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Near Eastern Studies

Yiddish to fulfill A&S language requirement

4/26/2021 A&S Communications

This fall, Cornell's new Yiddish program is setting its sights higher, riding a generational trend in interest and changing attitudes towards the language.

Philosophy

‘Rational Rules’ book examines how we learn morals

4/26/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Philosophy professor Shaun Nichols argues that we can explain many of the features of moral systems and how humans form them in terms of rational learning from evidence.

Extraordinary Journeys

'Cornell has shown me I am worthy of dreaming big'

5/10/2021

Alexis Ren is a math and econ major.

Extraordinary Journeys

'I understand that learning is a forever process'

5/10/2021

Amina Kilpatrick is a government and Africana studies major

Public opinion research

Americans aren’t learning about anti-Asian bias. We have the data.

4/26/2021 Washington Post

Peter K. Enns, professor of government, and Katherine Zaslavsky, graduate student in sociology, write in the Washington Post that since the coronoavirus pandemic began, Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have endured a spike in hate crimes, with elderly people attacked on the street and an Atlanta gunman killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent. Are Americans aware of the trend? they ask.

International Studies

Nobel laureate Sen to lecture on protecting democracy

4/27/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture on May 5. His talk, “Attacks on Democracy,” is Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies; this year’s virtual lecture is part of the center’s democratic resilience global research priority.

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