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Student entrepreneurship

Student helps formerly jailed chess hustlers get back on board

Cornell Chronicle

Originally the men earned $3 to $5 for every game they played; they now are teaching chess at an average of $30 per hour to people who seek them out in the park.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein students get a glimpse of artist Xu Bing’s character

Cornell Chronicle

Bing's animation, “The Character of Characters,” is on display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Cornell Council for the Arts

CCA Biennial launches with art projects across campus

The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial launched with a tour of outdoor projects on campus Sept. 28 and artist panels at a conference Sept. 29. The Biennial features Cornell and invited artists, such as Carrie Mae Weems and Xu Bing, with 18 project installations and performances on the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival,” curated by CCA director Timothy Murray.

History

Garcia briefs D.C. policymakers on the history of refugee policy

Cornell Chronicle

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia tells Congress why the past matters in the current debate over refugee admittance into the United States.

Performing & Media Arts

PMA professor receives Achievement in Scholarship Award

Performing & Media Arts

The Women and Theatre Program presented Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) professor J. Ellen Gainor with the Achievement in Scholarship Award at their annual conference in Boston on August 1.

Our Founding Vision

At 150, ‘… any person … any study’ still stands strong

Cornell Chronicle

One hundred and fifty years ago, the “radical” idea that was Cornell University became a reality.

Near Eastern Studies

Historians to discuss role of alcohol consumption in Muslim communities at Oct. 18 lecture

A&S Communications

Historians Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene will discuss the role of alcohol consumption in Muslim communities since early Islamic times during a public lecture Oct 18.

Graduate Students

Grad students recognized at dean’s scholars pinning ceremony

Cornell Chronicle

The Graduate School Dean’s Scholars pinning ceremony Sept. 26 celebrated its inaugural year in 2017, but the 2018 ceremony was not without its firsts.

Science and Technology Studies

Acclimate or die: Book examines disease in the British Empire

Cornell Chronicle

Historian Suman Seth explores the intersection of disease theory and race in the British Empire.

History

Diplomat Fried to present LaFeber-Silbey Lecture Oct. 18

Cornell Chronicle

From NATO-Russian relations to the collapse of communism in Poland to Guantanamo Bay, Ambassador Daniel Fried ’75 has been on the front lines of U.S. foreign policy. He’ll share an analysis of U.S. foreign policy informed by his 40-year career in the U.S. government as this year’s LaFeber-Silbey lecturer.

Religious Studies

Theater scholar examines critical reception of religion on Broadway

Cornell Chronicle

Since the era of George Jean Nathan, Cornell Class of 1904, the first-string critics of New York’s major newspapers – overwhelmingly white, male and educated at elite universities – have wielded outsized influence on which plays and musicals succeed in New York and thus the nation.

Performing & Media Arts

PMA grad students honored with multiple awards

A&S Communications

… of acting and directing,” Kane said. The grants, totaling $26,200, funded the lead artist and two collaborating artists …

Interdisciplinary

Conference explores migration, celebrates Wason Collection centennial

Cornell Chronicle

More than 100 scholars and librarians from 12 countries celebrated the centennial of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the seventh International Conference of the World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, Sept.

Physics

Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, shares Nobel Prize in physics

Cornell Chronicle

Ashkin received the prize for his invention of "optical tweezers" that move objects with light.

English

Pulitzer Prize Nominee Alice McDermott to Speak at Cornell

Novelist Alice McDermott, a three-time Pulitzer nominee, will read from her work at Cornell on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 4:30 p.m. The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading will take place at the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a catered reception and book signing in the English Lounge.