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What Makes Us Human?

Benefits of active learning explored in new podcast episode

A&S Communications

“Closing Achievement Gaps,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, examines how active learning helps students succeed. The podcast’s fifth season – “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality.

Government

An Indian nuclear power plant suffered a cyberattack. Here’s what you need to know.

The Washington Post

Debak Das, a doctoral candidate in the field of political science, writes in this Washington Post news piece about the circumstances surrounding the most recent cyberattack on the largest Indian nuclear power plant.

Climate Change

Anthropologists to speak on climate change

Society for the Humanities

How can we illustrate the gravity of climate change? Is it possible to grasp such a loss? Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, working to humanize the abstract concept of climate change and provide opportunities for dialogue, will deliver a free public lecture, “Of Flood and Ice,” on Wednesday Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House.

Arts Unplugged

Cornell According to Sound offers sonic look at campus

A&S Communications

The creators of The World According to Sound will share the audio they've collected on campus -- from fish and frogs to Latin speakers and synthesizers -- in four live performances.

Performing & Media Arts

Community-based play imagines future of climate change in Ithaca

Performing & Media Arts

“The Next Storm” (November 15–23, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts) is a community-based play by the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), Ithaca-based theatre company Civic Ensemble, and playwright Thomas Dunn. Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Civic Ensemble co–artistic director and PMA senior lecturer, directs this wry comedy.

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Astronomy

Faculty appointed to Astro2020 survey

A&S Communications

Three Cornell astronomers have been appointed to panel membership for the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astro2020: Nikole Lewis assistant professor and deputy director of the Carl Sagan Institute, Professor Gordon Stacey and Professor

Physics

Researchers model avalanches in two dimensions

Cornell Chronicle

There’s a structural avalanche waiting inside that box of Rice Krispies on the supermarket shelf. Cornell researchers are now closer to understanding how those structures behave – and in some cases, behave unusually.

Government & American Studies

Student works for global change through Fulbright program

Cornell Chronicle

Nine Cornell students and new alumni received Fulbrights this year.

Music

Experimental band Henry Cow challenged itself, audiences

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell professor Benjamin Piekut’s latest book is an exhaustive study of an experimental British group that blurred the lines between genres as it created captivating music.​

Astronomy

Cornell partners in NSF grant for astrophysics institute

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) is among 10 collaborators awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.Adam Brazier, a computational scientist with CAC, is the technical lead on the project, which is being led by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Music

How I discovered a dozen new Lou Reed songs

The Washington Post

In this Washington Post opinion piece, Judith Peraino, music professor, describes her amazing discovery of unknown Lou Reed songs at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.

Romance Studies

MacArthur Fellow to speak on American border crisis

A&S Communications

In Valeria Luiselli’s new novel, Lost Children Archive, a family crosses the United States by car. They’re en route to Apacheria, Arizona, the place where the Apaches – the last free indigenous tribe in the United States – once called home. News of an immigration crisis at the border chases the family via radio.

In Memoriam

Writer, emeritus professor James McConkey dies at 98

Cornell Chronicle

Acclaimed writer James McConkey, the Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus and mentor to young writers at Cornell for nearly four decades, died Oct. 24, 2019 at his home in Enfield. He was 98.

Music

Musicologist discovers tape of unreleased Lou Reed music

Cornell Chronicle

"The import of the discovery didn’t hit me until...a curator of the archive said, ‘I think you’ve just discovered a lost Lou Reed album.’”

Psychology

Economic scarcity shifts perception, leads to discrimination

Cornell Chronicle

“Scarcity mindsets can really exacerbate discrimination,” said Amy Krosch, assistant professor of psychology