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Astronomy

NASA awards its highest honor to Yervant Terzian

6/27/2018 Cornell Chronicle

… States as the leader.” For 12 years, Terzian served as a visiting lecturer in astronomy for the American Astronomical …

Jewish Studies

Documents illuminate U.S. Yiddish-speaking life until the Cold War

6/25/2018 Cornell University Library

… the Mann Professor of Jewish Studies, and Elissa Sampson , visiting scholar and lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program …

College Leadership

Ray Jayawardhana named dean of Arts and Sciences

6/26/2018 Cornell Chronicle

… Science in Society Book Award. An avid traveler, he has visited more than 55 countries and all seven continents. His … travels, for research and writing, have included numerous visits to mountaintop observatories in Chile and Hawaii, a …

Classics

Ancient Latin puns revealed in new edited volume

6/25/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Frontispiece of “Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature,” created by Lucy Plowe B.F.A. '20 Legal capriciousness, or hog soup? The Latin “ius verrinum” could mean either, as the new volume “Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature” explains.

Alumni

Alumna combines artistic side, technology skills for television career

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Jennifer Kahn '08 is a senior designer for the USA Network.

Performing & Media Arts

Summer research project explores black masculinity in theatre

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Allen Porterie ‘20 is spending the summer at the University of Notre Dame, where he is exploring the performance of black masculinity in theatre. Porterie, an English major with a minor in theatre, is studying how actors and directors frame the black masculine body on stage. Porterie began this work last summer at Louisiana State University's Pre-Doctoral Scholars Institute with Angeletta Gourdine, an associate professor of English.

Performing & Media Arts

Beth Milles directs ‘Fast Blood’ in Civic Ensemble summer festival

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Photo: Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. and Judy Tate

Psychology

Left, right and center: mapping emotion in the brain

6/18/2018 Cornell Chronicle

… in Casasanto’s lab at the University of Chicago and a visiting doctoral student in Casasanto’s lab at Cornell. The …

Interdisciplinary studies

‘Collaboratory’ shares ideas on food, healing, justice

6/15/2018 Cornell Chronicle

… sustainability and social justice. Why not bring them together and see what they could learn from one another? “We … and Jane Mt. Pleasant (horticulture). Attendees also visited several projects in the Ithaca area, including …

Summer experiences

A&S student spends summer researching criminal justice abuses

6/19/2018 A&S Communications

… op-eds and assisting with advocacy campaigns, as well as visiting prisons to work with the incarcerated and formerly …

Economics

Workshop to foster multidisciplinary economic research

6/14/2018 A&S Communications

Governments and institutions play a critical role in advancing economic growth in the developing world, and researchers in macro and microeconomic policy design will gather later this month in New York City to explore that role.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Fetal T cells are first responders to infection in adults

6/14/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered there is a division of labor among immune cells that fight invading pathogens in the body.The study, published June 14 in the journal Cell, finds for the first time that fetal immune cells are present in adults and have specialized roles during infection. In fact, the first immune cells made in early life are fast-acting first responders to microbes in adulthood.

Alumni support

Scholarships provide lasting impact

6/14/2018 Alumni Affairs & Development

The scholarships created early last year as part of the recently completed endowed scholarship challenge are already benefiting several students. For two of them, in particular, the scholarships came at crucial times.

Awards and Honors

Gunhild Lischke wins Sophie Washburn French Instructorship

6/14/2018 A&S Communications

Gunhild Lischke, Senior Lecturer, Language Program Director, and Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of German Studies, has been named the winner of the 2018-19 Sophie Washburn French Instructorship. The award, named in honor of Sophie Washburn French, is given annually to recognize excellence in language instruction among lecturer faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences. The awardee holds the instructorship for one academic year.

Near Eastern Studies

Salma Shitia honored with Kennedy award

6/14/2018 Cornell Public Service Center

… human rights. For more information about this award please visit the Public Service Center website . …

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