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ALUMNI AND ACTIVISM

Young alums' play focuses on human rights issues in Darfur

A&S Communications

What began as a project for two Cornell students working on an event for Human Rights Month has transformed into a play that will be previewed this weekend in Ithaca before moving to an off-Broadway theatre.

MUSIC

Music professor focuses on Mexican composer in new book

Alejandro L. Madrid, associate professor of ethnomusicology in the Department of Music, has released a new book, In search of Julian Carrillo and Sonido 13 (Oxford University Press).  Madrid’s research on popular and art music, dance and expressive culture from Mexico, the U.S.-Mexico border, and the circum-Caribbean focuses on the intersection of modernity, tradition, globalization and identity. 

RESEARCH

Living with the ghost of Martin Heidegger

Grant Farred, professor of English and Africana Studies, writes about the motivations for writing his latest book, Martin Heidegger Saved My Life (2015), in this piece on the University of Minnesota Press blog.

MISSION TO SATURN

Enceladus mission would return samples to Earth

This story from The Space Reporter focuses on a team of scientists developing a mission to Saturn's moon Enceladus that would return samples from its flowing geysers.Those scientists include Jonathan Lunine, professor of astronomy, who is also principal investigator on another mission to Enceladus, which is searching for life in the geyser's plumes. 

MUSIC

Glee Club '66 tour alums re-create melodic diplomacy

Cornell Chronicle

When members from the Cornell Glee Club’s 1966 tour of Southeast Asia joined the current singers on stage Sept. 19 at Bailey Hall, passion poured through the music. The audience replied with a standing ovation, making it a Homecoming concert for the ages.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

ISS project examines reasons for U.S. mass incarceration

Institute for the Social Sciences

An interdisciplinary team of Cornell scholars is collaborating on a new project, The Causes, Consequence and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States, supported by the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS) and led by Peter Enns, associate professor of government.

GLOBAL RESEARCH

Jessica Chen Weiss on Nationalism in Chinese Politics

Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, is interviewed in this New York Times Q&A about Chinese President Xi Jinping's brand of nationalism and how that has played out in China. 

Romance Studies

New book by Marilyn Migiel examines medieval masterpiece

A&S Communications

In her new book, The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron, Marilyn Migiel, professor and chair of the Romance Studies department, examines the dialogue about ethical choices that Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron generates for readers.

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