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Community engagement

Grants create engagement opportunities for students

Cornell Chronicle

The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded $1,307,580 in Engaged Curriculum Grants to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university.This year’s awards involve 99 Cornell faculty and staff from 46 departments. The 39 community partners are from 10 countries; 11 projects are based in New York state.

Klarman Fellowships

Application portal opens for new Klarman Fellowships

“We are recruiting the most promising emerging researchers from around the world."

Psychology

Babies not so helpless, new study shows

Cornell Chronicle

New research reveals that baby babbling elicits profound changes in adult speech.

English

Highly-acclaimed authors visit for 2019 reading series

The Fall 2019 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series features award-winning authors reading from their work. Each reading is followed by a catered reception and book signing; books will be available for purchase courtesy of Buffalo Street Books. The series is sponsored by Cornell’s Creative Writing Program and all events are free and open to the public.

History

Book traces rise of 'free enterprise' as cornerstone of conservatism

Cornell Chronicle

Might today's political rhetoric signal an end to the modern era of free enterprise?

Career experiences

Summer Pathways interns make the most of experiences in D.C., California

A&S Communications

"A place that once seemed intimidating and untouchable became strangely comforting," said Estefania Perez, of her Supreme Court internship.

Chemistry & chemical biology

NIH awards $17.4 million to Cornell for CHESS subfacility

Cornell Chronicle

A single human cell contains thousands of proteins that perform a vast array of functions, from fighting off viruses to transcribing DNA. By understanding the structure of these proteins, researchers can interpret their functions and develop methods for turning them on and off.

English

English professor’s book shortlisted for renowned Christian Gauss Award

A&S Communications

George Hutchinson’s book, “Facing the Abyss,” has been shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award of 2019, one of the major prizes for literary scholarship in any field. The Phi Beta Kappa Society, which confers the award, will announce the winning titles on October 1.

Astronomy

Fluorescent glow may reveal hidden life in the cosmos

Cornell Chronicle

Astronomers seeking life on distant planets may want to go for the glow.Harsh ultraviolet radiation flares from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres. Their radiation could trigger a protective glow from life on exoplanets called biofluorescence, according to new Cornell research.

Education Research

NSF funds two discipline-based education research projects

NSF funds two discipline-based education research projectsThe National Science Foundation has funded two discipline-based education research (DBER) projects in the College of Arts & Sciences, contributing to Cornell’s growing DBER profile. Both grants are about $300,000 and three years in length.

Government

Doctoral students win awards for research

A&S Communications

Two government graduate students — one studying the rise of populist radical right parties and the other the politics of domestic violence — have recently been honored with fellowships and other awards for their research.

English

Literary icon Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, dies at 88

Cornell Chronicle

Nobel Prize-winning author and alumna Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, died Monday, Aug. 5, in New York City. She was 88.

Sociology

Study finds racial bias in tweets flagged as hate speech

Cornell Chronicle

Tweets believed to be written by African Americans are much more likely to be tagged as hate speech than tweets associated with whites, according to a Cornell study analyzing five collections of Twitter data marked for abusive language.

Student summer experiences

Students fight violence, support NYC artists during summer experiences

A&S Communications

Students can use Summer Experience Grants to cover living and travel expenses when they take unpaid or minimally-paid positions.

Student experiences

Grants fund students’ summer research experiences

A&S Communications

… Ecology and Evolutionary Biology … Astronomy … Students from the College of Arts & Sciences are … uses of technology,” she said. Brianna Montalvo '20, an astronomy major, is spending the summer working as a …