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Active learning

From Martha Pollack: Active Learning Initiative goes university-wide

9/14/2018 Cornell Alumni Magazine

Cornell University's expands Active Learning Initiative (ALI) initiative with generous support from Alex Hanson ’87 and his wife, Laura Finlay Hanson ’87.

Music & English

All That Jazz

9/14/2018 Cornell Alumni Magazine

More than 50 years after the first ever purely jazz program headlined by Dizzy Gillespie and his 18-piece orchestra made an impression on Vincent Rogers '49 and fellow jazz enthusiasts at Cornell, the visit by Wynton Marsalis to Cornell last spring had a similar impact on this generation of young musicians.A Cornell Alumni Magazine story discusses the history of jazz at Cornell, and the musicians who've passed through.

Government

A&S profs to offer take on midterm elections during CAU seminar

9/17/2018 A&S Communications

Arts & Sciences professors Gretchen Ritter and Glenn Altschuler will offer their insight on this historic time during a Cornell Adult University re-election seminar Nov. 2-4 at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, N.Y. Cornell Adult University (CAU) offers acclaimed education vacations designed and led by Cornell faculty.

Career Conversations

Managing partner at Zelnick Media Capital visits campus

9/17/2018 A&S Communications

Jordan Turkewitz ‘92, managing partner at Zelnick Media Capital, will visit campus Sept. 21 as part of a Career Conversation event offered by the Arts & Sciences Career Development Center.

Alumni

Man of Letters

9/14/2018 Cornell Alumni Magazine

Former National Spelling Bee champ Jacques Bailly, PhD ’97, is the competition’s longtime ‘pronouncer’

College Leadership

A Q&A with A&S Dean Ray Jayawardhana

9/17/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Ray Jayawardhana became the 22nd dean of Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences on September 1. Learn more about him as he begins his term.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Device to corral viable sperm may speed IVF process

9/10/2018 Cornell Chronicle

For couples hoping for a baby via in vitro fertilization, chances have improved. A process that once took hours now takes minutes: Cornell scientists have created a microfluidic device that quickly corrals strong and speedy sperm viable for fertilization.

Africana Studies

Top music industry expert speaks Sept. 27

9/14/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Numerous artists have been launched into chart-topping, award-winning careers by Mathew Knowles, including both his daughters, Beyoncé and Solange. On Thursday, Sept. 27, Knowles will discuss his first two books, “The DNA of Achievers” and “Racism From the Eyes of a Child,” in a panel at 4:30 p.m. in the Africana Studies and Research Center. A reception will follow. The event is free, and the public is invited.

Linguistics & Africana Studies and Research Center

A.D. White Professor-at-Large to speak on race, class, speech

9/13/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Linguist and A.D. White Professor-at-Large John Rickford will address race, class and speech in a series of campus events Sept. 17-21 that include public talks and a screening of his 2017 film, “Talking Black in America.”

Biology

New lecture series features transformative life scientists

9/13/2018 Cornell Chronicle

A new lecture series will feature eminent life scientists whose research transcends traditional boundaries.With the inaugural lecture Sept. 21, Cornell’s Life Sciences Lecture Series will include four talks over the course of the academic year. The speakers are all interdisciplinary, internationally renowned and are excellent communicators.

Government

Roper Center expands access to America’s Voice Project

9/13/2018 A&S Communications

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University has partnered with Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) to provide TCPL card-holders access to America’s Voice Project, a database of polling research dating back to the 1930s

Cornell Council for the Arts

Dance, multimedia performance to open 2018 CCA Biennial

9/12/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial kicks off Sept. 14-15 at 8 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts with “A Meditation on Tongues,” conceived and directed by guest artist Ni’Ja Whitson and performed by The NWA Project.Whitson’s dance and multimedia adaptation of Marlon T. Riggs’ 1989 video portrait of black gay identity, “Tongues Untied,” opens a series of fall performances on the Biennial theme, “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival.”

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Love Science

11/12/2018

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's third season, "What Do We Know about Love?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about the relationship between humans and love. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Tuesday through the fall semester.

Tanner Dean's Scholars

Student researches social movements in higher education

9/12/2018 A&S Communications

Noticing a plethora of recent cases where university officials resigned amid pressure from students and others, Naomi Li ’20 wanted to know more.Li, an economics and sociology major, conducted research over the summer on the role of resignation in social narratives and social change to find out more about cases like Lou Anna Simon at Michigan State University or Tim Wolfe and R. Bowen Loftin at Missouri State University and the kind of justice activists hoped to achieve.

Digital collections

Seven projects awarded 2018 digitization grants

9/11/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Seasoned documents and artifacts are starting fresh digital lives through the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, which is funding seven projects this year. Launched in 2010, the program supports faculty members and graduate students in creating online collections vital for their own and for general scholarship.

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