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Government

Gov. John Kasich to speak at forum on Feb. 17

A&S Communications

Kasich will be in a virtual conversation with former Congressman Steve Israel, director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs and professor of practice in the Department of Government.

Society for the Humanities

New ‘Humanities Pod’ a virtual space for ideas

Cornell Chronicle

A podcast launched this semester by the Society for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, provides a space for humanities scholars to share ideas virtually, keeping cross-disciplinary dialogue going even during pandemic conditions and extending the reach of these conversations beyond Cornell.

Klarman Fellowships

Arts and Sciences welcomes eight new Klarman Fellows

Cornell Chronicle

The incoming cohort of fellows will explore subjects ranging from the evolution of primate lifespans to urban public art in China to the effects of uncertainty and debt on financial decision-making.

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Public engagement

New series connects students, community with artists and scholars

A&S Communications

A new initiative from the Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Latina/o Studies Program is inviting students and community members to engage in hands-on workshops and conversations with artists and arts/performance scholars. The next visit is Feb. 18.

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Educational innovation

Three A&S professors named Milstein Faculty Fellows

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Andrew Moisey, assistant professor of history of art and visual studies; Malte Ziewitz, assistant professor of science & technology studies and Tao Leigh Goffe, assistant professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender, & sexuality studies, have been chosen as new Milstein Faculty Fellows in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.

Astronomy

Raring to rove: Perseverance lands on Mars

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers spent the eight months since launch preparing for the craft's landing Feb. 18.

History

Author, journalist Ijeoma Oluo to give annual MLK Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Seattle-based writer Ijeoma Oluo will give the 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture at Cornell, in a virtual forum on March 1. This year’s event will be a conversation between Oluo and Edward Baptist, professor of history and author of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism."

Jewish studies

Alumnus Josef Konvitz to give talk on trends in tolerance

Jewish Studies Program

Historian and Cornell alumnus Josef Konvitz ‘67 will explore and compare trends in tolerance in France and the United States in a digital talk on March 15 at 5:30 p.m. EST.

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Literatures in English

Black activism and early American media

Cornell Research

Studying Black Americans’ use of print media in the nineteenth century, Derrick Spires finds parallels with modern social movements.

Psychology

Agarwal, Rush, Tschida, Udell win Sloan Fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Katherine A. Tschida, assistant professor of psychology, is among four Cornell faculty who have won 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships support early-career faculty members’ original research and education related to science, technology, mathematics and economics.