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Morrison's son film poster
Celebrating Toni Morrison

Morrison’s son visits campus for film screening

A&S Communications

The son of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, will visit campus Nov. 9 for a film screening and discussion of “The Foreigner’s Home,” a documentary based on Morrison’s monthlong guest-curated 2006 series of cultural events at the Louvre.

A multi-colored image of the Crab Nebula
NASA Goddard Crab Nebula
Astronomy

Cornell faculty contribute to Astro2020 decadal survey

A&S Communications

A quarter of the faculty from the Department of Astronomy participated in the newly released decadal survey sponsored by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Air Force.

Princess Mako
History

Princess Mako of Japan's commoner wedding suggests sexism will doom the royal family

Kristin Roebuck, assistant professor and Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, writes in this piece that legal reforms initiated under U.S. military occupation after World War II shut the door to Japan's Princess Mako and other imperial women’s claims to lifelong royalty.

Ethiopia is highlighted in green on a map of the African continent.
Groubani at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons Ethiopia highlighted on map of African continent.
Government

Mass atrocities in Ethiopia could get worse as federal state loses ground

A&S Communications

Political scientist Oumar Ba comments on the escalation of the yearlong war in Ethiopia.

Image of blue lines representing data
Science and Technology Studies

Big data can render some as ‘low-resolution citizens’

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers used India’s biometrics-based individual identification system to examine how the system works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.

people sitting around a table
Cornell Rare and Manuscript Collection Jennie Farley, an early director of the Women's Studies Program, sits at a table with students circa 1970s.
Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

‘Still a long way to go:’ Looking back on the start of women’s studies at Cornell

A&S Communications

As Cornell's women's studies program celebrates its 50th anniversary this year – along with the 30th anniversary of the LGBT studies program – faculty and alumni from the early days of the program are remembering the barriers they hurdled, as well as the support they received, as they sought to establish the program in 1972.

Jupiter with bands of swirling color and a red spot at top of sphere.
NASA/JPL An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, upper right, and the planet's swirling surface, was taken by the Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2020.
Astronomy

Juno craft provides first 3D view of Jupiter’s deep storms

Cornell Chronicle

“This answers questions that scientists have asked for 200 years," said co-author Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and chair of the Department of Astronomy.

Pedro Molina
Einaudi Center

Nicaraguan cartoonist finds refuge at Einaudi Center

Cornell Chronicle

Pedro X. Molina is now an APF fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell’s Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program (LACS), part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Wynton Marsalis
Joe Martinez Wynton Marsalis
Music

Arts Unplugged: Marsalis offers Nov. 6 concert with wind symphony

A&S Communications

… A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the … A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the … making this possible.” Marsalis will also spend the week visiting classes, taking part in panel discussions, giving …

Patrizia McBride
German Studies

Patrizia McBride recognized with article prize

A&S Communications

Professor Patrizia McBride won the 2021 Max Kade prize for best article in The German Quarterly.

Ella Maria Diaz
Latina/o studies, English

Professor Ella Maria Diaz wins two book awards

A&S Communications

Professor Ella Maria Diaz wins two gold medals at the International Latino Book Awards for her book "José Montoya."

McGraw Hall
History

'Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It'

Department of History

Brookings Fellow Jonathan Rauch will address misinformation in his talk "Staying Real: The War on Truth—And How to Win It."

Two students wearing lab coats examining a beaker of something yellow in a lab.
Cornell Univesity Amaya Garnenez works with Lejla Camdzic, right, in the Stache Lab.
Nexus Scholars

New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

Cornell Chronicle

The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.

Princess Mako wearing pearl earrings, necklace and pin, and a long sleeved green dress; she is holding white gloves and a fan.
Princess Mako during the New Year Greeting 2015 at the Tokyo Imperial Palace.
History

Japan’s imperial laws may doom the royal family

A&S Communications

Historian Kristin Roebuck comments on the consequences of the marriage of Japan's Princess Mako.

A rocketship-shaped skyscraper next to a building shaped like the prow of a ship, both steel-colored.
© Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons Gazprom
History

COP 26 ushers ‘new domain of geopolitics’ as Russia demands sanction relief

A&S Communications

Historian Nicholas Mulder comments on Russia's demand for sanction relief.