Two A&S professors — Jenny Mann, associate professor of English, and Jolene Rickard, associate professor of American studies and history of art and visual studies — were honored recently by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA) with Faculty Teaching, Advising and Mentorship awards. Michael Niemack, assistant professor of physics, received an honorable mention. Faculty members…
College of Arts & Sciences graduate students were recognized earlier this month at a reception honoring their skills as teaching assistants and mentors to undergraduate students.“The graduate students being honored received stellar teaching evaluations and strong recommendations from their undergraduates and from faculty,” said Michael Goldstein, associate professor of psychology. “They…
Malte Ziewitz, assistant professor of Science & Technology Studies and a Mills Family Faculty Fellow, was recently honored with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program award, which will help him to investigate how ordinary citizens cope with being rated, scored and ranked by algorithmic systems.“Receiving this award is a tremendous honor — not just for me,…
Francisco Díaz Klaassen, a Chilean writer and doctoral student in the Department of Romance Studies, has a new novel, “The Slope,” coming out this month. The book tells the story of a language and literature teacher dealing with alcoholism and dementia.“There’s a poem by Constantine Cavafy called ‘The City’ in which the voice tells us that no matter where we escape or move, we’ll bring and carry…
Mahiro Abe ‘20, a physics major, was chosen as a recipient of this year’s Goldwater Scholarship, given by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation to support students pursuing graduate study and careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.“Astrophysics has always been one of my main research interests since freshman year, so I am very…
Peng Chen, the Peter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, is among three finalists for the American Institute of Chemists’ 2019 Chemical Pioneer Award.The Chemical Pioneer Award recognizes chemists, chemical engineers or their associates who have made outstanding contributions that have had a major impact on advances in chemical science and…
The Simons Foundation’s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division recently honored mathematics professors Irena Peeva and Yuri Berest with Simons Fellowships in mathematics.“The Simons Fellowship will allow me to spend the 2019 Fall semester in Europe, visiting Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich and the University of Edinburgh in the UK where my collaborators work,”…
While future effects of climate change are often in the news, an April 30 event will discuss how the problem is already affecting communities around the world, particularly in Africa.
The Africana Studies and Research Center is hosting, “Disaster: Cyclone Idai, Climate Change & Climate Migration,” a talk that will discuss impacts of climate change, climate migration and food scarcity and…
While students from affluent school districts are often treated to field trips to museums or AP courses in art history, the same experiences aren’t always available to youth from low-income districts. This unequal access has prompted a new initiative developed by Ananda Cohen-Aponte, associate professor in the history of art department in the College of Arts & Sciences. “Pathways to Art…
Who has the power to dream and to detain? What constitutes culture and national identity? What is citizenship?These are some of the questions that members of Marginalia, an undergraduate poetry review society, grappled with during an April 18 poetry open mic night called “Radiant Voices: Citizenship.”The event was a part of Cornell Welcomes Refugees’ Week of Action and also coincided with an…
How does one “deploy love” in the process of critically engaging whiteness? George Yancy, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows’ 2019 distinguished guest speaker, will examine this question in “A Letter of love: An Encounter with White Backlash.” He will also address what it means for whiteness to be in crisis, which he argues is a positive way of beginning to undo it. The talk will take place on…
The symposium – focusing on Turner’s activism and impact in shaping the black student movement – will be held from April 12-13 at the Africana Center, 310 Triphammer Road. The keynote address, scheduled for 11 a.m. April 13, will be given by John Bracey, professor in the W.E.B. du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.Cornell is considered the…
Eliot Kang ‘84, the principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN), will talk about his work and career path April 18 as the 2019 Arts & Sciences Career Development Center’s Munschauer Speaker.The event will take place in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall at 5:30 p.m. His talk will be called “My Path to the State Department.” …
The Berger Summer Internship Fund, created in 2018 by friends and family of Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger ’67, is again available to support undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences pursuing unpaid or minimally paid summer internships.Berger was a government major in Arts & Sciences and served as an advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001 before serving as co-chair…
While students in some fields easily find paid summer positions, others interested in non-profits, health care, government or other areas often need to take internships or summer positions that provide valuable summer career experiences but don't offer much in terms of a paycheck.The Student Assembly Summer Experience Grant helps students afford these experiences, and this year an expanded fund…
From visiting the Galapagos Islands to being immersed in the study of evolutionary biology to traveling to work in a lab in Kenya, Kelsie Lopez ‘21, a biological sciences major from Lindenhurst, New York has been busy during her first two years at Cornell.A McNair Scholar, during her freshman year, Lopez was involved in the Galapagos Undergraduate Curriculum through the Biology Scholars program…
Ishion Hutchinson, associate professor of English Language and Literature, was honored March 13 as one of eight winners of the annual Donald Windham-Sandy M.Campbell Literature Prize. The award offers $165,000 prizes in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama. Hutchinson, along with poet Kwame Dawes, received the prize for outstanding work in poetry. “It’s particularly moving to be a recipient…
