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Music

Fellowship will fund study of Warhol’s impact on ’70s music

Cornell Chronicle

Music Professor Judith Peraino won the 12-month fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Music

Music duo contributes to new album

A&S Communications

The talents of two Cornell music faculty members are featured on a newly-released recording, “Beauty Intolerable: Songs of Sheila Silver.”

Sociology

The truth about millionaires and taxes

New York Daily News

Studying the consequences of elite taxation, Cristobal Young, associate professor of sociology, he has found there are many misperceptions about tax flight—movement by the wealthy to avoid high taxes. He shares findings in The New York Daily News.

Government

Truth matters: A conversation with Republican John Kasich

Alumni Affairs & Development

As part of its ongoing effort to encourage bipartisan dialogue and problem solving, the Cornell Institute for Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) and Government Department co-hosted a conversation with former Governor John Kasich and former Representative Susan Molinari (R-NY). The talk was moderated by Steve Israel, IOPGA director and former U.S. Representative (D-NY), and by Doug Kriner, IOPGA faculty director and Clinton Rossiter Professor in American Institutions at Cornell.

Distinguished visiting journalists

Pulitzer Prize winner named A&S Distinguished Visiting Journalist

A&S Communications

Molly O’Toole ’09 is an immigration and security reporter with the Los Angeles Times.

Economics

Higher-income people take more COVID-19 safety precautions

Cornell Chronicle

Individuals in a higher income bracket have made the most health-related changes to stay safe during COVID-19, according to a new study co-authored by Cornell economist Michèle Belot. The researchers examine the role of socioeconomic differences in explaining self-protective behavior.

History

Ottoman history video reaches hundreds of thousands

Department of History

Faculty member Mostafa Minawi collaborated with the TED_Ed team to create a short primer for students.

Government

Biden immigration bill brings promise and peril

A&S Communications

The Biden administration plans to unveil its comprehensive immigration bill on Thursday alongside Congressional leaders. The following Cornell University experts, including Gustavo Flores-Macias, professor of government and the former Director of Public Affairs in Mexico’s Consumer Protection Agency, speak about the bill.

Philosophy

Female victims are people in their own right – not just some man's wife, mother, sister or daughter

The Guardian

We should care about rape simply insofar as it harms many and various human beings, Manne writes in an op-ed.

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Faculty excellence

Four A&S faculty honored with endowed professorships

A&S Communications

The naming of these additional endowed professors continues the college’s priority to recognize faculty excellence and accomplishments.

Psychology

Agarwal, Rush, Tschida, Udell win Sloan Fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Katherine A. Tschida, assistant professor of psychology, is among four Cornell faculty who have won 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships support early-career faculty members’ original research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics.

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Literatures in English

Black activism and early American media

Cornell Research

Studying Black Americans’ use of print media in the nineteenth century, Derrick Spires finds parallels with modern social movements.

Jewish studies

Alumnus Josef Konvitz to give talk on trends in tolerance

Jewish Studies Program

Historian and Cornell alumnus Josef Konvitz ‘67 will explore and compare trends in tolerance in France and the United States in a digital talk on March 15 at 5:30 p.m. EST.

History

Author, journalist Ijeoma Oluo to give annual MLK Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo will give the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell, in a virtual forum on March 1. This year’s event will be a conversation between Oluo and Edward Baptist, professor of history and author of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism."

Astronomy

Raring to rove: Perseverance lands on Mars

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers spent the eight months since launch preparing for the craft's landing Feb. 18.