… June 12, at the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library . The first section of the exhibit, “Precious Scraps: Toni … (College of Arts and Sciences), and students in a first-year writing seminar, “Craft Culture: Craft, Art, and …
… disciplines about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. … disciplines about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. Featuring audio essays written and recorded … experience with disability began early: at age 16 I got my first job as a psychiatric attendant in a hospital for …
… The first installment of the Creative Writing MFA program’s … from her poetry and Remy Barnes read fiction during the first readings Oct. 5 from 6-7 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books, …
… In 2015, "A Brief History of Seven Killings" made James the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize for … James’s vaulting ambition and prodigious talent.” James’ first novel, "John Crow’s Devil," was initially rejected by …
… and academic contributions of Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American to receive a doctorate from a U.S. … establish a chapter of the Bouchet Society, inducting its first members in 2006. Read the story on the Cornell …
… '17, Information Science major, Business minor When I first entered Cornell as a freshman in the fall of 2013, I … let me take you on a little trip. As a freshman, one of the first classes I took was called SOC 3010: Evaluating …
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Carley Robinson ’20 is directing the play “Fertile Grounds” for Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble.
… and culminates in public performances and dialogue. First-year students from the College of Arts and Sciences’ … project to document the development process. “This is our first Black, Indigenous and people of color-only production …
… published July 26 in American Naturalist, shows for the first time that some frogs hide eggs on land to reduce … climate change or habitat disturbance, the species that go first are the ones that are more specialized. They have …
… & Sciences and was set on becoming a medical doctor. My first semester, I took the famously large Intro to … and learned about the mechanisms of development. Within the first two weeks of class, Mike advertised research assistant …
More than 50 years after the first ever purely jazz program headlined by Dizzy Gillespie and his 18-piece orchestra made an impression on Vincent Rogers '49 and fellow jazz enthusiasts at Cornell, the visit by Wynton Marsalis to Cornell last spring had a similar impact on this generation of young musicians.A Cornell Alumni Magazine story discusses the history of jazz at Cornell, and the musicians who've passed through.
Scientific explanations can at times feel dull and impenetrable, a frustration shared by anyone who has sat through a high school science lecture. But a group of Cornell alumni thinks communicating the joys of science can be exciting, and they've launched a YouTube series with the conviction that science can be edgy, informative and far from boring.
… Banerjee was particularly frustrated when writing her first book, “We Modern People: Science Fiction and the … includes 18 stories, all translated into English for the first time, spanning pre-revolutionary works of the 1890s, …
… about having an accent – so I didn’t raise my hand for the first month or two. Then one day I raised my hand because I … to make a decent argument. In the next class, one of the first things he did was talk about how brave he thought I …
