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History

If Kushner is the man for the job, family ties shouldn't matter

The Hill

In this opinion piece in The Hill, historian Barry Strauss, contends that Trump's appointment of his son-in-law as a senior advisor has plenty of precedent.

Cornell Cinema

Faculty critique documentary 'I Am Not Your Negro'

Cornell Chronicle

“The history of the Negro is the history of America, and it is not a pretty story,” says the late writer James Baldwin in director Raoul Peck’s documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”

History

New book charts collision of wealth and populist politics in the Gilded Age

A&S Communications

The Civil War came as a crushing blow to the moneyed elite of Boston, who had been deeply embedded in the cotton economy of the early 19th century as textile manufacturers

Sociology

Gender gap found in Ph.D. fields and in program prestige

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers found that the share of men receiving their degrees from the most prestigious doctoral programs is about 6 percent higher than the share receiving their degrees from all other programs.

Creative Works

PMA professor produces political cabaret Feb. 19

Cornell Chronicle

With protests multiplying around the country, this is a good time to be Sara Warner, whose research area is theatre and social change. 

Physics

Gottfried receives 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award

Cornell Chronicle

Kurt Gottfried, emeritus professor of physics and a recognized expert on nuclear arms control, has been awarded the 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

Psychology

Chocolates and roses really do spell 'love,' researchers find

A&S Communications

“Say it with chocolate,” goes the ad – but what are you really saying? We imbue objects with all sorts of meanings, especially around the holidays. A new study by Cornell psychology researchers finds that the closer to Valentine’s Day we get, the more chocolates – and red roses – spell out “l-o-v-e.”

Student Research

When they were undergraduate researchers

Cornell Research

Robert D. Guber ’15 studied alcoholic liver, diabetes, and obesity. Lipi Gupta ’15 worked on reducing beam emittance in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), a 768-meter ring that is part of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), to produce brighter s-rays. Sang Min Han ’15 examined toadfish to create a mathematical model for vertebrate vocalization. Swati Sureka ’15 engineered nucleic acid to develop DNA materials. Teresa O.

Open book with Arabic writing
Outreach

Teach-In at Cornell: Combatting Islamophobia through education

In response to the recent Executive Order barring U.S. entry to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries, Cornell’s Department of Near Eastern Studies will hold a teach-in Feb. 17 in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall from 10 a.m. to noon. The event is free and the public is welcome.

Creative writing

MFA graduate earns accolades for young adult novels

A&S Communications

The books tell the stories of teens who meet on the public courts of Oakland, Calif. and come together to form an improbably competitive basketball team.

Performing and Media Arts

Winners of playwriting contest honored Friday

A&S Communications

Winners of the Heermans-McCalmon Playwriting Contest will be showcased Friday during an event at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.Staged readings of first-place winner Molly Karr’s ‘18 screenplay “Whole Hearted” and Aleksej Aarsaether’s ‘17 play, “The Diary of an American Girl” will be presented at 4:30 p.m. in the Class of ‘56 Dance Theatre. Aarsaether also won an honorable mention in the screenwriting category.

Romance studies

Traverso says left must mourn defeats to move forward

A&S Communications

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of real socialism and the Cold War, but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since.

Education Innovation

$2.7 million grant expands Arts & Sciences Active Learning Initiative

Arts & Sciences Communications

Six new projects will be launched in music, classics, economics, mathematics, physics and sociology.

Asian studies

Asian Studies alum shares passion with Utah students

A&S Communications

The language requirement in the College of Arts & Sciences helped ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball ’05 discover a culture that’s become her life’s work.Lowey-Ball, who came to Cornell with interests in physics and cognitive science, was already fluent in French, so she decided to venture in a completely different direction to fulfill her language requirement — Indonesian.

Anthropology

Lessons we can learn from an exchange of dolls

Arts & Sciences Communications

In reaction to the current immigration ban, Hirokazu Miyazaki, professor of anthropology, writes this opinion piece in the Japan Times, telling the story of Sidney Gulick, who, frustrated with the immigration ban of 1924, decided to turn his attention to the next generation.