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Education Innovation

New engaged learning curriculum offers gateway to the world

A&S Communications

Anthropology’s new Global Gateways course sequence helps students take advantage of off-campus opportunities, from engaged learning programs to study abroad.

CORNELL CINEMA

3D capabilities highlight Cornell Cinema’s diverse fall schedule

A&S Communications

The fall schedule includes a 3D movie extravaganza, four documentary premieres and a pioneering non-verbal film.

History of Art

How best to say, ‘Keep out!’ 10,000 years into the future

Cornell Chronicle

Debates about nuclear energy rarely address an issue critical for future generations: how to warn them away from buried nuclear waste.

Cornell's new president

Pollack champions ‘educational verve,’ humane and rational values

Cornell Chronicle

Martha E. Pollack plumbed the depths of Cornell history and spoke to current times in her inaugural address Aug. 25, following her installation as the university’s 14th president.Quoting a speech written during the dark days of World War II by Cornell historian Carl Becker, Pollack said there is just as much need today for universities to “maintain and promote the humane and rational values” that preserve democratic society.

Academic Symposium

Symposium addresses role of truth in universities, society

Cornell Chronicle

“How do we reconcile stable truth with multiple understandings of truth?” Bruce Lewenstein, professor of science communication, posed that question during an academic symposium, “Universities and the Search for Truth,” held Aug. 24 in Bailey Hall. The event was part of the celebration of Martha E. Pollack’s inauguration as Cornell’s 14th president.

Student support

Pollack urges Trump to support DACA program

Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack sent the following letter to President Donald Trump Aug. 31 to express her “deepest concerns” about Trump’s plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Student Support

A message from Dean Gretchen Ritter regarding DACA

Dear Arts & Sciences students, faculty and staff,

History

History professor wins national book award

A&S Communications

Russell Rickford, associate professor of history, was awarded the 2016 Hooks National Book award for his book “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination.”

Performing and Media Arts

Students work around the clock at Festival 24

A&S Communications

More than 45 students came together to produce four plays and a dance in 24 hours during the Festival 24 event.

Cornell Cinema

Cinema offers silent film with gender-bending Hamlet, live music

A&S Communications

Cornell Cinema is screening the 1921 German silent film Hamlet Sept. 14 in Sage Chapel.