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05:00:00 04/16/13
Ajay Banga: A World Beyond Cash
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While cash remains the dominant method of payment throughout the world, students and faculty heard from Ajay Banga, president and CEO of MasterCard, on the misperceptions around the cost of cash and the value of electronic payments during a visit to the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management on March 4. Featured as a Distinguished Global Leader Speaker, Banga spoke during a fireside-chat-style conversation on the question Do you believe in a world beyond cash? with Vrinda Kadiyali, Nicholas H. Noyes Professor of Management and professor of marketing and economics.
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05:00:00 04/16/13
Rajiv Chandrasekaran discusses America's strategy in Afghanistan
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor of The Washington Post, gave a talk entitled The Surge to Uncertainty: An Examination of America's Strategy in Afghanistan on April 2 in the Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, as part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series. Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the author of Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (June 2012, Knopf). From 2009 to 2011, he reported on the war in Afghanistan for The Post, traveling extensively through the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar to reveal the impact of President Obama's decision to double U.S. force levels. He joined The Post in 1994 as a reporter on the Metropolitan staff. He subsequently served as the paper's Washington-based national technology correspondent. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. He lives in Washington, D.C. The Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series features prominent leaders in international affairs who can address topical issues from a variety of perspectives. The Speaker Series is part of the Foreign Policy Initiative at Cornell University led by the Einaudi Center to maximize the intellectual impact of Cornell's outstanding resources in this area.
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05:00:00 04/12/13
Panama President Ricardo Martinelli at Cornell
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Panama President Ricardo Martinelli spoke at Cornell on April 11, 2013 as the keynote address of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) 2013 Spring Colloquium Series. Elected president of Panama in 2009 in a landslide victory, Martinelli owns a supermarket chain in Panama. He served as director of the Panamanian Chamber of Commerce, president of the Association of Food Merchants of Panama and the Italo-Panamanian Chamber, and is a member of the Panamanian Association of Business Executives. Martinelli's visit is sponsored by CIPA and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Relations, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Latin American Studies Program and Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.
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05:00:00 04/11/13
Mural by graffiti artists adds to Hip Hop Collection
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Three days of mural painting by world renowned graffiti artists helped commemorate a city wide celebration of Hip Hop culture; Hip Hop; Unbound From the Underground. The Cornell exhibition; Now Scream!, highlights the Cornell Hip Hop Collection featuring thousands of recordings, photographs, flyers and other hip-hop memorabilia, most of it dating from 1977-1985. The graffiti mural painting event: Get-Up State was made possible by the Tompkins County Public Library, with paint generously donated by Ironlak AVT Paints (Australia), organized by Cap Matches Color, with approval by Chris Quinlan, Business Services Manager at Cornell University Press. More than forty five artists from the mid west to europe collaborated together on murals that cover the entire exterior of the Cornell University Press building at 770 Cascadilla St. Other related events in downtown Ithaca included performances by Cornell Visiting Scholar Afrika Bambaataa and Wu Tang Clan's GZA, and related exhibitions at the Tompkins County Public Library and the History Center.
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05:00:00 04/09/13
Nate Silver: Powerful Predictions Through Data Analytics
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Over the past decade, we have mispredicted earthquakes, flu rates and even terrorist attacks. Yet we seem to have access to more data and computing power than ever. "Why isn't big data producing big progress?" asked statistician, author and NY Times blogger Nate Silver during an April 5, 2013 talk at Cornell.Known for his innovative analyses of political polling, Silver is author of "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don't" and author of the New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight. Silver first gained national attention during the 2008 presidential election, when he correctly predicted the results of the primaries and the presidential winner in 49 states.The talk was part of the Survey Research Institute Speaker Series.
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05:00:00 04/09/13
Individual variation in functional brain networks in fetuses and children
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Moriah Thomason, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, discusses three of her research studies that examined the association between variability in cortisol responsivity to stress and altered neuron functional connectivity; how participant anxiety levels during scanning altered connectivity in the brain; and new pilot data on fetal functional connectivity in utero.
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05:00:00 04/05/13
Climate Change Forum - Faculty Pitches
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Public dialogue is moving beyond whether climate change is real or not, and on to solutions. What can researchers at Cornell do to support communities, business leaders, and policymakers attempting to build resilience to climate change and a new energy future? How can we better train our students to meet the challenges and opportunities climate change will bring? Our way forward will require integrating ideas from the humanities and social sciences, as well as the physical and natural sciences and engineering. Cornell researchers from across the university present short research pitches about their work at the Cornell Interdisciplinary Climate Change Forum, March 28, 2013.
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05:00:00 04/03/13
Europe in the World: Perspectives on Communities Celebration
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Funded by the Cornell Institute for European Studies and Cornell University Library, Europe in the World: Perspectives on Communities is a competition and exhibition designed to stimulate and reward student scholarship and creative work that addresses European identities and communities -- within Europe and in relation to globalization. An event to celebrate Europe in the World was held April 1 in the Amit Bhatia Libe Caf in Olin Library. Professor Peter Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies, delivered the keynote address, Europe in the World: Some Reflections. A reception followed, where $3,500 in prizes were awarded to Cornell students. Student entries will be on display in Olin Library through summer 2013.
