In the final webinar of the College of Arts and Sciences’ yearlong series, “Racism in America,” panelists will focus on the impact that racism has on the economy. The event is on April 27 at 7 p.m.
Zhao, professor of economics at Michigan State University, will begin his appointment as the David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management on July 1.
Considered an ultra-hot Jupiter – a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night side and then falls from the sky like rain – the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet may be even more sizzling than scientists had realized.
Cornell events during June include Cinema Under the Stars, singer-songwriters, a program on nocturnal bird migration, a free local concert on the Arts Quad, and a lecture on cider research with a tasting.
Department of English faculty authors Robert Morgan and Ernesto Quiñónez will read from their work Feb. 7 in Klarman Hall. The free event begins the spring Barbara and David Zalaznick Creative Writing Reading Series.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to advance the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act through Congress. The act requires Chinese companies to delist from major U.S. exchanges if they fail to comply with audit requirements of the Public Companies Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) within three years. Andrew Karolyi, professor of finance at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and a decades-long expert on international listings of stocks, has written about the phenomenon of foreign firms leaving U.S. equity markets. He says the legislation may be part of a broader push by the U.S. to take a more assertive stance toward Beijing, but he also argues that there may be serious unintended negative consequences for investors as well as U.S. markets.
Wrestler Kyle Dake ’13, one of five Cornellians in Paris for the Olympic Games, defeated Hetik Cabolov of Serbia, 10-4, in the 74-kilogram division on Aug. 10 to win his second consecutive Olympic bronze medal.
Ithaca College President Shirley Collado will share some of her life experience, lessons learned and her passion for education at the first Soup & Hope event of the new year, Jan. 17, 2019.
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial, with 18 project installations and performances on the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival," launched Sept. 28-29 with a tour of outdoor projects on campus, artist panels with Cornell contributors and lectures by featured artists Carrie Mae Weems and Xu Bing.
