The 2019 Cornell Undergraduate Psychology (CUP) Conference will bring together undergraduate students with diverse interests to share their research, meet other students and faculty and learn about the various kinds of psychological research being conducted across the Cornell campus. The conference will be held May 9 in the Physical Sciences Building Atrium from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.The conference…
Allyson Evans ‘19 was recently awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation to fund her graduate work.The program “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States…
Samantha N. Sheppard, the Mary Armstrong Meduski ‘80 Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, has been chosen as a Career Enhancement Fellow for 2019-2020 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.Her project as a six-month Woodrow Wilson Junior Faculty Career Enhancement Fellow will be finishing her monograph, “Sporting Blackness: Race, Embodiment, and Critical Muscle Memory…
Like many new Cornell students, Juli Wade ‘87 was unsure of her career path when she initially arrived on campus, but her experience working in the lab of Professor Elizabeth Adkins Regan, professor emerita of psychology and neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts & Sciences influenced her decision to pursue psychology. Wade was recently named the dean of the College of Liberal Arts…
The Environment & Sustainability Program, home of the new cross-college undergraduate major in Environmental & Sustainability Sciences (ESS), is hosting a spring gathering of humanities faculty and current and prospective majors April 10 in Room 401 of the Physical Sciences Building from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.The major, a collaboration between the colleges of Arts & Sciences and…
*/Image credit: Lela BrownAlthough climate change has become an increasingly prominent and important issue, finding ways to persuade people about the catastrophic dangers of further environmental degradation has proven to be challenging.Students in Professor Caroline Levine’s freshman writing seminar “Communicating Climate Change” spent last semester writing scripts, analytical essays, op-eds,…
Doctoral student Shin Hwang was selected as one of five finalists in the Sfzp International Fortepiano competition by the American Classical Orchestra.The top two prize winners will be selected after a final round of performances March 9 in New York City.The winners will receive cash prizes and a solo appearance at the opening concert of the Academy of Fortepiano Performance. The top prize…
Eight Arts & Sciences students spent winter break in Colombia, collaborating with Colombian undergraduate students from the University of Magdalena to teach students at a public school in the coastal city of Santa Marta. The students spent their time carrying out STEM enrichment projects in the school, which primarily serves students from disadvantaged communities.Tim DeVoogd, professor of…
Cornell’s the Institute for Comparative Modernities will partner with the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and the Africa Institute, Sharjah, to host “Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures,” a conference at the Tate Modern in London from Feb. 23-25.The conference will bring together scholars, writers, curators, researchers and artists from across the world to reflect and…
Fake news is nothing new. Ben Franklin was notorious for fabricating stories, countries throughout the world have repeatedly engaged in propaganda campaigns, and the current president of the United States has used the term frequently to describe the media. “Post-Truth Politics,” a new class offered this semester by Alexandra Cirone, assistant professor of government, explores the global…
Andrew Hicks, associate professor of music and medieval studies, has been recognized with two awards for his recent book, “Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos,” published by Oxford University Press.Hicks received the Emerging Scholar book award from the Society of Music Theory at the 2018 annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The Society of Music Theory is an organization…
Conventional wisdom about science fiction is that it has followed the same diffusionist patterns as the advancement of industrial capitalism — spreading from North America and Europe to Asia, Latin America and Africa, following the paths of colonialism and postcolonial development. Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature, challenges that notion in her new anthology, …
Héctor Abruña, the Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry, was named the recipient of the Allen J. Bard Medal for 2019, one of the highest honors of the Electrochemical Society.The award was established in 2013 in honor of Allen J. Bard for his advancements in the field of electrochemical science. After receiving his Ph.D from Harvard in 1958, Bard joined the faculty at the University of Texas at…
Political economist Alberto Alesina will discuss "Immigration and Redistribution: Perceptions Versus Reality” at an Oct. 31 lecture as part of the George Staller Lecture series.Alesina is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His research areas include the political economy of fiscal policy and budget deficits, the process of European integration, the effect of…
Cathy Mulzer Ph.D ‘15 was honored last month as one of Chemical and Engineering News “Talented 12” honorees for 2019. The award recognizes the brightest young chemists “pushing the boundaries in their fields.”
