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Sociology

Hospitality, not medical care, key to patient satisfaction

Cornell Chronicle

Would you choose a hospital based on its Yelp reviews?Relying on hospitals’ patient satisfaction scores as a guide amounts to much the same thing, according to new Cornell research.

Linguistics

Linguistics grad student receives award for indigenous language presentation

A&S Communications

Doctoral student Carol-Rose Little and collaborator Morelia Vázquez Martínez (Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Macuspana) received a special distinction award in the best student presentation category from the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas during the society's winter meeting in January in New Orleans, La.

Africana Studies

Rooks to give talk on ‘underside’ of cannabis legalization

Society for the Humanities

This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Astronomy

Iconic ‘pale blue dot’ photo – Carl Sagan’s idea – turns 30

Cornell Chronicle

The photo of Earth was taken at a distance of 3.7 billion miles by the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1.

English

Bibliographical Society of America honors English professor

A&S Communications

Derrick R. Spires, associate professor of English, was awarded the St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize for his book “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States."

History, American Studies

Norton chronicles road to American Revolution in new book, ‘1774’

Cornell Chronicle

The book is the first in-depth recounting of 1774 as a critical “long year” for revolutionary change.

TRAPPIST-1 planetary system art
Astronomy

Astronomers will probe exoplanets with Webb telescope

Cornell Chronicle

This month marks the third anniversary of the discovery of a remarkable system of seven planets known as TRAPPIST-1. These rocky, Earth-size worlds orbit an ultra-cool star 39 light-years from Earth; 1 light-year is approximately 5.88 trillion miles.

Government, History

Panel discusses global uncertainties surrounding coronavirus

Cornell Chronicle

With the recent emergence of the coronavirus from China’s Hubei province, another “virus” has the potential to spread, a Cornell faculty member said Tuesday at a wide-ranging panel discussion on the outbreak.

Government

Face-to-face contact with police builds trust in fledgling states

Cornell Chronicle

… Liberian National Police (LNP) to test whether household visits from a pair of police officers – either two male or … a process of trust in the individual police officers who visited them. It led community members to prefer those …

PHYSICS

Inquiry-based labs give physics students experimental edge

Cornell Chronicle

New Cornell research shows that traditional physics labs, which strive to reinforce the concepts students learn in lecture courses, can actually have a negative impact on students. At the same time, nontraditional, inquiry-based labs that encourage experimentation can improve student performance and engagement without lowering exam scores. 

Near Eastern Studies, Cornell Cinema

Film screening and discussion to celebrate writer Kahanoff

Cornell Chronicle

Writer Jacqueline Kahanoff was born in 1917 to a French-speaking Jewish family in Cairo, and came of age intellectually in New York City and Paris.When she settled in Israel in 1954, she brought vast cultural experience with her. She also brought an opinion, unpopular with Israel’s ruling elite, that the culture of Jews from the Eastern Mediterranean region – known as the Levant – should be celebrated alongside those from Europe.

A scene from "Charlie Says" the movie showing Charles Manson
Cornell Cinema

Faculty, cinema collaborate to show films on Manson murders, gardens, Japanese pop culture

A&S Communications

When Mary Fessenden, Cornell Cinema director, sits down to think about what films to show each semester, she has lots of movies in mind, but she also works closely with professors to find ties to the classes they’re offering.

Physics

An Exciting Mysterious World—Spacetime

Cornell Research

Thomas Hartman, assistant professor of physics, studies high-energy theoretical physics. His goal, he explains in this article in Cornell Research, is to bring to light the fundamental properties of nature, which derive from the subatomic world of quantum physics.

Government

How Never Trumpers Fell in Line

New York Times

Former Congressman Steve Israel, director of the Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, writes in the New York Times that he sees political rationalization at work among today's representatives.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Coates honored by American Chemical Society

Cornell Chronicle

Chemistry professor Geoffrey W. Coates has received the 2020 Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society