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"Cornell is a big place with a lot going on, but it is important to take a step back and enjoy what it has to offer."

Ian Sigalow '16Ian Sigalow '16 is an ILR student minoring in the A&S Jewish Studies Program. 

China & Asia-Pacific Studies Program celebrates 10 years

A&S Dean Gretchen Ritter and other university officials visited China earlier this month to celebrate the anniversary of the program.

Cornell student actors bring prisoners' writings to life

Students worked with scripts from the Phoenix Players Theatre Group, a troupe founded by a group of incarcerated men.

Internationalization grants awarded to faculty

Twelve faculty-led projects, including six in Arts & Sciences, have been awarded approximately $213,000 under the Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum (ICC) grant program.

A&S faculty play key roles in 'creativity' project

The Institute for the Social Sciences’ Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) theme project tackled the challenges inherent in interdisciplinary research collaborations, particularly the issue of how sociologists, psychologists, economists, lawyers, musicians and entrepreneurs sometimes struggle to understand one another.

Do the right thing: Moral sticklers seen as more trustworthy

David Pizarro, associate professor of psychology, asked people to judge others based on how they responded to hypothetical moral dilemmas.

Study: Some frogs are adapting to deadly pathogen

Some populations of frogs are rapidly adapting to a fungal pathogen calledBatrachochrytrium dendrobatridis (Bd) that has decimated many populations for close to half a century and causes the disease chytridiomycosis, according to a new study.

Studying comets provides clues to the early history of our solar system

For decades, scientists have agreed that comets are mostly water ice, but what kind of ice -- amorphous or crystalline -- is still up for debate. Looking at data obtained by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft in the atmosphere, or coma, around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scientists are seeing evidence of a crystalline form of ice called clathrates.

Saloff-Coste on Chastel

Bachner on Butler's "Gender Trouble"

The glaring tones of pink and violet on the cover, accompanied by bold letters that spell out the book’s title, frame a quaint image, a reproduction of an old photograph marred by a tear that runs from top to bottom. In the photograph, two children look toward the camera. Both are garbed in ruffled pinafore dresses. But whereas the slightly taller of the two looks like a girl, the other’s hairstyle and features would probably make the beholder identify him/her (?) as a boy.