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History of Art & Visual Studies

Immersive calligraphy at the Johnson Museum

Cornell Chronicle

The monumental scroll stretches nearly 60 yards around the Bartels Gallery in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art – an immersive calligraphy experience by Tong Yang-Tze, one of Taiwan’s foremost calligraphers working today. The scroll’s subject – and title – is “Immortal at the River,” referencing a poem by 16th century Chinese poet Yang Shen.

Government

'Extraordinary uncertainty' for Brazil as Senate mulls aid package

A&S Communications

The COVID-19 virus arrived in Latin America later than Europe and the United States, but it is currently spreading across the region, with peaks expected to come later in May. Brazil, the continent’s most populous country, has the largest numbers of cases so far. This week, the country’s Senate is expected to vote on an economic package for states and cities to compensate for economic losses.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi
English

Africans, African Americans, and the History of Slavery

Cornell Research

In his poetry, fiction and essays, and Mukoma Wa Ngugi, associate professor of English, asks why tensions endure between Africans and African Americans despite a history of common political struggle. In this Cornell Research article, he talks about his first encounters with what it meant to be Black in the United States——in his father’s library in Kenya, reading James Baldwin and Richard Wright and issues of Ebony and Jet.

Performing and Media Arts

Student-run theater festival to appear online May 9

A&S Communications

Festival 24, the semiannual student-run theater festival from the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts, is launching online under a new title, Festival 24.0. The Festival, which is normally held at the beginning of each semester, will happen on Saturday, May 9, at 8:00 p.m. EST via Zoom to provide a performance opportunity for students while in-person theater events are suspended.

Rays of Hope

Timeout: students and young alumni reflect on life on pause

These young Cornellians are finding new sources of inspiration in everyday life.

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Long-dead stars can yield clues to life in the cosmos

Cornell Chronicle

The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets – particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs. The chemical properties of those far-off worlds could indicate that life exists there. To help future scientists make sense of what their telescopes are showing them, Cornell astronomers have developed a spectral field guide for these rocky worlds.

Astronomy

Science for new telescope advances at virtual conference

Two weeks before the first annual CCAT-prime collaboration meeting was scheduled to be held April 7 at the University of Waterloo, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a switch to an online format. Because the telescope is an international project with scientists in wildly disparate time zones, conference organizers faced major challenges.

Neurobiology & Behavior

New imaging technique sheds light on adult zebrafish brain

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Neurotech team's research could have implications for the study of human brain disorders, including autism.

Government

COVID-19 impact: Rachel Beatty Riedl on Africa’s response

Cornell Chronicle

Rachel Beatty Riedl, an expert in international studies, says Africa is the first place to look for an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic, given Africa’s success in dealing with the Ebola virus.

Humanities

First cohort of Humanities Scholars chosen by Arts & Sciences

A&S Communications

The students come from three colleges and are majoring in 20 different disciplines.

Music

Department of Music shares performances online

Cornell Chronicle

The department is sharing a variety of faculty and student projects on a new Quarantunes page.

Sociology

Victor Nee elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Nee is among 276 newly elected fellows honored for individual achievements in academia, the arts, business, government and public affairs.

Government

Problem Solvers Caucus strives to lead pandemic response

Cornell Chronicle

A bipartisan group of lawmakers hopes to shape Congress’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic and encourage a less divisive – and more productive – climate in Washington, a pair of members said during a Cornell forum April 23.

Government

Separation of powers at stake in US House v. Trump

A&S Communications

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held arguments by phone on Tuesday in a case pitting the Trump administration against the House of Representatives over the latter’s power to enforce a subpoena for former White House Counsel Donald McGahn’s testimony.

Government

Republicans are relying on the Affordable Care Act to respond to the pandemic

Washington Post

The coronavirus pandemic's fast-moving destruction has pushed Republicans to rely on the Affordable Care Act, the Obama-era legislation that was once the Republican Party's nemisis, writes Suzanne Mettler, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, in a Washington Post op-ed.