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Satellite of the middle east region, seen from space: brown land, dark blue sea, highlights of snow, unusual for the region — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Creative Commons license 2.0 Image from a satellite showing a portion of the Middle East

Science and Technology Studies

Maps have political power, sociologist says

1/4/2024 A&S Communications

A new paper examines the politics at play in the maps published in 2020 as part of a peace plan proposed by the Trump Administration.

Black and white historic image of Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900 — Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections A Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900. Image adjusted into positive from Gerow Brill's glass plate negatives kept in Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections.

Cornell Library

Digitized images illuminate U.S. colonial period in the Philippines

1/3/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Idyllic images of the Philippines taken by a Cornell alumnus in 1902 illuminate the tumultuous U.S. annexation of the archipelago in the aftermath of the Philippine-American War, according to a Ph.D. student in history.

Innovative curriculum

Student opinion pieces encourage action on climate change

1/3/2024 A&S Communications

Students in Prof. Caroline Levine’s Communicating Climate Change class wrote opinion pieces spurring readers to take action related to climate.

Four donuts in a stack: frosted pink, covered with sprinkles — Annie Spratt/Unsplash

Philosophy

What if ‘food noise’ is just…hunger?

1/2/2024 New York Times

Kate Manne writes that “food noise,” ubiquitous on social media, is a rebrand of some of the most basic human drives: hunger, appetite, craving – and she argues that we should resist this reframing.

Two people stand together in a studio with paints and paintings — Olya Frank/Provided Gordon Sander and Jonathan “JJ” Manford ’06

Alumni

For two Cornellian pals, art meets life — now in book form

12/22/2023 Cornellians

An enduring friendship between alums — dating back to when they were mentor and student — has led both to cultivate their creativity.

college campus buildings under a partly cloudy sky, with a lake beyond

History

Cornell historian testifies in landmark Indigenous rights case

12/21/2023 A&S Communications

Jon Parmenter helped the defense successfully assert an Aboriginal right to trade based on 18th century treaties.

Global leaders

Cornell’s ’24-25 Schwarzman Scholars named

12/20/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A&S young alumni are among this year’s group of 150 scholars, who are from 43 countries and 114 universities. Schwarzman Scholars, an international program, nurtures a network of future global leaders.

Awards

NY Times op-ed by philosopher Kate Manne wins award

12/21/2023 A&S Communications

The award honors “standout pieces that successfully blend philosophical argumentation with an op-ed writing style.”

Faculty excellence

Math professors honored as AMS fellows

12/20/2023 A&S Communications

Two professors in the Department of Mathematics were recently named fellows in the American Mathematical Society.

Hand-lettered sign "No Justice, No PEACE" held by a person in a crowd — Clay Banks/Unsplash

Africana Studies

Reparations commission ‘step in right direction,’ but education is key to understanding

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, an expert in Africana studies, wrote about how America should respond to its history of racism in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.

Two arms with hands joined. A tree is in the background — Dương Hữu/Unsplash

Sociology

LGBTQ Catholics in a state of ‘conditional belonging’

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Sociologist Landon Schnabel says the blessing of same-sex couples is an important and complex step for the Catholic Church.

people in grad robes with their family — Chris Kitchen Amelia Tomson ’24, right, and Joy Davis ’22, left seated, talk with their families during a graduation reception Dec. 17.

Celebrating our graduates

December A&S graduates share stories of growth

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

The College hosted a new pre-graduation reception in the Groos Family Atrium of Klarman Hall for December graduates and their families.

Literatures in English

Animals, disasters, love: Book traces nonhuman voices in literature

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

… ways the nonhuman – including weather, natural disasters, animals, even the concepts like love – offer an alternative … special access into the experience of nonhumans (such as animals and the natural world) through imagination and art? …

Book cover: Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery

Comparative literature

Tracing Indian Ocean slavery through Iranian cinema

12/18/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, Professor Parisa Vaziri explores how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of Indian Ocean slavery.

Several dozen people crowd together, looking up at the camera — Roger William Photography 2023 Dean’s Scholars

Graduate student honors

Nearly 70 students recognized at pinning ceremony

12/15/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

Dean’s Scholars are selected for their demonstrated commitment to academic excellence and advancing aspects of diversity, access, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the academy and other communities.

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