID-19 response

Cornell Chronicle

Since 2018, Kapil Longani ’97 has served as chief counsel to New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio. Since the start of the pandemic, Longani has helped shape the city’s plans for reopening schools, creating outdoor dining protocols, and thinking through legal issues around COVID testing and vaccine distribution.

Poetry

‘Playful uncertainty’ apparent in new poetry by Charlie Green

Cornell Chronicle

In “Feral Ornamentals,” Literatures in English senior lecturer Charlie Green finds whimsy in uncertainty and humor in the “terrifying,” creating new poems with a fact-based look at the natural world and a sense of exploration through process.

Astronomy

Astronomy to host 51 Pegasi b Fellow Samantha Trumbo ’13

Cornell Chronicle

As a 51 Pegasi b Fellow hosted by the astronomy department, Samantha Trumbo ’13, a doctoral student in planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, will follow up on her breakthrough research on Europa and other of Jupiter's moons.

History of Art and Visual Studies

Hassan honored for elevating the study of global modern art

Cornell Chronicle

Salah Hassan, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies, has been elected as the 2021 Distinguished Scholar by the College Art Association for his scholarship and curatorial work, which have been deeply formative in bringing recognition to the study of modern and contemporary African and African diaspora art.

Astronomy

Cornell Postdoc Jake Turner receives prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship

A&S Communications

“These outstanding young scientists are the future of astrophysics, and their impact on our understanding of the cosmos will be felt for decades to come."

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Research

DJs, Linnaeus, and Plantation History

Cornell Research

Professor Tao Leigh Goffe works at the intersection of environmental humanities, science, and technology. As a researcher, writer, and DJ, she is especially interested in histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization.

Arts Unplugged

Panel to examine the intersection of artificial intelligence with ethics, politics and policy

A&S Communications

The April 15 Arts Unplugged virtual event will be moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin ’99, of CNBC and The New York Times.

Staff transitions

College names new director of human resources

A&S Communications

The College of Arts & Sciences will welcome a new director of human resources, Taylor Shuler, beginning on April 1. Shuler, senior HR business partner in the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and Cornell Engineering HR Service Center, will take over for Sara Bloxsom, who’s worked in the dean’s office for more than 36 years, 27 of those directing the college’s human resources efforts and who is retiring this year.

Important conversations

Webinar explores issues for Southeast Asian refugee communities in U.S.

A&S Communications

An April 1 webinar, “Critical Refugee Studies: Militarism, Migration, and Memory-work,” will bring together three leading scholars of refugee studies to explore those questions as they relate to a range of humanitarian efforts, refugee and migration policies, as well as artistic/cultural practices and performances that have formed in the wake of U.S. wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

Psychology

Why we are more cautious when there's a light at the end of the tunnel

The Los Angeles Times

People tend to be more cautious when there’s a light a the end of the tunnel, writes Thomas D. Gilovich, professor of psychology, in a Los Angeles Times op-ed.

Student Research

Researching the cultural impacts of climate change on Italy

Department of History

Kevin Bloomfield, a Ph.D. candidate in history, publishes the paper - Beyond One-Way Determinism: San Frediano's Miracle and Climate Change in Central and Southern Italy in Late Antiquity, which examines the cultural impacts of climate change in Italy during the first millennium by studying scientific data and historical records.