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Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein students create websites, computer curriculum as spring service projects

A&S Communications

The projects are part of the Milstein “Collab” class, which combines academic modules (on journalism, citizen science, data collection, privacy issues and so on) with co-curricular exploration.

Science & Technology Studies

A&S professor honored with NSF Early Career award

A&S Communications

Malte Ziewitz, assistant professor of Science & Technology Studies and a Mills Family Faculty Fellow, was recently honored with a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program award, which will help him to investigate how ordinary citizens cope with being rated, scored and ranked by algorithmic systems.

Africana Studies and Research Center

Reflections on the occupation of Willard Straight Hall, 50 years later

Ezra Magazine

On April 19, 1969, dozens of members of Cornell’s Afro-American Society and several Latino students occupied Willard Straight Hall for 36 hours to call attention to what they perceived as the university’s hostility toward students of color, its student judicial system and its slow progress in establishing an Africana studies program.

Student presenting her art project
Media studies

New class contemplates media from cross-campus perspectives

A&S Communications

Over the course of the semester, “Thinking Media” drew on Cornell’s rich holdings in media and material culture.

Music

Musicians ♥ Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Mary McDonald ’78 discovered her voice at Cornell.Originally a French horn player, McDonald joined the Cornell University Chorus, the women’s vocal ensemble, during her sophomore year and won an audition for free voice lessons.“I had never had formal voice lessons,” she says. “One day, I asked, ‘What about these notes up here?’”

What makes us human
What Makes Us Human?

Podcast considers Nile’s centrality to Egypt

A&S Communications

“Egypt’s Nile,” the final episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series’ fourth season, considers what the Nile River means to Egypt. This season the podcast asked "What Does Water Mean to Us Humans?" and showcased the newest thinking across academic disciplines about the relationship between humans and water.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Mozilla co-founder shares vision for a cooperative future for tech

A&S Communications

Open source software, a web of connections, a tool for meaningful collaborations, a powerhouse research tool — when Mitchell Baker thinks of the things that the internet gets right, those are at the top of the list.

Government

Gretchen Ritter named executive dean and vice provost at Ohio State University

A&S Communications

Gretchen Ritter ’83, professor of government, has been appointed executive dean and vice provost of the Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences.

Government

What’s the response in China to the trade war?

The Washington Post

Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, writes in this Washington Post opinion piece that even though China is rolling out nationalist propaganda in reaction to increased U.S. trade sanctions, Chinese leaders may actually be willing to find creative solutions for the current trade impasse.Still, she says, there are signs that anti-U.S. protests could begin.

Sociology

European populists don’t need Donald Trump, but they like his support

The China Post

Sociologist Mabel Berezin writes in this China Post opinion piece that populism has been a feature of modern politics for some time, especially in Europe.