A U.S. national security advisor is expected to meet with a top Chinese diplomat in the first high-level talks between the two countries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began. The meeting comes as Russia has allegedly asked China for military and economic aid – a claim both deny.
Allen Carlson, associate professor of government and an expert on China, says the issue that matters most…
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New York Baroque Dance Company dancers Julia Bengtsson and Matt Ting performing in Opera Lafayette’s production of Venus and Adonis.
An upcoming performance of 18th century opera will showcase the talents of dancers, musicians and artists from New York City, Cornell and across the state, as well as mark the retirement of Rebecca Harris-Warrick of the music department.
“The Pleasures of the Quarrel: Three Parisian Operatic Hits from the Contested Season of 1753” is scheduled for 3 p.m. March 27 in Bailey Hall and a…
Russia continued its invasion of Ukraine this week, and disrupted efforts by Ukraine to evacuate citizens from areas where the conflict is most deadly.
Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics at Cornell University and Corliss Page Dean Fellow at the Hoover Institution, is an expert in military strategy.
Strauss says: "In trying to understand Putin and the subject of war crimes…
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As casualties mount in the war waged by Russia against Ukraine, including from the bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol on Wednesday, leaders in the U.S. and Europe are forced to consider the scale of Russia’s aggression and whether it constitutes war crimes.
Oumar Ba, assistant professor of government at Cornell University, studies the international criminal justice system and is…
To celebrate its 50th birthday this year, diacritics:A Review of Contemporary Criticism, has launched an anniversary blog series. Board members sent an open call for submissions to the diacritics blog to former contributors, authors, and editors alike.
“The idea was to get people who have contributed to diacritics in the past to talk about their experience with the journal,…
Mutating viruses, nuclear fusion, quantum computing –scientific intricacies seem to make headlines daily, yet successfully communicating them to a general audience can be difficult. On March 15, award-winning science journalist Natalie Wolchover, Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts and Sciences, will offer a master class on “Bringing Science to Life Through…
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Karl Termini works with glass heated to 4,500 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, depending on the type of glass.
Karl Termini’s worktable holds pieces of glass, metal and rubber, from glass tubes and pipettes to flasks, funnels and columns. Some are intricately crafted together in systems that are headed to research spaces in Baker Lab. Others are works in progress.
Next to it all is a stack of research papers. And somewhere in the office is his advanced organic chemistry textbook; he’s studying…
A letter signed by 163 Nobel Prize laureates, and drafted by Cornell Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, was released March 1, condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine and expressing support for the Ukrainian people and the country.
“In a move that recalls the infamous attack of Nazi Germany on Poland in 1939 and on the Soviet Union in 1941, the government of the Russian…
The College of Arts & Sciences is preparing for this year’s Giving Day, Wednesday, March 16 — a day to show your support for our faculty and students. We hope you’ll join in the fun!
Last year 1,642 donors joined together to raise more than $1.25 million for the College on Giving Day. This year, we have a goal of raising $1.3 million from 1,750 donors.
Your gift allows the College to…
Social media companies are exploring how to counter misinformation related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Twitter just announced it will begin labeling content from Russian state-affiliated media websites.
Sarah Kreps, professor of government and international relations and the director of the Cornell Tech Policy Lab at Cornell University, studies the weaponizing of information and…
A new scholarship for first-generation undergraduate students has been established in the name of beloved government professor Isaac Kramnick. With contributions from his family, former students and colleagues, the endowment will support students beginning this fall.
Kramnick, who came to Cornell in 1972, died in December 2019. He was associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from…
Ever wondered how love played out in the ancient world? Or what kind of influence mothers had over the leaders of the Roman Empire?
These questions and more will be answered in the fourth season of “Antiquitas: Leaders and Legends of the Ancient World,” a podcast from Barry Strauss, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, in the Departments of History and Classics in the…
As Cornell Cinema announces its spring lineup of films and events, it’s also buoyed by a recent grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), from a fund to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.
