Cornell Giving Day 2017 is March 14, one 24-hour period for alumni, parents and friends to come together to support the university.
“Now in its third year, Giving Day is a special moment for Cornell,” said Fred Van Sickle, vice president for alumni affairs and development. “For one day, we reconnect with one another as Cornellians. Our alumni, friends and parents show their deep commitment through their support for the university’s vital work in a myriad of important areas.”
At a ceremony including family and friends, Cornell inducted its 2017 class of Phi Beta Kappa students March 1, juniors and seniors whose grades are at the top of their class.
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Linda B. Glaser
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Arts & Sciences Communications
Victor Nee, the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, has been elected president of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS).
The curriculum proposal uses five modes of inquiry to develop a course of study in which students take foundational courses early in their undergraduate careers.
Melanie Cervantes' visit has been cancelled. The lunch will take place, without Cervantes; an informal conversation about the art display and Dignidad Rebelde will be held.
The Hunter R. Rawlings III Research Study, a bright office space overlooking the Arts Quad and Goldwin Smith Hall on the sixth floor of Olin Library, was dedicated March 3.
A reading and panel discussion of Rebekah Maggor’s anthology, "Tahrir Tales," will be held Monday, March 6, at 4:45 p.m. in the Film Forum, Schwartz Center.
Performance artist Porsha “O” Olayiwola will present an evening of her spoken-word poetry at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 9, in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall. Her performance will be followed by an open mic.
The 1971 Attica prison uprising resulted in more than 40 deaths – the majority killed by law enforcement. Author Heather Thompson will speak about her award-winning 2016 account of the uprising, “Blood in the Water,” March 7 at 4:45 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Paul A. Fleming, German Studies/Comparative Literature, recounts an old story that’s been told and retold many times. It comes from Herodotus’ Histories, an account of the Egyptian King Psammetichus’ capture by the Persians. As part of the king’s humiliation, the Persians parade his family in front of him—first his daughter as a slave and then his son on his way to execution. While everyone else around him wails, King Psammetichus shows no emotion until a beggared old drinking buddy passes, upon which he begins to weep and lament.
Professor of physics Jeevak Parpia, M.S. ’77, Ph.D. ’79, is one of three winners of the 2017 Fritz London Memorial Prize, which recognizes scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field of low-temperature physics.
When Adam Levine was beginning his career, he was constantly seeking points of connection – opportunities to collaborate with the nonprofit and government sectors that could turn academic research into real-world results. Such collaborations usually emerged through old-fashioned networking: a chance meeting over lunch at conference, an introduction from a friend, an interesting article shared via a social network.
Arts & Sciences alum director Sam Gold's '00 newest project, a Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie,” opens on March 9. This New York Times profile explores Gold's stripped-down style and approach to directing.
Mabel Lawrence '19 grew up in a home filled with musical theater. It wasn't unusual, when she was 8 or 9, to get home from elementary school near Los Angeles to find her parents, film and television composer David Lawrence and lyricist Faye Greenberg, working with original cast members, such as those in the Disney Channel’s hit show, "High School Musical."
Astronomical imagery, a motif central to the study of art history, took on a variety of different meanings and functions among the dominant cultures of the early medieval period.
Associate Professor of history Russell Rickford’s book, “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination,” has received the 2017 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians, given to the best book by a historian on the civil rights struggle.
Cornell’s “radical collaboration” initiatives – launched last fall as a series of provost’s task forces targeting faculty hiring and retention across a slew of interdisciplinary areas and fields – already are generating momentum and success stories.
“I had no idea what I wanted to do as a career when I first came to college, and began taking a variety of classes,” Elizabeth Bodner ‘80 explained when she spoke with students during a Feb. 3 visit to campus as part of a Career Conversations event hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences Career Development Center.
Alain Seznec, emeritus professor of Romance studies, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and former University Librarian, died at home in Ithaca on Feb. 21 after a lingering illness. He was 86.
Professor of sociology Filiz Garip writes in Reuters op-ed that Trump's wall is simply a symbolic gesture and will have no significant policy impact in reducing illegal immigration.
Five student musicians, calling themselves The Original Cornell Syncopators, are celebrating the centennial of the first jazz record's release by recreating the historic recording session.
The Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) Program launched its lunch series Feb. 14 in Rockefeller Hall with a talk by sociologist Vida Maralani.
Nick Admussen, assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies, has been named one of 15 recipients of the 2017 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of “Floral Mutter."
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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
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Arts & Sciences Communications
David Orr, professor of the practice in the English Department, gives a literary critic’s perspective on the craft that is behind penning some of the best works in poetry.
German Studies Professor Patrizia McBride discussed how her new book "The Chatter of the Visible" explores montage and modernist aesthetics in 1920s and '30 Germany at a talk in Olin Library February 15th.
… have been named recipients of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships that support early career faculty members’ … of 126 U.S. and Canadian researcher were awarded Sloan fellowships this year. “Through their achievements and … have been named recipients of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships that support early career faculty members’ …
Cornell assistant professors Yimon Aye and Robert Shepherd are among 33 scientists selected from among 360 applicants to receive Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP) awards, which support early-career academic scientists and engineers.
"Root Map" is an international collaboration that includes academics and artists with diverse cultural heritages across Asia, Africa, Europe, North America and South America.
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, associate professor of government, writes in this CNBC op-ed that NAFTA has not been the windfall for Mexico that President Trump seems to think, and that killing NAFTA would have serious consequences for the U.S.
Like a black hole – which cannot be perceived directly, but is known only by the way it warps space-time – the object of psychoanalysis is an object we know solely by its effects.
In a new interdisciplinary study combining mathematics and engineering, researchers simulated models to show that drivers obey digital signs that direct them toward less-congested routes--but sometimes the signs don't keep pace with highway realities.
Theodore Jay Lowi, the charismatic Cornell professor of government whose dream of an undergraduate program in Washington became reality and whose seminal books – “The End of Liberalism,” “American Government” and “American Political Thought: A Norton Anthology” (co-edited with Isaac Kramnick) – became standards in political science discourse, died Feb. 17 in Ithaca, New York.
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Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
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Arts & Sciences Communications
Aoise Stratford, a visiting assistant professor in Performing and Media Arts, was named the 2017 Blaine Quarnstrom Guest Playwright at the University of Southern Mississippi in January. Stratford spent five days on the Southern Mississippi campus at the beginning of the year giving public talks, having her work read and teaching a series of intense hands-on playwriting workshops for students across the undergraduate and graduate programs in theatre and English.
Students shared their experiences performing community service in the Ithaca area as part of the Office of Undergraduate Biology’s Biology Service Leaders (BSL) Showcase Feb. 9 in Corson Mudd Hall.
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies will lead a campuswide effort to help doctoral students strengthen their dissertation research proposals with a new grant from the New York-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
Shonni Enelow, assistant professor of English at Fordham University, has been chosen as the winner of the 2015-2016 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her book “Method Acting and Its Discontents” (Northwestern University Press, 2015).
“The history of the Negro is the history of America, and it is not a pretty story,” says the late writer James Baldwin in director Raoul Peck’s documentary “I Am Not Your Negro.”
In this opinion piece in The Hill, historian Barry Strauss, contends that Trump's appointment of his son-in-law as a senior advisor has plenty of precedent.
