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Society for the Humanities

Performance studies professor visits for Society for Humanities lecture

A&S Communications

Fred Moten, professor of performance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and professor at the University of California-Riverside, will deliver the 2018 Invited Society Scholar Lecture at 4:30 p.m. March 21 in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The subject of Moten’s lecture will be “The Gift of Corruption.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Creative Writing Program

A journey to Cornell for creative writing

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on Nneoma Ike-Njoku, a first-year MFA student in creative writing, who hails fr

Staff News

Keeley Boerman receives top Employee Excellence Award

Cornell Chronicle

More than 200 awardees, nominees, nominators and senior staff members gathered at the Statler Ballroom for the fifth annual Employee Excellence Awards celebration March 13.“You are held in the highest regard by the student-athletes,” Vice President Ryan Lombardi told the audience, “for your willingness to listen when they are struggling with school work, family issues and missing home.”

Undergraduate Curriculum

A&S curriculum report recommends focus on exploration, simplified requirements

A&S Communications

Faculty will take the next steps to determine whether the recommendation should move on to a proposal.

Linguistics

Soup & Hope speaker uses love of languages to push for social change

Cornell Chronicle

For José Armando Fernandez Guerrero ’18, two strong women – his grandmother, Apolonia, and his mother, Josefina – believed that his education would open opportunities. A third – a high school French teacher – showed him how to use his education, and the passion for languages and linguistics it inspired, to help him embrace and move beyond his past.

Sociology

Sociology professor Filiz Garip wins Komarovsky Best Book Award

A&S Communications

Filiz Garip, professor of sociology, was awarded the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award for her work, “On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration.” The award, given by the Eastern Sociological Society, honors the memory of Mirra Komarovsky, a pioneer in the sociology of gender.

Social Sciences

Faculty report offers ideas for structure of social sciences at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

The report identified ways to better connect faculty, provide faculty with support and improve Cornell's external visibility and recruiting power in the social sciences.

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Law and economics initiative launches with NYC event

Cornell Chronicle

The initiative connects economists, legal experts and other scholars with leading thinkers in government, international development, civil society and the private sector.

Alumni support

Giving Day 2018 breaks records with philanthropic innovations

Alumni Affairs & Development

Thanks to our generous alumni, parents, friends, faculty, staff, students and other supporters, the College of Arts & Sciences exceeded its goals on Giving Day.

Student experiences

Educational trip brings students to UN to appreciate complex world

A&S Communications

UNITED NATIONS, New York City — A diverse group of undergraduates, graduate students, academic fellows and staff from Cornell took a trip to the city last month to tour the United Nations, learn more about disarmament issues and talk about career prospects with the global organization.