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Neurobiology & Behavior

Inspired by underwater sounds

Andrew Bass connects his childhood love of the ocean and underweater sounds to his fascination with his research at Cornell University. Hear more about Bass' research in this Cornell Research video.

In Memoriam

Myron Rush, noted Kremlinologist, dies at age 96

Cornell Chronicle

Myron Rush, a Kremlinologist whose careful lexical analysis of public leadership statements determined that Nikita Khrushchev had won the power struggle to succeed Joseph Stalin, died Jan. 8 of kidney failure at his home in Herndon, Virginia. The professor emeritus of government died a week after his 96th birthday.

Performing & Media Arts

New David Feldshuh play has world premiere

A&S Communications

“Dancing with Giants” premiered Feb. 8 and recounts the friendship of three men in the years leading up to WWII.

Comparative Literature

MLA awards honorable mention to book by William Kennedy

William Kennedy, the Avalon Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature was recognized for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, awarded by the Modern Language Association.

Marina Rosenfeld 2017 installation "Deathstar" at Portikus Frankfurt.
Music

Experimental music symposium features concerts and speakers

A&S Communications

After Experimental Music, a symposium to explore current perspectives on experimental music studies, will bring scholars, performers, and artist-practitioners from across North America to Cornell University Feb. 8-11. In addition to academic presentations in Lincoln Hall, the symposium will feature two concerts of experimental music. All events are free and open to the public.

Ethics & Public Life

Lecture series examines “The Difficulty of Democracy”

A&S Communications

A semester-long, in-depth series of lectures on “The Difficulty of Democracy: Challenges and Prospects,” hosted by the College of Art and Sciences’ Program on Ethics and Public Life (EPL), features six eminent social scientists and will take place in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, followed by a question-and-answer period.

Music

Music prof premieres work in Germany

A&S Communications

A new performative sound kinetic installation by Assistant Professor Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri will premiere at the ECLAT Festival in Stuttgart, Germany on February 3. Titled Distanz, the work invites the audience to a refined and focused exploration of objects and sounds, carefully shaped and placed at different distances.

History

Historian examines India's 'gentlemen' terrorists

A&S Communications

In her new book, “Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919–1947,” historian Durba Ghosh examines the interplay between India’s militant movement and the nonviolent civil disobedience led by Gandhi, and how Indians reconcile these responses to colonial rule in their narrative of modern India’s birth.

Annelise Riles
Anthropology

Annelise Riles receives lifetime achievement award

A&S Communications

Annelise Riles, professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Jack G. Clarke ’52 Professor of Far East Legal Studies at Cornell Law School, has received the Anneliese Maier Award for lifetime achievement across the social sciences and humanities from the German government and the Humboldt Foundation.

Jewish Studies Program

Big Galut(e) Klezmer Ensemble Brings Epic Yiddish Tale to Life

A&S Communications

“Monish,” by I.L. Peretz, is the story of an irascible Satan, his irresistible wife Lilith, and a young Jew who just wants to be left alone with his books. On Wednesday, February 21 at 7:30 pm the Cornell Jewish Studies Program and Cornell Department of Music present an evening of music and dance, inspired by Peretz’s classic poem.

Government

Should the U.S. try to deter cyberattacks by promising nuclear retaliation?

The Washington Post

Sarah Kreps, associate professor of government, wrote a recent article in The Washington Post examines the idea of nuclear retaliation on a country that launches major cyberattacks on crtical U.S. infrastructure. 

Government

Government professor comments on new Liberian president

The Washington Post

Sabrina Karim, assistant professor of government, breaks down some of the issues surrounding Liberia's new president, former football star George Weah, in this Washington Post story.

Performing & Media Arts

Three Cornellians score Oscar nominations

A&S Communications

Three Cornellians were among those celebrating Jan. 23 when nominations were announced for this year’s Academy Awards.Reed Van Dyk and Trevor White, both ’07, received nominations, Van Dyk for his writing/directing on the documentary “DeKalb Elementary,” and White for production of “The Post.” David Greenbaum ’98 is co-head of production for Fox Searchlight Pictures, which had two nominated films, “Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri.”

Government

I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right

The Conversation

Sabrina Karim, assistant professor of government, recently visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. In this editorial in The Conversation, she explains what the Bangladeshi government has done right so far, and the challenges they are still facing.

Music

Stephen Spinelli performs on 2018 GRAMMY-winning recording

The 2018 GRAMMY Award for Best Choral Performance was awarded to Donald Nally and The Crossing, for their recording of Gavin Bryar's "The Fifth Century." Stephen Spinelli, director of the Cornell Chorale and Chamber Singers, was one of The Crossing's 24 singers on the album.