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History

Chinese state used parent-child relationships to serve political goals

4/10/2023 A&S Communications

Prof. Mara Yue Du will talk about “State and Family in China: Filial Piety and its Modern Reform” on April 13 in Olin Library.

A wide city street at night — Clay LeConey/Unsplash New York City's upper east side

Sociology

Sociology research centerpiece of comedic video

4/10/2023 A&S Communications

Professor Cristobal Young, on-screen, explains how he came to the conclusion that millionaire tax flight is 99% myth. He also shreds on guitar.

Miltary tank in motion on a dirt road, sending up dust — Kevin Schmid/Unsplash Miltary tank

International relations

Intelligence leak creates significant problems on and off the battlefield

4/10/2023 A&S Communications

Leaked documents include information about Ukrainian defenses, says history professor David Silbey.

Seven people wearing green honor stoles — Simon Wheeler/Cornell University

Post-graduate excellence

Ten Inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

4/10/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

Andrea Kane/Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ David Nirenberg

Religion

Understanding history of anti-semitism can help us today

4/11/2023 A&S Communications

Scholar David Nirenberg is a historian of Christians, Jews and Muslims in medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.

Music

Book examines the mainline Christian ‘Worship Wars’

4/11/2023 A&S Communications

Ethnomusicologist Deborah Justice analyzes how White American mainline Protestants used internal musical controversies to negotiate their shifting position within a diversifying nation.

Stone building with a green dome and a sculpture in front — K. Mitch Hodge/Unsplash Belfast City Hall, Donegall Square, Belfast

International relations

Despite lasting peace, legacy of trauma in Northern Ireland remains

4/11/2023 A&S Communications

Consistent ‘severe’ threat levels speak to the strong and lasting appeal of narratives within Northern Ireland society.

students looking at museum paintings — Chris Kitchen Students in the Monuments, Museums and Memory class view work at the Johnson Museum during a class trip.

Public history

Students can sign up for minor in public history

4/12/2023 A&S Communications

Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.

Three people wearing matching yellow t-shirts look at two laptop computers — Ryan Young/Cornell University Florencia Ardón (center), founder of Neurodiversity @ Cornell and staff member in the Learning Strategies Center, with neurodiversity ambassadors Carol Anne Barsody M.A. ’23 (left), master’s student in archeology, and Becca McCabe, doctoral student in mechanical engineering, in Duffield Hall

Cornell community

A movement brings community, visibility to neurodiversity at Cornell

4/10/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Students and staff are finding support, community, visibility and a voice through Neurodiversity @ Cornell.

a circle fillied with small, irridescant squares — Steve Jurvetson/Creative Commons license 2.0 Quantum computer component

Physics

Physicists take step toward fault-tolerant quantum computing

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Realizing 2D particles called non-Abelian anyons in the real world is potentially useful for quantum computation: protecting bits of quantum information by storing them non-locally,

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