Following New York State’s $105 million investment in the arts for fiscal year 2022, NYSCA has awarded more than $80 million since June 2021.
"The arts have…
The Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity has announced its calendar of events for Spring 2022, with a number of talks open to the public.
Christopher Csíkszentmihályi, associate professor of information science, will offer a talk “Life in the Slash” at 5 p.m. Feb. 16 in 132 Goldwin Smith Hall. He is the founder of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, the MIT Media…
A group of graduate students from Cornell is collaborating with students across the country to create a scholarly podcast focused on issues of diversity in archaeology.
SAPIENS Talk Back launched its first two episodes in January and February and is planning to release a new episode every other week. The episodes include an in-depth discussion with guests from the SAPIENS podcast the week…
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Solina Kennedy '19, left, interviews Jane-Marie Law
When Solina Kennedy ’19 lay on the ground at Greensprings Natural Cemetery in Newfield, she thought it was indeed a place that could “cradle her bones.” So did Jane-Marie Law, her professor, who each year takes members of her Religion and Ecological Sustainability class to visit the cemetery as part of their research on the environmental impacts of burial practices.
Kennedy’s experience in…
A new Cornell major in cognitive science was approved by New York State last month, allowing students in the College of Arts & Sciences to combine their interests in philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics and neurobiology and behavior.
“There’s an impressive history of study in this area at Cornell,” said Shaun Nichols, professor of philosophy in the College of Arts &…
Morten H. Christiansen, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Founded in 1742 with the purpose of strengthening the position of science in Denmark as well as promoting interdisciplinary understanding, the Academy has approximately 250 Danish and 250 foreign…
Cornell will celebrate the birthday of alumna and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison MA ’55 from 3-5 p.m. Feb. 18 with a screening of the film “The Foreigner’s Home” (2017), followed by a roundtable discussion. Both events are virtual, free and open to the public. Sign up here.
"The Foreigner's Home” explores Morrison's artistic and intellectual vision through "The Foreigner's Home," her 2006…
From cell-sized robots to quantum computers to the manipulation of human genes, the Arts Unplugged: Science of the Very, Very Small event on March 9 will explore the nanoscale and quantum innovations shaping our future.
Presented by the College of Arts and Sciences, the virtual event will include short talks by and conversations with some of Cornell’s top scientists and humanists, including…
Timothy Murray, professor of comparative literature and literatures in English, has been elected chair of the board of directors of Humanities New York (HNY), a nonprofit humanities council founded in 1975 that supports and advocates for public humanities across the state.
Humanities New York is the sole statewide partner of and is supported by funding from the National Endowment for the…
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COULD students work together during their fall 2021 orientation.
A new organization, founded by students in the College of Arts & Sciences, offers support and guidance for students who want to translate their research at Cornell into projects that will benefit their hometowns.
Cornell Origins Urban Life Development (COULD) was founded by seniors Eric Kohut and Erika Gonzalez under the guidance of Professor Pilar Parra and with support from the David M…
"When the night of our escape came, I laid on the ground next to my sister wide awake, waiting to hear the seven knocks that would signal our time of departure. I laid there and prayed. I prayed that my sister and I would be free at last, together, as my mother wished for us.”
So begins the story of Gloria Jones, a fictional freedom seeker whose story is one of many that can be heard on…
Alumnus Dexter Thomas PhD ’20 was recently honored with an Emmy for his reporting as an on-camera correspondent for VICE News Tonight.
The honor covers a series of stories, “American Uprising,” that he and his colleagues put together focused on the protests in 2020 following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Thomas, who focused on Asian studies at Cornell, said the stories…
China claims the U.S. plans to pay athletes to 'sabotage' the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Sarah Kreps, professor of government and international relations at Cornell University, studies the weaponizing of information and disinformation. She says the credibility of these claims to the American public doesn’t matter to the Chinese government.
