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Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein students visit Cornell Tech for summer updates, alumni talks

… Students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity visited Cornell Tech Nov. 22 to meet with the Milstein … series, a community night, the RevTech Film Night and visit local museums, events and activities. After learning … Milstein students visit Cornell Tech for summer updates, alumni talks …

Physics

Celebration marks prototype accelerator getting up to speed

… Celebration marks prototype accelerator getting up to speed …

Government

Einaudi program promotes nuclear freeze movement’s legacy

Forty years ago this month, disarmament advocate and researcher Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg told peace activists assembled for Mobilization for Survival’s annual meeting that a bilateral nuclear arms freeze “could change the world.”

The Arts Quad in the summer
Social sciences

Grants seed social science research, conferences

Studies exploring the effects of disadvantaged neighborhoods, a reimagined school recess and customized avatars were among a slate of faculty projects receiving grants this fall from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).

What Makes Us Human?

New podcast episode traces roots of educational inequalities

Inequalities institutionalized during the Civil War era remain with us today, says Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana studies and director of American studies.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Visualizing data through storytelling

A&S Communications

By graphically representing data, information becomes more accessible to different audiences. Anna Feigenbaum, a writer, researcher and educator who focuses on creating social change through technology and communication, visited campus Nov. 18-20 for two workshops on data storytelling, sponsored by the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity and open to all students.

English

Conan O’Brien correspondence with E.B. White surfaces

… was special to Conan,” Morris said. “We were excited to get a copy of [O’Brien’s] own letter back to him.” Library colleagues voluntarily banded together to go through White’s fan letters. “We were so …

English

George Hutchinson’s ‘Facing the Abyss’ cited by MLA

… has been recognized by the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America in the competition for its fourth annual … been recognized by the  Modern Language Association  (MLA) of America in the competition for its fourth annual … is one of 18 awards to be presented Jan. 11, 2020, at the MLA’s annual convention in Seattle. The MLA and its more …

Campus & Community Engagement

Learning Where You Live course empowers students

A&S Communications

“The course changed how I think about my future. It made me realize that success has many definitions as all of us live different lives.”

Career experiences

Students have multiple opportunities for career exploration over break

A&S Communications

… summer experiences and full-time jobs, without school work getting in the way. These networking experiences and job … open networking. The 2020 events were grouped together during one week so that students could attend more …

Creative Writing

Susan Choi, MFA ’95, wins National Book Award

… “I get to lead a life centered on books and bring other people … all facing today, I find it an astonishing privilege what I get to do every day,” Choi said in her acceptance speech. “I get to lead a life centered on books and bring other people …

History

Historian and medievalist Brian Tierney dies at 97

Professor Emeritus Brian Tierney, who taught medieval history at Cornell for 33 years and was recognized as a leading authority on medieval church law and political thought, died Nov. 30 in Syracuse. He was 97.Tierney taught in the Department of History from 1959 until his retirement in 1992 as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies.

Biological Sciences

Post-kidney Transplant diagnostics

Cornell Research

Jonathon Han '21 spent his summer with nephrology patients at Weill Cornell Medical Center working to improve the diagnosis of post-transplant kidney-related diagnostics. He is profiled in a recent Cornell Research story.

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Looking for exoplanet life in all the right spectra

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide.

What Makes Us Human?

New podcast episode examines an impact of incarceration

A&S Communications

“Climate of Fear” explores the impact of incarcerated parents on their children’s education.