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Inequality Research

Major grant expands Center for the Study of Inequality

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers will tackle the issues of inequality and democracy; social mobility and equality of opportunity; and immigration, race and ethnicity.

Africana

Two events will honor Africana Center’s history in September

Arts & Sciences Communications

Nearly half a century ago, student protests led to the creation of Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center. Since then, the Africana Center has trained generations of leaders in academia, the professions, business and public service.

Sustainability

Klarman Hall receives LEED Platinum certification

Cornell Chronicle

Klarman Hall – the College of Arts and Sciences’ light-filled humanities building that opened last semester – was certified LEED Platinum July 29.The U.S. Green Building Council, which certifies LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) structures, awarded the university 87 out of 110 points, the highest total Cornell has ever received.

Anthropology

Understanding the mind of an Olympian

A&S Communications

Alum Andy Arnold '13 spent six months in Kenya on a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant researching the country's elite runners.

Physics

Microscope becomes gauge to measure forces within crystals

Cornell Chronicle

All materials found in nature – even the most “perfect” diamond – contain defects, since the atoms inside them are never arranged in perfect order.Such structural disorder causes complex force distributions throughout the material. Measuring these forces is critical to understanding the material’s behavior, but these force measurements have been impossible to perform through conventional techniques, which only determine average responses to stress.

Veterans academic 'boot camp'

Rawlings engages veterans through ancient texts on war

Cornell Chronicle

Imagine serving in the military, having life-changing experiences, then re-entering civilian life only to realize that to fulfill your dreams you need to go to college.

History of Capitalism

Special issue of journal devoted to history of capitalism

Arts & Sciences Communications

“In the last decade, political economy has moved from the margins to the mainstream of the historical conversation in the United States,” writes history postdoc Noam Maggor in his introduction to the special History of Capitalism issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, which he edited.  “Galvanized under the banner of the ‘his

Anthropology

"For five millennia, politicians have proposed walls like Trump’s. They don’t work."

Arts & Sciences Communications

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, anthropologist Adam Smith offers lessons from history on Donald Trump's proposed wall as a solution to border problems.

Classics

Volume in honor of classics professor Fred Ahl released

Arts & Sciences Communications

“Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry,” a book in honor of Frederick Ahl edited by two of his former students, has just been released. The volume comes out of a conference titled “Speaking to Power in Latin and Greek Literature,” which was organized in honor of Ahl at Cornell University in September 2013.

English & Sociology

Student explores how socioeconomic status affects choice of college major

A&S Communications

As Emma Korolik ’17 looked around at the other students taking her English classes, she wondered: do class backgrounds affect what major a student might choose in college? And if so, why? Korolik decided to focus her senior honors thesis on the questions.

Comparative Literature

Understanding freedom and law through psychoanalysis

Arts & Sciences Communications

When Tracy McNulty read “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” at age ten, about a psychotic, the book had a profound impact: after college, McNulty went to France to study psychoanalysis and later trained with experts in psychosis treatment.  With academic degrees in French and comparative literature and training in clinical psychoanalysis, McNulty has become known for combining these interests in her scholarship.

Philosophy

Sympathy for the Rapist: What the Stanford Case Teaches

Arts & Sciences Communications

The Brock Turner rape case at Stanford triggered a firestorm of criticism; an op-ed by assistant professor of philosophy Kate Manne in the Huffington Post helps to explain why.The case, she wrote, “vividly illustrates…all of the ways we collectively ignore, deny, minimize, forgive, and forget the wrongdoing of men who conform to the norms of toxic masculinity, and behave in domineering ways towards their historical subordinates: women.”

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Male frogs have sex on land to keep competitors away

Cornell Chronicle

When it comes to the birds and the bees, frogs are remarkably diverse: They do it in water, on land and on leaves.Researchers have assumed that natural selection drove frogs to take the evolutionary step to reproduce on land as a way for parents to avoid aquatic predators who feed on the eggs and tadpoles.

History

Mary Beth Norton to lead American Historical Association

A&S Communications

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, has been elected president of the American Historical Association (AHA), the principal umbrella organization for the profession. Her one-year term as president will begin in January 2018.

Student Services

Peer advising program eases transition to college

A&S Communications

Upperclass students help first-year students navigate the social and extracurricular avenues of Cornell.