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College Scholars

New College Scholars explore intellectual niches from Japanese cultural property to technology design

A&S Communications

Eighteen students from the Class of 2020 are creating unique paths of study through the College Scholar program.

Student Activities

Student hopes to kickstart movement dedicated to “Shaping the Future”

A&S Communications

A&S junior Justin Langfan is spending his time kickstarting a political movement and writing an entrepreneurship themed newsletter called "The Bold."

Sociology

Analysis finds strong consensus on gender transition treatment effectiveness

Center for the Study of Inequality

A new analysis conducted by researchers at the What We Know Project (WWKP), an initiative of Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI), reviewed more than twenty-five years of scholarship on transgender mental health and found a strong consensus that undergoing gender transition can improve transgender well-being.

Music

Students, faculty reflect on lessons from Wynton Marsalis' visit

Cornell Chronicle

… All week long, Marsalis sat in on rehearsals and visited classes, interacted with the community, lectured and … Marsalis, on campus March 22-28 for his first extended visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large. “He … to them.” All week long, Marsalis sat in on rehearsals and visited classes, interacted with the community, lectured and …

Humanities

New novel reflects #MeToo moment

“Birds of Wonder,” a new novel by Cynthia Robinson, addresses sexual violence, porn addiction, and sexual tourism. “It’s an appropriate story for this #MeToo moment,” said Robinson, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art in the Department of the History of Art.

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Interdisciplinary

Nobel Laureate’s autobiographical play presented in Ithaca

Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann’s autobiographical play, based on his experiences as a Holocaust survivor in Zloczow, Poland (now Ukraine), will be presented as a staged reading in Ithaca, directed by Beth F. Milles. “Something that Belongs to You” will be shown on Sunday, April 15 at 6pm at Ithaca College’s Clark Lounge, Campus Center, and on Tuesday, April 17 at7pm at the Cherry Artspace on Ithaca’s West End.

Government

Two brothers find hope in prison, overcoming the odds

Darnell Epps ’21 is a government major at Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences and a research assistant for the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide. His older brother, Darryl, was a member of the summer 2017 Justice in Education cohort at Columbia University and has counseled at-risk youth.

Global Cornell

Visiting doctoral student researches U.S. international policy

Jihed Hadroug, a visiting international student from France, is focused on U.S. and Middle Eastern studies and public diplomacy. He recently participated in a graduate research exchange through the College of Arts and Sciences and he talks about his experiencs in this article on the Global Cornell website.

Interdisciplinary learning

Molecular Diagnostics: from Lab to Viñedo

A recent Global Cornell story focuses on the course, Molecular Diagnostics: from Lab to Viñedo, which Integrates science, language and culture.

Government

Professor speaks on ‘Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping’

A&S Communications

The women, peace, and security agenda has been at the forefront of international politics over the past decade. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations has been integrating women into peacekeeping missions for nearly two decades. To what extent have peacekeeping operations achieved gender equality both within the organization and in host countries? In a “Chats in the Stacks” talk at Olin Library on Feb.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Study shows long-term monitoring essential to effective environmental policy

A&S Communications

Environmental policy guided by science saves lives, money, and ecosystems. So reports a team of eleven senior researchers in Environmental Science and Policy. Using air pollution in the United States as a case study, they highlight the success of cleanup strategies backed by long-term environmental monitoring.

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.

Institute for Comparative Modernities

Speaker to address the roots of fascism in Europe

A&S Communications

On April 11, political theorist Eleni Varikas will speak on “The Colonial Genealogies of Fascisms in Europe" as part of the 2018 Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) New Conversations Series. The talk, at 4:45 pm in G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, is free and the public is invited.

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

The campaign also encourages people to have conversations with people who don’t agree with them and listen to one another.