Weekly highlights
April 28, 2017

Video and audio tech brings Manhattan in year 1609 to life

In the Blog: • Volunteer for Slope Day, May 11 • Students, staff, groups win sustainability awards • Feed young minds - and your gardens On CornellCast: • Africana faculty profile: N'Dri Assié-Lumumba • Peter Coors '69 delivers Durland lecture • ILR celebrates collaboration with University College Dublin Upcoming Events: • 'Baltimore' confronts racial tensions on college campuses • Historian to unpack class-based injustice in America May 4 • Things to Do, April 28-May 5 Cornell Big Red: • Women's rowing welcomes Dartmouth on Senior Day • Sailing to host America Trophy Conference Championship • Track's Big Red Invitational set for April 30

CORNELLIANS IN THE NEWS


"If you don't get this advanced permission, known as advance parole, then by leaving the country you have effectively abandoned your DACA status. If you return, you are returning illegally and therefore you can be subject to deportation proceedings." Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School, in an article on President Donald Trump's quiet reversal on deporting young undocumented immigrants. The Atlantic - April 27

"Clearly there's a religious left, and by a religious left I mean people who are led to politically liberal conclusions on the basis of their faith. But are secularists ready to follow ministers? I would say generally not." Steven Shiffrin, the Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law Emeritus at Cornell Law School, on how clergy tend to be less influential among Democrats than Republicans, and how the association of Christianity with the religious right has made liberals increasingly hostile toward religion. The Washington Post - April 26

"Politics is definitely a part of economic evaluations, but politics may not be explaining the differences between men and women." Peter Enns, executive director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and associate professor of government, on why men have, for nearly every month since the late 1970s, viewed the economy more favorably than have women. Marketplace - April 25

"A rise in the dollar would be a double whammy for countries that have significant current-account deficits and significant amounts of dollar-denominated corporate debt." Eswar Prasad, the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, on how the flood of dollar debt could come back to haunt emerging economies. The Wall Street Journal - April 23

"One often hears the perspective that getting large amounts of diverse inputs is the way to go for training AI [artificial intelligence] models. This is often a good general guideline, but when it comes to ethical judgments it is also known that there are significant ingrained biases in most groups." Bart Selman, professor of computer science, on how subtle effects from a human trainer's work environment could result in poor machine learning. Wired - April 21