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Research Excellence

Inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows selected

Cornell Chronicle

The program encompasses research-based disciplines in Ithaca, at Cornell Tech in New York City and at the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva.

Philosophy

What is Metaphysics?

Cornell Research

Metaphysics includes big, abstract questions about the nature of reality that can’t be fully answered or investigated empirically: questions about whether or not we have free will and the nature of consciousness; about how objects or people persist through time. Are we the same people as we were as babies? Is a table the same if you inscribe your name into its surface? And what about causation, which is so central to our thinking, on what terms does one event cause another? 

Music

Sweet Honey In The Rock to offer concert & free workshops

A&S Communications

The female a cappella group Sweet Honey In The Rock has used the power of music to advocate for justice, freedom, and democracy since the 1970s.

Humanities

‘Arabic Movie’ explores Israeli cultural phenomenon

Cornell Chronicle

Israel and Egypt were at war in 1968, but every Friday night families across Israel gathered in their homes to watch Arabic-language Egyptian movies; Palestinians did as well. “Arabic Movie,” a documentary directed by Sara Tsifroni and Eyal Sagui Bizawi and shown Feb. 12 at Cornell Cinema, offers a glimpse into this phenomenon of cultural connection that lasted more than a decade, exploring why the films were shown and how they were obtained.

Science & Technology Studies

Trevor Pinch receives 2018 J.D. Bernal Prize

A&S Communications

Trevor Pinch, Goldwin Smith Professor of Science & Technology Studies, has been awarded the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 2018 John Desmond Bernal Prize, a lifetime achievement award for his “distinguished contribution” to the field of science and technology studies (STS).

Government

Plato offers lessons in literacy, artistry, politics

Cornell Chronicle

With one small change in interpretive approach, Jill Frank breaks with tradition in her new book, “Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato’s ‘Republic.’” Taking seriously that Plato appears in none of his texts and insisting that nothing that anyone in any of the dialogues says – including Socrates – should be attributed to Plato, Frank aims to shift how Plato is read.

Comparative Literature

New edited volume examines Russian science fiction

Cornell Chronicle

Anindita Banerjee says Sputnik played an instrumental role in transforming Russian science fiction into a serious object of study.

Cassini probe
Astronomy

Pollack receives Cassini model as inauguration gift

Cornell Chronicle

s an inauguration gift, the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS), the Department of Astronomy, and the Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility (SPIF) presented President Pollack with a model of Cassini on Feb. 16 in Day Hall, commemorating three decades of Cornell participation in Cassini’s historic mission.

Graduate Research

Einaudi Center to provide research help to doctoral students

Cornell Chronicle

The program offers seminars, workshops and mentoring to doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences.

Government & History

Cornell, Yale scholars to debate role of law in preventing war

Cornell Chronicle

Is the pen really mightier than the sword? Specifically, do laws and treaties have the power to stop armed conflicts before they begin? That is the question on the table at the next Einaudi Center Lund Debate, “Can War Be Prevented by Law?,” March 1 at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall.