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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

Graduate students from the Department of Performing Media Arts have been honored with multiple fellowships and grants over the course of the year.  Recipients of awards include Caitlin Kane, Jayme Kilburn, Rosalie Purvis, Elaigwu Ameh, Kristza Pozsonyi and Sam Blake.These grants, which support research, creative pursuits and teaching, give grad students the opportunity for peer academic review, funds to carry out projects and finances for travel.

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. 

Government

The Innocence of Abu Zubaydah

The New York Review of Books

Joseph Margulies, professor of Law and Government, writes in this The New York Review of Books article that due to the demonization of radical Islam since 9/11, a signficant portion of the U.S. population and its leaders have uncritically embraced the torture  and emprisonment without trial of those accused of being followers of radical Islam. 

Professor A.R. Ammons at the Temple of Zeus
Campus life

Temple of Zeus keeping students, faculty healthy for more than 50 years

A&S Communications

These days, nearly 900 customers pass through the lines every day at the Temple of Zeus café in the atrium of Klarman Hall. That’s a far cry from its humble origins in 1964 as a coffee and donut operation run by one of the building maintenance staff.

Information Science & Sociology

New group to study AI’s impact on decision-making

Cornell Chronicle

Artificial intelligence is guiding a growing number of decisions in criminal justice, education, health care and other areas, with the potential to significantly alter people’s lives.

German studies

Alexander Kluge: New Perspectives on Creative Arts and Critical Practice

A&S Communications

The German Studies Department will host a three-day international conference Oct. 11-13 discussing the works and theoretical contributions of German multimedial artist and storyteller Alexander Kluge.

Career Development

'An internship connects you to your future'

A&S Communications

A panel of students shared their experiences with the Cornell in Washington program and their summer internships.

Outreach

$1.7 million Mellon grant fortifies prison education

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) has received a grant for $1.7 million to ensure the success of ongoing efforts to accelerate degree completion for incarcerated college students, to look at the benefits of college-in-prison in the broader society, and facilitate Cornell students’ education and engagement in criminal justice reform.