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05:00:00 04/02/13
Quarks and Cold Atoms: From the Hottest to the Coldest Places in the Universe
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What happens to matter when it is heated to more than 250,000 times the temperature in the center of the sun? When cooled to 1 billion times colder than interstellar space? Physicist Gordon Baym discusses the terrestrial experiments that explore these extremes as Cornell's 2013 Hans Bethe lecturer. His public lecture, Quarks and Cold Atoms: From the Hottest to the Coldest Places in the Universe, was held March 27 in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. Baym, professor of physics and the George and Anne Fisher Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been focusing his recent work on theoretical studies of the quark-gluon plasma, which existed in the first few microseconds after the big bang. These plasmas are created on Earth by colliding gold atoms at ultrarelativistic speeds. In parallel he has been studying Bose-Einstein condensates and related quantum states found in laser cooled atomic clouds. Baym has found unexpected connections between these extreme forms of matter. The Hans Bethe Lectures, established by the Department of Physics and the College of Arts and Sciences, honor Bethe, who was Cornell professor of physics from 1936 until his death in 2005. Bethe won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1967 for his description of the nuclear processes that power the sun.
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05:00:00 03/31/13
The Future of Research Libraries and What it Means for Cornell
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What will Cornell's library look like in ten years -- a glorified Starbucks, an enhanced web space, or essentially the same? Will we actually need miles of books on shelves or should we move the books offsite and re-purpose the space? Should we raise or slash collection budgets in response to digital access? Do faculty across the disciplines share a common vision? And how can faculty engage in planning the future of Cornell Library? Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information and Wendy Lougee, university librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor at the University of Minnesota, speak at a faculty forum on the future of research libraries.
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05:00:00 03/29/13
Dynamic Sky: Palomar Transient Factory
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That occasionally new sources ("Stella Nova") would pop up in the heavens was noted more than a thousand years ago. The earnest study of cosmic explosions began in earnest less than a hundred years ago. Stella Novae are now divided into two major families, novae and supernovae (with real distinct classes in each). Equally the variable stars have a rich phenomenology. Together, supernovae and variable stars have contributed richly to key problems in modern astrophysics: distances to galaxies, cosmography and build up of elements in the Universe. Shri Kulkarni, A.D. White Professor-at-Large, the McArthur Professor of Astronomy and Professor of Planetary Sciences at California Institute of Technology and director of the Caltech Optical Observatories and Micheslon Science Center, discusses the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). The PTF, an innovative 2-telescope system, was designed explicitly to chart the transient sky with a particular focus on events which lie in the nova-supernova gap. PTF is now finding an extragalactic transient every 20 minutes and a Galactic (strong) variable every 10 minutes. The results so far: classification of 2000 supernovae, identification of an emerging class of ultra-luminous supernovae, the earliest discovery of a Ia supernovae, discovery luminous red novae, the most comprehensive UV spectroscopy of Ia supernovae, discovery low energy budget supernovae, clarification of sub-classes of core collapse and thermo-nuclear explosions, mapping of the systematics of core collapse supernovae, identification of a trove of eclipsing binaries and the curious AM CVns.
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05:00:00 03/26/13
Science in the Courtroom with Maggie Bruck
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Using an actual court case involving allegations of sexual abuse, Maggie Bruck, professor of adolescent and child psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, highlights the scientific principles that courts need to consider in determining the credibility of child witnesses.
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05:00:00 03/22/13
Inside Cornell: Aging in the Age of Climate Change
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After water poured into lower Manhattan subway lines, two million Con Ed customers lost power and Breezy Point took a direct Hurricane Sandy hit, Cornell University's Elaine Wethington now examines the toll on senior citizens in the wake of major storms and climate change. Wethington, professor of human development, discusses Aging in the Age of Climate Change, at a journalists-only luncheon on March 5. As the climate changes, so does our understanding of old age. As the devastation of hurricanes Sandy and Irene showed, older adults - some of whom have limited mobility or depend on home nurses for vital care - are among the most vulnerable when major weather events paralyze city and regional transportation systems, medical facilities and other key infrastructure. Many older New York City residents live alone, which makes them more vulnerable to social isolation in time of crisis and their health in response to severe stress. Tens of thousands of elderly who live alone have disabilities that would make response to evacuation orders more difficult. Wethington has studied extensively how seniors respond to these high-stress events, social isolation and its impact on their mental and physical health. She will also share findings from research that draws on collaborations with Weill Cornell Medical Center through the federally funded Cornell Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging. About Inside Cornell: This event is part of a monthly series held in New York City featuring researchers and experts working at Cornell University's centers in Ithaca, Manhattan and around the world. The free, catered lunch sessions are on-the-record, and media members are welcome to record video and audio as desired.
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05:00:00 03/21/13
Conscious and Mindless Eating
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Mark Bittman, celebrated New York Times food columnist, visited Cornell for a week of events and appeared with Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing in Cornell's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, on their common area of expertise: Conscious and Mindless Eating. Mr. Bittman is the Irik Sevin '69 West Campus Visiting Fellow.
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05:00:00 03/20/13
The Search for Solutions, Profiles of Sustainability Research
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Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) is unique among academic institutions by combining the three E's - energy, the environment and economic development - to advance sustainable solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. ACSF Director Frank DiSalvo introduces four projects selected from the 2012 research portfolio to show how we are changing the world.
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05:00:00 03/20/13
The Search for Solutions, Profiles of Sustainability Research
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Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) is unique among academic institutions by combining the three E's - energy, the environment and economic development - to advance sustainable solutions to the world's most pressing challenges. ACSF Director Frank DiSalvo introduces four projects selected from the 2012 research portfolio to show how we are changing the world.
07/16/12