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Career Development

'An internship connects you to your future'

A&S Communications

A panel of students shared their experiences with the Cornell in Washington program and their summer internships.

German studies

Alexander Kluge: New Perspectives on Creative Arts and Critical Practice

A&S Communications

The German Studies Department will host a three-day international conference Oct. 11-13 discussing the works and theoretical contributions of German multimedial artist and storyteller Alexander Kluge.

Information Science & Sociology

New group to study AI’s impact on decision-making

Cornell Chronicle

Artificial intelligence is guiding a growing number of decisions in criminal justice, education, health care and other areas, with the potential to significantly alter people’s lives.

Government

The Innocence of Abu Zubaydah

The New York Review of Books

Joseph Margulies, professor of Law and Government, writes in this The New York Review of Books article that due to the demonization of radical Islam since 9/11, a signficant portion of the U.S. population and its leaders have uncritically embraced the torture  and emprisonment without trial of those accused of being followers of radical Islam. 

English

Pulitzer Prize Nominee Alice McDermott to Speak at Cornell

Novelist Alice McDermott, a three-time Pulitzer nominee, will read from her work at Cornell on Thursday, Oct. 11 at 4:30 p.m. The Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading will take place at the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be followed by a catered reception and book signing in the English Lounge. 

Physics

Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, shares Nobel Prize in physics

Cornell Chronicle

Ashkin received the prize for his invention of "optical tweezers" that move objects with light.

Interdisciplinary

Conference explores migration, celebrates Wason Collection centennial

Cornell Chronicle

More than 100 scholars and librarians from 12 countries celebrated the centennial of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the seventh International Conference of the World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies, Sept.

Science and Technology Studies

Acclimate or die: Book examines disease in the British Empire

Cornell Chronicle

Historian Suman Seth explores the intersection of disease theory and race in the British Empire.

History

Diplomat Fried to present LaFeber-Silbey Lecture Oct. 18

Cornell Chronicle

From NATO-Russian relations to the collapse of communism in Poland to Guantanamo Bay, Ambassador Daniel Fried ’75 has been on the front lines of U.S. foreign policy. He’ll share an analysis of U.S. foreign policy informed by his 40-year career in the U.S. government as this year’s LaFeber-Silbey lecturer.

Religious Studies

Theater scholar examines critical reception of religion on Broadway

Cornell Chronicle

Since the era of George Jean Nathan, Cornell Class of 1904, the first-string critics of New York’s major newspapers – overwhelmingly white, male and educated at elite universities – have wielded outsized influence on which plays and musicals succeed in New York and thus the nation.