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Psychology

Researchers learn the social function of babies’ babbling

A&S Communications

Babies are adept at getting what they need – including an education. New research shows that babies organize mothers’ verbal responses, which promotes more effective language instruction, and infant babbling is the key.

History

History course on Cornell returns this semester

Cornell Chronicle

Among other important milestones, students in the popular class learn how Slope Day and Dragon Day originated; what Collegetown once looked like and why Day Hall creek is called Wee Stinky Glen.

Connecting research & practice

Museum course dives into artistic, literary connections

Cornell Chronicle

Graduate students explored texts and artworks with themes of movement, escape and water and curated a related gallery installation as part of a fall course at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Digital humanities

Apply for 2018 Arts and Sciences digitization grants

Cornell Library

The grants program makes a broad range of Cornell treasures easily discoverable online.

International

Two win Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prizes

A&S Communications

The 2017 winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature have been announced by Abdilatif Abdalla, chair of the prize’s board of trustees.

English

Mark your calendars now for spring Zalaznick Reading Series

A&S Communications

The Creative Writing Program of Cornell’s English Department launches its Spring 2018 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series with poet Julie Sheehan on Thursday, February 1, 4:30pm, at the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. Sheehan is the author of three poetry collections: Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise; Orient Point; and Thaw.

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Social Sciences

ISS grants jump-start new social science research

Cornell Chronicle

Are supporters of President Donald Trump increasing in prejudice? What’s the best way to end violence in Liberia during elections? Is Colombia ready for a sustainable boom in cocoa production?These are a few of the questions Cornell social science faculty are answering, thanks to small grants from the Institute for the Social Sciences.

Humanities

'Therapy as Performance'

A&S Communications

Therapy sessions can be dramatic, but normally take place behind closed doors with only the therapist and client as witnesses. “Therapy as Performance,” a new interdisciplinary series premiering Jan. 19 at The Cherry Artspace in Ithaca, turns that convention on its head.

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Language study

Living language

Cornell Alumni Magazine

With the hiring of a former Vatican translator, Cornell has become a hub of an unlikely field in the modern age: spoken Latin. This Cornell Alumni Magazine article highlights the work of Daniel Gallagher, a former Catholic monsignor who spent a decade working at the Vatican.

Cover of Nature Magazine
Astronomy

Across the universe, fast radio bursts ‘shout and twist’

Cornell Chronicle

An international group of astronomers has found that the Cornell-discovered fast radio burst FRB 121102 – a brief, gigantic pulse of radio waves from 3 billion light years away – passes through a veil of magnetized plasma. This causes the cosmic blasts to “shout and twist,” which will help the scientists determine the source.The research is featured on the cover of Nature, Jan. 11.

Award

Astronomer Jonathan Lunine delivered Carl Sagan Lecture at AGU

A&S Communications

Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, was selected as the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2017 Carl Sagan Lecturer.

Future Faculty Initiative

Gifts create new Arts & Sciences professorships

A&S Communications

Faculty growth is essential in multidisciplinary areas such as nanoscale science, behavioral economics, sustainability and media studies, as well as other emerging research areas in the social sciences, sciences, arts and humanities.

Alumni

An “unfiltered” voice

Cornell Alumni Magazine

“Whatever we’re talking about, we try to do it civilly and quietly," says A&S alum and CNN host S.E. Cupp '90.

Cornell in NYC

Faculty committee tasked to envision opportunities in New York City

Cornell Chronicle

Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana Studies, is leading a presidential committee of faculty.

Humanities

New volume offers a wider view of Africa

A&S Communications

Editors document the contributions African people have made to the world without romanticizing the difficult conditions in which many people on the African continent live.