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Mathematics

Six assistant professors win NSF early-career awards

Cornell Chronicle

Two operations research and information engineers, two electrical engineers and two mathematicians from Cornell have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program awards. Over the next five years, each researcher will receive up to $500,000 “to build a firm scientific footing for solving challenges and scaling new heights for the nation, as well as serve as academic role models in research and education,” according to the NSF website.

History & Classics

Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History

Time Magazine

Barry Strauss, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, wrote in this op-ed in Time that ancient Rome was a macho society, often misogynistic, where women did not enjoy equal citizen rights. But, he says, if we look hard at history, we discover some women who made their mark. 

History

Seymour lecture focuses on women's soccer protests

In 2016, the majority of women's soccer teams in Latin America were designated "inactive" by FIFA. Women players launched protests, still ongoing, for better conditions in the sport. Historian Brenda Elsey of Hofstra University will explore the implications of these protests in this year's Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History.

History

Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American tradition

The Washington Post

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Biological Sciences

Biology students teach STEM curriculum in Colombia

A&S Communications

Eight Arts & Sciences students spent winter break in Colombia, collaborating with Colombian undergraduate students from the University of Magdalena to teach students at a public school in the coastal city of Santa Marta. The students spent their time carrying out STEM enrichment projects in the school, which primarily serves students from disadvantaged communities.

History of Art & Performing & Media Arts

Bollywood biopic debuts at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Bollywood director Nandita Das brings her breakout 2018 film “Manto,” the story of maverick writer Saadat Hasan Manto during the Partition of India, to Cornell on Thursday, March 14.

Interdisciplinary

Symposium welcomes artists, public to explore feminist performance

Cornell Chronicle

The history of feminist performance is one of radical storytelling, of showing how the personal is political, and of carving out spaces in which women can feel, in the words of performance artist Holly Hughes, “at last, fully human.”An interdisciplinary symposium at Cornell March 15-16 will explore what this history can teach us about the future of feminism, and how we can use performance to reflect the changes we want to see.

Music

Doctoral student selected as finalist in international piano competition

A&S Communications

Doctoral student Shin Hwang was selected as one of five finalists in the Sfzp International Fortepiano competition by the American Classical Orchestra.The top two prize winners will be selected after a final round of performances March 9 in New York City.

Creative Writing

Elissa Washuta to Read at Cornell on March 14

Nonfiction writer Elissa Washuta will read from her work on March 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall. This reading, the second in the Spring 2019 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of Cornell’s English Department.

American Studies

Historian to unpack history of racist ideas in Krieger Lecture

A&S Communications

Ibram X. Kendi, professor of history and international relations and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, will deliver the Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture April 15. His book, “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” provides a complex background and exploration of the notions of racial superiority. The event will take place at 4:45 p.m. in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium.