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Alumni visits

Attorney shares wide-ranging career path with students

A&S Communications

“Something within me just craves movement and change,” Stephen Robinson ’81 J.D. ’83 said during a Career Conversation with students.

English

Influential writer, teacher Robert Morgan celebrated Oct. 3

Cornell Chronicle

… at 6 p.m. in the English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall. Titles by Morgan and the alumni authors are available for …

What Makes Us Human?

Podcast explores inequality’s impact on well-being

"We can expect rising inequality to make the population as a whole less happy," says Professor Thomas Gilovich.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein program brings alumnus screenwriter, data visualization expert to campus

A&S Communications

The sessions with screenwriter Howard Rodman '71 and digital storyteller Anna Feigenbaum are open to the public.

Service

A&S students named Engaged Cornell Ambassadors

A&S Communications

Five Arts & Sciences students have been named 2019-2020 Engaged Ambassadors through Engaged Cornell, a program that allows students to be mentors to other students participating in the Certificate in Engaged Leadership program.

Performing & Media Arts

New PMA film professor balances teaching with film release

A&S Communications

Before Jeffrey Palmer ever held a video camera or took a filmmaking class, he felt pretty confident that he would be a good at it. So he bought some good equipment, put together a DVD with a series of shorts and applied to the country’s top film MFA programs.He got into all of them.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Cornell researchers reveal molecular basis of vision

Cornell Chronicle

The study's insights have broad implications for the design of more than a third of the drugs on the market today.

Government

‘Ours Will No Longer Be a Nation Subject to Insult and Humiliation’

The New York Times

Jesscia Chen Weiss writes in this New York Times opinion piece about current events such as the trade war and Hong Kong protests and their impacts on China.

Arts Unplugged

Arts Unplugged event features Sundance film screening, masterclass

A&S Communications

The second Arts Unplugged celebrates indigenous culture with talks, film, food and more. Thursday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Chemistry and Physics

Alumna writes go-to guide for teaching climate change

Alumni Affairs & Development

… and curriculum ideas for Earth science teachers. Previous titles include the  Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to the Evolution … can come from an energized teacher imparting knowledge and optimism to a cohort is impossible to measure.” With just …

Humanities research

$6M alumni gift launches Humanities Scholars Program

A&S Communications

For the first time, undergraduates can be immersed in the work of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities.

History

LaFeber-Silbey Lecture: 'California Dreaming'

Historian Francis J. Gavin will present this year’s LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, “California Dreaming – The Crisis and Rebirth of American Power in the 1970s”. The talk is Thursday, October 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kaufmann Auditorium/Room G64 in Goldwin Smith Hall. Sponsored by the Department of History, the talk is free and open to the public.

Chemistry

Prof wins national chemistry award

A&S Communications

Associate Professor of Chemistry Kyle Lancaster was recently honored with the National Fresenius Award from Phi Lambda Upsilon.

Student fellowships

New graduate fellowships boost humanities, social science scholars

The one-year fellowships allows students to focus on their research without having to teach.

Neurobiology & behavior

Professor’s perceptron paved the way for AI – 60 years too soon

Cornell Chronicle

In July 1958, the U.S. Office of Naval Research unveiled a remarkable invention.An IBM 704 – a 5-ton computer the size of a room – was fed a series of punch cards. After 50 trials, the computer taught itself to distinguish cards marked on the left from cards marked on the right.It was a demonstration of the “perceptron” – “the first machine which is capable of having an original idea,” according to its creator, Frank Rosenblatt ’50, Ph.D. ’56.