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) recently honored Justin Wilson, assistant professor of chemistry & chemical biology, as one of 24 recipients of the 2019 Cottrell Scholar Awards for his research, “Capturing the Heavy Alkaline Earth Elements: Ligand Design to Sequester Radioactive Strontium, Barium, and Radium.”The winners were announced Feb. 11 and will be recognized at…
Ibram X. Kendi, professor of history and international relations and the founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, will deliver the Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture April 15. His book, “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” provides a complex background and exploration of the notions of racial…
What is the likelihood of a universal language emerging some day? How can mathematical models help us understand how humans operate in society? Under what conditions can communities recover socially, economically and psychologically after a major conflict? These are some of the questions that the new group of College Scholars in the College of Arts & Sciences are trying to uncover in their…
What does "Latinidad" mean in the snowy upstate town of Ithaca? Being Latinx in Ithaca was explored in Habla/Speak, a bilingual collective creation performance that ran from Feb.28 through March 2. Performers told stories from their lives and shared music, dance and poetry.Co-produced by Debra Castillo, the Director of the Latina/o Studies Program and the Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic…
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) recently honored Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, as the 2019 recipient of the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition.“George Pólya was a great teacher, writer, and communicator of mathematics,” Strogatz said. …
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) recently honored Kate Manne, assistant professor of philosophy, as one of four winners of the 2019 Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) for her book “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.” The winners were announced Feb. 7 at the PROSE Award luncheon in Washington, D.C. during the 2019 AAP Professional and Scholarly Publishing Conference.“I…
A new season of podcasts from the Language Resource Center (LRC) celebrates 2019 as the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages. The global celebration kicked off with a seminar in New York City Feb. 1, showcasing the world’s ancient tongues and highlighting the need to conserve, revitalize and promote them.The first episode of this season’s Speaking of Language podcast by the…
Doctoral student Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo ‘08, MA ‘15, started producing music in high school using the stage name DJ Eno. Growing up in Ithaca to an Ivorian and Congolese mother and father who teach at Cornell and Wells College respectively, she stayed in Ithaca to do her undergraduate studies at Cornell. Shedding her former stage name, Lumumba-Kasongo chose the name Sammus, the name of the main…
Chef Irene Li ‘15 has amassed a host of honors — gaining a spot on last year’s Forbes 30 under 30 list and being named a three-time James Beard semi-finalist. Now Li’s business is making even more strides in the areas of ethical sourcing and fair employment practices.Last year, Li’s restaurant, Mei Mei, implemented an open-book system. This means that all staffers, from the dishwashers to sous…
Giovana Pinheiro ’19 has always wanted to travel. However, due to financial difficulties and family commitments, Pinheiro spent most of her summers at home. Thanks to the Ruth Bierman Linnick ‘60 Memorial Travel Grant, Pinheiro was able to visit Paris last summer.“Because I had those family commitments, which made it hard for me to travel or get a summer internship, it was a really great…
Zines have become a powerful way for marginalized communities to raise awareness about the issues affecting them. Faculty members from Cornell and Ithaca College have partnered with alumni from each school and ¡CULTURA! Ithaca to produce a Latinx and community-based zine, Bien Acompañada Press, which released its first edition this month.Zines are small-circulation self-published works of…
Cornell graduate student Yessica Martinez was recently named to the International Literacy Association’s 2019 “30 Under 30” list, which celebrates rising innovators, disruptors and visionaries in the literacy field.The 2019 honorees were chosen because of their dedication to inspire change through improving literacy education for students across the globe, according to information from the…
Penguin Classics has just published a new edition of Jean Toomer’s “Cane,” described by the New York Times Book Review as a “book for our times.” Edited with an introduction and notes by George Hutchinson, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture, the book was featured on the New York Times Book Review’s “Editors’ Choice” list. The book corrects errors in previous editions and restores…
Maryame El Moutamid has been named an affiliate member of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS). Moutamid is a research associate at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science and an affiliate of the Carl Sagan Institute. Moutamid’s research concerns planetary ring dynamics and satellite orbital dynamics and their connections with giant planet interior structure.The African Academy…
Patrizia C. McBride, director of the Institute for German Cultural Studies and professor of German Studies, received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) for her book “The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany.” The Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures is awarded biennially for an…
Thanks to a grant from Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation, students in the Introduction to Ancient Rome class had a chance to mount their own display of public art depicting the choice of Hercules Nov. 12-16 in front of the statue of Hercules near the Statler Hotel at 15 East Ave.Each day, there were two signs next to the statue, one showing the cover of “On Duties” by Cicero and the other…
