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Career development

Alumni offer advice to A&S students at summer networking events

A&S Communications

Students in the College of Arts & Sciences will have the opportunity to meet and network with alumni in a diverse array of career fields at a series of networking events this summer.The college’s Career Development Center and the Arts & Sciences Career Connections Committee have planned five events in New York City and Washington D.C. beginning June 19.

Award

Alejandro Madrid receives highest honor from Royal Musical Association

A&S Communications

Alejandro L. Madrid, professor of music, has been awarded the Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal.

Faculty awards

Carpenter advising awards honor four on faculty

Vice Provost Rebecca Stoltzfus presented Cornell faculty members Austin Bunn, Ella Maria Diaz, Michael Goldstein and Irby Lovette with 2017 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards at a May 27 trustee-faculty dinner.

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Faculty Honor

Hayes, Kinzler recognized by World Economic Forum

Cornell Chronicle

Alexander Hayes ’03, M.Eng ‘03, assistant professor of astronomy, and Katherine Kinzler, associate professor of psychology and human development, are among 52 scientists under the age of 40 named Young Scientists 2017 by the World Economic Forum (WEF), “the most forward-thinking a

Sustainability

Ponder a fossil fuel-free world, then think art

Cornell Chronicle

Disappearing ozone, rising seas and a world of environmental strife have forced all of the globe’s citizens to great underground cities – powered by renewable energy. It’s quite the fictional vision.For Cornell’s 2017 Imagining Energy Futures: Undergraduate Science, Art and Design competition, the fictional short story “Underground: Project Gaia” by Reade Otto-Moudry ’17, Kayla Aulenbach ‘19 and Ashley Herzig ’18 won the $500 top prize.

Government

Republicans doubt 'global warming' more than 'climate change'

Cornell Chronicle

On the heels of President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, a new Cornell study finds that climate-science labels do matter.The U.S. public doubts the existence of “global warming” more than it doubts “climate change” – and Republicans are driving the effect, the research found.

Economics

Kaushik Basu takes the helm of the International Economic Association

A&S Communications

Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, began his three-year term as president of the International Economic Association (IEA) on Friday, June 23.

Innovation

Symposium explores possibilities of origami nanomachines

Cornell Chronicle

On June 16-17, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) held a symposium in the Physical Sciences Building to explore using origami to create machines at the micron scale using atomically thin materials.

Student experiences

A&S student spends enriching summer abroad in Tanzania

A&S Communications

Arts & Sciences student Emma Williams ‘19 is in Moshi, Tanzania for the summer studying the use of family planning among women of reproductive age. Williams, a biology and government double major, is also minoring in global health.

Faculty research

Why We Shouldn’t Drug Test Poor People

The New York Times

Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government, and Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, assistant professor of history, write in this New York Times opinion piece that tying Medicaid benefits to drug testing could imperil Medicaid's long-term viability and create a "vicious cycle of stigmatization and program retrenchment."