The magazine, published by the American Chemical Society, selected this fourth installment of the Talented 12 from an original list of 350 nominations culled from reader submissions…
Historians Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene will discuss the role of alcohol consumption in Muslim communities since early Islamic times during a public lecture Oct 18.The discussion will explore how various Muslim communities have enforced established rules about alcohol, and will reflect on modern attitudes toward alcohol consumption and intoxication. The lecture will also assess how religious…
What are the main qualities recruiters look for in resumes and how do they determine who to select? Do cover letters actually matter? How important is GPA? These questions and more were answered Sept. 5 by a panel of campus recruiters at “Recruiting Confidential: Questions You Always Wanted to Ask,” a panel hosted by the Arts & Sciences Career Development Center.The panel of recruiters…
“Improvisation, swing, and the blues. If those three elements are present, you have Jazz.” A new video highlights the profound impact of jazz musician Wynton Marsalis on students, faculty, and the public during his weeklong visit to campus last spring.Marsalis, an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large, sat in on rehearsals, visited classes,and lectured throughout the week. “I try to expose my…
A series of meet and greet events in New York City and Arlington, Va. this summer offer students opportunities to connect with alumni working in law, healthcare, government, policy and finance. The events take place in June and July and are sponsored by the Arts & Sciences Career Connections Committee.The Arts & Sciences Career Connections Committee was established in 2010 to create and…
The escalating tensions between police and the black community in the United States will be the subject of the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture, delivered by historian Jelani Cobb. The event will include a screening of Cobb’s PBS Frontline documentary “Policing the Police,” followed by a conversation with Russell Rickford, associate professor of history in the College of Arts …
Filiz Garip, professor of sociology, was awarded the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award for her work, “On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration.” The award, given by the Eastern Sociological Society, honors the memory of Mirra Komarovsky, a pioneer in the sociology of gender.“I am truly honored to receive this award,” Garip said, “which recognizes a book that shows the diversity of…
Fred Moten, professor of performance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and professor at the University of California-Riverside, will deliver the 2018 Invited Society Scholar Lecture at 4:30 p.m. March 21 in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The subject of Moten’s lecture will be “The Gift of Corruption.” The lecture is free and open to the public.“Fred Moten is…
For Arts & Sciences students looking to create memorable summer experiences, there are a variety of funding opportunities available to enable travel, research and study.Professor Edgar Rosenberg was a devoted teacher of comparative literature who was passionate about foreign language study. His support created the Edgar Rosenberg Travel Grant, awarded by the Department of Comparative…
Professional athletes have recently faced increasing criticism when they engage in political discourse, even though athletes have long had a history of political engagement. Dave Zirin, award winning sports editor for The Nation, will deliver the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture on “The History of the Activist Athlete” March 22 at 4:45 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin…
When NBA star Lebron James criticized President Trump on ESPN, Fox News host Laura Ingraham told him to “shut up and dribble.” Historian Amy Bass will discuss what happens when professional athletes speak publicly about political issues, in this year’s Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History, "Listen to Athletes for a Change: Race, Politics, and Sports," March 8 at 4:30 pm in Lewis Auditorium in…
Social activism efforts of professional athletes such as Chris Long, who recently donated his entire $2.25 million salary to support educational equality efforts, will be the focus of a Feb. 27 visit by former NBA player Etan Thomas. Thomas, author of “We Matter: Athletes and Activism,” will also discuss his new book at the free lecture at 4:30 p.m. in Kauffmann Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall…
Two undergraduate music students are having their pieces performed by major Cornell ensembles this semester.Chris Worden ‘19 had his arrangement of Cole Porter’s All of You performed by the Cornell Jazz Ensemble on Feb. 11. This was the first time that Worden, a music major, had one of his pieces performed in a concert, although he has had compositions performed by other students in classes.When…
Nine current or former Arts & Sciences faculty members have designed and will lead on-campus seminars or workshops this summer through Cornell’s Adult University (CAU).At CAU, participants take courses in subjects ranging from art, politics and literature to birding, biking and sailing. Courses offered by Cornell faculty this summer include “Not Just a Game: Sports and Politics in American…
Each Wednesday Ellen Abrams, a Ph.D candidate in science & technology studies, leads a class of high school students in New York City through workshops and discussions about writing, history and current events, as she works to introduce them to the landscape of higher education.The program is a collaboration between Cornell, University Heights High School and Power Writers, a NYC non-profit…
Climate science, theater, and civic engagement come together in an interdisciplinary setting in a new performing and media arts course that culminates in a multimedia performance this week.This Engaged Cornell project is presented in collaboration with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences climatologist Toby Ault, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, and Ithaca-based…
Xak Bjerken, professor of music, has released a downloadable disc of solo and chamber music composed by Steven Stucky, professor emeritus of music.The project, “Steven Stucky: Chamber Music” which was released by Open G Records on Nov. 10 includes premiere recordings of the Violin Sonata, Piano Sonata, Piano Quintet, and Piano Quartet, as well as the Chorale from “Album Leaves,” written for…
Roger Moseley, associate professor of music, has been presented with the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society (AMS) for his 2016 book “Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo.” Moseley received the honor on November 11 during the Annual Meeting of the AMS in Rochester.The award recognizes a musicological book of exceptional merit by a scholar who is…
