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Cornell Symphony Orchestra offers annual young person’s concert

3/6/2018 A&S Communications

Young musicians from Ithaca High School Chamber Orchestra, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s Youth Orchestra and the Cornell Synphony Orchestra will come together to perform a concert for the Ithaca community on Sunday, March 11.

Biology

Undergrad researcher explores ways to combat antibiotic resistance to cholera

3/7/2018 A&S Communications

Researchers have discovered a gene whose presence creates a larger “porin,” a hole in a bacteria’s outer membrane, allowing larger antibiotics to enter and attack the cell wall.

In Memoriam

Cornell benefactor Imogene Powers Johnson dies at 87

3/7/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Imogene “Gene” Powers Johnson ’52, a devoted alumna, benefactor and matriarch of a multigenerational philanthropic Cornellian family, died March 3 in Racine, Wisconsin. She was 87.

History

Boycotts won't weaken the NRA's bottom line – but that's not the point

3/3/2018 Globe and Mail

In this piece in The Globe and Mail, Lawrence Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies, argues that recent NRA boycotts are succeeding at an unprecedented level, utilizing a boycott for what they've always been been about: indignant consumers puncturing political influence.

Campus Climate

University reaffirms its commitment to, support of undocumented students

3/6/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Numerous resources are available on campus for undocumented students with and without DACA status.

Romance studies

Medieval and renaissance scholar speaks March 19

3/8/2018 A&S Communications

A Medieval and Renaissance literature scholar from Bard College will visit campus March 19 to talk about her research related to truth and fiction in texts from the Middle Ages.

Career Development