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Faculty excellence

Six faculty honored with Weiss teaching awards

Cornell Chronicle

Six Cornell faculty members — including four in the College of Arts & Sciences — have been recognized by the university for excellence in their teaching of undergraduate students and contributions to undergraduate education.

Public Engagement

Engaged Cornell's Spirit Grows

Cornell Chronicle

Engaged Cornell’s spirit grows in the colleges, schools and other campus units, such as the Community Learning and Service Partnership, Cornell in Washington, the Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell Abroad, the Cornell Public Service Center, The Cornell Commitment collection of programs, the Cornell Prison Education Program, the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives, the Office of Engagement Initiatives and more.A few examples:

Faculty diversity

New provost's task force continues push for a diverse Cornell faculty

Cornell Chronicle

Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff has launched a task force to recommend new approaches to enhance and accelerate the diversity of the Cornell faculty.

Academic Excursions

Students broaden their perspective of ‘Caribbean Urbanisms’ through NYC excursion

A&S Communications

From September 8-10, students taking a new Spanish literature course traveled to New York City to examine its identity as a Latinx Caribbean diasporic city.

Undergraduate Education

Cornell launches Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

A $20 million gift from the Milstein family will launch the first undergraduate program to link the Ithaca and Roosevelt Island campuses.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Top neuroscientists headline Mong neurotech symposium

A&S Communications

In his opening remarks at the second annual Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium Sept. 22, Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff said: “The goals of Cornell Neurotech are vital ones, with life-changing implications, and I am grateful to Stephen Mong and the Mong Family Foundation for enabling Cornell faculty and staff to strive toward them.

Saturn's rings
Astronomy

To keep Saturn’s A ring contained, its moons stand united

Cornell Chronicle

For three decades, astronomers thought that only Saturn’s moon Janus confined the planet’s A ring – the largest and farthest of the visible rings. But after poring over NASA’s Cassini mission data, Cornell astronomers now conclude that the teamwork of seven moons keeps this ring corralled.

Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett standing together in black and white
Media studies

NPR’s “The World According to Sound” comes to Klarman Hall

A&S Communications

Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, co-creators of the 90-second NPR radio show, “The World According to Sound,” will be on campus to offer a presentation at 7 p.m., Oct. 25 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Chemistry

Advance in lipid imaging could impact cancer treatment

Cornell Chronicle

A cellular biology “mystery” is closer to being solved, thanks to sleuthing in the lab of Jeremy Baskin, assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology.

Anthropology

For anthropologist, doll exchange is not child's play

Cornell Chronicle

Hirokazu Miyazaki doesn’t usually get his research ideas from his son. But last year, after reading a children’s book about an exchange of dolls among Japanese and American schoolchildren in the 1920s, then-10-year-old Xavier asked his father to investigate.

Mathematics

Mathematician Roger H. Farrell dies at age 88

Cornell Chronicle

Roger H. Farrell, professor emeritus of mathematics, died Sept. 28 at Hospicare in Ithaca. He was 88.Farrell, who joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell as an instructor in 1959, spent his entire career at Cornell.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

How We Love

This is an episode in the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Classics

New club offers opportunity for students to practice speaking Latin

A&S Communications

Sodalicium Loquentium Latine, Cornell’s new spoken latin club, held their inaugural meeting in September, bringing together individuals interested in learning and practicing speaking Latin. They discussed Ovid’s “Amores” in Latin and English.

Linguistics & sociology

New lecture series addresses connections between language, inequality

A&S Communications

An Oct. 20 lecture will kick off a new series on language and inequality co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Inequality and the departments of linguistics and sociology.

Summer in Tanzania

Continuing on with the theme of "Summer Adventures," senior Shanna tells us about how she spent this past summer in Singida, Tanzania conducting global health research. By Shanna Smith '18, Biological Sciences and French double major