The Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity will bring speakers to campus for four public events this semester, including a design thinking workshop with Virginia Rath on Jan. 29 and an April session focused on eco-conscious design.The April 8 event, “Digital Fabrication/Place-Based & Eco-Conscious Adaptive Design,” will feature speakers Celine Izsak ‘14 and Sam Koren. Izsak '14 is an…
Steve Hindy ’71, MAT ’73, a former English teacher and international journalist who co-founded Brooklyn Brewery more than 30 years ago, has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 by Entrepreneurship at Cornell.Hindy will be honored April 16-17 during Celebration, Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s annual two-day conference in Ithaca.Hindy founded Brooklyn Brewery in 1987 with neighbor Tom…
The National Endowment for the Arts has honored Rebekah Maggor, translator, theatre director, and assistant professor in the Department of Performing & Media Arts, with a Literature Fellowship in Translation. Her project is a collaboration with Mas’ud Hamdan, playwright, poet, and professor of Arabic literature and theatre at the University of Haifa.Maggor’s fellowship supports translation…
Chatting with the newest group of 18 sophomores chosen for the College Scholar program in the College of Arts & Sciences is a little like riding a roller coaster with a teenager who’s never been on one before.They’re a little nervous about the ups and downs, but they’re so excited to get started. And all of them feel pretty blessed to have this opportunity – to study something they care about…
Students in the College of Arts & Sciences had five opportunities to meet with alumni for career advice during winter break, along with a special recruiting day for summer internships and full-time jobs. They are also able to take part in virtual job search preparation sessions in January.The five January networking meetings were hosted by Arts & Sciences Career Development, Arts &…
Although Joe Brown ’02, editor in chief of Popular Science, is happy with his meandering academic and career journey, he is careful to tell students not to follow in his footsteps.“You’re going to find your own way and that is going to be the exact right way for you,” said Brown, an English major, during a Nov. 1 talk on campus. He told students that his journey through Cornell included taking a…
Tom Goldstone ’94 says his Arts & Sciences education has helped him make sense of his world.That’s what he does every day at CNN as executive producer of Fareed Zakaria GPS, a show whose mission — and tagline —is exactly that.Goldstone visited campus Oct. 28 for a career conversation, where he shared his career pathway and advice for students interested in journalism, media, politics or…
Chris Hoff ’02 and Sam Harnett have spent the semester on campus just listening – listening to fish, frogs, Latin speakers, particle accelerators, organs and synthesizers, ice skates and even dirt. The pair, creators of The World According to Sound, will share what they’ve found during four live audio shows Nov. 20-21 at the Flex Theater in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.“Cornell…
Scholars from Germany and the UK, as well as numerous U.S. universities, will visit campus Nov. 7-9 for the first media studies conference sponsored by CIVIC (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s Radical Collaboration initiative focused on the humanities and the arts.“Siren Echoes: Sound, Image, and the Media of Antiquity,” is being organized by Verity Platt,…
Looking at U.S. news coverage, there’s one thing that all media outlets seem to agree on – our country’s divisions today are worse than they’ve been in a long time. As a result, people are asking questions such as: How can we empathize with people who are different than we are? How can we listen to them? Really understand them? Help them to understand us?Those are some of the questions that Ryan…
For 16 years, Cornell audiences have enjoyed lectures, performances and events sponsored by the Atkinson Forum in American Studies. This year, the Fisk Jubilee Singers will visit campus for a concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Alice Statler Auditorium.Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. and the concert is free and open to the public.The Fisk Jubilee Singers are vocal artists and students at Fisk…
Stephen Robinson ’81 J.D. ’83 assured undergrads during a Sept. 20 visit to campus that having 10 different jobs during your career is completely normal, and actually pretty exciting.“Something within me just craves movement and change,” he said. “I like to conquer new environments.”Robinson’s job-hopping has led to positions as a Deputy General Counsel in the FBI fighting against terrorists, as…
Before Jeffrey Palmer ever held a video camera or took a filmmaking class, he felt pretty confident that he would be a good at it. So he bought some good equipment, put together a DVD with a series of shorts and applied to the country’s top film MFA programs.He got into all of them.Now, as a new film professor in Cornell’s Department of Performing & Media Arts, with his first documentary…
The Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity is welcoming the public to two fall events.Howard Rodman ’71, screenwriter, novelist and educator, will be on campus Oct. 17 for a reading of his most recent book, “The Great Eastern,” soon to be adapted to film. The story follows two of literature’s iconic anti-heroes, Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Captain Ahab from Moby Dick,…
A $6 million anonymous alumni gift will help launch the Humanities Scholars Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, offering a signature learning, research and collaboration opportunity to students from across the university interested in humanistic inquiry.The initiative will offer gateway courses that will provide a broad introduction to the humanities for first- and second-year…
Two new graduate fellowship awards in the College of Arts & Sciences will help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences further their research.Elizbeth Lyon, a doctoral student in music, received the first Sadov Family Graduate Student Fellowship for graduate students doing work in the arts and humanities. Thomas Davidson, a doctoral student in sociology, received the first…
An application to help students connect with others in their classes won the top prize – an automatic spot in this fall’s eLab class – at the Entrepreneurship at Cornell kickoff event, Sept. 4 in eHub Collegetown.Zing, founded by Jordan Goldzweig ’21, Sam Brickman ’21 (from the College of Arts & Sciences) and Alisa Lai ’22 (from the College of Engineering), all computer science majors, helps…
For the first time in Cornell’s history, students this year can take a class to learn the language of the Cayuga Nation, whose traditional territory is now home to Cornell’s Ithaca campus. The launch of the class coincides with the United Nations Declaration of 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages.
Stephen Henhawk, a Cayuga speaker and historian, will teach the hands-on class…
The campus is bustling again after a week of welcoming the Class of 2023 and transfer students to the College of Arts & Sciences. From roommate meetings and late-night snacking sessions in the dorms to meetings with faculty and peer advisors, new students are learning the ropes and becoming part of the Cornell community. Every year, Arts & Sciences deans greet new students and issue a few…
Students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity helped Haitian teachers improve their computer literacy this summer and an Ithaca non-profit streamline its donation process.Catie Rencricca ’22 and Andrew Gao ’22 continued a project they started last spring with Neighbor to Neighbor (formerly Love Knows No Bounds), an Ithaca organization that helps redistribute furniture to people in…
When Estefania Perez ’21 and Kamla Arshad ’21 return to campus this fall, they can add some pretty impressive credentials to their resumes: an internship at the Supreme Court for Perez, and a school-building project in Ecuador and research post at UC Berkeley for Arshad.The women are two of the eight students involved in the first class of the College of Arts & Sciences’ new Pathways…
Two government graduate students — one studying the rise of populist radical right parties and the other the politics of domestic violence — have recently been honored with fellowships and other awards for their research.Doctoral student Pauliina Patana won the Social Science Research Council Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship. She has also been awarded multiple fellowships…
Students from the College of Arts & Sciences are taking advantage of enriching summer research experiences, thanks to the donations of generous alumni, whose gifts help students pay for living and travel expenses when they accept low paying or unpaid positions.In Baltimore, Chris Zobek ’20 wakes up early to get to the National Aquarium by 7:30 a.m. and hang out with more than 200 dart frogs.A…
Isis Encinas ’20 spends most of her summer days working to help survivors of violence around the world. As an intern with International Justice Mission (IJM) in its Washington, D.C. office, “I’m able to directly impact the mission and be involved with work that is going to make a real difference in the lives of people who are being violently oppressed,” she says.Encinas is one of many students in…
Founding a company to boost entrepreneurs in Ghana is only the latest international venture for Clémence Bruguier ’21, a government and Russian major in the College of Arts & Sciences.Her company, Humans to Humans, is one of nine student businesses whose leaders are staying in Ithaca this summer to work on their ideas through the Life Changing Labs’ Summer Incubator.Bruguier’s team also…
Ulysses Rios ’22 jokes that his name made Cornell an easy choice – the main character in Homer’s “Odyssey,” Odysseus or Ulysses, journeys back to Ithaca, of course.But the real reason he’ll start studying here in August lies in the strength of the government department and some of its alumni – including Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.“It inspired me to want to apply here,” he said.Rios…
