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Classics

Student spends semester immersed in the study of Latin

A&S Communications

How many people can say they can speak Latin? Erchen “Erial” Zheng ‘18, a senior classics major with a minor in history, is part of the growing number of scholars invested in learning Latin as a living language.“I started learning Latin in high school,” Zheng said, “but I think my love for the classical world began much earlier when I was in the third grade. It started with Greek myth and then from there my interest grew bigger and bigger.”

Performing & Media Arts

Chase Palmer, screenwriter of “It,” talks about pursuing a career in film

A&S Communications

Screenwriter Chase Palmer met with students Sept. 21 as part of the Professional Directions Series hosted by Austin Bunn, associate professor in the the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) and talked about the importance of networking and taking the time to write.

Student research

Student delegates attend Clinton Global Initiative conference

A&S Communications

Fifteen Cornell student delegates, including six from Arts & Sciences, worked on solutions to world problems in fields such as education and health care.

Humanities + STEM

Visualizing Science — a Caltech Internship

Cornell Research

As a math major with a concentration in computer science, one might assume that on paper, Beatrice Jin ’18, would be more inclined to pursue purely technical fields rather than the humanities. Jin, however, who hails from the suburbs of Chicago, has had a consistent passion for art and visual design in addition to math and science.

English

McCall memoir will be the focus of Oct. 23 reading

A&S Communications

Dan McCall, a beloved Cornell professor of American studies and creative writing, passed away in 2012, but his son Steven has just published his father’s memoir, “Boy on a Unicycle,” and will visit for a reading Oct. 23.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Disability and the Human Experience

his is an episode in the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Physics

Manipulating nature with X-ray lasers is topic of Oct. 18 lecture

A&S Communications

Ever since the invention of the laser more than 50 years ago, scientists have been striving to create an X-ray version. But until recently, very high power levels were needed to make an X-ray laser. Making a practical, tabletop-scale X-ray laser source required taking a new approach, as will be described by physicist Margaret Murnane in this fall’s Hans Bethe Lecture.

Classics

Contemporary bard to present ancient Odyssey in music

A&S Communications

In the spirit of the ancient bards, Joe Goodkin will perform an original musical adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey for solo acoustic guitar and voice on Oct. 24 in Klarman Hall, KG70, at 5 pm.

Jewish Studies Program

Harbingers and Echoes of the Shoah

A&S Communications

Concentration camps existed before World War II and still exist, as Andrea Pitzer will explore in her Oct. 17 lecture, “Harbingers and Echoes of the Shoah.”

Africana Studies

Munday speaker focuses on intersections of race, inequality, criminal justice

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, will deliver this year’s Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture.His talk, “A Revitalized Black Public Sphere and the Future of American Democracy,” will take place at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Africana Studies and Research Center.