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Special Academic Opportunities

Humanities scholars begin first year undertaking diverse paths of discovery

A&S Communications

Students in the program undertake their own independent, interdisciplinary undergraduate research in the humanities.

Arts Unplugged

Cornell continues Morrison celebration with colloquium, reading, film

A&S Communications

A panel of scholars will examine Morrison's life and work during a panel on the occasion of her 90th birthday.

Cornell Center for Social Sciences

Center for Social Sciences announces 2021-22 faculty fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Political polarization, environmental justice and inclusion in higher education are a few of big issues faculty members—including several from the College of Arts and Sciences—will tackle in the next academic year as fellows at the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Taming fluorine: New nano materials for drug synthesis

Cornell Research

With support from the National Institutes of Health, Phillip J. Milner, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, is developing metal-organic frameworks—a class of porous, crystalline nanomaterials—that can stabilize volatile fluorine-containing reagents.

Government

New lab studies role of gender in security forces

Cornell Chronicle

“Women who enter into occupations that are traditionally masculine spaces such as in the security sector or politics face many barriers that prevent them from succeeding in the profession."

Music

ONEcomposer partners with Philadelphia Orchestra for Florence Price premiere

A&S Communications

Cornell music faculty are working with the Philadelphia Orchestra to bring to light the works of a historically erased composer.

Department News

Trustees approve new Department of Literatures in English name change

A&S Communications

Faculty members say the change from the Department of English to the Department of Literatures in English better reflects the world and the department’s diverse fields of study.

Asian Studies

Book: Thai poet uses Buddhist principles to “re-enchant” the modern world

Cornell Chronicle

In “Teardrops of Time,” Arnika Fuhrmann places Thai poet Angkarn Kallayanapong among the most significant of the 20th century.

German Studies

Student Spotlight: David Dunham

Cornell University Graduate School

After earning an undergraduate degree from New York University, David Dunham, doctoral student in Germanic studies from Springfield, Virginia, chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the strength of the Germanic studies field and the university’s location in Ithaca.

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Cornell Library

Library’s A&S digitization program seeking applications

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences is seeking applications to create online collections that will support teaching and scholarship at Cornell and beyond.

Performing and Media Arts

Native Storytelling panel at Sundance features Jeffrey Palmer

Department of Performing & Media Arts

Palmer and other filmmakers will discuss the impact and importance of Indigenous voices in cinema at the Beyond Film event, free online on Jan. 30.

Sociology

Pandemic reshaped ‘small world’ campus networks

Cornell Chronicle

Through courses alone, more than 90% of students were linked by three or fewer degrees of separation.

Government

Some GOP members didn’t accept Biden’s win. What happens when an anti-democratic faction rocks a democracy?

Washington Post

In a Washington Post op-ed, Cornell government professors Rachel Beatty Riedl and Kenneth Roberts write that Republican leaders’ response to the armed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and other recent events suggested that some are unwilling to accept the legitimacy of free and fair elections, a problem not just for the Republican Party but for U.S. democracy more broadly.

Psychology

Computer model reveals how cortical areas develop and evolve

Cornell Chronicle

Little is known about how higher cortical areas in the brain develop after the primary areas are in place. A new study by Cornell and Yale researchers, including professor emerita of psychology Barbara Finlay, uses computer modeling to show that the development and evolution of secondary visual cortical areas can be explained by the same process.

History

Professor emerita to discuss latest work in ‘Book Breaks’

Cornell Chronicle

Mary Beth Norton will discuss her book, “1774: The Long Year of Revolution,” in the next “Book Breaks” discussion, hosted Jan. 31 by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.