Andrea Berloff ’95 hasn’t read many books on screenwriting – in fact, only one — but she did study many a Greek play and the works of Shakespeare during her time at Cornell.And she thinks that, combined with her unique voice, has a lot to do with her success as a screenwriter, and now a director. Her directing debut, “The Kitchen,” starring Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss,…
Thomas Nolan ’20 is spending part of his summer helping to make a U.S. college education more possible for students in Tanzania.He’s one of six students from the College of Arts & Sciences who are working for the U.S. Department of State, with help from Summer Experience Grants, which students can use to cover living and travel expenses when they are taking unpaid or minimally-paid positions…
David Bateman, assistant professor of government, was recently named a co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Prize from the American Political Science Association for best book in history and politics, for his book "Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing a Mass Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France."Bateman’s research focuses on Congress, American political development…
Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot professor of chemistry & chemical biology, was recently awarded the Frumkin Memorial Medal from the International Society of Electrochemistry, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field.He will receive the medal, which may be given once every two years, at the society’s annual meeting in August 2020 in Belgrade. The award honors the late…
The Cornell story of Alex Ponomarenko ’94 is one of pluck and determination. Ponomarenko was a 21-year old Ukrainian student wanting to study in America when he heard about Cornell. Today, he’s retired from a successful career in finance and now is giving back to his alma mater by helping to make a Cornell education more accessible for international students.He is a new board member of the…
As a student at Cornell in the late 1930s, Cedric Jimerson ’40 M.D. ’43, started his days trekking downtown to the Cornell infirmary at 5:30 a.m., where he would deliver food to patients and help out in the kitchen. He’d then trudge back up Buffalo Street to attend classes and head back downtown again in the late afternoon for his second shift.“I wanted to be a doctor for a long time, but I didn…
A $10 million alumni gift will expand opportunities for Cornell students to study and explore the China and Asia-Pacific region and its global impacts.The new Brittany and Adam J. Levinson ’92 China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program (CAPS) was dedicated May 5 on campus. Housed within the government department in the College of Arts & Sciences, the program offers courses, language training,…
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology recently honored Professor Emerita Elizabeth Adkins-Regan with its Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime Achievement Award, which is given to distinguished investigators in the field.“Dr. Adkins-Regan embodies the spirit of Danny Lehrman, with a career of eminent scholarship and a record of outstanding mentorship of scientists at all career stages,” the society…
Looking at the two rows of miniature plaster casts now watching over diners in Klarman Hall’s Temple of Zeus, you’ll notice a few of the figures are missing. But never fear, art detective Annetta Alexandridis (also known as an associate professor of history of art and of classics) is on the case.The casts — miniature replicas of the East and West pediments from the Temple of Zeus in Olympia,…
A new city has been added this year to a series of summer networking events for students and alumni hosted by the Arts & Sciences Career Connections Committee.The events, which run from June 19 through June 27, take place in New York City, Washington, D.C. and now in Boston. Students can still sign up to attend the events by registering through Handshake.The events and their topic areas are…
There aren’t always two sides to a story.Good journalists are objective, but not necessarily neutral.Taking out the media is one of the first steps in an authoritarian’s play book.These are some of the thoughts and concerns shared by panelists June 7 during “International Politics and the Fourth Estate: The Role of the Media in Social and Political Movements Worldwide,” a Cornell Reunion event…
Photo right: Garden triclinium (outdoor dining benches) at the Casa dell’Efebo, a wealthy house in Pompeii. Paintings of Egyptian landscapes decorate the sides of the benches where people once reclined to dine, and an artificial canal once flowed between the benches. (Photo by Caitlín Barrett)A new book from Caitlín Barrett, associate professor of Classics, explores the reasons why many people in…
