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Engaged Cornell

Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced

Cornell Chronicle

Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program.The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.

Teaching excellence

Six projects receive Innovative Teaching and Learning Awards

Cornell Chronicle

This year’s Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners will give Cornell students a host of new opportunities and experiences – from building their own musical instruments to using new software programs for imaging dynamic processes inside the human body.

Alumni visits

Attorney shares wide-ranging career path with students

A&S Communications

“Something within me just craves movement and change,” Stephen Robinson ’81 J.D. ’83 said during a Career Conversation with students.

English

Influential writer, teacher Robert Morgan celebrated Oct. 3

Cornell Chronicle

Robert Morgan, an influential American writer and one of Cornell’s most beloved professors, will be honored at a celebration on campus on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

What Makes Us Human?

Podcast explores inequality’s impact on well-being

"We can expect rising inequality to make the population as a whole less happy," says Professor Thomas Gilovich.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein program brings alumnus screenwriter, data visualization expert to campus

A&S Communications

The sessions with screenwriter Howard Rodman '71 and digital storyteller Anna Feigenbaum are open to the public.

Service

A&S students named Engaged Cornell Ambassadors

A&S Communications

Five Arts & Sciences students have been named 2019-2020 Engaged Ambassadors through Engaged Cornell, a program that allows students to be mentors to other students participating in the Certificate in Engaged Leadership program.

Performing & Media Arts

New PMA film professor balances teaching with film release

A&S Communications

Before Jeffrey Palmer ever held a video camera or took a filmmaking class, he felt pretty confident that he would be a good at it. So he bought some good equipment, put together a DVD with a series of shorts and applied to the country’s top film MFA programs.He got into all of them.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Cornell researchers reveal molecular basis of vision

Cornell Chronicle

The study's insights have broad implications for the design of more than a third of the drugs on the market today.

Government

‘Ours Will No Longer Be a Nation Subject to Insult and Humiliation’

The New York Times

Jesscia Chen Weiss writes in this New York Times opinion piece about current events such as the trade war and Hong Kong protests and their impacts on China.

Arts Unplugged

Arts Unplugged event features Sundance film screening, masterclass

A&S Communications

The second Arts Unplugged celebrates indigenous culture with talks, film, food and more. Thursday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Chemistry and Physics

Alumna writes go-to guide for teaching climate change

Alumni Affairs & Development

Ingrid Zabel '87 has created The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change.

Humanities research

$6M alumni gift launches Humanities Scholars Program

A&S Communications

For the first time, undergraduates can be immersed in the work of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities.

History

LaFeber-Silbey Lecture: 'California Dreaming'

Historian Francis J. Gavin will present this year’s LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, “California Dreaming – The Crisis and Rebirth of American Power in the 1970s”. The talk is Thursday, October 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kaufmann Auditorium/Room G64 in Goldwin Smith Hall. Sponsored by the Department of History, the talk is free and open to the public.

Chemistry

Prof wins national chemistry award

A&S Communications

Associate Professor of Chemistry Kyle Lancaster was recently honored with the National Fresenius Award from Phi Lambda Upsilon.