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Psychology

Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact

The Conversation

Why is the Danish language so complicated? Morten Christiansen explains in an op-ed in The Conversation.

Diversity

Lewis, Michener honored for diversity contributions

Cornell Chronicle

Jamila Michener, associate professor of government, and Mark E. Lewis, director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, are the recipients of this year’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.

Government

The Kremlin has a new toolkit for shutting down independent news media

Washington Post

Bryn Rosenfeld, assistant professor of government, writes in an op-ed in the Washington Post that the Russian government is making operations difficult for independent media outlets – even those that don’t criticize the Kremlin.

Linguistics

Student Spotlight: Charlotte Logan

Cornell University Graduate School

Charlotte Logan is a doctoral student in linguistics from Syracuse, New York. She chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to its location in the Haudenosaunee homelands and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program.

Poetry

A&S poet wins 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize

Cornell Chronicle

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of literatures in English, won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize in the international category for her 2020 book, “Music for the Dead and Resurrected.”

Economics

Report: Ithaca economy shouldn’t return to business as usual

Cornell Chronicle

Economist Michèle Belot and the ILR School’s Ithaca Co-Lab recommend workforce strategies to reduce racial disparities, remove barriers to work and prioritize living-wage jobs.

Sustainability

New faculty directors to support research and training at Cornell Atkinson

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Atkinson welcomes new faculty directors to advance research efforts, strengthen cross-college collaborations, and guide development of new programs.

Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Peter Enns Named Director of Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Peter K. Enns, professor in the Brooks School of Public Policy and in the Department of Government, has been named the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences. Enns’ three-year appointment began July 1.

Literatures in English

July Fourth and early Black Americans: It’s complicated

Cornell Chronicle

Black people in early America used July Fourth to argue that they should be freed from enslavement and had as much right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” as white people.

Physics

Hawking’s black hole theorem observationally confirmed

Cornell Chronicle

Saul Teukolsky and other physicists at Cornell, MIT and elsewhere have confirmed Hawking's area theorem for the first time, using observations of gravitational waves.