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Awards

Noliwe Rooks, Bryan Duff named Kaplan Faculty Fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender and sexuality studies, and director of graduate studies at theAfricana Studies and Research Center, and Bryan Duff, senior lecturer in education, received the 

Earthquake damage in Nepal
Nepal

Cornell group aids in Nepal earthquake recovery

Cornell Chronicle

Following the April 2015 Nepal earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people, Maya Devi Neupane, president of the United Women’s Savings and Credit Cooperative, said her Kaule community on the Phyukhri Ridge “felt orphaned, abandoned.”She continued, “The earthquake destroyed our homes and our [Women’s Cooperative] building. We had to take shelter in the plastic greenhouse ‘tunnels’ where we had begun a tomato-growing project.”

Africana

CIES conference leads to publications for Assié-Lumumba

Arts & Sciences Communications

N’Dri Assié-Lumumba, professor of Africana, recently co-edited a special issue of the International Review of Education-Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE) titled, “Rediscovering the Ubuntu Paradigm in Education," Birgit Brock-Utne (University of Oslo) and Dr. joan.Osa Oviawe (visiting scholar at Cornell) were co–editors.

Languages

Learning Hindi, Teaching English

Global Cornell

Students have three weeks of Hindi instruction on campus, then a three-week immersion in India.

Student Scholars

Rawlings Scholars' research ranges from earworms to robots

Cornell Chronicle

Students with strong research interests receive special funding to further their work.  

Olufemi Taiwo
New Century for the Humanities

Big Ideas panel explores the risks of humanitarianism

Cornell Chronicle

Although the intent is good, humanitarianism is fraught with risks for those on the receiving end, researchers say.

Student Initiatives

Book Wagon wheels books into Willard Straight

Cornell Chronicle

A conspicuous miniature wagon is parked in Willard Straight Hall’s browsing library. In the vintage Straight interior surrounded by sculptures, paintings and scale-model ships, the antique-looking wooden wagon might seem like a part of an exposition on rural life in 18th-century Britain. But the wagon is no exhibition piece; it’s the home of a student-founded, self-funded independent community book exchange.

Biology

Small bird tagging tech creates new ways to study animals

Cornell Chronicle

A new solar-powered tag allows scientists to follow birds throughout their lives.

Transformative Humanities

Peraino on "The Odyssey" and "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

"Odysseus, The Sirens, and a little bit of Rocky Horror"

Medieval Studies

Medieval Studies Program celebrates 50th Anniversary

Arts & Sciences Communications

Scholars in medieval studies say many of the issues they explore resonate with those confronting modern society.