“Anyone familiar with the U.S. political system…
A new Silbermann piano has joined the instrument collection at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
The piano, which has a hammer action that could produce gradations of loud and soft, was invented in the late 17th-century by the Florentine instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori, who lived from 1655-1731. The Cornell addition is modeled after a piano created in 1749 by Gottfried…
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Roman Emperor at the Summer Garden
The Russian government said this week that the U.S. rejection of demands over Ukraine has left “little optimism” for a resolution of the crisis. Tensions have soared with Russia over concerns that Moscow is planning to invade Ukraine.
Barry Strauss, an expert in military strategy, says Vladimir Putin’s goal is to break NATO, and this is his moment.
“Vladimir Putin is a shrewd, ruthless…
The E.P.A.'s announcement that it will bolster enforcement and monitoring of air and water quality in disadvantaged communities misses some important points, says Jerel Ezell, professor of Africana studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. An expert in health disparities and social inequality in post-industrial communities, Ezell says the E.P.A.’s top-down enforcement policies don’t…
The Biden Administration appears on the cusp of sending American troops to NATO allies in the Baltics and Eastern Europe as tensions mount with Russia over concerns Moscow is planning to invade Ukraine.
Sarah Kreps, John L. Wetherill Professor and chair of government in the College of Arts & Sciences, focuses her research on the intersection of international politics, technology…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promised action on voting rights legislation this week, setting a deadline of Jan. 17 before pursuing procedural changes that may include altering the filibuster.
David Bateman, professor of government at Cornell University, is an expert on congressional politics and author of the book, “Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction.”…
An interdisciplinary seminar in the fall semester took students from Ithaca to New York City to explore African American heritage sites and the people whose work keeps this history alive.
For Nia Whitmal, a doctoral student in anthropology, the course, “Black Memory Workers and their Spatial Practices: Explorations on African American Heritage Spaces in New York City,” allowed her to see the…
… fields within the College of Arts and Sciences. The Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities will … Tanner Dean of Arts & Sciences. “We are grateful to the Zhu family for their gift responding to the pressing need to … – have further elevated their stature and impact. Jonathan Zhu, J.D. ’92, and Ruby Ye, M.S. ’90, Ph.D. ’92, created the …
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Peter & Phyllis Webb were born enslaved and brought to the Town of Caroline as children. They married in 1819. Peter purchased his freedom in 1818 for $350; Phyllis remained enslaved until New York abolished slavery in 1827. Their descendants still live in Tompkins County.
“In 1850, the federal census recorded 19 black residents in the Town of Caroline in Tompkins County.” So begins Ethan Dickerman’s essay about the Tompkins County Rural Black Residents Project, a website he created that details where Black residents in the county lived from 1820 to 1870.
Dickerman, a master’s student at the Cornell Institute for Archaeology & Material Studies who focuses on…
The Board of Trustees for the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature has announced the 2021 shortlist for the prize.
“The quality of work submitted and breaking of geographical barriers to take literature work beyond African borders is a strong statement that African literature continues to grow dramatically in quantity and in recognition,” said Abdilatif Abdalla, chairman…
An upcoming book by a Cornell doctoral student explores a new field of study related to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, typically referred to as drones, in warfare.
“Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society” (Routledge, 2021) edited by Paul Lushenko, Srinjoy Bose and William Maley, will be released Dec. 29.
Much of the current literature on…
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Seal of the International Court of Justice.
The International Court of Justice ordered Azerbaijan on Tuesday to prevent and punish acts of vandalism and desecration affecting Armenian cultural heritage sites in the region.
Professors Adam Smith and Lori Khatchadourian have used high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor and document endangered and damaged cultural heritage in the South Caucasus. Their…
Cornell BrAIn, initiated and led by the College of Arts & Sciences, will host a two-day symposium Dec. 9-10, bringing together innovators in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and neuroscience to explore the connections being forged between neurotechnology, deep learning, natural intelligence and AI.
