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What Makes Us Human?

Podcast explores role of forests in providing water

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“The Need for Trees,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series, explores the critical role trees play in the earth’s water cycle.

In Memoriam

Dan Gaibel, LRC IT manager, dies at 45

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Daniel Gaibel, information technology manager for the Language Resource Center (LRC) for 18 years, died March 30 of metastatic melanoma. He was 45.“His love for people, cultures, technology, and music was evident in everything he did. We will miss him dearly,” said Angelika Kraemer, LRC director. She noted that according to Gaibel, "fortune favors the bold" and the glass was always full. 

Africana studies

Riché Richardson: from surgery to recovery to hope

Cornell Chronicle

Over the course of two decades, Riché Richardson, associate professor of African-American literature in Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center, received her doctorate and two fellowships, taught at two universities, published numerous essays and a book – and survived three major surgeries.

Physics

Physicist to explain quantum entanglement in Bethe Lecture

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The quantum laws governing atoms and other tiny objects seem to defy common sense, and information encoded in quantum systems has weird, baffling properties like “quantum entanglement.”Physicist John Preskill will explain quantum entanglement, and why it makes quantum information fundamentally different from information in the macroscopic world, in the spring Hans Bethe Lecture, April 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.

Performing & Media Arts

Centrally Isolated Film Festival to be held April 12 & 13

Performing & Media Arts

Despite its name, Cornell University’s Centrally Isolated Film Festival isn’t so isolated anymore. Now in its sixth year, the annual celebration of cinema, hosted by the Department of Performing and Media Arts, continues to expand, with submissions from distant states such as California, Illinois, and Rhode Island.

Africana studies

Series of events to mark 50th anniversary of Willard Straight Hall occupation

Cornell Chronicle

On April 19, 1969, dozens of members of Cornell’s Afro-American Society and several Latino students occupied Willard Straight Hall for 36 hours to call attention to what they perceived as the university’s hostility toward students of color, its student judicial system and its slow progress in establishing an Africana studies program.

History

Historian Michael Kazin to discuss Democratic party history

The Democratic Party began in the 1820s as an organization of and for white men who opposed a strong federal government. The party gradually wooed a more inclusive constituency, and its partisans built a national state that sought to advance the common welfare.

Linguistics

Linguistics students create language for ground-breaking Marvel movie

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Doctoral students Ryan Hearn and Joseph Rhyne created the alien language Torfan, used in the new "Captain Marvel" film.

Psychology & Neurobiology and Behavior

Arts & Sciences alum named dean at UConn

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Like many new Cornell students, Juli Wade ‘87 was unsure of her career path when she initially arrived on campus, but her experience working in the lab of Professor Elizabeth Adkins Regan, professor emerita of psychology and neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts & Sciences influenced her decision to pursue psychology.

Environment & Sustainability Sciences

Spring event allows students to explore new Environmental & Sustainability Sciences major

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The Environment & Sustainability Program, home of the new cross-college undergraduate major in Environmental & Sustainability Sciences (ESS), is hosting a spring gathering of humanities faculty and current and prospective majors April 10 in Room 401 of the Physical Sciences Building from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.