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Government

Study: Tug at heartstrings with big stats, human stories

Cornell Chronicle

A new study sheds light on the types of statistical and narrative evidence that are most effective at changing behavior.

Mathematics

How Pi Made Us Modern

New York Times

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences and author of "The Joy of X," explains the origin and meaning of pi in a New York Times op-ed. 

Jewish Studies

Holocaust Memorial Museum curator to visit Ithaca

A&S Communications

Historian Judith Cohen, Chief Acquisitions Curator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington DC, will visit Ithaca March 24-25. The visit is hosted by the Ithaca Descendants of Holocaust Survivors and co-sponsored by Cornell’s Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. Additional sponsors include Ithaca College Jewish Studies and the Ithaca Area United Jewish Community.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology & Physics

Ramshaw, Lin and Baskin win Sloan fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Jeremy Baskin, Song Lin and Brad Ramshaw have been named recipients of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships, which support early-career faculty members’ original research and broad-based education related to science, technology and economic performance.

Performing & Media Arts

Heermans-McCalmon competition winners present their work

Performing & Media Arts

The winners of the Department of Performing & Media Arts’ Heermans-McCalmon undergraduate writing competition will be honored Friday, March 22, at 4:30 p.m. in the Class of ’56 Dance Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Chemistry

Chemistry professor honored with scholar award

A&S Communications

Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) recently honored Justin Wilson, assistant professor of chemistry & chemical biology, as one of 24 recipients of the 2019 Cottrell Scholar Awards for his research, “Capturing the Heavy Alkaline Earth Elements: Ligand Design to Sequester Radioactive Strontium, Barium, and Radium.”

Creative Writing

Elissa Washuta to Read at Cornell on March 14

Nonfiction writer Elissa Washuta will read from her work on March 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall. This reading, the second in the Spring 2019 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, is sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of Cornell’s English Department.

American Studies

Historian to unpack history of racist ideas in Krieger Lecture

A&S Communications

Ibram X. Kendi, professor of history and international relations and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, will deliver the Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture April 15. His book, “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” provides a complex background and exploration of the notions of racial superiority. The event will take place at 4:45 p.m. in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium.

Music

Doctoral student selected as finalist in international piano competition

A&S Communications

Doctoral student Shin Hwang was selected as one of five finalists in the Sfzp International Fortepiano competition by the American Classical Orchestra.The top two prize winners will be selected after a final round of performances March 9 in New York City.

Interdisciplinary

Symposium welcomes artists, public to explore feminist performance

Cornell Chronicle

… as  Rhodessa Jones , the Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of 1956 Visiting Professor in the Department of Performing & Media … artists who have not only made a huge imprint on our current theatrical landscape but have paved the way for …

History of Art & Performing & Media Arts

Bollywood biopic debuts at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Bollywood director Nandita Das brings her breakout 2018 film “Manto,” the story of maverick writer Saadat Hasan Manto during the Partition of India, to Cornell on Thursday, March 14.

Biological Sciences

Biology students teach STEM curriculum in Colombia

A&S Communications

Eight Arts & Sciences students spent winter break in Colombia, collaborating with Colombian undergraduate students from the University of Magdalena to teach students at a public school in the coastal city of Santa Marta. The students spent their time carrying out STEM enrichment projects in the school, which primarily serves students from disadvantaged communities.

History

Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American tradition

The Washington Post

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History

Seymour lecture focuses on women's soccer protests

In 2016, the majority of women's soccer teams in Latin America were designated "inactive" by FIFA. Women players launched protests, still ongoing, for better conditions in the sport. Historian Brenda Elsey of Hofstra University will explore the implications of these protests in this year's Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History.

History & Classics

Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History

Time Magazine

Barry Strauss, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, wrote in this op-ed in Time that ancient Rome was a macho society, often misogynistic, where women did not enjoy equal citizen rights. But, he says, if we look hard at history, we discover some women who made their mark.