After 25 years in Noyes Lodge, the Language Resource Center has a new mission and a new space on the ground floor of Stimson Hall. The center is celebrating with an open house Aug. 30 at the end of the International Fair in Uris Hall.“We want to give students more opportunities to practice their languages outside of the classroom by offering events, a central location with spaces for students to…
When the 11 students in PSYCH 4500, Psychology at the Sciencenter!, first walked into their classroom, instead of chairs they found a “maker” space: walls lined with shelves of crafts supplies like glue, string, foam board, nails, marbles, and the ever-versatile duct tape. Their first assignment: create a science demo based on a simple description.In groups, the students constructed a hot air…
Every summer for the last six years, A&S alum Hank Fessler ’77 welcomes a group of Cornell students to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where they join research labs and immerse themselves in a season of exploration about their future careers in medicine.Fessler, a professor of medicine, assistant dean for undergraduate medical education and director of the Fellowship Training…
… thesis on modern-day eugenics in the discourse of drug marketing to women. Outside of coursework, she participated … Poor also worked part-time at Obataimu, an ethical arts, fashion, and bookstore cooperative. A tailor’s workshop is … of the supply chain, undo the fragmentation of the fashion industry and allow the creators and customers to know …
Recent events have raised many questions about our country. Faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences are exploring those questions in their research and scholarship, and students have the opportunity to engage with their expertise through numerous courses this Fall relevant to recent events and our current national climate. Below is a sampling of some of those courses.ASRC 6011 The African…
Under sunny skies on Saturday, Aug. 19, incoming first-year students, transfer students, and their families gathered on the Arts Quad for a convocation ceremony. Rachel Bean, astronomy professor and the college’s new Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, welcomed students. She was followed by Gretchen Ritter ‘83, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, who offered those…
On the slopes of Mt. Aragats, the tallest mountain in Armenia, archaeologists are painstakingly uncovering the ancient past. From July 17-20, six Armenian girls got an insider’s view as participants in the pilot session of Camp Aragats.
The camp is the first programmatic initiative of the U.S.-based Aragats Foundation and its Armenian sister organization, the Aragats Cultural Heritage…
Students in the College of Arts & Sciences will benefit from impressive new faculty members, enhanced scholarship funding and innovative programming for first generation students as a result of recent alumni gifts.Alumni, parents and friends of the college came through with $5.26 million this year for the College’s annual funds, the culmination of over 4,000 gifts, topping the goal of $4…
For the past two years, Meera Kattapuram ’17 has been conducting research on infectious diseases and micronutrients in a Cornell lab, focusing especially on the role they play in the health of mothers and young children. This summer, she got a chance to see her research in action in an Ecuadoran hospital.Kattapuram, a biological sciences major in the College of Arts & Sciences, is a member of…
Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a project being spearheaded at Cornell, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create a database of fugitive slaves in North America, using information in “runaway” advertisements placed by slave owners.The ads, describing escaped slaves’ physical attributes, provide significant quantities of individual and collective…
Ten new Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech will work under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance technologies that promise to provide insight into how brains work, as well as strategies to fix them when they don’t.The fellowships are part of a multimillion-dollar seed grant from the Mong Family Foundation, through Stephen Mong ’92, M.Eng. ’93, MBA ’02, which launched…
Yimon Aye, a Howard Milstein faculty fellow and assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been honored by the Eastern New York Section of the American Chemical Society as the 2017 Buck-Whitney Award winner. Aye has been invited to give a talk at the awards ceremony Nov. 15 in Troy, N.Y.The Buck-Whitney Award recognizes original work in pure or applied chemistry and outstanding…
Milos Balac ’11 found out that his language skills in Serbian and French – as well as his time on the Cornell ski team and his American studies courses — have paid off handsomely so far in his career as a documentary filmmaker.Balac, a producer at Film 45 based in Santa Monica, is hard at work these days finishing up a project about Serbian tennis great Novak Djokovic.“This job is truly my dream…
Zhangmin Abigail Chen ‘19, a College Scholar focusing on government and China & Asia-Pacific studies, is pursuing her interests in international affairs and non-profit management as an intern at the Carter Center’s China Program this summer.The Carter Center, founded in 1982 by President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, is a nongovernmental organization commited to human rights…
The hometown of Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus, has held an event, with lectures and music, to commemorate Hoffmann’s 80th birthday, which was July 18.Hoffmann was born in 1937 in the small town of Zolochiv, Ukraine, formerly a part of Poland. Having survived the Holocaust, he came to the U.S. in 1949 and studied chemistry at Columbia and Harvard, where…
Colleagues are planning a symposium in August to celebrate the birthday of Jerrold Meinwald, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, who turned 90 in January. The symposium will take place during the meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology in Kyoto, Japan. Between 400-500 attendees are expected at the symposium, which include talks by chemical ecology researchers and a…
Six students are researching fencing, teaching English, exploring how regions recover from natural disasters and immersing themselves in Asian languages, thanks to grants from the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences.The summer study, research and service travel grants help students pay for travel and living expenses. At the end of the summer, students complete a…
Megan Zhang’s ’16 gap year working with families at a women’s and children’s shelter outside of Boston has opened her eyes to the diversity of experiences and situations that can lead someone to become homeless.
