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NYU Professor Decries Violence Against Rohingya in Myanmar at Einaudi Center Lecture
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NYU professor David Ludden discussed the ongoing oppression of Burmese minority groups — including Rohingya Muslims — during an April 27 lecture.
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Migrant Scholars Discuss Systemic Inequities of Refugee and Border Policy in the United States
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The Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy hosted Edafe Okporo and E. Tendayi Achiume, who spoke on the lack of support and inclusion migrants face in the United States.
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“Diversity Becomes Substitute of Racial Justice”: Stanford Professor Discusses Affirmative Action at Martin Luther King Commemorative Lecture
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Stanford Professor was featured as the guest speaker for 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, where he reflected on college admissions and affirmative action.
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University of Victoria Professor to Give Lecture on European Single Market
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A professor of political science at the University of Victoria, Amy Verdun, will give a lecture on Feb. 22 about the European single market’s use on the geopolitical stage.
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Journalist Tristan Ahtone and Historian Robert Lee Discuss Indigenous Dispossession and Land Grant Universities, Including Cornell
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In the 2022 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, journalist Tristan Ahtone and historian Robert Lee discussed their investigations of how land grant universities, including Cornell, financially benefited from Indigenous displacement.
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DERY | Lowering Our Hands to Raise Our Questions
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Most questions that come to mind aren’t grand or conceptual in any particular way; they arise in a much more preliminary stage of the learning process, as we try to understand the details of going from point A to B. It just wouldn’t be productive for all of our hands to shoot up when the professor asks “Any questions?”, only to go over a certain part of the lecture over again.
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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Amartya Sen Discusses Global Attacks on Democracy
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As the distinguished speaker for the 37th annual Bartel’s World Affairs fellowship lecture, Amartya Sen discussed the new components of democratic backsliding across the world, focusing specifically on India and the United States.
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Cornell Law Professor Breaks Down ‘Broken’ Immigration System Under Trump Administration
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Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr B.A. ’77, J.D. ’81, law, discussed the current administration’s rising restrictions against immigration and offered solutions to existing problems.
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Do Cornell Students Still Use the Cornell Note-Taking System?
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During WWII, a colonel from Alaska asked Prof. Emeritus Walter J. Pauk to draft a brief guide on how to teach his soldiers to read and study effectively for their correspondence courses. The guide soon evolved into Pauk’s 1962 best-selling book, How to Study in College, and attracted international acclaim for its revolutionary study technique: the Cornell Note-Taking System. The Cornell Note-Taking System involves writing questions in the margin to summarize large chunks of information. The learning system relies on a revision technique called “recitation,” where students answer the questions, then without looking at their notes, recall what they’ve learnt. “By relating newly learned conceptual material that is stored in the left brain, to a visualized object stored in the right brain, you can efficiently affect long-term memory,” Pauk said in a 1998 interview with the Journal of Developmental Education.
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As American Politics Sputters, Harvard Professor Warns of Creeping Authoritarianism
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Amidst frenzied talks of impeachment and stiffening partisan warfare, public trust in government has reached a near all-time low. But according to Prof. Steven Levitsky, government, Harvard University, while there are reasons to sound the alarm, American democracy is here to stay.