While United Nations peacekeepers are viewed by many as good Samaritans helping countries struggling in times of conflict, there are a number of cases of sexual exploitation and abuse of children that have come to light since the U.N. started opening records to the public in 2015.Vanessa Navarro Rodriguez ’19, a government major, has been conducting research on these violations by U.N…
People are often more confident when working in a team than when working alone. Andrew Wang ‘19 is uncovering the mechanisms behind this confidence boost by studying social and linguistic expressions of confidence in online teamwork.Wang, a triple major in computer science, philosophy and math, is also a Tanner Dean’s Scholar in the College of Arts & Sciences who received a grant this past…
Five Arts & Sciences students are among those named United Nations Millenium Fellows. They will join a group of 530 student leaders worldwide who are advancing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in their communities.Students across 57 countries applied for the fellowship, with 530 Millennium Fellows chosen, including Arts & Sciences students Emily Wang ‘20, Shi Guofeng ‘22,…
A passion for community engagement and service work drove Winnie Ho’ 19 and Emma Runge ‘20 to seek out opportunities to serve on campus. The two Arts & Sciences students were recently named 2018-2019 Engaged Ambassadors.“I got involved as an Engaged Ambassador because of the strength of the community and family that I found in Engaged,” said Ho, who is majoring in biological sciences and…
Acclaimed poet Julia Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin, co-authors of “Shale Play,” will be reading on Nov. 11 at 1 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books. This will be followed by the event, “F Word: Poems + Photographs of Witness from Pennsylvania’s Fracking Fields,” on Nov. 12 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in 122 Rockefeller Hall.“Julia Kasdorf and Steven Rubin use their art to allow…
The ability to work in a team and communicate effectively are some of the valuable skills Sophia Beaudoin ‘20 learned by being part of the volleyball team. Beaudoin says she was able to bring these skills into her internship with Senator Mark Warner in Washington D.C.“Those skills carried over well in an environment as fast paced and ever changing as the Capitol,” said Beaudoin, a government…
Graduate students from the Department of Performing Media Arts have been honored with multiple fellowships and grants over the course of the year. Recipients of awards include Caitlin Kane, Jayme Kilburn, Rosalie Purvis, Elaigwu Ameh, Kristza Pozsonyi and Sam Blake.These grants, which support research, creative pursuits and teaching, give grad students the opportunity for peer academic review,…
Novelist Alice McDermott, a three-time Pulitzer nominee, will read from her work at Cornell on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 4:30 p.m. The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading will take place at the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a catered reception and book signing in the English Lounge. McDermott is the author of eight novels,…
What is a semester in Washington D.C like? How does an internship shape your academic career? What are some strategies to use during your internship search?These questions were answered Sept. 17 by a panel of students and faculty at “The Internship Experience: A Student Panel,” hosted by the Arts & Sciences Career Development Center.The students on the panel — Christine Amenechi ‘19,…
Noticing a plethora of recent cases where university officials resigned amid pressure from students and others, Naomi Li ’20 wanted to know more.Li, an economics and sociology major, conducted research over the summer on the role of resignation in social narratives and social change to find out more about cases like Lou Anna Simon at Michigan State University or Tim Wolfe and R. Bowen Loftin at…
From attending a lecture by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to seeing the process of creating a bill, Simone Smith '20 was exposed to many different aspects of government while interning in Washington D.C this summer. "Some of the issues I got to work on related to education, agriculture, labor and finance," said Smith, who interned with Senator Mark Warner (D-Va). Working on the Hill was always…
After taking a philosophy of mind seminar last year, Marlene Berke ‘19 began thinking about connecting her research to the philosophy of perception and epistemology. “This course familiarized me with the current philosophical discussion about cognitive influences on perception, providing philosophical motivation for my studies about whether what we remember and expect might ‘leak’ into perception…
When Maya Frai ‘20 found out about the #MeToo movement this past year, she had a hard time keeping up with all the stories that were coming out. To make sure these stories stayed on top of people’s minds she came up with “Let’s Hear It,” a female empowerment platform and publication that amplifies the voices of women.“I initially envisioned ‘Let’s Hear It’ as a platform to highlight the stories…
Manufacturers often use silver nanoparticles in product packaging to keep out bacteria and insects, but there is little research so far about whether the particles are completely neutral in the context of our bodies. Shreya Nandi ‘19, a biological sciences major minoring in East Asian studies, spent the summer exploring this question in the lab of Motoko…
When Raven Schwam-Curtis ‘20 first got to Cornell, she never imagined that she would be double majoring in Asian studies and feminist, gender & sexuality studies and have developed an interest in Afro-Asia pop culture. “My journey to this academic path has been molded by influential mentors, faculty members and chance,” Schwam-Curtis said.Schwam-Curtis, a Mellon…
Among other exciting things, Graham Cohen ‘20 got to watch the Fourth of July fireworks from the White House South Lawn this summer. An Arts & Sciences Summer Experience Grant helped Cohen afford the expenses of living in Washington D.C and interning at the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).Cohen, a College Scholar whose studies include computer science, linguistics…
Personal experience motivated Karen Loya ‘19, a sociology major with a minor in inequality studies and Latina/o studies, to spend the summer researching at the University of California at Los Angeles. “I conducted sociological work on Latinx students, which is related to both my major and minor,” Loya said. “But more importantly my work takes an education-approach to…