The 18-year-old mom who just arrived, the 46-year-old mom who’s been living at the shelter for three years, the undocumented moms and kids who venture out into the streets for fear…
Men continue to be much more likely to earn a degree in STEM fields than women, despite efforts made over the last few decades. New research from Cornell's Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) on fields of environmental study offers unexpected hope in closing this gender gap.In a study of nine million degree recipients in the United States between 2009 and 2014, Dafna Gelbgiser and Kyle…
Prize-winning French novelist Laurent Binet’s new book features a chapter on a fictional conference at Cornell, organized by none other than (the real) Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the College of Arts and Sciences.“The Seventh Function of Language” brings together everyone who is anyone in the world of critical theory, dead or alive,…
When Naomi Enzinna read a newspaper story that claimed Miami was developing its own dialect, she wanted to test out the theory for herself. Four years and a qualifying paper later, Enzinna’s research has found that Miami English does have some Spanish-like features. Her dissertation is focused on finding out how and why those variations occur.A doctoral student in linguistics, Enzinna is from…
Rebecca Macklin, a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Leeds, has received an All Disciplines Fulbright Award to undertake research at Cornell University. Macklin will spend a year as a Visiting Student Researcher under the supervision of Eric Cheyfitz, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters in the English Department in the College of Arts and…
Right after graduation every year, a group of Cornell students sets off for Madrid, Spain with Cornell professors for the six-week Summer in Madrid program.At the end of the six weeks, the changes in the students are tangible, say both students and professors. Some students decide to major or minor in Spanish; some are amazed by the history they see in Europe, having traveled outside the U.S. for…
“I see video games as literary texts — just as film, television, comics and books are literary texts,” said Christopher Lombardo ‘18, who is spending his summer doing research at the University of Michigan Computer and Video Game Archive. His research, which is funded by a grant from the Tanner Dean’s Scholars Program, will be the foundation of his honors thesis. “Like each of those narrative…
Sabrina Karim, a new assistant professor of government, has been awarded the Conflict Research Studies Best Book Prize for 2017 for her new book, “Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping: Women, Peace, and Security in Post-Conflict States” (Oxford University Press, 2017), co-written with Kyle Beardsley, Duke University. The prize honors research on conflict and peace that is “contemporary, exceptional,…
Gopher tortoises and blue jays… a vintage Army-issue shovel… sun and rain and wind: the hundreds of students who have gone on field courses through the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology over the last 50 years have memories as diverse as the ecosystems they studied. But there is one common thread that faculty hear about when they encounter alumni, from postdocs to members of…
Nine rising juniors from the College of Arts & Sciences have been chosen as new Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars.The Rawlings scholars program supports a select group of undergraduate students, from all colleges and many disciplines, by providing resources for and promoting sustained engagement in research in close relationship with faculty and other mentors.The…
On the famous list of the “161 Things to Do at Cornell” is spending a summer in Ithaca. From doing research with a professor to assisting with summer programs, students say spending a summer at Cornell can be a rewarding experience.“This is my second summer staying in Ithaca,” said Alice Jenkins ‘18. “I would absolutely recommend staying a summer in Ithaca. It’s the best time of year to explore…
Arts & Sciences student Emma Williams ‘19 is in Moshi, Tanzania for the summer studying the use of family planning among women of reproductive age. Williams, a biology and government double major, is also minoring in global health.“The majority of our academic time is spent collaborating with Tanzanian medical students on Moshi-specific case studies,” she said. “Studying abroad has enabled me…
Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences,elected president of the International Economic Association (IEA), began his three-year term on Friday, June 23. The IEA is a leading organization founded in 1950 for professional economists and seeks to shape global economic policy and research. Among IEA past presidents are…
Alejandro L. Madrid, professor of music, has been awarded the Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal.“This is the highest honor awarded by Britain’s foremost scholarly body in music studies,” said Steven Pond, associate professor and chair of music. “It is a rare honor, indeed.”The award, honoring Edward J. Dent, has been given annually since 1961 to a mid-career music scholar for their…
Students in the College of Arts & Sciences will have the opportunity to meet and network with alumni in a diverse array of career fields at a series of networking events this summer.The college’s Career Development Center and the Arts & Sciences Career Connections Committee have planned five events in New York City and Washington D.C. beginning June 19.“I wanted to see the paths that…
A Cornell researcher studying neural circuits that regulate hunger sensation and food intake has received a prestigious award from the Pew Charitable Trusts.Nilay Yapici, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior, Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Adelson Sesquicentennial Fellow has been named a 2017 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The award, given…
Faculty from Cornell Neurotech shared stories of technologies and tools they have developed in their first year of operation at a Reunion 2017 panel, “Unlocking the Brain: Cornell’s Search for the Key.”The June 9 discussion featured Joseph Fetcho, director of Cornell Neurotech and professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior; and Chris Xu, M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’96, the Mong Family…
This summer, two interns from the College of Arts & Sciences, Lala Xu ‘18 and Emily Bramhall ‘19, will assist in researching, writing and producing papers and reports on human well-being, freedom and opportunity for the Measure of America project. They will benefit from an Engaged Cornell grant, which will provide them with stipends to assist with the costs of living in Brooklyn over the…
*/Arts & Sciences student Robin Zhang ’18 has been named the inaugural Samuel R. Berger ’67 Intern at Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG), while the Samuel R. Berger National Leadership Scholars Fund will provide its inaugural scholarship aid beginning in Fall 2017. An accomplished expert in international relations and diplomacy, Samuel (“Sandy”) Berger served as White House national security…
The seven students who make up Cornell’s first Posse graduating class were honored at an event filled with tears, laughter and joy from their families, friends, mentors and admirers.
