Nine teams at Cornell, including three from the College of Arts & Sciences, conducting research from Ithaca to India were recently awarded Undergraduate Engaged Research Programs grants, administered by Engaged Cornell.
The awards, new in 2016, fund research projects that will involve 34 faculty and staff members across 18 academic departments and units in all Cornell…
María Cristina García, the Howard A. Newman Professor in American Studies at Cornell, is the recipient of a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced.
The program supports established and emerging scholars, journalists and authors “whose work distills knowledge, enriches our culture and equips leaders in the realms of education, law, technology,…
Ten Cornell doctoral students will work with community partners in New York state and around the world on individual research projects supported by Engaged Cornell. The first Engaged Graduate Student Grants were announced by Vice Provost Judith Appleton.
The grants support and enhance partnerships while providing opportunities for Cornell doctoral students to conduct critical…
Students and faculty in the Cornell in Turin program were recognized recently for their work in Turin’s San Salvario neighborhood as part of their research studies of migration and services for immigrants in Italy.The national daily La Stampa, based in Turin and one of the oldest newspapers in Italy, featured the Cornell program’s study of community centers in San Salvario as models of…
Cuban poet and slave Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854) and his 1839 “Autobiografía de un esclavo,” the only slave narrative to surface in the Spanish-speaking world, are the starting point of an examination of 19th-century Cuban literature and social politics in Gerard Aching’s recent book, “Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba.”Published in 2015 by Indiana…
Students used Cornell’s photography and textile collections in creative ways as they developed research, critical thinking and writing skills in a pair of fall first-year writing seminars. Their course work culminated in the students curating two exhibitions on campus.In associate professor of history Judith Byfield’s seminar “Dress, Cloth and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora,” students…
Steven Stucky, a leading American composer who taught at Cornell for 34 years, died Feb. 14 at his home in Ithaca. He was 66.Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music Emeritus, joined the Cornell faculty in 1980. An important mentor to emerging composers for decades, he also was a prominent advocate for new music as artistic director of Ensemble X and host of the New York Philharmonic’s…
Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students from a variety of disciplines will share their research and work on Latin America at the inaugural conference of the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), Feb. 19 at the A.D. White House.“This is a way for everybody at Cornell to become familiar to what others at the university are doing in Latin American studies,” said conference organizer Wendy…
Enclosed in glass and welcoming the campus community into a large central atrium leading to Goldwin Smith Hall and the Arts Quad, Klarman Hall is the brand-new showpiece of Cornell’s central campus.The building at 232 East Ave. also is the new home of three units in the College of Arts and Sciences. Faculty and staff in the Department of Romance Studies finished moving from Morrill Hall into…
“Fiction can transform a particular history into art of universal significance,” author and Kappa Alpha Professor of English Robert Morgan said Nov. 19 in “History and Fiction: The Growth of an Artist – Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’,” a talk in Goldwin Smith Hall.Prior to its publication this year, “Go Set a Watchman,” written in 1957, was promoted as a sequel to Lee’s beloved “To Kill a…
As friends and scholars, doctoral students Elizabeth (Liz) Wayne and Christine (Xine) Yao found common ground amid their academic and cultural differences through a mutual fascination with myriad topics, from pop culture to how to survive in academia. And now, they discuss them for a worldwide audience every week.The African-American cancer scientist from Mississippi and the Chinese-Canadian…
Professor Emeritus of Music Marice Wilbur Stith, who as director of bands conducted the Cornell University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band over his 23-year Cornell career, died Oct. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center after a long illness. He was 89.A member of the Department of Music faculty as a professor of performance from 1966 to 1989, Stith also directed the Big Red Marching Band and taught brass…
American poet Robert Frost was not above toying with his friends, or his readers. And one of his best-known works may be his grandest joke of all, as detailed in a new book by David Orr, “The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong” (Penguin).“It’s an unbelievably popular poem. Hardly a graduation speech goes by that it is not quoted. But in fact,…
Following her inauguration as Cornell’s 13th president, Elizabeth Garrett moderated a faculty panel on the challenges inequality poses for democratic institutions Sept. 18 in Bailey Hall.“Income inequality has long plagued the developing world, and it is growing at an alarming pace in long-established economies and democracies,” Garrett said. “Income inequality in the U.S. has been increasing…
A memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium brought together much of what M.H. “Mike” Abrams cherished – poetry, Elizabethan music, family, friends and colleagues.Abrams, who died in April at 102, was “one of the greatest professors in Cornell’s history and certainly one of its most beloved,” said Jonathan Culler, Abrams’ successor as the Class of 1916 Professor of English.“Mike spent…
A first-generation science and engineering student while at Cornell, the late Stanford H. Taylor ’50, Chem.Eng. ’51, considered the humanities essential to a well-rounded education.Taylor, who died in 2010, and his wife, Jo Ann, supported humanities initiatives at Cornell including endowing the department chair of the Sage School of Philosophy in 2007. The Taylor family is continuing their legacy…
Engaged Cornell has awarded its inaugural Engaged Curriculum Grants to 18 projects initiated by faculty across the university. The grants, totaling $930,299, support work that places community-engaged learning at the heart of the Cornell student experience.One such project is a cross-disciplinary minor in crime, prisons and justice. Students will take five courses in the new minor and will serve…
First-year students arriving on campus this week are members of Cornell’s most racially diverse incoming freshman class since the university began keeping records on race in the early 1980s.Of the 3,219 students in the Class of 2019 enrolling this fall, a record number are students of color – 1,488, or 46.2 percent; and a record number of freshmen self-identify as underrepresented minority…
Graduate student Tonia Ko’s career as a young composer and artist has hit a new level, with several recent international honors, concert commissions and performance premieres, including a piece performed on bubble wrap.Ko, 26, was one of nine recipients of the 63rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards, held May 18 in New York City. The winners ranged in age from 14 to 26.“It’s something I applied…
Growing up in Ethiopia in the early 1980s and coming to the United States as a young teenager in 1989, Dagmawi Woubshet witnessed unprecedented expressions of mourning and loss in both countries in response to the AIDS crisis.Woubshet, associate professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, analyzes these cultures of mourning in “The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in…
