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What Makes Us Human? Podcast

The Human Animal

The newest episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast features Laurent Dubreuil, professor of Romance studies, comparative literature and cognitive science.

Classics

Three juniors receive Caplan Travel Fellowships

Angaelica LaPasta '19, Francesca LaPasta ’19, and Griffin David Warren Smith-Nichols '19 have each been awarded a Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship worth $4,000 to study and conduct research in Greece, Italy and Jerusalem.

History & Information Science

Finding a major among many different interests

A&S Communications

Combing history with information science allows sophomore to explore new academic fields.

Performing & media arts

New collaborative theatre course focuses on climate change in the Finger Lakes

A&S Communications

Climate science, theater, and civic engagement come together in an interdisciplinary setting in a new performing and media arts course that culminates in a multimedia performance this week.

Alumni

Alumna’s medical career spans hospitals, Army bases and state institutions

A&S Communications

Adadot Hayes focuses her work on helping people with neurodevelopmental disabilities, such as cerebral palsy and Down syndrome.

Creative writing program

NYC event connects MFA students to publishing world

A&S Communications

The David L. Picket & Cornell Creative Writing Program Literary Reading in NYC included readings by nine MFA students and poet Ishion Hutchinson.

Mathematics

Alumna says math taught her to think differently about the world

A&S Communications

Katherine McCulloh ‘12 thinks math is an art.“Before attending Cornell I didn’t see math as the intricate art it is,” she said, “but being exposed to math at such an advanced level at Cornell helped me push myself to think, to see mathematics on a deeper level and construct more concrete arguments.”

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Links between social connectedness, stress and health to be studied

Cornell Chronicle

Maren Vitousek, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has received a two-year, $500,000 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award to study links between stress, social connectedness, health and future performance. The DARPA Young Faculty Award program provides funding, mentoring and industry and Department of Defense contacts to awardees early in their careers.

Government

Government major alumnus wins voting rights case

A&S Communications

Ethan Felder '09 says his Cornell leadership experiences prepared him for activism.

History of Science

New textbook features primary sources

A&S Communications

“Scientific Practices in European History, 1200–1800” by Peter Dear takes a different approach to the history of science from most textbooks.