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Astronomy

Cassini’s last Titan flyby reveals deep methane lakes, Earth-like cycles

Cornell Chronicle

By examining data from the Cassini spacecraft’s last close encounter with Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have found that its methane-filled lakes are up to 300 feet deep, much deeper than previously thought.

Biological Sciences

Entrepreneur of the Year shows power of persistence

A&S Communications

"Somehow it just seems like failure is part of the research game, just as it’s part of life,” Dr. Leonard Schleifer ’73 said during a campus talk.

Jewish Studies

Jewish Studies lecturer featured in Amazon docuseries

A&S Communications

Amazon Prime’s new docuseries, ‘‘The Luckiest Guys on the Lower East Side,” features Elissa Sampson, lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program, in Episode 2. Sampson is also credited with helping location scout for the film. 

Milstein Program

Milstein program celebrated as its students make first trip to Cornell Tech

Cornell Chronicle

The Milstein program "prepares students to understand both the technical and the human aspects of new technologies," said Cornell President Martha Pollack.

Performing & Media Arts

Graduate student to direct production of ‘SPILL’

Performing & Media Arts

Cornell Performing and Media Arts PhD candidate Caitlin Kane directs performances of “SPILL” April 26–May 4 in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts’ Flex Theatre.

Interdisciplinary

New director leads Center for the Study of Economy & Society

An engineer-turned-sociologist whose career has been defined by interdisciplinary thinking is now leading a Cornell center that brings together economists and sociologists, from across campus and around the world.

Alumni

Alumna’s film screening included Q&A with Holocaust survivor

Price Arana ’87 will be on campus April 22 to host a 5:15 p.m. screening of her directorial film debut, “An Undeniable Voice,” in Milstein Hall’s Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium.

Africana

Africana Center to honor founder at 50th anniversary symposium

Cornell Chronicle

The symposium – focusing on Turner’s activism and impact in shaping the black student movement – will be held from April 12-13 at the Africana Center, 310 Triphammer Road. The keynote address, scheduled for 11 a.m. April 13, will be given by John Bracey, professor in the W.E.B. du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Molecular Biology and Genetics

CRISPR-Cas3 innovation holds promise for disease cures, advancing science

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell researcher and colleagues have used a new CRISPR method for the first time in human cells – a major advance in the field.

Philosophy

It’s the sexism, stupid

Politico

Cornell philosopher Kate Manne, author of "Down GIrl: The Logic of Misogyny," explains in this Politico op-ed why men are dominating the field of candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. 

Performing & Media Arts

PMA presents theatrical re-imagining of ‘American Dream’ debate

Performing & Media Arts

In 1965, the Cambridge Union Society invited African-American novelist James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, then-editor of the National Review, to debate the question, “Has the American Dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro?”

Psychology & Neurobiology and Behavior

Arts & Sciences alum named dean at UConn

A&S Communications

Like many new Cornell students, Juli Wade ‘87 was unsure of her career path when she initially arrived on campus, but her experience working in the lab of Professor Elizabeth Adkins Regan, professor emerita of psychology and neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts & Sciences influenced her decision to pursue psychology.

Career development

Alum to discuss state department work related to nonproliferation

A&S Communications

Eliot Kang ‘84, the principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), will talk about his work and career path April 18 as the 2019 Arts & Sciences Career Development Center’s Munschauer Speaker.

Panel of Professors for CAPS
Research

Social scientists analyze the dynamics shaping China’s cities

Cornell Chronicle

China’s enormous cities, their divisions and future plans have been at the heart of five social scientists’ research for the past three years.

Classics

Roman tragedy illuminated in original Latin

A&S Communications

Ghosts, sacrifices, visions –Seneca’s ancient tale of the aftermath of the fall of Troy, “Troades” (“The Trojan Women”), is a Roman tragedy in the grand tradition. On April 21 and 24 Cornell classics students will stage the play in the original Latin (with English supertitles).