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Research

DJs, Linnaeus, and Plantation History

Cornell Research

Professor Tao Leigh Goffe works at the intersection of environmental humanities, science, and technology. As a researcher, writer, and DJ, she is especially interested in histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization.

Arts Unplugged

Panel to examine the intersection of artificial intelligence with ethics, politics and policy

A&S Communications

The April 15 Arts Unplugged virtual event will be moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin ’99, of CNBC and The New York Times.

Staff transitions

College names new director of human resources

A&S Communications

The College of Arts & Sciences will welcome a new director of human resources, Taylor Shuler, beginning on April 1. Shuler, senior HR business partner in the Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science and Cornell Engineering HR Service Center, will take over for Sara Bloxsom, who’s worked in the dean’s office for more than 36 years, 27 of those directing the college’s human resources efforts and who is retiring this year.

Important conversations

Webinar explores issues for Southeast Asian refugee communities in U.S.

A&S Communications

An April 1 webinar, “Critical Refugee Studies: Militarism, Migration, and Memory-work,” will bring together three leading scholars of refugee studies to explore those questions as they relate to a range of humanitarian efforts, refugee and migration policies, as well as artistic/cultural practices and performances that have formed in the wake of U.S. wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia

Psychology

Why we are more cautious when there's a light at the end of the tunnel

The Los Angeles Times

People tend to be more cautious when there’s a light a the end of the tunnel, writes Thomas D. Gilovich, professor of psychology, in a Los Angeles Times op-ed.

Student Research

Researching the cultural impacts of climate change on Italy

Department of History

Kevin Bloomfield, a Ph.D. candidate in history, publishes the paper - Beyond One-Way Determinism: San Frediano's Miracle and Climate Change in Central and Southern Italy in Late Antiquity, which examines the cultural impacts of climate change in Italy during the first millennium by studying scientific data and historical records.

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Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Plan now to attend April 19 panel on political polarization and the media

A&S Communications

Distinguished alumni and Cornell faculty will explore whether media are helping or worsening the political divide and what can be done.

Student experiences

Summer experience grant removes barriers of access for students

A&S Communications

Students can receive financial support for their remote and in-person summer work opportunities.

Economics

In pandemic, students with tech-savvy teachers fared better

Cornell Chronicle

“It is the courses that have intentional, structured peer interaction that have the least loss in learning."

Government

Voter suppression started way before Jim Crow. It’s a longstanding American tradition.

The Washington Post

David A. Bateman, associate professor of government, writes in the Washington Post that a new law passed by the Georgia legislature that would restrict access to voting is part of a nationwide push among Republicans to curtail ballot access, the latest wave of efforts to restrict voting, dating back to the 2000s.

Africana Studies

Expert discusses Biden’s sweeping infrastructure package

A&S Communications

The Biden administration is making a pitch this week for new legislation that could provide a combined $3 trillion for infrastructure such as roads, rail lines, electric vehicle charging stations and grid upgrades, while investing in universal pre-kindergarten, paid family leave and free community college. Noliwe Rooks, the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor in Africana studies and an expert on the role of segregation in American society, comments.

Alumni creativity

Alumnus shares public health messages through comic illustrations

A&S Communications

What began as a class project exploring a fraught period of Ithaca history has transformed into a COVID-related comic that Leo Levy ’20, hopes can reach people with a lesson from the past and an accessible message about public health.

College Leadership

Dean announces transitions on Arts & Sciences leadership team

Cornell Chronicle

Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, has announced transitions in the College’s senior leadership team that will take place on July 1.

Physics

Neil Ashcroft, world-renowned theoretical physicist, dies at 82

Cornell Chronicle

Neil W. Ashcroft, the Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and a leading theorist in condensed matter physics, died March 15 in Ithaca. In the late 1960s and first half of the 1970s, he collaborated with David Mermin, professor emeritus of physics, to write “Solid State Physics,” which became the gold standard of textbooks for their discipline.

Illustration of future north campus residence halls
An artistic rendering for how the new North Campus Residential Expansion halls will look in fall 2021.
University news

New residence halls named for Hu, Morrison, Ginsburg

Cornell Chronicle

Hu Shi 1914, Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 are honored in the North Campus expansion.