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Educational innovation

Three A&S professors named Milstein Faculty Fellows

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Andrew Moisey, assistant professor of history of art and visual studies; Malte Ziewitz, assistant professor of science & technology studies and Tao Leigh Goffe, assistant professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender, & sexuality studies, have been chosen as new Milstein Faculty Fellows in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.

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Public engagement

New series connects students, community with artists and scholars

A&S Communications

A new initiative from the Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Latina/o Studies Program is inviting students and community members to engage in hands-on workshops and conversations with artists and arts/performance scholars. The next visit is Feb. 18.

Klarman Fellowships

Arts and Sciences welcomes eight new Klarman Fellows

Cornell Chronicle

The incoming cohort of fellows will explore subjects ranging from the evolution of primate lifespans to urban public art in China to the effects of uncertainty and debt on financial decision-making.

Society for the Humanities

New ‘Humanities Pod’ a virtual space for ideas

Cornell Chronicle

A podcast launched this semester by the Society for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, provides a space for humanities scholars to share ideas virtually, keeping cross-disciplinary dialogue going even during pandemic conditions and extending the reach of these conversations beyond Cornell.

Government

Gov. John Kasich to speak at forum on Feb. 17

A&S Communications

Kasich will be in a virtual conversation with former Congressman Steve Israel, director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs and professor of practice in the Department of Government.

Molecular Biology and Genetics

CRISPR improves method for studying gene functions

Cornell Chronicle

A new paper describes a technique that helps biologists understand the roles that individual genes play.

Astronomy

Perseverance’s zoom cameras to take historic focus on Mars

A&S Communications

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on a journey to Mars since its launch in July 2020 and is set to land on the red planet on Feb. 18. Alex Hayes, professor of astronomy, is a co-investigator for Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z — a set of stereo cameras that will be the “eyes of the rover.”

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Provided Brianna Johnson ’21, a student researcher on a Cornell team working to increase food security for local residents.
Engaged Research

New research grants support Ithaca-area communities

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell faculty and students are teaming up with community partners in Tompkins County to address opioid use, increase food security, build a greener construction industry and share stories of Ithaca’s Black history pioneers. The four teams received Engaged Research Grants, totaling more than $192,000, from the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI).

History

NEH grants Cornell $750K to develop ‘Freedom’ database

Cornell Chronicle

Ed Baptist, professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a $750,000 digital infrastructure grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the development of the Freedom on the Move (FOTM) database. Launched in 2014, the database collects and compiles fugitive slave advertisements from 18th- and 19th-century U.S. newspapers.

Government

In limiting political content, Facebook risks advancing censorship narrative

A&S Communications

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will begin implementing changes to its algorithm to reduce political content on its users’ news feeds. Doing so, Facebook risks sowing more discord, says Sarah Kreps, professor of government.

Philosophy

Manne to give Society for the Humanities talk on male entitlement

Cornell Chronicle

Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, will give a talk titled “He Said, She Listened: Mansplaining, Gaslighting, and Epistemic Entitlement.”

Government

Latina and Black women lost jobs in record numbers. Policies designed for all women don’t necessarily help.

Washington Post

Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report on January employment included bad news about Black and Latina women in the workforce, writes Jamila Michener, associate professor of government in a Washington Post op-ed.

Psychology

Prolonged immaturity an evolutionary plus for human babies

Cornell Chronicle

Human infants use that time to begin to acquire complex social skills, including language, empathy, morality and theory of mind.

Anthropology, Asian Studies

Backed by powerful allies, Myanmar generals take cues from U.S. events

A&S Communications

Magnus Fiskesjö, professor of anthropology at Cornell University and expert on Southeast Asia, comments on continuing protesters in Myanmar against the military coup that reversed last November’s election.

American Studies

‘Racism in America’ webinar to examine protest movements

A&S Communications

Moderated by Kat Stafford, national investigative writer at The Associated Press, the webinar will feature five Cornell faculty experts.