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U.S.-China relations

Russekoff lecture focuses on U.S.-China relations

A&S Communications

Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, will be the featured speaker for this year’s Mitzi Sutton Russekoff ’54 Lecture, hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences on March 16.

Racism in America: Health. Mother holding her child
American Studies

Health inequities the focus of ‘Racism in America’ webinar on March 29

A&S Communications

The fourth webinar in our Racism in America series features faculty from A&S, CALS and Weill Cornell Medicine.

Music

Composer Roberto Sierra elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

Cornell Chronicle

The award is considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Baskin lab identifies pathway for treating deadly melanomas

Cornell Chronicle

Baskin said he is excited about this potential pathway for treating melanoma, which is dangerous because of its ability to spread from skin to other tissues.

Migrations Initiative

Migrations grants to fund research on racism, dispossession

Cornell Chronicle

Proposals are due April 15 for a new cycle of grants from the Migrations initiative, seeking to support work in migrations-related research, pedagogy and engagement with a specific focus on racism and dispossession.

Sociology

Latinos, Blacks less swayed by college-bound friends

Cornell Chronicle

In new research, Steven Alvarado reports that having college-bound friends increases the likelihood that a student will enroll in college. However, the effect of having college-bound friends is diminished for Black and Latino students compared with white and Asian students, especially for males and especially for selective and highly selective colleges, due to structural and cultural processes.

Charles Petersen
Klarman Fellows

Klarman postdoc conducting ‘radical critique’ of meritocracy

Cornell Chronicle

Charles Petersen, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in history, studies 20th-century American history to better understand the rise of social and economic inequality in recent decades.

History

Oluo offers practical antiracism strategies in MLK Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Author Ijeoma Oluo, the featured speaker at the virtual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, held March 1, said the white male in America has always enjoyed relatively unfettered passage – usually at the expense of others.

Psychology

Neuroimaging reveals how ideology affects race perception

Cornell Chronicle

The study appears in a special issue about political neuroscience.

Government

Tech Policy Lab launches with focus on AI

Cornell Chronicle

The lab examines how politics shapes the deployment of new technology that affects the lives of millions.

Astronomy

FYS Telescope partners in Canada receive new $4.9 million grant

A&S Communications

A team of Canadian researchers have been awarded $4.9 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation to help build a next generation telescope, the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), part of the CCAT-prime project, an international collaboration including Cornell University.

Alumni support

Cornell to celebrate Giving Day March 11

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell will celebrate its seventh Giving Day March 11, in a 24-hour campaign bringing together Cornellians around the world to show their support for the university and compete in friendly challenges, a trivia night and more.

Government, Sociology

Search committee set for policy school’s founding dean

Cornell Chronicle

The university has launched a search for the founding dean of the School of Public Policy, building excitement about the fledgling school that could formally start operations as soon as this fall.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein program offers events on data privacy, virtual reality

A&S Communications

… now chief architect at a cloud security company called Lacework . He is also a Milstein Program advisory board … protections. With a long-time interest in programming languages and systems, he holds a PhD in computer science … the Future of Immersive Content," a talk with Nonny de la Pena, is scheduled for April 8, 5-6:30 p.m. de la Pena, …

Engaged learning

Preparing for a dynamic career in international development

As a student in Global Development, Jessica Snyder ’20 explored lessons in the development sector in engaged classrooms — those with four walls and on the global stage.