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Veterans Day

Professor’s Vietnam War service determined his life’s path

Cornell Chronicle

Keith Taylor didn’t want to be a veteran.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Racker Lecture Series welcomes Richard Lifton Nov. 22

A&S Communications

This year’s Racker lecture series, sponsored by the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, will feature Dr. Richard P. Lifton, president of Rockefeller University, where he is also Carson Family Professor and head of the Laboratory of Human Genetics and Genomics.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Alumnus novelist visits for talk with Milstein students

Rodman described writing as “"discovering your own autobiography through your fictional characters."

American studies, Government, History

Struggle to save America's cities is focus of University Lecture Nov. 14

A&S Communications

City governments are often forced to rely on the private sector to support the public good. But it wasn’t always this way.

Research abroad

Two doctoral students win Fulbright-Hays fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell doctoral students Mary-Kate Long and Jiwon Baik have received Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education.The prestigious fellowships, managed at Cornell by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, will take Long to Myanmar and Baik to China.

What Makes Us Human?

Benefits of active learning explored in new podcast episode

A&S Communications

“Closing Achievement Gaps,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series, examines how active learning helps students succeed. The podcast’s fifth season – “What Do We Know about Inequality?” – showcases the newest thinking across academic disciplines about inequality.

Government

An Indian nuclear power plant suffered a cyberattack. Here’s what you need to know.

The Washington Post

Debak Das, a doctoral candidate in the field of political science, writes in this Washington Post news piece about the circumstances surrounding the most recent cyberattack on the largest Indian nuclear power plant.

Climate Change

Anthropologists to speak on climate change

Society for the Humanities

How can we illustrate the gravity of climate change? Is it possible to grasp such a loss? Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, working to humanize the abstract concept of climate change and provide opportunities for dialogue, will deliver a free public lecture, “Of Flood and Ice,” on Wednesday Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House.

Arts Unplugged

Cornell According to Sound offers sonic look at campus

A&S Communications

The creators of The World According to Sound will share the audio they've collected on campus -- from fish and frogs to Latin speakers and synthesizers -- in four live performances.

Performing & Media Arts

Community-based play imagines future of climate change in Ithaca

Performing & Media Arts

“The Next Storm” (November 15–23, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts) is a community-based play by the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA), Ithaca-based theatre company Civic Ensemble, and playwright Thomas Dunn. Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., Civic Ensemble co–artistic director and PMA senior lecturer, directs this wry comedy.

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Astronomy

Faculty appointed to Astro2020 survey

A&S Communications

Three Cornell astronomers have been appointed to panel membership for the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astro2020: Nikole Lewis assistant professor and deputy director of the Carl Sagan Institute, Professor Gordon Stacey and Professor

Physics

Researchers model avalanches in two dimensions

Cornell Chronicle

There’s a structural avalanche waiting inside that box of Rice Krispies on the supermarket shelf. Cornell researchers are now closer to understanding how those structures behave – and in some cases, behave unusually.

Government & American Studies

Student works for global change through Fulbright program

Cornell Chronicle

Nine Cornell students and new alumni received Fulbrights this year.

Music

Experimental band Henry Cow challenged itself, audiences

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell professor Benjamin Piekut’s latest book is an exhaustive study of an experimental British group that blurred the lines between genres as it created captivating music.​

Astronomy

Cornell partners in NSF grant for astrophysics institute

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) is among 10 collaborators awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop the concept for a Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.Adam Brazier, a computational scientist with CAC, is the technical lead on the project, which is being led by the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.