As a first-generation college student, I have found it exciting to contextualize Cornell’s historical impact and gain a general sense of how universities came to be and what they mean today. Taking the course The First American University (AMST 2001) and, the following year, serving as the undergraduate teaching assistant for it, has allowed me to see Cornell as more than merely an institution.
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Corey Ryan Earle ’07 began teaching the Cornell history course The First American University (AMST 2001) in spring 2011.
When Corey Ryan Earle ’07 began teaching the Cornell history course The First American University (AMST 2001), he had several goals: to give Cornell students a deep understanding and shared appreciation for Cornell history; to explore the university’s pioneering “firsts” in U.S. higher education; and to know more about its most notable people, traditions and legacies.
But he didn’t anticipate…
Director Robert H. Lieberman ’62 takes viewers on a journey into the vast and little-known country of Mongolia in his latest film, “Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan,” in a one-week online sneak peek beginning Oct. 16. Cornell Cinema and Cinemapolis of Ithaca are presenting the advance showings, ahead of the film’s international release. The film will be available for two-day rental, for…
Already scheduled to take part in Reunion weekend, Sharice Davids, J.D. ’10, was particularly pleased to join in the conversation on diversity and inclusion given the events of recent weeks. “I’m glad we’re choosing to open our conversation with the outrage and heartbreak we’re feeling right now,” said Davids, who in 2018 became the first LGBT Native American elected to Congress. “One thing we…
While physically gathering for Reunion was not possible this time around, a silver lining of this year’s virtual celebration was that alumni who may not typically make it back to campus – from as far away as Japan and New Zealand – were able to participate. Nearly 10,500 Cornellian households joined Virtual Reunion 2020, June 5-6. Content has been viewed by alumni from six continents and 77…
A determined group of Cornellians in and with connections to China has been helping to provide crucial equipment and supplies for medical professionals at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City and Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. To date, the efforts of these Cornell alumni, parents and friends have helped source and deliver more than 19,600 N95 respirator masks, 94,000 surgical and face masks…
Taryn Bauerle had a problem.
Bauerle, associate professor of horticulture in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS), studies how root systems respond to thirst. It’s a critical area of research: Better understanding roots will help breed new drought-resistant crops, which are sorely needed to meet the global challenges of climate change, food…
I am inspired daily by the scholarly work of our graduate students. Their innovations and intellectual energy are vital to Cornell’s research productivity. Their inquiry and scholarship span the globe, tackling topics from using the human body’s own immune response to fight diseases such as osteoarthritis (Tibra Wheeler, biomedical engineering) to gene sequencing grapevine diseases to improve…
This Ezra series profiles recently hired faculty members across Cornell’s colleges, schools and units. In their own ways, these researchers, scholars and teachers embody the university’s creative and collaborative vitality.
Shaun Nichols: Using the tools of psychology to explore philosophical problems
People everywhere and in every age have encountered fundamental questions: What is right?…
Last year, Jenna Robinson ’19 was a communications major and student technical assistant at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Now she’s an associate product marketing manager at YouTube in San Francisco. Sofia Keane ’19 was an industrial and labor relations major while working at Einaudi’s front desk, on the first floor of Uris Hall, for three academic years. Now she designs…
This column by Michael Fontaine, professor of classics and Cornell’s associate vice provost for undergraduate education, appears in this month's Ezra Magazine.There’s a great story from the ancient world. As Cicero tells it, it goes like this:When Hercules was approaching maturity, which is the time selected by nature for choosing the road in life one must travel, he sought out an isolated place…
Five Cornell alumni won congressional races in the Nov. 6 midterm election, including Sharice Davids, J.D. ’10, Democrat, who won in Kansas’ 3rd District.Davids is the first openly gay Kansan elected to Congress, and she, along with Debra Haaland, (D-New Mexico), also elected Nov. 6, are the first two Native American women elected to Congress. After completing her degree at Cornell Law School,…
When Jordan Fabian ’09 walks the halls of the White House, he always has three questions in his mind, just in case President Donald Trump happens to pass him in the hallway.Fabian, White House correspondent for The Hill, says you never know when the president might open a door or peek into a room, and you always have to be prepared.“With the Obama administration, the way we did our jobs was…
Rosa Ficek ’03 and her students were heavily into their research on the impact of invasive species on their home island of Puerto Rico when Hurricane Maria struck last fall.So Ficek, an associate researcher at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, put that work aside to lead her students on a more urgent project – studying the politics of infrastructure and the rebuilding of the island.Ficek,…