The symposium will be from 9 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. and is open in-person to the Cornell…
In Honduras, Sonia Nazario met 10- and 11-old boys whose friends were murdered when they refused to join a gang and young girls who were forced to become girlfriends of gang leaders or watch their families killed. In Mexico, she met Enrique, a 16-year-old Honduran boy who risked his life to try to join his mother in the U.S.
“If your house is on fire, you’re going to run,” Nazario said of her…
The music department in the College of Arts & Sciences has joined with student groups Jazz+, Just About Music (JAM), the Cornell Concert Commission (CCC) and the Slope Day Board to create the inaugural edition of the Big Red Idol competition.
Big Red Idol is a multi-phase “Battle of the Bands” competition in which student groups will audition and participate in a live competition, judged…
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Amaya Garnenez works with Lejla Camdzic, right, in the Stache Lab.
Applications are now open for the new Nexus Scholars Program, which connects and supports undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences with opportunities to work side by side with Cornell faculty from across the College over the summer on frontline research projects.
Open to first-year students, sophomores and juniors, the program also includes professional development…
For your reading pleasure, we gathered 21 recommendations from faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences for the best books and poetry to read in 2022. Enjoy!
Anindita Banerjee, associate professor, Department of Comparative Literature
My recommendation would be Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel “We.” Written in Russian in 1921, first published in English in New York City in 1924, and re…
Students in 20 businesses pitched their ideas to 150 Cornell alumni, investors and friends during the eLab pitch night Nov. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City.
The night gave students one of the first opportunities to share their ideas since they were chosen for eLab in September. Their ideas ranged from home monitoring to nursing shortage solutions to astronomical tourism.
“I think the…
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Adrian Lee '22, left, and Mar’Quon Frederick '22, right, move furniture from Balch Hall into trucks to be taken to homes involved in the Sunflower Housing Initiative.
Research from a team of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty and students provided key insights to Tompkins County legislators as they recently approved funding for a new housing program to help formerly incarcerated people.
Two houses of the Sunflower Housing program, a collaboration between Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources of Tompkins County (OAR); Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services…
The inaugural Einstein Foundation Berlin Award for Promoting Quality in Research by the Einstein Foundation has been awarded to Paul Ginsparg, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of information science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, for his work in developing arXiv.org, the first platform to make…
Three professors in the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences have been elected fellows of the American Physical Society (APS): Kyle Shen, Kin Fai Mak and Lawrence Gibbons.
The APS Fellowship Program recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise in physics research, important applications of physics, leadership in or service to physics…
Garrett Emmons '23 and Hannah Master '23 have each been awarded a Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship worth $5,000 to study and conduct research in Italy and Israel, respectively.
Emmons, a Classics and Economics double major, will participate in the Marzuolo Archaeological Project investigating the rural craft site of Podere Marzuolo in southern Tuscany (Italy), which was occupied between the…
A new study shows more U.S. adults who do not already have children are saying they are unlikely to ever have them — findings that could draw renewed attention to the risks of declining birthrates for industrialized nations.
Vida Maralani is an associate professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences whose research is distinctive for bringing demography to bear on the study of…
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Tijuana border wall.
President Joe Biden will meet Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the White House this week to discuss the continued flow of migrants over the U.S.-Mexico border, trade, labor and other issues.
Gustavo Flores-Macías, associate professor of government in the College of Arts & Sciences and the former director of public affairs in Mexico…
Although Molly O’Toole ’09 says she has “the best job in the world” as an immigration and national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times, she also admits it’s been quite a while since she’s written a happy story.
O’Toole, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts & Sciences this semester, shared career advice, political insights and anecdotes from her…
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Students in the class Elements of Music (Music 1101) listen to A.D. White Professor-in-Large Wynton Marsalis (left) Nov. 2 in Lincoln Hall.
Adedayo Perkovich ’25 felt a little intimidated when she saw that Wynton Marsalis’ chair had been placed right next to hers on stage during their Monday rehearsal.
“Mr. Marsalis has been a household name in my family since I was really little,” says Perkovich, principal oboist in the Cornell Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Wind Symphony. “I grew up hearing his music and talking…
