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Romance Studies

Society for the Humanities Invitational lecture to explore Freudian psychoanalysis

A&S Communications

Like a black hole – which cannot be perceived directly, but is known only by the way it warps space-time – the object of psychoanalysis is an object we know solely by its effects.

In Memoriam

Ted Lowi, renowned political scientist, dies at 85

Cornell Chronicle

Theodore Jay Lowi, the charismatic Cornell professor of government whose dream of an undergraduate program in Washington became reality and whose seminal books – “The End of Liberalism,” “American Government” and “American Political Thought: A Norton Anthology” (co-edited with Isaac Kramnick) – became standards in political science discourse, died Feb. 17 in Ithaca, New York.

Interdisciplinary

Mathematical models predict how we wait in line, traffic

Cornell Chronicle

In a new interdisciplinary study combining mathematics and engineering, researchers simulated models to show that drivers obey digital signs that direct them toward less-congested routes--but sometimes the signs don't keep pace with highway realities.

Anthropology

Einaudi Center launches dissertation development program

Cornell Chronicle

The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies will lead a campuswide effort to help doctoral students strengthen their dissertation research proposals with a new grant from the New York-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC).

Community outreach

Biology students highlight community service projects

Cornell Chronicle

Students shared their experiences performing community service in the Ithaca area as part of the Office of Undergraduate Biology’s Biology Service Leaders (BSL) Showcase Feb. 9 in Corson Mudd Hall.

Faculty honors

PMA professor honored with playwriting fellowship

Arts & Sciences Communications

Aoise Stratford, a visiting assistant professor in Performing and Media Arts, was named the 2017 Blaine Quarnstrom Guest Playwright at the University of Southern Mississippi in January. Stratford spent five days on the Southern Mississippi campus at the beginning of the year giving public talks, having her work read and teaching a series of intense hands-on playwriting workshops for students across the undergraduate and graduate programs in theatre and English.

Award

Physicist Brad Ramshaw receives 2017 Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize

Arts & Sciences Communications

Brad Ramshaw, assistant professor of physics, has been awarded the Lee Osheroff Richardson (LOR) Science Prize for 2017. 

Cornell Cinema

Faculty critique documentary 'I Am Not Your Negro'

Cornell Chronicle

“The history of the Negro is the history of America, and it is not a pretty story,” says the late writer James Baldwin in director Raoul Peck’s documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”

English

Shonni Enelow wins George Jean Nathan Award

A&S Communications

Shonni Enelow, assistant professor of English at Fordham University, has been chosen as the winner of the 2015-2016 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her book “Method Acting and Its Discontents” (Northwestern University Press, 2015).

History

If Kushner is the man for the job, family ties shouldn't matter

The Hill

In this opinion piece in The Hill, historian Barry Strauss, contends that Trump's appointment of his son-in-law as a senior advisor has plenty of precedent.

History

New book charts collision of wealth and populist politics in the Gilded Age

A&S Communications

The Civil War came as a crushing blow to the moneyed elite of Boston, who had been deeply embedded in the cotton economy of the early 19th century as textile manufacturers

Sociology

Gender gap found in Ph.D. fields and in program prestige

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers found that the share of men receiving their degrees from the most prestigious doctoral programs is about 6 percent higher than the share receiving their degrees from all other programs.

Physics

Gottfried receives 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award

Cornell Chronicle

Kurt Gottfried, emeritus professor of physics and a recognized expert on nuclear arms control, has been awarded the 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

Creative Works

PMA professor produces political cabaret Feb. 19

Cornell Chronicle

With protests multiplying around the country, this is a good time to be Sara Warner, whose research area is theatre and social change. 

Psychology

Chocolates and roses really do spell 'love,' researchers find

A&S Communications

“Say it with chocolate,” goes the ad – but what are you really saying? We imbue objects with all sorts of meanings, especially around the holidays. A new study by Cornell psychology researchers finds that the closer to Valentine’s Day we get, the more chocolates – and red roses – spell out “l-o-v-e.”