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Images, most of them black and white, hung on a white museum wall — David O. Brown/Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Works in 'Between Performance and Documentation'

History of Art and Visual Studies

Exhibit, symposium consider art ‘Between Performance and Documentation’

11/9/2023 A&S Communications

Live events Nov. 16-17 will illuminate questions about performance, photograph and video – and the complex relationship between the three – posed in a current Johnson Museum exhibition.

Community outreach

Talk to consider roots of antisemitism, racism, Islamophobia

11/8/2023 A&S Communications

A Nov. 16 talk sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts and Sciences will shed light on the history of hate movements in the U.S.

Government

Looking ahead: State elections ‘not always great predictors’ of what’s to come

11/8/2023 A&S Communications

Virginia voters flipped the House of Delegates to Democratic control, but this is not necessarily an indication of what’s to come nationally in 2024, says David Bateman.

Africana Studies and Research Center

Riché Richardson receives literary society award

11/7/2023 A&S Communications

"Emancipation's Daughters" earned the 2022 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for Southern Literature.

Movie screen outdoors, showing a black and white still of Jimmy Stewart, with red-lit windows behind it. — Joe Wilensky/Cornell University An outdoor showing of the classic Notorious, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.

Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema still lights up the silver screen

11/7/2023 Cornellians

After more than a half-century in the Straight, the Hill’s iconic movie venue remains a film fan’s delight.

Clear jar with a brain inside, with a person behind it — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Curator Tim DeVoogd keeps one of the brains in his office.

Psychology

Brains! Collection is a (slightly spooky) artifact of an earlier era

10/31/2023 Cornellians

Now overseen by the psychology department, the vintage cerebra draw many a visitor to the second floor of Uris Hall.

Bright yellow umbrella held by a person wearing a white sweater. It's not raining. — Nathan Anderson/Unsplash

Philosophy

Struggling with sarcasm: Cornell expert on why Musk’s Grok chatbot isn’t funny

11/7/2023 A&S Communications

… Musk has introduced “Grok,” an artificially intelligent chatbot, for some users of X. The billionaire suggests the … the question already knows that a publicly-accessible AI bot won’t provide the secrets to cocaine production.” For … with sarcasm: Cornell expert on why Musk’s Grok chatbot isn’t funny …

Student stories

Rediscovering self-fulfillment during a leave

11/6/2023 A&S Communications

Through hosting a talk show and traveling around the Middle East, An Le ‘25 relearned the value of passion, exemplifying that the path to success is not homogenous.

Scholarship and teaching

Book reexamines scholarship, teaching in the era of COVID-19

11/2/2023 A&S Communications

Three years after the disruptions of 2020, teaching and research continue to be immensely different from pre-pandemic times, according to scholar Debra Castillo.

Illustration of a tree, a dinosaur and a bird

Astronomy

Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth

11/2/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Telescopes could better detect potential chemical signatures of life in the atmosphere of an Earth-like exoplanet more closely resembling the age the dinosaurs inhabited than the one we know today, Cornell astronomers find.

Cornell campus seen from above in autumn, with Cayuga Lake in the distance

Excellence in teaching

Weiss teaching awards honor exceptional faculty

11/2/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Three A&S faculty members are recipients of 2023 Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Awards, which honor a sustained commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students.

People in an audience, smiling — Cornell University file photo A. R. Ammons in 1998

Poetry

A. R. Ammons Reading Series: Reviving a beloved tradition

11/1/2023 A&S Communications

Over two decades since Ammons’s passing, an open mic tradition is being revived thanks to a gift from his student Beverly Tanenhaus ’70.

Philosophy

Apocalypse debate set for Nov. 9

10/30/2023 A&S Communications

Five professors will argue for the importance of their disciplines during the Logos Philosophy Debate Club’s annual debate.

Historical black and white image of a young man reading — Provided James John

History

James John, medieval historian, dies at 95

10/31/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A specialist in the study of Latin manuscripts and the history of universities, John was a part of the Cornell community for more than 50 years, teaching medieval intellectual history, historiography and paleography – the study of historical writing systems and manuscripts.

Physics

Bethe Lecture: Testing space propulsion on Earth

10/31/2023 A&S Communications

On Nov. 15, physicist and engineer John Foster will discuss the challenge of testing high power electric propulsion on the ground.

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