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Diversity

Diversity initiatives recognized at OADI awards ceremony

Cornell Chronicle

When she was growing up in Harlem, Ginger So ’79 walked 10 blocks each way once a week to borrow books from the public library.In those books, she saw photographs of an America she did not know – an America of houses with white picket fences – and images of other countries. Her reading made her want to travel, so she followed the advice of her mother and studied hard, gained entrance to a good high school and later was admitted to Cornell.

Community engagement

Ewing award winners present project updates

Cornell Chronicle

At a May 2 reception and award presentation, the first cohort of Ewing Family Service Award recipients presented updates on their projects to 40 students, faculty, staff and members of the Ewing Family.Established in fall 2015 to support Cornell’s commitment to innovation in community engagement, the Ewing Family Service Award provides up to $2,000 per project to foster student, faculty or staff leadership and social responsibility in the Cornell campus community.

Award

Astronomer Alex Hayes to receive Zeldovich Medal

Arts & Sciences Communications

Alex Hayes, assistant professor of astronomy, will receive the 2016 Zeldovich Medal, in Commission B (planets) from COSPAR (Committee on Space Research for the International Council of Science) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The award is given to young scientists who have demonstrated excellence and achievement in their field of research.Hayes will be presented with the award at the inaugural ceremony of the 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly on August 1 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Engagement

Bruce Levitt awarded inaugural Engaged Scholar Prize

Cornell Chronicle

Professor of performing and media arts Bruce Levitt is the inaugural recipient of Cornell’s Engaged Scholar Prize, Vice Provost Judith Appleton announced May 11.

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Identity

Humanists explore dimensions of identity

Arts & Sciences Communications

Identity goes far beyond belonging to a particular group according to race, religion or sexual orientation, faculty say, and it's more complicated today than ever before.

Jewish Studies

Jonathan Boyarin elected to AAJR

Arts & Sciences Communications

Jonathan Boyarin, the Hendrix Director of Jewish Studies, the Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies and professor of anthropology, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR). The AAJR was founded in 1919 and includes about one hundred of the most eminent scholars of Jewish Studies in North America.

Migration

Migration, immigration and refugees today

Arts & Sciences Communications

Migration is one of the major forces shaping the world today, with more than 60 million displaced people.“Never in history have we seen this many simultaneous displacements across the globe and these people are not going home any time soon,” says Mostafa Minawi, assistant professor of history and Himan Brown Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow. “This is a global population redistribution and it will hit us whether we like it or not.”

"Boring" Summer Plans

By: Christopher-James Llego '17

Contemporary Art

Engaged Art and Its Critique

Arts & Sciences Communications

Artists today engage with a world very different from that of their predecessors: globally connected, technologically advanced and highly diverse. In the last fifty years the Western canon has been displaced as the benchmark for “good” and worthwhile art, opening the door to works intended to challenge viewers, rather than simply to aesthetically please.

Student honors

Jonathan Lowry ‘16 receives the JFK Memorial Award for hunger relief work

This Arts & Sciences student helped nearly 5,000 pounds of excess campus food make its way to Ithaca food pantries.

Psychology

The contented shall inherit the Earth. The glum? Not so much.

Cornell Chronicle

Seeking long-term contentment instead of focusing on instant gratification can pay off with a longer life, our scientists are discovering.

Humanities Research

Showcase Highlights ‘Under-Recognized’ Research in Humanities

Cornell Daily Sun

Students presented their research in the humanities and social sciences — ranging from the role of religion in society to how video game players perceive their characters — at the Humanities Showcase in Klarman Hall May 4, as reported by The Cornell Daily Sun.

Music

Music's Mayfest returns May 20–24

Cornell University’s Department of Music, under the artistic direction of pianists Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, will present its ninth springtime festival of world-class chamber music in Ithaca May 20–24. Mayfest will offer six intimate concerts in four inspiring locations: Cornell’s Barnes Hall, Klarman Hall, Lab of Ornithology, and the Carriage House Café.

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Astronomy

Mars 2020 mission: Students survey rover landing sites

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell students are working with students from six other universities to present their findings to NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Physics

Physicist Katja Nowack earns DOE early career award

Cornell Chronicle

Katja C. Nowack, assistant professor of physics in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected by the Department of Energy (DOE) to receive $750,000 for research over five years as part of DOE’s Early Career Research Program for her research project, “Magnetic Imaging of Topological Phases of Matter.”