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American Studies

Market grows for environmentally friendly dairy alternatives

9/17/2021 A&S Communications

“Plant-based and cultivated (or “lab-grown”) alternatives to animal products have moved well beyond the vegetarian aisle. "

Provided Natalie Wolchover

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Natalie Wolchover named A&S Zubrow Visiting Journalist for Spring 2022

9/17/2021 A&S Communications

The program brings accomplished journalists to Cornell each year to interact with faculty, researchers and students.

Ngoc Truong sitting on a rock in front of a lake and a mountain with glacier — Ngoc Truong

Astronomy

Student Spotlight: Ngoc Truong

9/15/2021 Cornell University Graduate School

Ngoc Truong chose to study at Cornell because of its tradition of faculty/staff/student involvement with spacecraft missions and its many notable planetary scientists and astrophysicists such as Carl Sagan and Edwin Salpeter.

Colored three-dimensional scan of the hands and footprints — Researchers discovered what is possibly the world's oldest artwork, rendered here in a three-dimensional scan, on a rocky promontory at Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau in 2018.

Archaeology

Hand and footprint art dates to mid-Ice Age

9/14/2021 Cornell Chronicle

To answer whether this could be the oldest art ever found, the team turned to A&S research scientist Thomas Urban.

St. James AME Zion Church — Provided St. James A.M.E. Zion Church is believed to be the oldest religious structure in Ithaca and one of the first A.M.E. Zion churches in the country.

Rural Humanities

Excavation to explore church’s role in Underground Railroad

9/13/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A multidisciplinary team of Cornell students and faculty and local schoolchildren began an archeological dig Sept. 18 at St. James AME Zion church in Ithaca.

Beams of light memorializing the Twin Towers with the Manhattan skyline below. — Photo by Lerone Pieters on Unsplash

Government

What 9/11 taught us about the president, Congress and who makes war and peace

9/11/2021 The Washington Post

In this op-ed, Prof. Douglas Kriner reflects on the lessons learned about war powers in the U.S. since 9/11.

A woman standing with her fist upraised at a protest at the White House — Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash

History

Should hatemongers and extremists have free speech rights? Cornell lecture

9/13/2021 Department of History

Hate speech is increasingly discouraged, even banned, by many institutions and media platforms. But allowing open forums for all speech -- including hate speech -- is essential to democracy.

2021 New Faculty

New Faculty: Britney Schmidt

A&S Communications

Britney Schmidt, Astronomy

Graduate students

Student spotlight: Samantha Wesner

9/9/2021 Cornell University Graduate School

Samantha Wesner is a doctoral candidate in history from Dallas, Texas. After attending Harvard University as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the field of history’s reputation as well as the library’s resources.

student looking at book — Jason Koski/Cornell University A student looks at the cover of the Cornell Daily Sun from Sept. 12, 2001, at Kroch Library.

Class experiences

Students explore 9/11 from multiple perspectives in new class

9/9/2021 A&S Communications

This fall, 20 juniors are exploring that time period in a new class, “Introduction to the Humanities: Afterlives of 9-11.”

Milstein Program Speaker Series

Best-selling science writer to talk about epidemics, life expectancy, innovation

9/9/2021 A&S Communications

New York Times best-selling science and technology writer Steven Johnson will visit campus Sept. 22 to meet with students and faculty and offer a talk to the Cornell community, “20,000 More Days: How We Doubled Global Life Expectancy in Just 100 years.”

Fellowships

New Fellowships support diverse scholars in the humanities

9/9/2021 A&S Communications

Two recent A&S doctoral graduates are new ACLS Emerging Voices Fellows and Cornell will also be hosting an ACLS post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History.

Science and Technology Studies

Tech/Law Colloquium features privacy, COVID and incarceration

9/3/2021 Cornell Chronicle

The Technology and Law Colloquium – a hybrid Cornell University course and public lecture series – will return this semester with talks from 13 leading scholars who study the legal and ethical questions surrounding technology’s impact in areas like privacy, sex and gender, data collection, and policing.

Physics

Freeze! Researchers develop new protein crystallography tool

9/3/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Combining state-of-the-art X-ray technology and cryogenics, Cornell physics researchers have developed a new method for analyzing proteins in action, a breakthrough that will enable the study of far more proteins than is possible with current methods.

Cornell Rare and Manuscript Collections A 1993 rally on Ho Plaza

Events

FGSS/LGBT programs plan yearlong anniversary celebration

9/3/2021 A&S Communications

Faculty, staff, students and alumni are planning a series of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cornell’s women’s studies program, now Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS), as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activism and advocacy on campus.

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