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What Makes Us Human? Podcast Series

Human Ecosystem Engineers

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's second season, "Where Is the Human in Climate Change?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about the relationship between humans and the environment. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Tuesday through the spring.

Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies & Anthropology & French

Hadiyah Chowdhury: 'I was able to explore so many different academic interests'

Hadiyah ChowdhuryFeminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & Anthropology & FrenchCorning, NYWhat accomplishments/activities are you most proud of while at Cornell?

Anthropology

Eugenia Xiao: 'Take advantage of this opportunity to learn about anything and everything'

Eugenia XiaoAnthropologyBrooklyn, NYWhy did you choose Cornell?As a NYC native, I wanted to continue learning and growing in a place filled with people from all walks of life, committed to diverse passions and dreams. The four colleges at Cornell offer the setting for me to engage with this community every day. Moreover, it offers a natural landscape that I knew would give me peace of mind as a student when times get stressful.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast Series

Podcast explores ‘Where Is the Human in Climate Change?'

A&S Communications

The new season of our “What Makes Us Human” podcast showcases the latest thinking about the relationship between humans and the environment.

Biological Sciences

Kndeya Gebrewahed: ' I asked myself, why not?'

Kndeya GebrewahedBiological SciencesAddis Ababa, EthiopiaWhy did you choose Cornell?

Linguistics

Gwendolyn Kahler: 'Do what you really want to do'

Gwendolyn KahlerLinguisticsLarchmont, NYWhat is your main extracurricular activity--why is it important to you?

Physics & Science of Earth Systems

Anant Hariharan: 'Conducting seismology research gives my life character'

Anant HariharanPhysics & Science of Earth SystemsBangalore, IndiaWhat is your main extracurricular activity--why is it important to you?

Sociology

Grad student leads group on algorithms and AI for social good

Cornell Chronicle

Members of the Mechanism Design for Social Good group, from left: Manish Raghavan, co-founder Rediet Abebe and Jon Kleinberg. 

Validating and Examining My LGBTQ Experience Through Academics and Social Life at Cornell

For April, we focus on the theme of diversity. Ambassadors will share times at which they felt that diversity is important in Arts and Sciences, and what life at Cornell is like as a minority, whether that be in terms of race, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or perspective. This week, Sophomore Julian discusses how his academic and social experiences at Cornell have helped him process, validate, and examine his identity as an openly gay student. 

Africana Studies

Zora Neale Hurston's work reconsidered April 19

A&S Communications

A professor from the University of Pennsylvania will visit campus April 19 to examine how writer Zora Neale Hurston’s work can be used to look at black life today.

Awards & Honors

History, music faculty earn Guggenheim fellowships

Cornell Chronicle

Two faculty members have been named among 175 scholars, artists, writers and scientists receiving Guggenheim fellowships this year.

Performing & Media Arts

Post–nuclear fallout with a dark comedic flavor and a “Simpsons” twist

Performing & Media Arts

Directed by Jayme Kilburn, a PhD student in Cornell University’s Department of Performing and Media Arts, “Mr. Burns, a post-electric play” runs at Cornell’s Kiplinger Theatre in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts April 27–28 and May 4–5.

Society for the Humanities

Popular will and politics examined in Annual Lecture

A&S Communications

How does “the people” appear in public life?  This question will be examined in this year’s Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture on Wed., April 18. Political theorist Jason Frank will speak on “The People as Popular Manifestation" at 4:30 p.m., in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall. A reception in A.D. White House will follow; the events are free and the public is invited.

Performing & Media Arts

Video installation explores experiences of the undocumented

A&S Communications

A panel discussion on the exhibit's last day will focus on the state of the U.S. immigration system.

Comparative Literature

Film Series Featuring Sino-Burmese Director at Cornell Cinema

A&S Communications

Films by Midi Z (Chao Te-yin), a Myanmar-born Taiwanese director, will be featured in a series at Cornell Cinema in April. “Midi Z Retrospective: Homecoming Trilogy” will screen Midi Z’s Homecoming Trilogy: "Return to Burma" (2011), "Poor Folk" (2012), and "Ice Poison" (2014), together with an experimental short, "Palace on the Sea" (2014), showing on April 16, 23, and 30, respectively.