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Sociology research centerpiece of comedic video

Professor Cristobal Young, on-screen, explains how he came to the conclusion that millionaire tax flight is 99% myth. He also shreds on guitar.

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Eleven doctoral candidates lobby on Capitol Hill

Ten Graduate School doctoral candidates, joined by one student from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medicine, traveled from Ithaca and New York City to Capitol Hill for Cornell Ph.D. Student Advocacy Day on March 29.

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Ten inducted into Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

Eight doctoral candidates and two postdocs were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes scholarly achievement and promotes diversity in doctoral education.

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Novelist Kamila Shamsie to speak on history, memory

Novelist Kamila Shamsie will give a reading and lecture on Friday, April 14, at this year’s Tagore Lecture from the South Asia Program. 

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Maureen Waller will study driver’s license suspensions as an Access to Justice Scholar

Maureen Waller, a professor in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Sociology, will study racial and economic disparities in driver’s license suspensions through her selection as Access to Justice Scholar. Waller will examine people’s lived experiences with having a suspended license as well as recent and potential reforms in New York to end “debt-based” suspensions.  

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Chinese state used parent-child relationships to serve political goals

Mara Yue Du will talk about “State and Family in China: Filial Piety and its Modern Reform” on April 13 at 4 p.m. in Olin Library.

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National leaders headline Union Days at the ILR School

The public is invited to “Talkin’ Union” events featuring speakers whose experiences reflect contemporary labor movement struggles and successes.

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Brain Prize winner to speak on brain’s control of locomotion

Neuroscientist Ole Kiehn will give a seminar, “Brainstem circuits controlling locomotion in the healthy and diseased brain,” on April 14.

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Formula predicts effects of noise on quantum information

Researchers have derived a formula that predicts the effects of environmental noise on quantum information – an advancement crucial for designing and building quantum computers capable of working in an imperfect world.

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