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Social Sciences

Tech companies favor CU social science grads

A&S Communications

The tech world is realizing the importance of a new definition of diversity – that of fields of study.

History

Field research leads to surprising results for historian

Cornell Chronicle

Some research just has to be done on-site, said historian Mostafa Minawi, and he should know.Thanks to an ANAMED fellowship, he spent seven months in Sudan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Somalia and Djibouti, tracking down details for his new book on Ottoman/European/Ethiopian competition over the coast of Somalia. The most surprising thing he found, he said, was how alive that history still is in some areas.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast Series

Product Love

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.

Student internships

A&S student combines CS, government interests in White House internship

A&S Communications

Graham Cohen '20 built an app for the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Student research

MMUF scholar explores intersection between African, Asian cultures

A&S Communications

"The intersections of cultures has always fascinated me because I live at one of those intersections.”

Engaged learning

Premed students explore diverse medical interests in summer program

A&S Communications

“Students become participant observers, carrying out an ethnographic inquiry of the culture and practice of medicine."

Latina/o studies

Senior investigates Latinx identity formation in higher education

Karen Loya is studying the way U.S. universities influence and support their Latinx students.

History of Art

Slave ship image helped end slavery, new book shows

Cornell Chronicle

Art historian Cheryl Finley provides the first in-depth look at how the 18th-century slave ship schematic became an enduring symbol of black resistance, identity and remembrance.

comparative literature

New book analyzes poetry across the world

A&S Communications

“What one cannot compute, one must poetize,” concludes a new interdisciplinary study of poetry.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Unraveling titanium dioxide’s self-cleaning ability

Titanium dioxide is one of several minerals that are self-cleaning; they use energy from the sun to convert any “schmutz” that lands on their surface to a harmless gas, which then floats away.

English

Pulitzer Prize-winning authors featured in Fall 2018 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series

A&S Communications

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gregory Pardlo kicks off the Fall 2018 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, sponsored by Cornell’s Creative Writing Program.

Ethics & Public Life

Lectures explore politics and justice in the Trump era

“Politics and Justice in the Era of Donald Trump” will be explored in a lecture series at Cornell featuring eminent social scientists, beginning with Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University) on Sept. 12. The co-author of “How Democracies Die” will speak on dangers to democracy.

Student research

Weill Cornell Medicine internship allows chemistry major to continue NIH work

A&S Communications

Ashley Kim ’19 spent her summer with researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, working on research that could help doctors determine what role proteins play in the progression of disease.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-college Program in Environment and Sustainability launches

Cornell Chronicle

The expanded environmental and sustainability sciences major is now available to students in both the College of Arts & Sciences and CALS.

Campus events

‘Paths to Peace’ explores legacy of antiwar campaigner

Cornell Chronicle

On June 12, 1982, an estimated one million people marched through the streets of New York City to protest the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. They had a simple proposition: immediately freeze the development and deployment of nuclear weapons. Then, they argued, we can begin the hard work of eliminating them altogether.