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In memoriam

Harold Bloom ’51, literary critic of influence, dies at 89

Cornell Chronicle

Harold Bloom ’51, a bestselling literary critic and a friend to many of Cornell’s English faculty over the years, died Oct. 14 in New Haven, Connecticut. A longtime professor of English at Yale University, Bloom was 89.

Researcher working on a computer
Interdisciplinary

Five projects awarded 2019 digitization grants

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences transforms fragile artifacts into lasting online collections for teaching and research. This year, the program has awarded funding to five projects representing a range of study, from unearthing a vanished hamlet in Enfield Falls, New York, to examining modern art in Indonesia.

Humanities

CIVIC radical collaboration initiative makes six new hires

Cornell Chronicle

CIVIC (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s Radical Collaboration initiative focused on the humanities and the arts, is halfway toward its goal of 10 new faculty.

Psychology

Gilovich honored for lifetime of research

A&S Communications

Social psychology researcher and professor Thomas Gilovich, the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Chair of Psychology, was recently awarded The Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Donald T. Campbell Award.

Mexico and U.S. border
Government

Ambassadors to address border policy in Lund Debate Oct. 21

Cornell Chronicle

With students and faculty representing 116 countries on a campus in Ithaca, New York – a sanctuary city since 2017 – Cornell is a crossroads for global mobility. This year’s Lund Critical Debate explores another contact zone for migration and exchange: the U.S.-Mexico border.

Africana studies

MIT prof. visits to talk about slavery, education

A&S Communications

Craig Steven Wilder, professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Columbia University Medal of Excellence recipient, will be the keynote speaker for the annual Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished lecture on Oct. 22.The annual lectureship was established in 2014 and hosts groundbreaking scholars of African and African American studies through the Africana Studies and Research Center every fall.

Physics

Scientists unwind mystery behind DNA replication

Cornell Chronicle

“This research highlights the importance of physical principles in fundamental biological processes.”

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Anticancer agents in regulation of metabolites

Cornell Research

New anticancer agents are in great demand due to the heterogeneous nature of cancer and the development of resistance to existing drugs.

Performing & Media Arts, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

PMA play reading explores future of climate change

Performing & Media Arts

What would the Earth look like if we banded together to counter the destructive forces of climate change? Writers Aoise Stratford and Toby Ault bridge science and art in the multimedia experience “Virtual Landscapes,” which offers audiences the opportunity to contribute to the play-in-progress.

Physics

Stressing metallic material controls superconductivity

Cornell Chronicle

“Sometimes stressing can produce amazing results,” said physics professor Katja Nowack.