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Munschauer Career Series

'Annie' director Will Gluck shares career advice

Cornell Chronicle

The director shared what it's really like to work in Hollywood.

Professor Explores Western Lyrical Tradition at Lecture

Prof. Jonathan Culler, English and comparative literature, spoke Wednesday about his new book The Theory of the Lyric as part of Cornell University Library’s Chats in the Stacks book talk program.

"Ithaca is Gorges" in October

Hey everyone! The Arts and Sciences Ambassadors will be adding new content to our blog at the beginning of each week throughout the school year. Each month will feature blog posts that center loosely on a theme related to that time of year. As we settle into our semester, we thought a nice theme for October would be "Campus and Community Activities." For this week's post, check out what sophomore Dylan Van Duyne has to say about outdoor activities around Cornell and Ithaca!

RESEARCH

Hope and Scandal in Hungary

Dissent Magazine

Holly Case, associate professor of history, writes this piece in Dissent Magazine about Hungarian thinker and former statesman, István Bibó.Case is the author of Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea During World War II (Stanford University Press, 2009). 

LANGUAGE STUDY

Languages less arbitrary than long assumed

This article about languages includes the research of Morten Christiansen, psychology professor and co-director of Cornell's Cognitive Science Program.  He is a co-author of new research finding that language is less arbitrary than assumed: the sounds and shapes of words can reveal aspects of meaning and grammatical function.

GENOME RESEARCH

New gene drive technology evokes hopes and fears

Cornell Chronicle

The idea of introducing a novel gene into a few individuals that then spreads through an entire population sounds like a premise for science fiction. And yet fiction can be prophetic.Cornell researchers have used mathematical models to illuminate the promises – and potential problems – of a new genome editing mechanism, called a gene drive.

Fellowships

Gift frees MFA students to write during the summer

A&S Communications

A gift from Rona and David Picket ’84 helps our creative writing students focus on their work during summer break.

Advice

Growing Young Adults: What parents need to know about your children at college

The Huffington Post

In an article published by the Huffington Post, Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature Daniel R. Schwarz speaks to parents about what they need to know about the college experience. Here are a few highlights: 

FIELD RESEARCH

Fund lets undergrads gain ecological field experience

Cornell Chronicle

Grad student Rachel Abbott and undergrads Andy Wong ‘17 and Diamond Oden ‘17 have become experts in identifying various creatures of the Adirondacks – the calanoid copepods that they’re studying, as well as myriad others that were biting them as they spent hours taking water samples in canoes.

Exploration

Lunine tells Congress ways, means for new space voyages

Cornell Chronicle

To review current astrobiological knowledge and assess the prospects of life beyond Earth, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology heard testimony Sept. 29 in Washington, D.C., from Cornell’s Jonathan Lunine and three other space experts on the reasons, ways and means for space exploration’s next steps.

#BlackLivesMatter

History prof. explains aftermath of slavery

Edward E. Baptist, associate professor of history, discussed slavery’s continued legacy in American social and political structures at a Tuesday talk titled “Abolitionism, Modern ‘Anti-Slavery’ and #BlackLivesMatter,” and covered in this Cornell Daily Sun story.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

Step one in transforming the criminal justice system: Articulating a new vision

Verdict

Joseph Margulies, professor of government and law, writes in this column in Verdict about the lack of alternatives to the criminal justice system in the U.S., which he says has gone "horribly awry."

HISTORY

US should stay out of Syria, says Cornell historian

Barry Strauss, military historian, prolific author, and chair of the Department of History at Cornell University, says U.S. military action in Syria carries high risks and shouldn’t be pursued.

Research

Scientists unravel root cause of plant twists and turns

Cornell Chronicle

To feed the world’s burgeoning population, producers must grow crops in more challenging terrain – where plant roots must cope with barriers. To that end, Cornell University physicists and Boyce Thompson Institute plant biologists have uncovered a valuable plant root action, in that roots – when their downward path is blocked, as often occurs in rocky soil – display a “grow and switch” behavior, now reported in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Genius

Chemist Dichtel earns 'Genius Award'

Cornell Chronicle

Chemist Will Dichtel's work may allow for ample electricity and for detecting trace amounts of explosives.