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Comparative Literature

‘Dramas of desperation’: Book examines naked protest in Africa

Cornell Chronicle

Insurgent nakedness is the most universal and yet the most highly context-driven mode of dissent, writes Naminata Diabate, assistant professor of comparative literature.

Astronomy

InSight detects gravity waves, low rumbles and devilish dust

Cornell Chronicle

Don Banfield ‘87, principal research scientist at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, is the science lead for a suite of sensors aboard InSight.

Government

‘Making the turn’: from inmate to scholar

Cornell Chronicle

It is 4 p.m., and Darryl Epps has just put in a full day at work. Yet his day is only half over.

Performing & Media Arts

“Transformation,” collaborations with guest artists inspire annual Locally Grown Dance

Department of Performing & Media Arts

Student dancers of the performing and media arts department will explore “the politics of expression in the dancer’s body” in this year’s Locally Grown Dance, according to the event page. Each of the four dance pieces will incorporate the idea of transformation — either literally, figuratively or both. 

Government

Roper Center gives voice to American public opinion

Cornell Chronicle

With voting to select this year’s presidential nominees in full swing, the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell has launched a series of initiatives to help inform citizens and journalists and support the democratic process.Their goal: to bring public opinion back to the public.

Alumni

Paramount exec can manufacture explosions, but says story still makes the movie

A&S Communications

Lee Rosenthal ’87 fell in love with filmmaking as an English major at Cornell.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Expanding bone cancer therapy radium-223 for other cancers

Cornell Research

Radium-223 is highly effective for treating bone metastases in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancers. Despite the therapeutic potential of radium-223, its current formulation approved by the Food and Drug Administration is effective only for patients with bone metastases. Justin J.

Physics

Physics tool helps track cancer cell diversity

Cornell Chronicle

The team of economists and physicists took a novel approach to analyzing the behavior of breast tumor cells.

Performing and Media Arts

Stratford wins essay award from Northeast Modern Language Association

Aoise Stratford, lecturer in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, recently won the CAITY (Contingent/Adjunct/Independent Scholar/Two-Year Caucus) Essay Award from the Northeast Modern Language Association.

Sociology

Salaam promotes value of resilience, faith in MLK Lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Criminal justice activist Yusef Salaam, one of “The Exonerated Five” wrongly accused and convicted in the Central Park jogger case in New York City three decades ago, offered wisdom and hope to students and community members in the 2020 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, Feb. 17 in Sage Chapel.

Milstein Program

Entrepreneur facilitates workshop on design thinking, ethnographic interviewing

Dr. Virginia Rath, a scientist, design research consultant and serial entrepreneur, led Cornell students in a workshop on Jan. 29, encouraging attendants to employ design thinking skills to innovate solutions. During the workshop, students practiced qualitative approaches to design thinking such as user observations and ethnographic interviews to help them understand stakeholders. 

Government

Cornell professor, pollster taking pulse of Latino voters

Cornell Chronicle

Univision last year tapped Sergio Garcia-Rios as director of polling throughout the presidential campaign.

NY Times journalist Marc Lacey speaking with students
Chris Kitchen/A&S Communications NY Times journalist Marc Lacey speaking with students
Distinguished Visiting journalists

First visiting journalist shares world of the NYT with students, faculty

A&S Communications

Marc Lacey '87 offered advice to students, visited classes and learned about faculty research.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Davis, Delimitrou, DiStasio win Sloan fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Damek Davis, Christina Delimitrou and Robert A. DiStasio Jr. have won 2020 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.

Government, Sociology

NYC panel discusses changing expectations for success

Cornell Chronicle

Professors from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Human Ecology and Cornell's Institute of Politics and Global Affairs shared their thoughts during “The State of the American Dream,” Feb. 6 in New York City.