J. Robert Lennon, professor of English, will argue for the benefits of the third person point of view during a Nov. 15 talk as part of the “In a Word” series from the Department of English and the creative writing program.Lennon, who says that the first person is often misused in American fiction, will give examples of the flexibility of third person narration during his talk, “Some Important…
More than 170 faculty, staff and students joined together Oct. 13 for the 25th Latino Unity Dinner, which included performances and poetry from students and student organizations, as well as a keynote address from Eduardo Peñalver '94, the Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School and an Arts & Sciences grad.A few years after its inception in 1987, the Latina/o Studies…
Vikram Gadagkar MS ’10, PhD ‘13 was recently awarded a prestigious five-year Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health.The award contains two components; two years of postdoctoral support and three years for faculty support. The objective of the program is to facilitate research independence earlier in an investigator’s career. During the first mentored phase of the…
Carlos Andrés Gómez, an award winning poet, actor, speaker, and writer from New York City, will be visiting Cornell for a public performance sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 2, in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorum (132 Goldwin Smith Hall).A former social worker and public school teacher, Gomez recently partnered with John Legend for “Senior Orientation,” a program to…
Each year, a group of students in the colleges of Arts & Sciences and Human Ecology have a special opportunity to interview with employers in New York City, thanks to efforts of the New York Recruiting Consortium. The consortium connects students to employers and sponsors an interview day in New York City during winter break.“We have a large number of students looking for smaller employers or…
An Oct. 20 lecture will kick off a new series on language and inequality co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Inequality and the departments of linguistics and sociology.Michel DeGraff, professor of linguistics at MIT, will present a talk, “Language, Education, and (In)equality in Haiti: Struggling through Centuries of Coloniality,” which will focus on linguistic inequality and the…
Sodalicium Loquentium Latine, Cornell’s new spoken latin club, held their inaugural meeting in September, bringing together individuals interested in learning and practicing speaking Latin. They discussed Ovid’s “Amores” in Latin and English.Nicole Marroquin ‘19 says she founded the club as a place “for people to have an outlet for creative expression in the form of art, in the midst of peers who…
Alumni, students, and Ithaca area community members will come together Oct. 19-21 for a weekend of reconnecting, celebrating and football during Homecoming 2017. The weekend is highlighted by many Arts & Sciences sponsored events.
Though not an official part of Homecoming, many alumni will start the weekend at the Voyager Celebration, 8 p.m., Oct. 19, Bailey…
Dan McCall, a beloved Cornell professor of American studies and creative writing, passed away in 2012, but his son Steven has just published his father’s memoir, “Boy on a Unicycle,” and will visit for a reading Oct. 23.Dan McCall, who taught at Cornell for 40 years, was the critically acclaimed author of 10 books of fiction and non-fiction, including “Triphammer,” “The Example of Richard Wright,…
Saida Hodžić, associate professor of anthropology and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies, was awarded the 2017 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize for her book, “The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs.” The award, given by the Association for Feminist Anthropology, is granted to a first book that embodies the theoretical rigor, ethnographic richness and advancement of feminist…
Julia Adolphe ‘10 is one of 19 recipients of the 2017 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The awards are given to concert music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a national competition. More than 500 entries were submitted to the competition in 2017.The competition, established in 1979, is named in honor of Morton Gould, a Pulitzer prize-winning…
Roald Hoffmann, Frank H.T Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Letters, was awarded the inaugural Primo Levi Prize from the German Chemical Society and the Italian Chemical Society in Berlin, Germany Sept. 10. The prize, named after the great Italian writer who also was a chemist, honors chemists who promote human rights and improve the dialogue between chemistry and society. Hoffmann received…
Morten Christiansen, professor of psychology, was recently elected as a Society Fellow by the Cognitive Science Society. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the cognitive science community. As one of nine new fellows elected in 2017, Christiansen is the first Cornell faculty to receive this honor, joining 143 others.The Cognitive Science Society was…
Russell Rickford, associate professor of history, was awarded the 2016 Hooks National Book award for his book “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination.” The award, given by the The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis, is granted to an author whose book “best furthers understanding of the American Civil Rights…
On Aug. 26, more than 45 participants — actors, dancers, directors, playwrights, stage managers, and technical crew — came together at the Schwarz Performing Arts Center to produce four plays and a dance in 24 hours during the annual Festival 24 event. The event, which originally involved only theater productions at its inception in 2008, took its current form in 2015 when it added film and dance…
Cornell Cinema’s diverse fall schedule includes a 3D movie extravaganza, four documentaries premiering in Ithaca, and an event Cornell Cinema director Mary Fessenden describes as “one of the most spectacular events [Cornell Cinema] has ever hosted in our near 50-year history.” All films are open to the public, with discounted admission for Cornell students, seniors and children.Thanks to…
CJ Chivers ‘87, senior reporter for The New York Times, was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for a piece that details the story of a Marine Corps veteran diagnosed with PTSD.Chivers’ feature, “The Fighter,” received the award “for showing, through an artful accumulation of fact and detail, that a Marine’s postwar descent into violence reflected neither the actions of a simple criminal nor a…
Three graduate students in the Department of Anthropology were recently named recipients of Engaged Graduate Student Grants for 2017. The grants were awarded to 16 graduate students across the Cornell community in various disciplines.Anthropology doctoral students Amir Mohamed, Elif Sari, and Mariangela Mihai were awarded grants of $15,000 each to further their projects. The grants provide…
