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Interdisciplinary

CSI announces new partnership to improve public discourse on inequality

A&S Communications

The project aggregates and summarizes peer-reviewed studies on various social scientific questions.

Computer science

Students' app helps users choose wardrobe based on weather

A&S Communications

Beyond Ithaca, the app has been downloaded in more than 70 countries.

Student activism

A&S undergrad starts Hate Has No Home campaign on campus

A&S Communications

… To find out more about the Hate has No Home Here campaign, visit the website . To get a copy of the poster, visit the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives office in …

Humanities

Spring Environmental Humanities Lecture Series begins April 12

A&S Communications

Scholars in the new interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities argue that climate change, water security, environmental justice and other such challenges can’t be solved purely by economic and scientific solutions: Human culture is implicated in ecological conditions.The Spring 2018 Environmental Humanities Lecture Series will bring to campus two leading scholars in the field. All talks in the series are free and open to the public.

physics

Researchers pave an enlightened path to anyons and quantum computation

Cornell Chronicle

Their work provides a blueprint for future work involving other types of anyons and more complicated quantum states.

mathematics

Math Awareness Month speaker to examine card games, patterns, computation

A&S Communications

… on mathematics events and outreach opportunities, visit http://www.math.cornell.edu/m/Community/community.html …

physics

Breakthrough made in atomically thin magnets

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have become the first to control atomically thin magnets with an electric field, a breakthrough that provides a blueprint for producing exceptionally powerful and efficient data storage in computer chips, among other applications.

Alumni

‘Follow your north star:' Alumna shares career path from footwear reporter to Fortune magazine

A&S Communications

… shared career advice and Cornell memories during a March 16 visit to campus as this year’s Munschauer lecturer, invited … Knowing she wanted to make a move to New York City, she visited friends there and handed out resumes all around the …

Mathematics

Three mathematicians awarded prestigious Simons Fellowships

A&S Communications

Three out of the 40 coveted Simons Fellowships in Mathematics for 2018 have been awarded to Cornell mathematics faculty members: Professor Marcelo Aguiar, Associate Professor Lionel Levine and Professor Alex Vladimirsky.

Performing & Media Arts

Short-film festival screens work from New York State and Ivy League students

Department of Performing & Media Arts

Student filmmakers, most from central and upstate New York, will have their short films screened during the fifth annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival (CIFF). During the festival, April 13 and 14 at Cornell University’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, the public and a panel of industry judges will award prizes across several categories.

Music

Concert celebrates Ensemble X's 20th anniversary

Twenty years ago, a musical collective of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty joined together to create an ensemble dedicated to presenting new musical works, and Ensemble X is still going strong. On Sunday, April 15 at 8:00pm at Barnes Hall, they will perform the blockbuster concert of their season in celebration.

Performing & Media Arts

Acting students treated to advice from Tony-winning director

… best director for the play “A Doll’s House Part 2.”  Gold visited campus March 24-25 for a conversation with PMA … winner and resident director at the Roundabout Theatre, visited Cornell to give a speech about his impressive career …

Awards and Honors

Professor Jamila Michener wins Early Career Award

A&S Communications

Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government, was recently awarded The 2018 Early Career Award by the Midwest Women’s Caucus for Political Sciences. The annual award recognizes a female faculty member’s achievements in research and her contributions to political science.

Music

Professor emeritus, musician and scholar John Hsu dies

Cornell Chronicle

John Hsu, the Old Dominion Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, died March 24 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was 86.Hsu joined the Department of Music in 1955 and was a member of the Cornell faculty for 50 years, retiring in 2005. He served as department chair from 1966 to 1971 and was named the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in 1976.

Medieval Studies Program

Christian martyrdom narratives explored in Medieval Studies talk

Cornell Chronicle

In a Medieval Studies Brown Bag Lunch, Eric Rebillard discussed his recent book, “Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs,” a collection of texts that describe the martyrdom of Christians executed before A.D. 260.