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What Makes Us Human?

Unequal Representation

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fifth season, "What Do We Know about Inequality?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about inequality. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Thursday through the fall semester.

Government

Pundits: Illiberalism poses threat to democracy

Cornell Chronicle

Liberal democracies occupy a tiny sliver of the human experience, and their hold on the West is crumbling, the conservative journalist and author Andrew Sullivan warned Oct. 3 at Cornell.Sullivan joined Ezra Klein, editor-at-large of Vox.com, at the Law School’s Landis Auditorium in the second installment of The Peter ’69 and Marilyn ’69 Coors Conversation Series, titled “Is Illiberalism Corroding Our Democracy?”

Economics

NYU prof. shares insight on game theory economics

A&S Communications

The economics department will welcome Ariel Rubinstein for its annual George Staller Lecture Oct. 28. “Ariel Rubinstein is one of the world’s most prominent economic theorists, with seminal work in game theory,” said Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics. “What makes him special is the philosopher’s touch that he brings to his writings.” 

Global Grand Challenge

Cornell tackles ‘migrations’ global challenge

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers from every corner of Cornell are mobilizing to tackle one of the grand challenges of the modern era.

In memoriam

Dick Archer, man behind Cornell stage productions, dies at 71

Cornell Chronicle

Associate professor of theater arts Dick Archer, who facilitated the creation of theater and dance productions at Cornell for 40 years and who was instrumental in the most critical design phases of the Schwartz Center, died Sept. 14 following a battle with cancer. He was 71.

Engaged Cornell

Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced

Cornell Chronicle

Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program.The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.

Teaching excellence

Six projects receive Innovative Teaching and Learning Awards

Cornell Chronicle

This year’s Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners will give Cornell students a host of new opportunities and experiences – from building their own musical instruments to using new software programs for imaging dynamic processes inside the human body.

Chemistry & chemical biology

Symposium bridges cancer research across Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

The second annual Intercampus Cancer Symposium, Oct. 11 at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, will highlight the wide range of cancer research taking place at Cornell’s Ithaca campus and at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

Physics

Researchers raise the temperature for exciton condensation

Cornell Chronicle

New Cornell-led research is pointing the way toward an elusive goal of physicists – high-temperature superfluidity – by exploring excitons in atomically thin semiconductors.

Alumni visits

Attorney shares wide-ranging career path with students

A&S Communications

“Something within me just craves movement and change,” Stephen Robinson ’81 J.D. ’83 said during a Career Conversation with students.