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The College welcomes new faculty

These 16 new A&S faculty members will contribute to the nexus of big ideas, foundational methods, and colliding and intertwining disciplines found at the center of Cornell.

Science Fiction

Anindita Banerjee kickstarts Russian sci-fi

A&S Communications

“India has 26 official languages, but when I teach Indian literature, students can only access a very few works in English translation,” laments Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature in the College of Arts and Sciences. “There are reams of other excellent literature I haven’t been able to teach because it’s not translated.

Formative Experiences

McClane looks at friendship in Phi Beta Kappa lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Kenneth A. McClane ’73, this year's Phi Beta Kappa lecturer, recounted his family’s role in the Civil Rights movement.

N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba
African Development

Prof. releases edited volume on impact of Millennium Development Goals on Africa

A&S Communications

 N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, professor of Africana Studies, together with Nathan Andrews (University of Alberta, Canada) and Nene Ernest Khalema (Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa), has released the edited volume "Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa's Development Beyond 2015" (Springer, 2015).

Academic Advising

Pre-enrollment Tips

A&S Communications

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Outreach

Cornell Splash! holds day of learning for local youth

A&S Communications

Cornell students hosted more than 180 middle schoolers and high schoolers for a recent day of classes.

Awards

Liliana Colanzi wins literature prize

The Premio Aura Estrada de Literatura prize is given to Spanish-language authors under 35 who live in Mexico and the United States

Academic Life

'PhDivas' discourse across disciplines and differences

Cornell Chronicle

A podcast bridging the STEM-humanities divide launched by two grad students has found listeners in six countries.

Genocide Archives

Lecture launches Shoah Foundation archives at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

In the 1994 Rwandan genocide, neighbors killed lifelong neighbors, husbands killed wives and parents killed children. It was an intimate conflict, according to Philip Gourevitch ’86, staff writer for The New Yorker and an experienced reporter on the Rwandan genocide.

In Memoriam

Anthropologist Terence Turner dies at 79

Arts & Sciences Communications

Visiting Professor of Anthropology Terence Sheldon Turner, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, died Nov. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center of a brain hemorrhage. He was 79.