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Digital collections

Seven projects awarded 2018 digitization grants

Cornell Chronicle

Seasoned documents and artifacts are starting fresh digital lives through the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, which is funding seven projects this year. Launched in 2010, the program supports faculty members and graduate students in creating online collections vital for their own and for general scholarship.

Student experiences

Hatfield Award recipient spends summer learning about ethics in government

A&S Communications

From attending a lecture by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to seeing the process of creating a bill, Simone Smith '20 was exposed to many different aspects of government while interning in Washington D.C this summer. "Some of the issues I got to work on related to education, agriculture, labor and finance," said Smith, who interned with Senator Mark Warner (D-Va). 

Homecoming 2018

Arts & Sciences welcomes alumni for Homecoming 2018

A&S Communications

Art exhibitions, faculty research presentations by faculty and fun events are all on tap for Sept. 21-22.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein students welcomed to campus with BBQ, adventures

A&S Communications

Milstein students are offered a unique multidisciplinary curriculum, access to a variety of special classes and speakers and two summers of study at Cornell Tech.

Music

Video captures impact of week-long visit from jazz musician Wynton Marsalis

A&S Communications

“Improvisation, swing, and the blues. If those three elements are present, you have Jazz.” A new video highlights the profound impact of jazz musician Wynton Marsalis on students, faculty, and the public during his weeklong visit to campus last spring.

Africana Studies & Research Center

Economist, UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs to speak on democracy Sept. 12

Cornell Chronicle

Renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, who serves as a special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on sustainable development goals, will present a lecture, “Reclaiming America’s Democracy,” on Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. in Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall. The event is free and open to the public.The lecture will focus on the importance of civic engagement in the American context and its implications for sustainable global development.

A.D. White Professors

Influential researcher to reflect on 20 years of network science

Cornell Chronicle

… 20 years of research into the field he helped create. The upcoming campus visit of  Duncan Watts, Ph.D. ’97 , will be the last of his …

Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore
History & Government

Moore, Kramnick explore atheism in America in new book

Cornell Chronicle

Did America’s founders intend it as “one nation under God?” Does the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion extend to freedom from religion?

American Studies

White House reporter to speak about reporting ‘under fire’

A&S Communications

When White House reporter April Ryan openly asked President Trump about his racism in 2017, she abruptly became the story. Ryan will discuss her experiences in the White House and her new book, “Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House,” at the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture on Thurs., Sept. 20.

Physics

Thom-Levy channels innovation to benefit faculty and students

Julia Thom-Levy, professor in physics and vice provost for academic innovation, oversees Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) and the Office of Undergraduate Research. Her position was created a year ago, and CTI was formed by merging the former Center for Teaching Excellence with the Academic Technologies unit in Cornell Information Technologies.

Philosophy & Psychology

A&S student spends summer studying perception and memory at UCLA

A&S Communications

After taking a philosophy of mind seminar last year, Marlene Berke ‘19 began thinking about connecting her research to the philosophy of perception and epistemology. “This course familiarized me with the current philosophical discussion about cognitive influences on perception, providing philosophical motivation for my studies about whether what we remember and expect might ‘leak’ into perception.”

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Niankai Fu a finalist for 2018 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists

A&S Communications

Niankai Fu, a postdoctoral researcher in organic chemistry, has been recognized for his “transformative” work by the New York Academy of Sciences and the Blavatnik Family Foundation as a finalist for the 2018 Blavatnik Regional Awards.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Senior studies impact of nanoparticles in everyday products

A&S Communications

Manufacturers often use silver nanoparticles in product packaging to keep out bacteria and insects, but there is little research so far about whether the particles are completely neutral in the context of our bodies.                                           

Student activism

A&S student creates platform for female empowerment

A&S Communications

“Let’s Hear It” is also an online space for women to share advice, insights and valuable career guidance.

Physics

Cornell part of $25M NSF effort to untangle future physics data

Cornell Chronicle

Particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) produce massive amounts of data that help answer long-held questions regarding Earth and the far reaches of the universe. The Higgs boson, which had been the missing link in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, was discovered there in 2012 and earned researchers the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics.