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Performing & Media Arts

Activist and artist to speak on empowerment in theatre

Performing & Media Arts

Award-winning activist, artist, director, and scholar Rhodessa Jones brings her techniques of “Creative Survival” to Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on March 20 and 22 for a public lecture and master class, respectively.

English

Levine keeps the 'Norton Anthology of World Literature' fresh

A&S Communications

The 2017 edition adds new sections of oral works and poetry and politics.

Music

Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis in concert with Cornell ensembles March 28

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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together

Cornell Chronicle

Joining different kinds of materials can lead to all kinds of breakthroughs.

Data Science

Cornell helps unlock doors to careers in data science

Cornell Chronicle

A new course this semester called Data Science for All offers data skills that students will need regardless of their career.

Career Development

Fortune editor visits March 16 for Munschauer lecture

A&S Communications

Leigh Gallagher '94, an English major, will talk about her work and her career path.

Romance studies

Medieval and renaissance scholar speaks March 19

A&S Communications

… and Renaissance literature scholar from Bard College will visit campus March 19 to talk about her research related to … and Renaissance literature scholar from Bard College will visit campus March 19 to talk about her research related to … be a medievalist if it weren’t for Karen.” Sullivan's visit is sponsored by the departments of Romance studies and …

Campus Climate

University reaffirms its commitment to, support of undocumented students

Cornell Chronicle

Numerous resources are available on campus for undocumented students with and without DACA status.

History

Boycotts won't weaken the NRA's bottom line – but that's not the point

Globe and Mail

In this piece in The Globe and Mail, Lawrence Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies, argues that recent NRA boycotts are succeeding at an unprecedented level, utilizing a boycott for what they've always been been about: indignant consumers puncturing political influence.

In Memoriam

Cornell benefactor Imogene Powers Johnson dies at 87

Cornell Chronicle

Imogene “Gene” Powers Johnson ’52, a devoted alumna, benefactor and matriarch of a multigenerational philanthropic Cornellian family, died March 3 in Racine, Wisconsin. She was 87.

Biology

Undergrad researcher explores ways to combat antibiotic resistance to cholera

A&S Communications

Researchers have discovered a gene whose presence creates a larger “porin,” a hole in a bacteria’s outer membrane, allowing larger antibiotics to enter and attack the cell wall.

Music

Cornell Symphony Orchestra offers annual young person’s concert

A&S Communications

Young musicians from Ithaca High School Chamber Orchestra, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s Youth Orchestra and the Cornell Synphony Orchestra will come together to perform a concert for the Ithaca community on Sunday, March 11.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

To stay young and disease-free longer

Cornell Research

Lecturer Siu Sylvia Lee of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics is conducting research on aging.

Economics

Forms of imbalance in our world

Cornell Research

Two major issues face humanity: justice between the generations, and justice within the current generation, according to Ravi Kanbur, Applied Economics and Management.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

It's mostly luck, not pluck, that determines lifetime reproductive success

Cornell Chronicle

While trait variation can influence the fate of a population, researchers found that the fates of individuals are often determined by “dumb luck.”