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History

In Bukovina, European empires built new worlds out of inherited materials

12/18/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The region never fit easily among its neighbors, as regimes including the Habsburg Empire and the Soviet Union tried to remake it in their image.

Awards

Weiss teaching awards honor 10 exceptional faculty

10/18/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Three A&S faculty members have been selected to receive Stephen H. Weiss Awards honoring excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring, President Martha E. Pollack announced Oct. 18.

Barbara C. Lust

Professor Emerita and Graduate School Professor
Asian Studies, Linguistics, Psychology

… and semantics are conducted. In addition to research on first language acquisition, research is also now being … Alzheimer's Disease are contrasted with the process of first language acquisition in the young child. Evidence is …

Transformative Humanities

Salvato on Woolf's "Orlando"

4/25/2016

Jim Self

Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Performing and Media Arts

… after with the Chicago Dance Troupe, where he performed and first taught dance at Columbia College/Chicago. An original … with the Chicago Dance Troupe , where he performed and first taught dance at Columbia College/Chicago. An original … , Dada ART Barking , Booda Fairyism , and staged the first gay wedding ceremony at NYC’s Lincoln Center ( Getting …

Moss E. Sweedler

Professor Emeritus
Mathematics

… Research Focus Algebra, algorithms First I worked in the area of Hopf algebras and wrote Hopf …

Orange red and white horizontal streaks of light under a dark blue sky, showing automobile traffic in motion at night — Ryan Young/Cornell University

Klarman Fellows

New Klarman Fellows to join the College of Arts and Sciences

2/4/2025 A&S Communications

… transformed the social space of music listening into a site for advancing racial justice, both locally and …

Gordon J. Stacey

David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences, CCAT Project Director
Astronomy, CCAPS, Physics

… Ade, P. A. R.; Tucker, C. E., ApJ 689, L109 (2008). “First Detection of the [OIII] 88 mm Line at High Redshifts: … Benford, J. G. Staguhn, & N., Fiolet, ApJ 724, 957 (2010) “First detections of the [NII] 122 µm line at z>0.04: …

people looking at a piece of wood — Ryan Young/Cornell University Brita Lorentzen ’06, Ph.D. ’15 (left), research associate and manager of the Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory, and Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classical Archaeology in the College of Arts and Sciences, examine wood in the belfry of St. James A.M.E. Zion Church in Ithaca.

Community collaborations

A 'freedom church' unearths its Underground Railroad history

12/1/2021 Cornell Chronicle

… on, because I had found something really big.” It was the latest find at an excavation site where community members … who spoke there in 1852, and possibly Harriet Tubman, who visited Ithaca several times, had family members in the area …

Five people standing in a line under a tree — Simon Wheeler for Cornell University The five 2024 Postdoc Achievement Award recipients, left to right: Jonathan Sogin, Ph.D. ’23; Andrew Orkney; Alexandra Easley; Reum Scott, Ph.D. ’19; and Sabrina Axster.

Graduate student honors

Five postdocs honored with achievement awards

9/23/2024 Cornell University Graduate School

… the way,” she said. “As a postdoc, I have tried to do my best to do the same for the students I work with. I am so …

Yu Wang

Assistant Professor
Science and Technology Studies

… chibanshe, 2021). Second author with Ping-Chun Hsiung (first author), “Unmasking China’s Great Leap Forward and … Nanfang ribao chibanshe, 2018). Jeffrey Pilcher (first author), Yu Wang, Jackson Guo, “‘Beer with Chinese …

Two people talking in a wooded setting — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Authors Michelle Cronin, left, and Tyler Hill are among the 14 authors from upstate New York participating in the Oñgwaga•ä’ Writers Workshop

Creative Writing Program

‘Our story’: Native American writers cultivate their craft

10/6/2022 Cornell Chronicle

… to poetry, memoir and the publishing process. In the first session, Joanie Mackowski , associate professor of … allows them the freedom and resources to do what they do best: write what calls to them.” Shared humanity The …

Medieval Studies

Medieval Studies Program celebrates 50th Anniversary

4/29/2016 Arts & Sciences Communications

… might also go to Europe and work on an archaeological site. The diversity of options has been part of our program … Andrew Dickson White, co-founder of the university and its first president. White hired a number of important …

Provided Film poster: Hunting Yellow Pigs

Mathematics

'Hunting Yellow Pigs' film shows a singular approach to math education

3/17/2026 A&S Communications

Cornell math professor Steven Strogatz appears in a new film, “Hunting Yellow Pigs,” that celebrates the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM) and its unconventional approach to math education. The Cornell Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences will host a screening with filmmaker Ming-I Huang on March 24 at 4 p.m. in Schwarz Auditorium, room 201 in Rockefeller Hall.

person holding glass to flame — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Karl Termini works with glass heated to 4,500 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, depending on the type of glass.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Glass blower crafts intricate creations for Cornell scientists

3/3/2022 A&S Communications

… securing a grant to support his workshop in just his first year here,” Milner said. On a typical day, 20 to 30 … works with students to design experimental apparatuses to best serve their needs.” Termini’s shop includes two …