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Social sciences

Center for Social Sciences awards fall ’21 grants

11/17/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Ten Arts & Sciences faculty and numerous graduate students won awards from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences.

old photos of a woman and young boy — Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection, #8043. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library A photo of a young boy and a woman from the Loewentheil Collection

Student research

Library immersions deepen student research

11/17/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A doctoral student researching Black life in the U.S. after the abolition of slavery, Victoria Baugh was fascinated by the hundreds of studio portraits in the Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photography at Cornell University Library.

History

Prof. Tamika Nunley's book wins multiple prizes

3/23/2022 A&S Communications

… of Black Women Historians, awarded annually to the best book published in the preceding year on the subject of … book has also received the 2022 Pauli Murray Prize for best book in Black Intellectual History from the African …

Dark-skinned person cupping hands under a stream of water. — Photo by mrjn Photography on Unsplash

Africana Studies

Infrastructure bill comes amid all-time high distrust of water

11/16/2021 A&S Communications

Africana Prof. Jerel Ezell comments on Pres. Biden's infrastructure bill.

Distinguished Visiting Journalists

Journalists to discuss role of reporting in immigration debate

11/16/2021 A&S Communications

Three Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and authors will be on campus Dec. 1 for an event that will also be livestreamed on eCornell. Register now!

Science & Technology Studies

Student spotlight: Lissette Lorenz

11/15/2021 Cornell University Graduate School

Lissette Lorenz is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Miami, Florida.

two women looking at papers — Provided Soledad Chango speaking with students at the International Fair on Sept. 1.

Language

Quechua language instruction returns to Cornell

11/15/2021 Cornell Chronicle

The Quechua language returned to Cornell’s curriculum this fall after a 15-year hiatus, thanks to a group of students who organized to bring it back and an instructor who traveled to Ithaca from her home in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.

Siyu Huang holding a battery — Provided Siyu Huang, MS ’11, PhD ’13, MBA ’14, founder and CEO of Factorial Energy, with Factorial’s 40-amp-hour solid-state battery cell

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Electric uprising: Factorial Energy—new lightning, new bottles

11/12/2021 SC Johnson College of Business

Factorial Energy has unveiled a 40-amp-hour solid-state battery cell for electric vehicles.

Chinese President Xi Jinping standing at a podium with the US Seal on the front, with Joe Biden behind him and Hilary Clinton to his left dressed in a red pants suit. — Mark Stewart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Xi giving a speech at the U.S. Department of State in 2012, with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then Vice-President Joe Biden in the background. Seated in the front row is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Government

Contentious issues between U.S., China unlikely to be resolved by zoom call

11/15/2021 A&S Communications

Associate professor of government Allen Carlson comments on the scheduled meeting between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The cover of Trans Historical showing a person with long red hair and a mustache.

Humanities

New edited volume explores plurality of gender experiences

11/12/2021 A&S Communications

“The book is a collection of essays about trans, nonbinary and gender-complicated people across a broad geographic range, from Poland to France to early Colonial America, going all the way back to Byzantine and Ancient Roman writings.”