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Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Anthropology & French

Hadiyah Chowdhury: 'I was able to explore so many different academic interests'

Hadiyah ChowdhuryFeminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Anthropology & FrenchCorning, NYWhat accomplishments/activities are you most proud of while at Cornell?

Sociology

Grad student leads group on algorithms and AI for social good

Cornell Chronicle

Members of the Mechanism Design for Social Good group, from left: Manish Raghavan, co-founder Rediet Abebe and Jon Kleinberg. 

Validating and Examining My LGBTQ Experience Through Academics and Social Life at Cornell

For April, we focus on the theme of diversity. Ambassadors will share times at which they felt that diversity is important in Arts and Sciences, and what life at Cornell is like as a minority, whether that be in terms of race, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or perspective. This week, Sophomore Julian discusses how his academic and social experiences at Cornell have helped him process, validate, and examine his identity as an openly gay student. 

Africana Studies

Zora Neale Hurston's work reconsidered April 19

A&S Communications

A professor from the University of Pennsylvania will visit campus April 19 to examine how writer Zora Neale Hurston’s work can be used to look at black life today.

Awards & Honors

History, music faculty earn Guggenheim fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

… Historical Studies’ David Pinkney Prize, awarded for the best book in the field. He has been a fellow at the Shelby …

Performing & Media Arts

Post–nuclear fallout with a dark comedic flavor and a “Simpsons” twist

Performing & Media Arts

Directed by Jayme Kilburn, a PhD student in Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts, “Mr. Burns, a post-electric play” runs at Cornell’s Kiplinger Theatre in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts April 27–28 and May 4–5.

Society for the Humanities

Popular will and politics examined in Annual Lecture

A&S Communications

How does “the people” appear in public life?  This question will be examined in this year’s Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture on Wed., April 18. Political theorist Jason Frank will speak on “The People as Popular Manifestation" at 4:30 p.m., in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall. A reception in A.D. White House will follow; the events are free and the public is invited.

Performing & Media Arts

Video installation explores experiences of the undocumented

A&S Communications

A panel discussion on the exhibit's last day will focus on the state of the U.S. immigration system.

Comparative Literature

Film Series Featuring Sino-Burmese Director at Cornell Cinema

A&S Communications

Films by Midi Z (Chao Te-yin), a Myanmar-born Taiwanese director, will be featured in a series at Cornell Cinema in April. “Midi Z Retrospective: Homecoming Trilogy” will screen Midi Z’s Homecoming Trilogy: "Return to Burma" (2011), "Poor Folk" (2012), and "Ice Poison" (2014), together with an experimental short, "Palace on the Sea" (2014), showing on April 16, 23, and 30, respectively. 

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Kreps, Braddock named inaugural Milstein Faculty Fellows

A&S Communications

The fellows will advise Milstein program students and design new courses, some solely for Milstein students and some for all undergraduates.

Interdisciplinary

Scholarship opens paths for Christine Jasmin '18

Alumni Affairs & Development

When Christine Jasmin ’18 was applying to colleges, her first glimpse of Cornell—a video posted on the university website—told her it would be a good match for her eclectic passions.“It was a video of a student doing an interpretive dance to represent a biological mechanism,” she said. “That was mesmerizing.”Jasmin, a science-oriented student with a lifelong love of dance, wanted to go to a college that would let her do something like that.

Physics

New grant program seeks innovative teaching and learning projects

Cornell Chronicle

The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is offering funding for the Cornell teaching community to implement new projects that will facilitate challenging, vibrant and reflective learning experiences for undergraduates.All faculty and full-time instructors engaged in teaching at Cornell are invited to submit proposals exploring new and emerging tools and technologies, approaches and teaching strategies.

Science & Technology Studies

Students tackle real-world climate policy in Cornell in Washington course

A&S Communications

Students in the Cornell In Washington program had the chance to learn about how science is incorporated – or not – into the policymaking process during a March 23 visit to the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

Performing & Media Arts

Play documents Chicago's LGBTQIA+ communities

A&S Communications

The Association of Graduates in Theatre is collaborating with The History Center of Tompkins County and Ithaca’s Civic Ensemble to present a staged reading of “The Loneliness Project” April 19-21.The documentary was co-written and co-directed by Cornell doctoral candidate Caitlin Kane, along with colleagues Kelli Simpkins, Reed Motz, Al Evangelista and Patrick Andrews and uses testimony to document the LGBTQIA+ activist history in Chicago.

Global Cornell

Nine faculty projects win Internationalizing the Curriculum grants

The grants enhance cross-cultural competence and increase the numbers of Cornell students with first-hand international experiences.