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Policing black Americans is a long-standing, and ugly, American tradition

Edward E.

Women in Ancient Rome Didn’t Have Equal Rights. They Still Changed History

Barry Strauss, the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies, wrote in this op-ed in Time that ancient Rome was a macho society, often misogynistic, where women did not enjoy equal citizen rights. But, he says, if we look hard at history, we discover some women who made their mark. 

Tackling cancer biology research across colleges and campuses

Cancer biologist Richard Cerione is seeking to understand what makes a cancer cell more aggressive and more invasive, in a cross-college collaboration with biomedical engineer Claudia Fischbach.

Six assistant professors win NSF early-career awards

Two operations research and information engineers, two electrical engineers and two mathematicians from Cornell have received National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program awards. Over the next five years, each researcher will receive up to $500,000 “to build a firm scientific footing for solving challenges and scaling new heights for the nation, as well as serve as academic role models in research and education,” according to the NSF website.

AAAS panel examines field of science communication

Women make up the majority of the field of science communications (in some Cornell courses in the field, up to 90 percent), but until it became a professional field practitioners were more often male. “Science communication is now lower status, lower paid and has all the ghettoizing characteristics of other gendered professions,” said Professor Bruce Lewenstein at the recent Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Conference in Washington, D.C.

New College Scholars explore interdisciplinary studies

"The College Scholar Program is the pinnacle of the liberal arts experience at Cornell...it allows students to leverage all of the expertise across all the departments in the College of Arts & Sciences and beyond."

Bilingual performance explores the experience of Ithaca's Latinx community

Performers told stories from their lives and shared music, dance and poetry about being Latinx in Ithaca, in Habla/Speak, a bilingual collective creation performance.

Study: Nearly half of Americans have had a family member jailed, imprisoned

A groundbreaking Cornell-led study shows that nearly 1 in 2 Americans have had a brother or sister, parent, spouse or child spend time in jail or prison.

Math professor honored with the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) recently honored Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics in the College of Arts & Sciences and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, as the 2019 recipient of the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition.

Economist Richard Schuler dies at age 81

Richard Schuler, professor emeritus in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts & Sciences and professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering in the  College of Engineering, passed away Feb. 13 at the age of 81. Services were held Feb. 18 at Saint Catherine’s of Sienna Church in Ithaca.

'Ten Caesars' offers lessons from history's great leaders

Stepping into the shoes of a god isn’t easy, as historian Barry Strauss makes clear in a new book that traces the biographies of 10 of the men who succeeded Julius Caesar.

International event marks 70th anniversary of Geneva Conventions

A&S groups begin work to implement new curriculum

The new curriculum focuses on the theme of exploration and reaffirms the college’s commitment to a liberal arts and sciences education.

When is a cross not a Christian symbol?

Issac Kramnick, the Richard J.Schwartz Professor of Government Emeritus, and R. Laurence Moore, the Howard A.

Collaborative venture helps women produce poetry from trauma

“Whenever women see real women talking about their stories, they leave feeling empowered.”