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Performing & Media Arts

New immersive headphone play premieres this month

A&S Communications

“The Missing Chapter,” by Katie Marks & Aoise Stratford, visiting assistant professor of performing and media arts, is The Cherry Art’s new, immersive headphone walking play based on Ithaca's silent film past.

Music

Organ conference and concert festival Sept. 6-8

A&S Communications

The baroque organ was an artifact of global culture produced by international networks of artists, artisans, traders, and adventurers. “The Organ in the Global Baroque” conference and concert festival will celebrate these organs Sept. 6-8 on the Cornell campus.

Student Experiences

‘Serendipity’ leads to summer research for history major

A&S Communications

Abi Bernard ’19 says her experience is pretty typical at Cornell: she came in with one plan – to major in linguistics – but that changed in her first semester when she took a history course.

Curriculum review

A&S faculty to consider new revised curriculum proposal

A&S Communications

The newest revision encourages exploration and addresses concerns related to the language requirement.

Music

Revisiting the Time of J.S. Bach

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on Bach scholar and accomplished organist/pianist, David Yearsley, who is exploring not only Bach’s music but also the music of Bach’s wife and their world.

English

American literature scholar kicks off Botanic Gardens’ lecture series Aug. 29

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Botanic Gardens opens its annual Fall Lecture Series with author George Hutchinson, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences, delivering the 2018 William and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium. The lecture will be followed at 7 p.m.

Physics

Donald Holcomb, emeritus physics professor, dies at 92

Cornell Chronicle

Emeritus professor of physics Donald F. Holcomb, who served two terms as chair of the department and championed the cause of improving physics education, died Aug. 9 in his residence at Kendal at Ithaca.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Former Cornell Provost Robert Plane dies at 90

Cornell Chronicle

Robert A. Plane, a professor emeritus of chemistry who served as the university’s eighth provost during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, later becoming an innovative Finger Lakes vintner, died Aug. 6 at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Love Transformed

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.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Courtly 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.

Supporting first-generation students

New program welcomes A&S first generation students

A&S Communications

Students spent a week in reading and writing workshops and activities related to academic and career development, health and wellness and financial literacy.

Performing & Media Arts

Rising from the ashes: redemption through theater at Auburn prison

Cornell Chronicle

The process of attending a show by the Phoenix Players Theatre Group (PPTG) in Auburn Correctional Facility gives attendees a hint of what it’s like to be a prisoner in the maximum security facility.

Psychology

Do You Use Somebody’s First Name or Last Name? The Answer Speaks Volumes

Wall Street Journal

Psychology graduate student Stav Atir and Professor Melissa Ferguson write in this Wall Street Journal article about their research into the use of last names or first names based on gender.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Love Bonds

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.

In memoriam

Joel Silbey, emeritus professor of history, dies at 84

Cornell Chronicle

Historian Joel H. Silbey, the President White Professor of History Emeritus and a member of the Cornell faculty since 1966, died Aug. 7. He was 84.Silbey was a prolific scholar of American history and political behavior, with a particular focus on the 19th century, and his teaching and scholarly interests included the Jacksonian era, sectional controversy, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and quantitative methods in history.