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New Frontier Grants

$2M in New Frontier Grants boost high-impact A&S research

Cornell Chronicle

Research supported by the 14 grants ranges from the physics of quantum computing to the design of new musical instruments.

Estefania Perez ’21 in front of the Supreme Court.
Estefania Perez ’21 in front of the Supreme Court.
Career Development

Pathways program graduates feel prepped for careers

A&S Communications

The Pathways Internship Program helps first-generation students find summer opportunities through career guidance and financial support.

Society for the Humanities

Society for the Humanities 'Afterlives' theme draws record interest

Cornell Chronicle

During 2020, Cornell’s Society for the Humanities chose “Afterlives” as its theme for 2021-22. Scholars from all over the world and all around the College of Arts and Sciences responded to the call, resulting in a record number of applications for the Society’s fellowships.

Performing and Media Arts

Bilingual “Regio (Royal)” highlights lives of immigrant Latinx workers

Cornell Chronicle

“Regio (Royal),” a new theatre production that uses contemporary dance and puppetry to share stories about Latinx immigrant workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, premiers online May 21 and 23, produced by the Department of Performing and Media Arts, College of Arts and Sciences.

Engaged Research Grants

Cornell poet’s play “Trap Door” opens an aperture into Ithaca history

Cornell Chronicle

“Trap Door,” a “headphone walking play” open May 20-30 in downtown Ithaca, invites audiences to notice the streets they travel, says lead writer Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon.

History

‘Deeds rife with physical nastiness’: book examines violence in Icelandic sagas

Cornell Chronicle

Oren Falk considers the medieval Icelandic sagas as case studies, arguing that violence serves as a technique for dealing with uncertainty.

Awards & Honors

Cornell poet, scholar receive 2021-2022 Rome Prize

A&S Communications

Valzhyna Mort, assistant professor of literatures in English, received the Rome Prize in Literature for 2021-2022. Mary Jane Dempsey, graduate student in the Department of Romance Studies, received the Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies.

Freedom on the Move

NEA grants $30,000 to music dept. for ‘Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight’

Cornell Chronicle

The National Endowment for the Arts has approved a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to the Department of Music to support a musical response to Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a database housing digitized, searchable fugitive slave advertisements.

Global Cornell

Bartels lecturer speaks out on rising threats to democracy

Cornell Chronicle

"Home may have become a dangerous place for democracy to flourish now," said Nobel prize–winning economist Amartya Sen, this year’s Bartels World Affairs Fellow. His May 5 lecture was hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Government

De-escalation up to Israelis and Palestinians, but U.S. can help

A&S Communications

… additional forces near the Gaza Strip. Uriel Abulof, a visiting professor in Cornell University’s government … additional forces near the Gaza Strip. Uriel Abulof , a visiting professor in Cornell University’s government …

Astronomy

Annual conference on new telescope moves science ahead

Cornell Chronicle

More than a hundred people gathered virtually at the end of April for the 2021 annual conference on the CCAT-prime project, which is building the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) in Chile. “First light” is scheduled for 2023.

Teaching & Advising Awards

Advising, teaching awards honor Arts and Sciences faculty

Cornell Chronicle

“During this challenging year, our faculty have demonstrated exemplary caring and commitment to our students."

Performing and Media Arts

Prison education alums work with undergrads on theater piece

Cornell Chronicle

Participants in a new class – designed to bring together formerly incarcerated and traditional Cornell students – have written, workshopped and performed an ensemble theatrical piece that will premiere online May 16.

Astronomy

In the emptiness of space, Voyager 1 detects plasma ‘hum’

Cornell Chronicle

As Voyager 1 – launched in 1977 – zips through interstellar space more than 14 billion miles away, it has detected the constant drone of plasma waves.

Extraordinary Journeys

'My classes transformed the way I think about human problems'

Adam Ziccardi is a religious studies major.