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Iftikhar Dadi, associate professor of history of art, has received a $238,000 grant from the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative for a series of research seminars. The project, “Connecting Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia,” is a collaboration between Cornell’s Institute of Comparative Modernities (ICM), the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, and Asia Art Archives in Hong Kong.

Technology in teaching

Study probes effect of virtual reality on learning

2/5/2019 Cornell Chronicle

The simulation, “Learning Moon Phases in Virtual Reality,” is part of a multi-phase research study to determine whether the compelling, immersive nature of virtual reality (VR) provides a better learning outcome than conventional hands-on activities. The study – which found no significant difference among hands-on, computer simulation or VR learning – is one of the first to look at the impacts of VR on learning.

Science & Technology Studies

PhD student combines passion for music with technology and sociology

2/5/2019 A&S Communications

… Science and Technology Studies … Sociology … Doctoral student Enongo … sure what she wanted to study. When she took a science and technology studies class, ‘What is Science?” cross-listed …

Alumni

Award-winning chef continues to innovate

2/5/2019 A&S Communications

Irene Li '15, co-founder of Boston's Mei Mei restaurant, is leading the way in the areas of ethical sourcing and fair employment practices.

American Studies Program

Law that allows president to declare national emergencies needs to be repealed and replaced

2/4/2019 The Hill

In a recent op-ed for The Hill, Professor Glenn Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of Continuing Education and Summer Session, discusses the tendency of presidents to govern by declaring national emergencies, in light of President Trump's threat to declare a national emergency to construct a wall along the U.S. southern border.

Physics

Nanoscale guitar string ‘executes a complex dance’

2/4/2019 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have devised a way to listen to a nanoscale guitar for the first time.

Student funding opportunities

Travel grant helps students explore the world

2/4/2019

Ruth Bierman Linnick '60 loved to travel, to learn and to teach, so her family and friends established the grant as a tribute to these lifelong pursuits.

Public Humanities

Mellon-funded Rural Humanities initiative launches

2/4/2019 Cornell Chronicle

A new project will leverage Cornell’s position in central New York to reinvigorate thinking about and engagement with rural communities and landscapes.

Performing & Media Arts

Question authority, beware false prophets in “Tartuffe”

2/4/2019 A&S Communications

A deceitful, pious man abuses his professional status to defraud and swindle trusting citizens in “Tartuffe,” written by French playwright Moliere in 1664. This enduring play, which challenges ideas of authoritarianism and hypocrisy, is brought to life by Cornell students in a performance venture at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts February 14–16.

Performing & Media Arts

Student teams with alumna to produce touring musical

2/1/2019 Performing & Media Arts

What would you do if you only had 100 days left to live? That’s the central question explored in the musical "Hundred Days"; Julia Dunetz '19 is associate producer and alumna Dana M. Lerner '14 is co-producer.

Economics

India can hide unemployment data, but not the truth

2/1/2019 The New York Times

Kaushik Basu, the C. Marks Professor of International Studies, writes in this op-ed in The New York Times that despite India's attempts to mislead and hide unemployment data, the truth is that the country is in an unemployment crisis.

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