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Computer Science + Humanities = Arts & Sciences

At Cornell, students take the opportunity to combine their interests in wide ranging areas of study. What they soon learn is that any combination of disciplines can forge a unique path of exploration and discovery.

Hutchinson on Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"

"The Search for a Faun"My poem is called, “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.” A famous title I am sure most of you will recognize. The fame is one of the reasons why I am self-conscious about what I am about to do in this reflection, which partly amounts to betraying the naïveté of my youth.

Peraino on "The Odyssey" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

"Odysseus, The Sirens, and a little bit of Rocky Horror"

Salvato on Woolf's "Orlando"

Strogatz on Camus and Sartre

"How Existentialism Helped Me Get My First Date"

Kelsey (Linguistics) explores Barcelona

Kate leads After Eight Acapella Group

"Liberate your imagination."

Dagmawi WoubshetAssociate Professor, Department of EnglishEthiopia, 1989: the Communist regime was beginning to crumble; schools were shut down. That proved the last straw for the parents of Dagmawi Woubshet, who deeply valued education.

Joan Smith (Chemistry, '17) builds water wells in Africa

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"Anything can be solved."

Recent grad Emma Gerstenzang '15 combined her interests in social science and medicine to address rural health inequality.

Khatchadourian on the Naqsh-i Rustam Monument

Photograph by Lloyd Llewellyn Jones, https://persianthings.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/184/darius_tomb/

Saloff-Coste on Chastel

Bachner on Butler's "Gender Trouble"

The glaring tones of pink and violet on the cover, accompanied by bold letters that spell out the book’s title, frame a quaint image, a reproduction of an old photograph marred by a tear that runs from top to bottom. In the photograph, two children look toward the camera. Both are garbed in ruffled pinafore dresses. But whereas the slightly taller of the two looks like a girl, the other’s hairstyle and features would probably make the beholder identify him/her (?) as a boy.

Kennedy on Vergil's "Aeneid"

Far-Flung Poems and Front-Page Headlines