Government Professor Jill Frank was recently honored with the David Easton Award from the Foundations of Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association for her book “Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato's Republic” (University of Chicago Press, 1 edition; January 2018).The award is given to a book “that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues…
Cornell assistant professor Song Lin, a Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, was among 25 scientists selected from more than 260 applicants to receive Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP) awards, which support early-career academic scientists and engineers.Recipients will share $16.5 million in funding to conduct naval-relevant scientific research. The awards support laboratory…
Cheryl Finley, associate professor of history of art, has won the 2019 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize from the Bard Graduate Center for her book, “Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon.”The monograph is the first in depth study of the most famous image associated with the memory of slavery — a schematic engraving of a packed slave ship hold — and the art, architecture,…
One of the true treasures of the college experience is the freedom to follow your curiosity and see where it takes you. In no major is this more encouraged than for College Scholars in the College of Arts & Sciences, who, as sophomores, propose a project that combines their varied interests and craft their college curriculum to follow those pathways.For the 14 seniors graduating this year…
As a child, Maria Cristina Garcia’s family left Cuba for the United States to enjoy new freedoms that were lacking there. One of her first road trips as a new American was to see the Statue of Liberty and many of her photos from that trip show the statue in the background.Last week, Garcia — now the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell — celebrated with other historians,…
Open source software, a web of connections, a tool for meaningful collaborations, a powerhouse research tool — when Mitchell Baker thinks of the things that the internet gets right, those are at the top of the list.But there is also a list of things the internet gets wrong. And Baker, chairwoman of Mozilla and co-founder of the Mozilla Project, said most of those come about when companies – led…
From the time-tested technique of impressing cuneiform characters into clay to today’s advanced but often short-lived technologies, students in a new media studies foundation course spent the spring semester delving into how media formats have shaped human lives throughout history.
“Thinking Media,” taught by Roger Moseley, associate professor of music and CIVIC media fellow, featured an array…
Local residents who want to donate furniture will have an easier time connecting to people in need thanks to the work of a team of first-year students from the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.Another team of Milstein students is creating a curriculum that will be used by a third team to teach students here and in Haiti the computer language of SCRATCH, while a fourth team traveled…
Ready to cross a few items off your bucket list? If so, you might want to visit the list of upcoming trips planed by Cornell Adult University. Many of them are led by faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences.Although it’s not until December 2020, spots are already filling up fast for a December 2020 trip, where Cornell astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts &…
Oskar Eustis believes that theatre can help people learn what it’s like to be a true citizen in a democracy – not what our country is experiencing right now, but in a true democracy — where people have conflicts, try to understand each other, compromise, empathize and come up with solutions.Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater in New York City, which birthed such knockout shows as …
From tales of sinking ships to murderous fights to bedroom shenanigans, a cast of 75 readers told the story of Homer’s “Odyssey” during a daylong event April 26 in Klarman Hall, the first event in the College of Arts & Sciences’ new “Arts Unplugged” initiative.The daylong reading, spearheaded by Athena Kirk, assistant professor of classics, featured speakers from the community and local…
Thanks to financial support from an alumni donor, the Graduate & Professional Student Assembly, and new funding from the College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell Cinema is on its strongest financial footing in decades, said Mary Fessenden, cinema director.The cinema is also hatching a plan to offer a low-price all-access pass to students, faculty, staff and the community this fall – at only …
!["The first vote" / AW [monogram] ; drawn by A.R. Waud. African American men, in dress indicative of their professions, in a queue waiting their turn to vote.](https://as.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/styles/4_5/public/field/image/37947v-450px.jpg?itok=a5xFuNsa)
