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New Website for WRFI!

By ryancloverowens

Today’s the day – Cyber Drive is Live, and we’re pressing play on the brand new WRFI.ORG! via GIPHY Felix and I stayed up past midnight, watching the site go live in cities all over the globe on a map. It was nerdy, but awesome. Anyways, we’re sitting on a pile of draft pages – which means…

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Professor Noliwe Rooks about "Freedom Interrupted"-September 30th, 2016

By WRFI News Staff

Esther Racoosin speaks with Cornell Professor Noliwe Rooks about the lecture arts series “Freedom Interrupted” taking place on the Cornell campus this fall.  The series is meant to examine issues of police and societal violence against minorities in the US. For more information, Click Here. This interview originally aired on the September 30th, 2016 edition of…

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Digging into Farm Life in Tioga County

By WRFI News Staff

Cornell students Dan Chamberlain and Michaela Barry discussed their work with the Our Farms, Our Stories project, sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension in Tioga County. This interview aired on September 19, 2016.

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Professor Jonathan Boyarin about Technologies of Memory-September 27th 2016

By WRFI News Staff

Professor Jonathan Boyarin of Cornell Jewish Studies talks about the fall lecture and arts series, “Technologies of Memory”.  He describes how the series is meant to help the public understand the ways that humans process and preserve memories.  Listeners are also introduced to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. For more information, go to:…

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