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What Makes Us Human?

Climate of Fear

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fifth season, "What Do We Know about Inequality?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about inequality. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Thursday through the fall semester.

In Memoriam

Professor Emeritus David Henderson dies in accident

Cornell Chronicle

David Wilson Henderson, professor emeritus of mathematics, died Dec. 20 in Newark, Delaware, from injuries suffered when he was struck by a vehicle in a pedestrian crosswalk in Bethany Beach, Delaware. He was 79.According to published reports, Henderson was struck shortly after 5 p.m. on Dec. 19. After being taken to nearby Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Delaware, Henderson was transported to Christiana Hospital in Newark, where he died the next day.

Government

How Southern politicians defended white supremacy — and made the South poorer

The Washington Post

Assistant Professor David Bateman writes with colleagues in this Washingon Post opinion piece about Southern politics before the Civil Rights movement and how the South paid a huge price for its commitment to white supremacy.

Government

Interpreting public opinion

Cornell Research

Vivekinan L. Ashok, a Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, is working with Peter K. Enns, associate professor of government, and other Cornell researchers, including Suzanne Mettler,The John L.

Mellon-Mays Fellows

Senior studies how architecture shapes community life

A&S Communications

Benjamin Montaño is exploring blueprints, legislation and other historical records about Mexico City's largest public housing community, built in the 1960s.

What Makes Us Human?

Unequal Happiness

This new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series examines the impact of inequality on psychological well-being.

What Makes Us Human?

The Need for Trees

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fourth season, "What Does Water Mean for Us Humans?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about the relationship between humans and love. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Tuesday through the spring semester.

Active learning

Professors, students laud active learning physics lab course

A&S Communications

Students said they gained confidence and discovered the pleasure of experimentation.

Philosophy & Classics

NEH supports faculty research, preservation projects

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty members Denise N. Green ’07 and Rachana Kamtekar have received grants for preservation and research projects from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The awards were announced Dec. 12 by the National Humanities Alliance (NHA).

Interdisciplinary research

History of Capitalism initiative takes big-picture approach

A&S Communications

The initiative is a collaboration between the Department of History in the College of Arts & Sciences, the ILR School and faculty in other departments and programs across Cornell.

Government

Government professor featured in new documentary

A&S Communications

The film investigates the dark side of American higher education, chronicling the policy decisions that have given rise to a powerful for-profit college industry.

Government

Sabrina Karim receives grant to study women’s participation in peacekeeping

A&S Communications

Sabrina Karim, assistant professor of government, has been awarded a Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) grant to assess the barriers affecting women's participation in eight selected United Nations peacekeeping troop and police contributing countries. The $294,843 award will cover a post-doc position for 18 months, a research assistant, and time for Karim to conduct the study.

Linguistics

Grad student works with indigenous speaker to document fading tongue

A&S Communications

When linguistics Ph.D. candidate Simone Harmath-de Lemos started studying the indigenous Bororo language of Brazil, she was excited to expand her knowledge of her own culture – she has relatives who were members of the Bororo community.

Music

Ariana Kim’s quartet earns Grammy nomination

Cornell Chronicle

The album, “Blueprinting,” features recordings of new works written for the quartet by five contemporary American composers.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Undergrad's project part of effort to save Javan rhinos

Cornell Chronicle

Rhinoceroses are instantly recognizable by their rumpled gray skin, immense snouts and iconic horns, but not so much their voices.That could change thanks to the efforts of Montana Stone ’19, who is working to document the vocalizations of Javan rhinos through a collaboration with the Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program and Indonesia’s Ujung Kulon National Park.