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What Makes Us Human?

Water Rights

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.

Milstein Program

Milstein program celebrated as its students make first trip to Cornell Tech

Cornell Chronicle

The Milstein program "prepares students to understand both the technical and the human aspects of new technologies," said Cornell President Martha Pollack.

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies lecturer featured in Amazon docuseries

A&S Communications

Amazon Prime’s new docuseries, ‘‘The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side,” features Elissa Sampson, lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program, in Episode 2. Sampson is also credited with helping location scout for the film. 

Biological Sciences

Entrepreneur of the Year shows power of persistence

A&S Communications

"Somehow it just seems like failure is part of the research game, just as it’s part of life,” Dr. Leonard Schleifer ’73 said during a campus talk.

Titan lakes
Astronomy

Cassini’s last Titan flyby reveals deep methane lakes, Earth-like cycles

Cornell Chronicle

By examining data from the Cassini spacecraft’s last close encounter with Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have found that its methane-filled lakes are up to 300 feet deep, much deeper than previously thought.

History

New York Times columnist to speak on meritocracy

A&S Communications

Our contemporary power structure claims to be based on merit and aims for diversity, but it has lost a sense of duty and responsibility that the traditional aristocracy represented, says author and political essayist Ross Douthat. In “Meritocracy and the Public Good:  Who Wins?  Who Loses?” Douthat will explore what the costs of this structure are to the common good. Sponsored by the program on Freedom and Free Societies, the talk will be held Thursday, April 25, at 5:30 p.m.

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ceci, Zamudio elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Two Cornell faculty members with expertise in psychology and evolutionary biology have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 17.

American Studies Program & Cornell Cinema

Photographer Balog to highlight human element amid climate change April 22

Cornell Chronicle

For four decades, environmental photographer James Balog has traveled the world capturing the connections between humans and nature in vivid detail.The Cornell community will have the opportunity to explore these connections, too, when Cornell Cinema hosts a free screening of “The Human Element” on Earth Day, April 22, at 7 p.m.

Chemistry & biology

What’s all the talk about Sirtuins?

Sirtuins’ connection to cancer is a big topic in life sciences research. What are they and why are they important to the hunt for cancer therapies?

Physics

Lecturer to examine the point of basic research

Cornell Chronicle

Why should resources – financial or intellectual – be dedicated to the pursuit of theoretical knowledge when the world has so many pressing problems? On April 24 particle physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed will examine the significance of performing basic research in his latest public talk as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. The talk will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall’s Schwartz Auditorium and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow at 9 p.m. at the West Pavilion of Clark Hall.