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Concomitant differentiation of a population of mouse embryonic stem cells into neuronâlike cells and schwann cellâlike cells in a slowâflow microfluidic device
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Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War
A Conversation with Ross Brann
Ross Brann studied at the University of California-Berkeley, the Hebrew University-Jerusalem, New York University, and the American University in Cairo. He has taught at Cornell since 1986 and served nineteen years as Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Brann is the author of The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991) and Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain (Princeton University Press, 2002). He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Brann is also the editor of four volumes and author of essays on the intersection of medieval Jewish and Islamic cultures. In 2019 he completed Andalusi Moorings: Al-Andalus and Sefarad as Tropes of Islamic and Jewish Culture and submitted it for publication to the University of Pennsylvania Press. In 2007 Brann was appointed Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and in June 2010 he stepped down as the faculty co-chair of the West Campus House System Council after six years of service as the founding Alice Cook House Professor-Dean.1_hgsoa28
A Conversation with Glenn Altschuler
Video captions may be toggled on or off by clicking the "CC" button in the embedded media player on this page.Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Emeritus Professor of Government interviews his close friend (and collaborator) Glenn Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. Their conversation covers Professor Altschulerâs formative years in Brooklyn as well as his teaching, scholarship, relationships with alumni, and administrative roles at Cornell.1_eda03iu
A Conversation with Isaac Kramnick
Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Emeritus Professor of Government, chats with Glenn Altschuler, his colleague, collaborator, and close friend. Topics include his formative years on a chicken farm in Millis Massachusetts; his undergraduate and graduate experiences at Harvard; and his extraordinary Cornell career as a teacher, scholar, department chair, faculty trustee, vice provost for undergraduate education, âfounding fatherâ of the West Campus House System, and University historian.1_b60qnwj
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