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A scene from "Charlie Says" the movie showing Charles Manson
Cornell Cinema

Faculty, cinema collaborate to show films on Manson murders, gardens, Japanese pop culture

A&S Communications

… films like ‘Castle in the Sky,’ ‘Ghost in the Shell’ and ‘Your Name’ in the theater, the way most people would have … faculty introductions, guest filmmaker and musicians’ visits, and finding and booking the films, which come from … plant pathology classes also have the opportunity to earn credit by taking a trip to the cinema. Screenings of …

Physics

An Exciting Mysterious World—Spacetime

Cornell Research

Thomas Hartman, assistant professor of physics, studies high-energy theoretical physics. His goal, he explains in this article in Cornell Research, is to bring to light the fundamental properties of nature, which derive from the subatomic world of quantum physics.

Government

How Never Trumpers Fell in Line

New York Times

Former Congressman Steve Israel, director of the Cornell University Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, writes in the New York Times that he sees political rationalization at work among today's representatives.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Coates honored by American Chemical Society

Cornell Chronicle

Chemistry professor Geoffrey W. Coates has received the 2020 Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society

English

‘Thought-action figures,’ new media inform research, learning

Cornell Chronicle

Jon McKenzie, professor of practice in the Department of English, is working with area school teachers and their students to address issues meaningful to them and their communities, using strategic storytelling, a variety of media-making and participatory research.

Jewish Studies

Panel examines Jewish rescuers during the Holocaust

As a young child in World War II Poland, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann and members of his family spent 15 months hiding in an attic, kept safe from the Nazis by a Ukrainian couple who risked their own three small children to do so.Hoffmann’s life was spared, thanks to the courage and kindness of others.

Jewish Studies Program

Yiddish course offers ‘laboratory’ for studying cultures

Cornell Chronicle

"In the old world, Yiddish was the vernacular, the language of the everyday, the language of the home."

Alumni support

Passing it on: The values I learned at Cornell

A&S Communications

An alumna gives back to Cornell by working with other international students.

Academics

Four new minors now available to A&S students

A&S Communications

The new minors are offered in public service studies, media studies, migration studies and science communication and public engagement.

Society for the Humanities

Political theorist, feminist scholar to lecture Feb. 18

Image provided/ This image is based on archived work at maydayrooms.org from the Wages for Housework Campaign, a feminist movement of the 1970s. In the 1970s, what Marx and Engel satirized as the most “infamous proposal of the communists,” the abolition of the family, became the most scandalous demand of feminists.  

Government

Panel: Partisan politics, shifting powers shape impeachment

Cornell Chronicle

“We’ve reached Hamilton’s and Madison’s nightmare, in that the party system has taken over the separation of powers system.”

American studies

Garcia, Burrow receive inaugural faculty diversity award

Cornell Chronicle

Maria Cristina Garcia, the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Anthony Burrow, associate professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology, have won the inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service Through Diversity.

Earth-sized planets at the TRAPPIST-1 star
Astronomy

After dust-busting the cosmos, Spitzer telescope’s mission ends

Cornell Chronicle

The Spitzer Space Telescope – with its Cornell-developed infrared spectrograph instrument – has been peering through murky cosmic dust to study the distant heavens for 16 years. Originally scheduled to last 2.5 years, the mission officially will end Jan. 30.Spitzer was the final mission of NASA’s Great Observatories program. The infrared spectrograph portion of the mission ended in 2010.

History of Art & Classics

Professor wins art history book prize

A&S Communications

Benjamin Anderson's monograph “Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art” has been awarded the 2020 Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Academy of America, an award given each year for a distinguished book in the field of medieval art history. 

Performing and Media Arts

Spotlight: Victoria Pihl Sorenson

Cornell University Graduate School

Victoria Pihl Sorensen is a doctoral student in performing and media arts with a concentration on media and feminist studies. After earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and her master’s degree from the City University of New York Graduate Center, she chose to pursue a doctoral degree at Cornell due to its faculty and welcoming community.