“I’ve met so many people who have changed my life,” said Chris Edo-Osagie ’17. “And the fact that I’ve made my family proud is something I will carry with me forever.”
On May 27, the day before graduation,…
“The Brink,” an audiobook by Austin Bunn, associate professor in performing and media arts, was honored June 1 at the 2017 Audie Awards in New York City as the winner in the short stories/collections category. Often referred to as the “Oscars of spoken word entertainment,” the Audie Awards are given out by the Audio Publishers AssociationThe written version of “The Brink” was published in 2015,…
Now in its 18th year, Cornell Cinema’s “Cinema Under the Stars” returns this summer with another great audience-selected line up.“Cornell Cinema's Summer Terrace Screenings are community events that bring everyone in Ithaca together,” said Yuji Yang ‘19, president of the Cornell Cinema Student Advisory Board. “It's wonderful to see students and residents gather under a beautiful night sky and…
During reunion weekend, alumni and others will have a chance to see the impact of some of Cornell’s work in the Auburn Correctional Facility during a panel discussion and screening of “Human Again,” a documentary produced by Bruce Levitt, professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts.The joint session with the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) and The Phoenix Players Theatre…
Producer Dan Cohen '05 cares deeply about the integrity of the projects he works on. And when he meets a potential director or screenwriter, he cares as much about whether they're someone he can be friends with as about their talent."You only want to develop a script with someone you want to go get beers with," Cohen says. "Because it is a long and challenging process that will ultimately require…
College of Arts and Sciences faculty members Roger Moseley and Lori Khatchadourian received the Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, and Margo Crawford received the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award at a May 27 trustee-faculty dinner that recognized universitywide teaching and advising and newly tenured faculty.
“These exemplary faculty have…
A $10 million challenge gift from Barton and Susan Winokur, both Class of ’61, is helping to launch a new fundraising campaign in the College of Arts & Sciences that will support the creation of 15-25 new endowed positions within the college over the next two years.The Winokur Future Faculty Initiative will enable the college to replace retiring faculty, retain stellar junior faculty, and…
“Death in the Afternoon,” a literary magazine launched this month, aims to feature the voices of students and non-students from across the globe and in any language. The magazine has an international, intercollegiate and interdisciplinary focus that will represent the intersection between different cultures, genres and mediums featuring diverse talents.“As comparative literature students, we all…
In the 1970s, politicians – and the public – interpreted the social movements, rising crime rates and economic downtown as proof that welfare programs didn’t work and certain marginalized groups were unfit for full citizenship. These attitudes were codified in a public policy of “getting tough” that echoes today in “law and order” political rhetoric.In her new book, “Getting Tough: Welfare and…
Arts & Sciences faculty and alumni will share their latest research on topics ranging from neuroscience to detective fiction to music composition to global financial policy during this year’s reunion weekend, June 9-11.The weekend will also feature the traditional breakfast with the dean, open houses to showcase the work and collections of various departments and plenty of opportunities for…
Charles Peck, a doctoral student in music composition, was one of seven emerging composers selected as participants in the Minnesota Orchestra’s 15th annual Composer Institute. Peck also recently was named the winner of the Boston New Music Initiative’s (BNMI) fifth annual Commissioning Competition.Peck was chosen from a field of 158 candidates for the Minnesota honor. He will be in Minneapolis…
Doctoral candidate Emiko Stock is one of 21 students to be named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow for 2017 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.Stock is studying socio-cultural anthropology in the Department of Anthropology. Her dissertation, “Touching History: An Anthropology with Images: Cham / Sayyids / Cambodia / Iran” explores how some Cham Muslims of…
Peter C. Hinkle, Cornell professor emeritus of biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, died May 12 in Ithaca of pancreatic cancer. He was 76.Widely acknowledged as a brilliant biochemist, Hinkle was an early adopter of a groundbreaking new approach to understanding the energy metabolism in cells. Though originally trained in classical biochemistry, Hinkle chose to do postdoctoral work in…
Ronald Harris-Warrick, the William T. Keeton Professor of Biological Sciences in the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, spoke to students April 12 as part of the Bethe Ansatz “Building a Life Worth Living” series. His lecture, “Just say know! Effects of psychoactive drugs on the brain,” was related to the same material he teaches in one of his classes, “Drugs and the Brain,” which is an…
