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James R. Michaels '68

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Government is excellent prep for rabbinic career, says Michaels '68

by : Linda B. Glaser

*/James R. Michaels '68, a member of Cornell's 100th graduating class, always knew he wanted to be a rabbi. He dutifully chose a philosophy major when he entered Cornell but found that the department's emphasis then on linguistic evaluation wasn't a good fit.Political studies, on the other hand, fit like a glove: Michaels' father was a New York state assemblyman. An introductory course in…

Cathy Choi

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Cathy Choi '93 used her major in theater as training for running a business

by : Linda B. Glaser , Ezra Update

Cathy Choi '93 entered Cornell with numbers on her mind. But an English class cross-listed with theater turned Choi away from her planned math major. "I had never read a play before in my life, but I got bitten by the bug and really fell in love," says Choi. "I ended up as a theater major."Cornell theater productions proved invaluable training for Choi's current career as president of a company,…

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LIGO Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)

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Hawking’s black hole theorem observationally confirmed

by : Linda B. Glaser , Cornell Chronicle

Even the most extreme objects in the universe – including black holes – must obey certain rules. A central law for black holes predicts that the total area of their event horizons – the boundary beyond which nothing can ever escape – should never shrink. This law is Hawking’s area theorem, named after physicist Stephen Hawking, who derived the theorem in 1971. Fifty years later, physicists…

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The College Years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a Founder of Queer Theory

by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

The advent of queer theory “caused a shock wave which has affected all intellectual disciplines,” as Didier Eribon, a leading French intellectual, once said. A look back at the undergraduate years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘71, a founder of queer theory, reveals a unique glimpse of where that shock wave first began.When Sedgwick arrived at Cornell in 1967, she had yet to make her mark on the…