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Alumni support

Passing it on: The values I learned at Cornell

A&S Communications

An alumna gives back to Cornell by working with other international students.

Academics

Four new minors now available to A&S students

A&S Communications

The new minors are offered in public service studies, media studies, migration studies and science communication and public engagement.

Society for the Humanities

Political theorist, feminist scholar to lecture Feb. 18

Image provided/ This image is based on archived work at maydayrooms.org from the Wages for Housework Campaign, a feminist movement of the 1970s. In the 1970s, what Marx and Engel satirized as the most “infamous proposal of the communists,” the abolition of the family, became the most scandalous demand of feminists.  

Government

Panel: Partisan politics, shifting powers shape impeachment

Cornell Chronicle

“We’ve reached Hamilton’s and Madison’s nightmare, in that the party system has taken over the separation of powers system.”

American studies

Garcia, Burrow receive inaugural faculty diversity award

Cornell Chronicle

Maria Cristina Garcia, the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Anthony Burrow, associate professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology, have won the inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service Through Diversity.

Earth-sized planets at the TRAPPIST-1 star
Astronomy

After dust-busting the cosmos, Spitzer telescope’s mission ends

Cornell Chronicle

The Spitzer Space Telescope – with its Cornell-developed infrared spectrograph instrument – has been peering through murky cosmic dust to study the distant heavens for 16 years. Originally scheduled to last 2.5 years, the mission officially will end Jan. 30.Spitzer was the final mission of NASA’s Great Observatories program. The infrared spectrograph portion of the mission ended in 2010.

History of Art & Classics

Professor wins art history book prize

A&S Communications

Benjamin Anderson's monograph “Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art” has been awarded the 2020 Karen Gould Prize in Art History from the Medieval Academy of America, an award given each year for a distinguished book in the field of medieval art history. 

Performing and Media Arts

Spotlight: Victoria Pihl Sorenson

Cornell University Graduate School

Victoria Pihl Sorensen is a doctoral student in performing and media arts with a concentration on media and feminist studies. After earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and her master’s degree from the City University of New York Graduate Center, she chose to pursue a doctoral degree at Cornell due to its faculty and welcoming community.

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Chemistry, Mathematics, Science & Technology Studies

Four A&S assistant professors win NSF early career awards

Cornell Chronicle

One A&S researcher is studying the ethical implications of artificial intelligence algorithms.

Music

Ithaca Sounding celebrates homegrown modernist, experimental work

A&S Communications

Cornell’s Department of Music is collaborating with performers from Ithaca College and the community to offer Ithaca Sounding 2020, a multi-day, multi-venue event Jan. 30-Feb. 2.The festival and symposium will feature concerts, workshops, talks, presentations and readings focused on modernist and experimental concert music by Ithacans past and present, including keyboard composers Julius Eastman, Sarah Hennies, Robert Palmer, Ann Silsbee and David Borden.

English

Cornell Reading Series features multimedia and interdisciplinary authors for spring 2020

Since its inception, the Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series has brought some of the most exciting and innovative award-winning authors to read from their work at Cornell’s Ithaca campus—and Spring 2020 will be no different. Each reading is followed by a catered reception and book signing where students, faculty and the public have the opportunity to interact with the writers and poets; books are made available for purchase courtesy of Ithaca’s Buffalo Street Books.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein program offers workshops on design thinking

April speakers will focus on an off-grid residential project in the Mojave Desert.

Mathematics

Podcast explores the inner life of scientists

Cornell Chronicle

Math and science may not seem like the most emotional subjects, but a new podcast aims to give them a whole lot of heart.

Klarman Hall
Klarman Fellowships

Arts and Sciences announces first class of Klarman Fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Six of the world’s most promising early-career scholars will pursue leading-edge research projects across the sciences, social sciences and humanities during three-year terms.

Romance Studies

Digital book gives a taste of Venezuelan performance artist

The volume’s six essays reflect upon the power of performance as an act of radical disobedience.