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Anthropology

Cornell wins its first Ethics Bowl

A&S Communications

From left: Dana Bardolph, Danielle Vander Horst, Lindsay Petry, Elizabeth Bews, and Elizabeth ProctorCornell’s team won the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Ethics Bowl on April 12 in Washington, DC. They were the first Cornell team to participate in the competition, which has been held for 14 years.

Africana Studies

Courtney Carr: 'I value the flexibility in a liberal arts education'

Courtney CarrAfricana StudiesQueens, NYWhat is your main extracurricular activity--why is it important to you?

Economics & Psychology

Suzy Park: 'I made a tangible impact on issues that matter'

Suzy ParkEconomics & PsychologySeoul, South KoreaWhat was your most profound turning point while at Cornell?

Performing and Media Arts

Michael Southworth: 'If you want something, don't wait for it to happen — go do it.'

Michael SouthworthPerforming and Media ArtsBoston, MAWhat, if any, research projects did you participate in at Cornell?

English

Jendayi Brooks-Flemister: 'Not one student at Cornell can say they've had the same experience as another'

Jendayi Brooks-FlemisterEnglishLoris, SCWhy did you choose Cornell?I chose Cornell because of the breadth of possibilities it presented to me. I was entirely undecided in my mind, and I wanted to try out sociology, psychology, English, gender studies and art...I also wanted to learn Japanese. So, what better place to get all of that done than Cornell?

Statistical Science

Alicia Williams: 'Step out of your comfort zone and try joining a club or applying for an interesting position'

Alicia WilliamsStatistical ScienceAlburquerque, NMWhat accomplishments/activities are you most proud of while at Cornell?

Economics

Karna Malaviya: 'At my White House internship, I worked alongside brilliant economists'

Karna MalaviyaEconomicsMcLean, VAWhat is your main extracurricular activity--why is it important to you?

castaway exoplanet
Astronomy

Castaway exoplanet moons behave like cosmic bumper cars

Cornell Chronicle

Research by a Cornell doctoral candidate in astronomy details the lives of lunar bodies around exoplanets that become castaways and carom.

Humanities Podcast

Podcast explores human health and the environment

A&S Communications

“Planetary Health,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series, explores the complex relationships between health and human interaction with the environment.

Science and Technology Studies

UN expert panel at Cornell May 11 for science, policy symposium

Cornell Chronicle

A symposium exploring how science and policy intersect in driving global sustainable development will be held May 11 at Cornell.

Ethics & Public LIfe

Lecture to explore American anger at government

A&S Communications

Why do many Americans, especially white rural Americans, distrust the federal government?  Can liberal and conservative Americans find common ground despite such divides? In the final lecture in the “Difficulty of Democracy” series of the Program on Ethics and Public Life (EPL), sociologist Arlie Hochschild will discuss her New York Times bestseller, “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right.” Her lecture, “Anger at Government vs.

Economics

Law/economics initiative takes on big questions at kickoff conference

Cornell Chronicle

For most of human history, nearly everyone lived in precarious conditions – their lives, in the words of the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

Physics

Insect Flight -- Still a Mystery

Cornell Research

The flight capabilities of insects are nature’s solution to locomotion in air, according to Z. Jane Wang, Physics, and there are general principles of locomotion and evolution we can learn from them.

English

Fellowship supports MFA creative writing student Yessica Martinez

Cornell Chronicle

Yessica Martinez has received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants, that will fund her pursuit of a Cornell MFA in creative writing.

Music

Cornell and NYS Baroque to perform Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion

On May 5 in Bailey Hall, the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus, orchestral musicians from NYS Baroque, and six internationally-renowned vocal soloists, including tenor Rufus Müller, will perform the music of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.