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Altruistic behavioral economists put ideas into action

6/29/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Why would five Cornell professors decide to teach a class when there was no budget to pay them to do it? If you’re the directors of Cornell’s Behavioral Economics and Decision Research Center (BEDR), you rely on research showing the importance of the class topic: Better Decisions for Life, Love and Money.

Alumni

Alum fashions program to find and support ‘natural leaders’

6/27/2018 A&S Communications

Since she was a child, Margo Hittleman ’81, Ph.D. ’07, was encouraged to speak up and try to change things that she thought were unfair. Looking back, she says many of the things that bothered her most related to systemic social injustice and exclusion, and she wanted to do something about it.

Astronomy

NASA awards its highest honor to Yervant Terzian

6/27/2018 Cornell Chronicle

“Dr. Terzian has made an indelible impact on education and inspiring young minds," NASA said.

College Leadership

Ray Jayawardhana named dean of Arts and Sciences

6/26/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Distinguished astrophysicist, renowned science writer and accomplished academic leader named the 22nd dean of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Jewish Studies

Documents illuminate U.S. Yiddish-speaking life until the Cold War

6/25/2018 Cornell University Library

Newly digitized documents from the archives of the International Workers’ Order (IWO) and the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order – including three letters from artist Marc Chagall – cast light on the lives of Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants in the United States during World War II and the Cold War.

Classics

Ancient Latin puns revealed in new edited volume

6/25/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Frontispiece of “Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature,” created by Lucy Plowe B.F.A. '20 Legal capriciousness, or hog soup? The Latin “ius verrinum” could mean either, as the new volume “Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature” explains.

Alumni

Alumna combines artistic side, technology skills for television career

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Jennifer Kahn '08 is a senior designer for the USA Network.

Performing & Media Arts

Summer research project explores black masculinity in theatre

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Allen Porterie ‘20 is spending the summer at the University of Notre Dame, where he is exploring the performance of black masculinity in theatre. Porterie, an English major with a minor in theatre, is studying how actors and directors frame the black masculine body on stage. Porterie began this work last summer at Louisiana State University's Pre-Doctoral Scholars Institute with Angeletta Gourdine, an associate professor of English.

Performing & Media Arts

Beth Milles directs ‘Fast Blood’ in Civic Ensemble summer festival

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Photo: Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. and Judy Tate

Psychology

Left, right and center: mapping emotion in the brain

6/18/2018 Cornell Chronicle

According to a radical new model of emotion in the brain, a current treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population.

Interdisciplinary studies

‘Collaboratory’ shares ideas on food, healing, justice

6/15/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The wrap-up session for the inaugural meeting of the Ecological Learning Collaboratory was not your typical academic exercise.In a sunlit room at Carl Becker House, 16 people danced to songs in Swahili (from Tanzania), Tumbuka (from Malawi), and Tamil (from southern India). As each song ended, the group erupted in shouts and raucous laughter.

Summer experiences

A&S student spends summer researching criminal justice abuses

6/19/2018 A&S Communications

After studying the criminal justice system and hearing the experiences of incarcerated family and friends, Benjamin Finegan ‘19, a government major, decided to spend his summer interning at The Urban Justice Center for the Corrections Accountability project (CAP) in New York City.

Economics

Workshop to foster multidisciplinary economic research

6/14/2018 A&S Communications

Governments and institutions play a critical role in advancing economic growth in the developing world, and researchers in macro and microeconomic policy design will gather later this month in New York City to explore that role.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Fetal T cells are first responders to infection in adults

6/14/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered there is a division of labor among immune cells that fight invading pathogens in the body.The study, published June 14 in the journal Cell, finds for the first time that fetal immune cells are present in adults and have specialized roles during infection. In fact, the first immune cells made in early life are fast-acting first responders to microbes in adulthood.

Alumni support

Scholarships provide lasting impact

6/14/2018 Alumni Affairs & Development

The scholarships created early last year as part of the recently completed endowed scholarship challenge are already benefiting several students. For two of them, in particular, the scholarships came at crucial times.

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