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Africana Studies and Research Center

Why, 65 years later, school segregation persists: New York City is a perfect case study

Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana Studies, American Studies and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, writes in this NY Daily News piece that New York City schools have not achieved the dream of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. 

English

Morrison, architecture alumni honored by Arts and Letters academy

Cornell Chronicle

Writer Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, has been chosen to receive the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ highest honor for excellence in the arts. Three Cornell architecture alumni have also been named to receive 2019 Architecture Awards.Morrison earned the Gold Medal for Fiction. Two Gold Medals, in rotating categories in the arts, are awarded each year to those who have achieved eminence in an entire body of work.

Economics

Girls’ education suffers when high-achieving boys are peers

Cornell Chronicle

Boys, on the other hand, are not affected by high achievers of either gender.

Government

Mettler selected as 2019 Radcliffe Institute fellow

Cornell Chronicle

Fresh off winning a Guggenheim fellowship, democracy scholar Suzanne Mettler, Ph.D. ’94, has just received another honor: a Radcliffe Institute fellowship.

Psychology

Grants fund 15 community-engaged research projects

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell student and faculty researchers and their community partners will use this year’s Engaged Cornell research grants to study Cornell’s socio-economic impact on Tompkins County, whether mobile research labs effectively engage underrepresented populations, and whether farmer-led research in Malawi influenced student learning and development.This year’s grants, 15 in all, were announced earlier this month by the Office of Engagement Initiatives.

Sociology

Haskins wins William T. Grant Foundation research grant

A&S Communications

Anna Haskins, an assistant professor of sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences, recently received a research grant of $350,000 from the William T. Grant Foundation Scholars Program for her work on parental involvement in education.

Teaching excellence

A&S honors grad students with 2019 teaching awards

A&S Communications

The awards recognize innovative teaching, student counseling, classroom presence, preparation, administration and the development of new courses.

Government

What’s the response in China to the trade war?

The Washington Post

Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, writes in this Washington Post opinion piece that even though China is rolling out nationalist propaganda in reaction to increased U.S. trade sanctions, Chinese leaders may actually be willing to find creative solutions for the current trade impasse.Still, she says, there are signs that anti-U.S. protests could begin.

Sociology

European populists don’t need Donald Trump, but they like his support

The China Post

Sociologist Mabel Berezin writes in this China Post opinion piece that populism has been a feature of modern politics for some time, especially in Europe.

History of Art

‘Pathways to Art History’ addresses gaps in art history education

A&S Communications

While students from affluent school districts are often treated to field trips to museums or AP courses in art history, the same experiences aren’t always available to youth from low-income districts. This unequal access has prompted a new initiative developed by Ananda Cohen-Aponte, associate professor in the history of art department in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Mozilla co-founder shares vision for a cooperative future for tech

A&S Communications

Open source software, a web of connections, a tool for meaningful collaborations, a powerhouse research tool — when Mitchell Baker thinks of the things that the internet gets right, those are at the top of the list.

Government

Gretchen Ritter named executive dean and vice provost at Ohio State University

A&S Communications

Gretchen Ritter ’83, professor of government, has been appointed executive dean and vice provost of the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences.

What makes us human
What Makes Us Human?

Podcast considers Nile’s centrality to Egypt

A&S Communications

“Egypt’s Nile,” the final episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series’ fourth season, considers what the Nile River means to Egypt. This season the podcast asked "What Does Water Mean to Us Humans?" and showcased the newest thinking across academic disciplines about the relationship between humans and water.

Music

Musicians ♥ Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Mary McDonald ’78 discovered her voice at Cornell.Originally a French horn player, McDonald joined the Cornell University Chorus, the women’s vocal ensemble, during her sophomore year and won an audition for free voice lessons.“I had never had formal voice lessons,” she says. “One day, I asked, ‘What about these notes up here?’”

Africana Studies and Research Center

Reflections on the occupation of Willard Straight Hall, 50 years later

Ezra Magazine

On April 19, 1969, dozens of members of Cornell’s Afro-American Society and several Latino students occupied Willard Straight Hall for 36 hours to call attention to what they perceived as the university’s hostility toward students of color, its student judicial system and its slow progress in establishing an Africana studies program.