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Information Science

Study uses neural networks to define Dada

Cornell Chronicle

To make a Dadaist poem, artist Tristan Tzara once said, cut out each word of a newspaper article. Put the words into a bag and shake. Remove the words from the bag one at a time, and write them down in that order.

Institute for Comparative Modernities

Institute for Comparative Modernities partners with Tate Modern for conference

A&S Communications

Cornell’s the Institute for Comparative Modernities will partner with the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and the Africa Institute, Sharjah, to host “Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures,” a conference at the Tate Modern in London from Feb. 23-25.

Humanities

JFK letter to professor donated to library

Cornell Chronicle

Widely considered a classic, Clinton Rossiter’s book, “The American Presidency,” has garnered praise from scholars of political science since its publication in 1956. But one of its greatest accolades came directly from the Oval Office, in a personal letter from John F. Kennedy.

Interdisciplinary research

Social scientists take on data-driven discrimination

Cornell Chronicle

… of life, they have the potential to create racial and social inequalities – and make existing discrimination even … of communication, will examine how independent creative workers such as journalists, photographers and video …

Center for the Study of Inequality

New minor track focuses on inequities in health

A&S Communications

The track is especially relevant for students who are interested in careers in medicine, public health, social science research or public policy.

Research

Give and Go: The double movement of "Shut Up and Dribble"

LA Review of Books

In a commentary for the LA Review of Books, Mary Armstrong Meduski '80 Assistant Professor Samantha N Shephard launches a critique of the recent SpringHill Entertainment documentary, "Shut Up and Dribble". The documentary focuses on NBA athletes' historical relationship with civil rights issues and the power dyanmics of the league today. Sheppard, an expert in Black cultural production and production culture, criticizes the film's overly simplistic narrative of social change; one that omits women and other marginalized figures such as victims of HIV.

Mars Rovers

Built to last 90 days, Mars rover Opportunity ends mission after 15 years

Cornell Chronicle

Opportunity reshaped our understanding of ancient Mars: it was "more habitable, more Earthlike," says Cornell astronomer Steve Squyres.

History

Freedom on the Move launches database of fugitives from American slavery

A&S Communications

This public crowdsourcing project is helping to digitize tens of thousands of advertisements placed by enslavers who wanted to recapture self-liberating Africans and African-Americans.

Sociology

Tech wealthy have a responsibility to the state that made them

San Francisco Chronicle

Cristobal Young, associate professor of sociology, writes in this San Francisco Chronicle op-ed that those companies who make their money in Silicon Valley have a responsibility to pay their taxes to the "state that made them," rather than the growing trend of moving out of the high tax state right before t

Mathematics

Strogatz gives plenary session at World Government Summit in Dubai

A&S Communications

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, delivered a lecture at the World Governmental Summit in Dubai Feb. 11. In the lecture, he discussed how governments can harness the science of synchronized randomness to the benefit of society.

Performing and Media Arts

Performing and Media Arts to host interdisciplinary symposium

On March 15–16, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will host an interdisciplinary symposium titled “Feminist Directions: Performance, Power, and Leadership.” Over the course of the symposium, internationally acclaimed artists Tisa Chang (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre), Holly Hughes (University of Michigan), Leigh Fondakowski (Tectonic Theatre Project), Rhodessa Jones (Cultural Odyssey), Peggy Shaw (Split Britches), and Lois Weaver (Queen Mary University of London) will join local artis

History

Caesar’s death and life in Antiquitas podcast

A&S Communications

The second season of the Antiquitas: Leaders and Legends of the Ancient World podcast, “The Death of Caesar,” launches Feb. 11, in a new collaboration with the Cornell Broadcast Studios. The season will feature interviews with experts who will illuminate the life and death of one of history’s most famous leaders.

Research

Cornell creates multicollege Center for Immunology

Cornell Chronicle

Building on Cornell’s decades of fundamental and comparative research in the immunological sciences, Provost Michael Kotlikoff has announced the creation of a new Cornell Center for Immunology.The virtual center will combine multiple research efforts across several departments and colleges on the Ithaca campus and strengthen ties to the university’s ongoing immunological research at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

Student experiences

Students develop Cornell-specific dating algorithm just in time for Valentine’s Day

A&S Communications

Students created an algorithm, interviewed 100 happy couples and entered survey data from students about their Cornell-specific likes and dislikes to determine perfect matches.

Edmundo Paz-Soldan
Romance studies

Let the novel speak

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research profile explores the work of Edmundo Paz-Soldán, professor of Spanish literature in the Department of Romance Studies.The story says that Paz-Soldán initially shied away from devoting his life to literature.