Chakrabarti joined Cornell AAP this semester as the Thomas J. Baird Visiting Critic to share his vast knowledge and practical experience improving cities and communities with NYC-based Advanced Urban Design students.
To cut through misinformation, noise and fragile claims, sociologist Cristobal Young has written a book calling social science researchers to the highest standards of evidence through “multiverse analysis,” an approach which reveals the full range of estimates the data can support.
Ethan Duvall, an inaugural Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellow, has launched a nonprofit aimed at protecting biodiversity and culture in the Amazon Rainforest. Among their on-the-ground initiatives, they are working alongside local and Indigenous communities to strengthen green economic initiatives.
Across a series of 10 “acts,” architecture Associate Professor Pamela Karimi’s new book, “Women, Art, Freedom,” investigates the art and activism in Iran that have played a crucial role in the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran.
Art historian Kelly Presutti examines the role that depictions of landscape – in paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain and maps – played in the formation of modern France in a new book.
Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.
Over 300 graduate students came together to offer this year’s annual Expanding Your Horizons conference, putting in countless hours of volunteer work to host students for a day of hands-on learning experiences.
With a panel of Cornell experts, journalist Ann Marimow ’97 discussed the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions on ordinary Americans and the workings of American democracy.