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comparative literature

New book analyzes poetry across the world

A&S Communications

“What one cannot compute, one must poetize,” concludes a new interdisciplinary study of poetry.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Unraveling titanium dioxide’s self-cleaning ability

Titanium dioxide is one of several minerals that are self-cleaning; they use energy from the sun to convert any “schmutz” that lands on their surface to a harmless gas, which then floats away.

English

Pulitzer Prize-winning authors featured in Fall 2018 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series

A&S Communications

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gregory Pardlo kicks off the Fall 2018 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series, sponsored by Cornell’s Creative Writing Program.

Student research

Weill Cornell Medicine internship allows chemistry major to continue NIH work

A&S Communications

Ashley Kim ’19 spent her summer with researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, working on research that could help doctors determine what role proteins play in the progression of disease.

Ethics & Public Life

Lectures explore politics and justice in the Trump era

“Politics and Justice in the Era of Donald Trump” will be explored in a lecture series at Cornell featuring eminent social scientists, beginning with Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University) on Sept. 12. The co-author of “How Democracies Die” will speak on dangers to democracy.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-college Program in Environment and Sustainability launches

Cornell Chronicle

The expanded environmental and sustainability sciences major is now available to students in both the College of Arts & Sciences and CALS.

Campus events

‘Paths to Peace’ explores legacy of antiwar campaigner

Cornell Chronicle

On June 12, 1982, an estimated one million people marched through the streets of New York City to protest the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. They had a simple proposition: immediately freeze the development and deployment of nuclear weapons. Then, they argued, we can begin the hard work of eliminating them altogether.

Performing & Media Arts

New immersive headphone play premieres this month

A&S Communications

“The Missing Chapter,” by Katie Marks & Aoise Stratford, visiting assistant professor of performing and media arts, is The Cherry Art’s new, immersive headphone walking play based on Ithaca's silent film past.

Music

Organ conference and concert festival Sept. 6-8

A&S Communications

The baroque organ was an artifact of global culture produced by international networks of artists, artisans, traders, and adventurers. “The Organ in the Global Baroque” conference and concert festival will celebrate these organs Sept. 6-8 on the Cornell campus.

Student Experiences

‘Serendipity’ leads to summer research for history major

A&S Communications

Abi Bernard ’19 says her experience is pretty typical at Cornell: she came in with one plan – to major in linguistics – but that changed in her first semester when she took a history course.

Curriculum review

A&S faculty to consider new revised curriculum proposal

A&S Communications

The newest revision encourages exploration and addresses concerns related to the language requirement.

English

American literature scholar kicks off Botanic Gardens’ lecture series Aug. 29

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Botanic Gardens opens its annual Fall Lecture Series with author George Hutchinson, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture in the College of Arts and Sciences, delivering the 2018 William and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture Wednesday, Aug. 29, at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium. The lecture will be followed at 7 p.m.

Music

Revisiting the Time of J.S. Bach

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on Bach scholar and accomplished organist/pianist, David Yearsley, who is exploring not only Bach’s music but also the music of Bach’s wife and their world.

Physics

Donald Holcomb, emeritus physics professor, dies at 92

Cornell Chronicle

Emeritus professor of physics Donald F. Holcomb, who served two terms as chair of the department and championed the cause of improving physics education, died Aug. 9 in his residence at Kendal at Ithaca.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Former Cornell Provost Robert Plane dies at 90

Cornell Chronicle

Robert A. Plane, a professor emeritus of chemistry who served as the university’s eighth provost during the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, later becoming an innovative Finger Lakes vintner, died Aug. 6 at his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.