“Women who enter into occupations that are traditionally masculine spaces such as in the security sector or politics face many barriers that prevent them from succeeding in the profession."
<p> <a href="https://asianstudies.cornell.edu/ding-xiang-warner">Ding Xiang Warner</a>, professor of Asian studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won a yearlong 2021 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to study etched shell casings and other “trench art” made by some of the Chinese laborers who supported the allied armies during World War I.</p>
<p> A comparative analysis of COVID-19 policies across 18 countries, led by researchers from Cornell and Harvard University, reveals that different countries reacted to the pandemic with a variety of policies – resulting in widely varied public health and economic outcomes linked to underlying characteristics of each society.</p>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <p> Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, technologists and health officials have looked to technologies – including smartphone contact tracing applications – to stem the spread of the virus. But contact tracing apps, which require a critical mass of adopters to be effective, face serious obstacles in the U.S., Cornell researchers have found. </p></div></div>
<p> <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/derrick-r-spires">Derrick R. Spires</a>, associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize for a First Book for “The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States.”</p><p> In the book, Spires examines the parallel development of early Black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship between 1787 and 1861.</p>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <p> The Jewish People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO) was founded in 1930 and flourished for two decades as the Jewish division of the multi-ethnic International Workers Order (IWO) before being shut down during the Cold War. </p></div></div>
<p> The term “late industrialism” has become synonymous with collapse: breakdown, pollution, waste and disappointment left behind by failing or exploitive systems.</p><p> But the “late” in “late industrial” also carries radical potential, according to <a href="https://anthropology.cornell.edu/chloe-ahmann">Chloe Ahmann</a>, assistant professor of anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>
<div> <div> <p> Civil rights legislation and Supreme Court rulings have undone a history of legal racial segregation in America, but schools and neighborhoods remain largely segregated, four Cornell faculty members said during the Nov. 19 webinar, “Racism in America: Education and Housing.” </p></div></div>
<p> Older people occupied a significant part of life for <a href="https://anthropology.cornell.edu/yohko-tsuji">Yohko Tsuji</a> Ph.D. '91 when she was growing up in Japan. Her widowed grandmother lived with the family, creating a traditional three-generation household, and elders were a positive part of daily life.</p>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <p> Now more than ever, leadership is needed at all levels of government to overcome growing partisanship and to keep the United States in a strong position in the world on fronts such as democracy, cybersecurity and climate change, said former U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Oct. 29. </p></div></div>
To identify what makes people vulnerable, the researchers matched the extent of the storms with the measures of governance and living conditions in affected areas.
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<p> <a href="https://www.darklaboratory.com/">Dark Laboratory</a>, a “humanities incubator” for digital storytelling with a special focus on Black and Indigenous voices, <a href="https://www.darklaboratory.com/podcast">launched its first podcast episode</a>, a crossover with the podcast “Get Free” by laboratory co-founder <a href="https://africana.cornell.edu/tao-leigh-goffe">Tao Leigh Goffe</a>, on Oct. 26.</p>
<p> <a href="https://classics.cornell.edu/caitl%C3%ADn-eil%C3%ADs-barrett">Caitlín Barrett</a>, associate professor of classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a National Geographic Explorer after receiving a grant from the National Geographic Society to study daily life in ancient Rome through archaeological research at Pompeii in modern-day Italy.</p>
The authors analyzed the interconnected nature of dilemmas such as carcinogens, energy crises and invasive species at the intersection of technological and environmental history.
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<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> <p> “<a href="https://mediastudies.as.cornell.edu/media-objects-conference">Media Objects</a>,” a media studies conference originally scheduled for March 2020 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, has been reconfigured into a virtual event, with the first panel scheduled for Oct. 23. </p></div></div>
<p> Life doesn’t come with a user’s manual, but <a href="https://psychology.cornell.edu/shimon-edelman">Shimon Edelman</a>, professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has created an alphabetical reference guide.</p>
<p> <a href="https://physics.cornell.edu/saul-teukolsky">Saul Teukolsky</a>, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has won the American Physical Society’s <a href="https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/einstein.cfm">2021 Einstein Prize</a>, which recognizes outstanding achievement in gravitational physics.</p>
<p> In today’s world, where social media and protest signs speak volumes, we hardly need a linguist to tell us that words matter. But a language scholar can help us understand how and why words unite and align people, well as exclude and exploit.</p>
<p> Xianwen Mao, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been recognized for his innovations in imaging nanoscale systems by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Family Foundation.</p>
<p> There isn’t one unified Asian American vision of California, argues <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/christine-bacareza-balance">Christine Bacareza Balance</a>, associate professor of Performing and Media Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, in “California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary,” a new multi-genre collection she co-edited.</p>
<p> When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core – a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a promising opportunity to determine if life can survive the death of its star, according to Cornell researchers.</p><p> In a study published Sept. 16 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, they show how NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope could find signatures of life on Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarfs.</p>
<p> <a href="https://economics.cornell.edu/doug-mckee">Doug McKee</a>, senior lecturer in economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and <a href="https://economics.cornell.edu/george-orlov">George Orlov</a>, an Active Learning Initiative postdoctoral fellow in economics, have received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the long-term effects of active learning and online instruction.</p>
<p> In international relations, democracies including the United States have long claimed to have several advantages over authoritarian regimes – such as sound governance and effectiveness in wartime – based on the open marketplace of ideas and freedom of expression.</p><p> And what could be more open and free – more democratic – than social media?</p>
Points made in “Entitled” have particular resonance with events unfolding in 2020, such as the systemic inequalities being revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
<p> How contagious is COVID-19, and how severe is the virus for those who’ve caught it?</p><p> Everyone wants firm numbers as schools make decisions about in-person versus remote learning, as local and state governments grapple with reopening, and as families care for sick loved ones.</p>
<p> August 17-20, Cornell will host the <a href="https://events.cornell.edu/event/semantics_and_linguistic_theory_conference_2837">30th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory</a> (SALT), one of the world’s leading conferences on the scientific study of meaning in natural languages. Originally scheduled to take place on the Ithaca campus in April, the meeting will be held virtually.</p>