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Alumni support

Giving Day 2018 breaks records with philanthropic innovations

Alumni Affairs & Development

Thanks to our generous alumni, parents, friends, faculty, staff, students and other supporters, the College of Arts & Sciences exceeded its goals on Giving Day.

Social Sciences

Faculty report offers ideas for structure of social sciences at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

The report identified ways to better connect faculty, provide faculty with support and improve Cornell's external visibility and recruiting power in the social sciences.

Sociology

Sociology professor Filiz Garip wins Komarovsky Best Book Award

A&S Communications

Filiz Garip, professor of sociology, was awarded the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award for her work, “On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-US Migration.” The award, given by the Eastern Sociological Society, honors the memory of Mirra Komarovsky, a pioneer in the sociology of gender.

Linguistics

Soup & Hope speaker uses love of languages to push for social change

Cornell Chronicle

For José Armando Fernandez Guerrero ’18, two strong women – his grandmother, Apolonia, and his mother, Josefina – believed that his education would open opportunities. A third – a high school French teacher – showed him how to use his education, and the passion for languages and linguistics it inspired, to help him embrace and move beyond his past.

Undergraduate Curriculum

A&S curriculum report recommends focus on exploration, simplified requirements

A&S Communications

Faculty will take the next steps to determine whether the recommendation should move on to a proposal.

Staff News

Keeley Boerman receives top Employee Excellence Award

Cornell Chronicle

More than 200 awardees, nominees, nominators and senior staff members gathered at the Statler Ballroom for the fifth annual Employee Excellence Awards celebration March 13.“You are held in the highest regard by the student-athletes,” Vice President Ryan Lombardi told the audience, “for your willingness to listen when they are struggling with school work, family issues and missing home.”

Performing & Media Arts

Student playwrights and screenwriters honored March 23

A&S Communications

The winning stage and screenplays from this year’s Heermans-McCalmon Writing Competition will be showcased Friday, March 23, at 4:30 p.m. in the Class of ’56 Dance Theatre at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Society for the Humanities

Performance studies professor visits for Society for Humanities lecture

A&S Communications

Fred Moten, professor of performance studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and professor at the University of California-Riverside, will deliver the 2018 Invited Society Scholar Lecture at 4:30 p.m. March 21 in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The subject of Moten’s lecture will be “The Gift of Corruption.” The lecture is free and open to the public.

Creative Writing Program

A journey to Cornell for creative writing

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on Nneoma Ike-Njoku, a first-year MFA student in creative writing, who hails fr

Philosophy & Biology

Student melds humanities, sciences to find her intellectual community

Alumni Affairs & Development

Finding life balance is a quest that junior Kylie Long, an aspiring radiologist, appreciates.Her pathway of learning and discovery at Cornell has led her to pursue the humanities along with the sciences and to study ancient texts as well as conduct stem cell research. She asks life’s big questions, while also getting down-to-earth at a local potting studio. She likes quiet meditation as well as using her voice to blog about self-care.

Physics

Teukolsky to explore the Dark Universe in Spring Hans Bethe Lecture

A&S Communications

Einstein predicted black holes and gravitational waves – bizarre deviations from Newton’s theory of gravity – but it took almost a century before experiments proved him right. Those experimenters won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, but why do gravitational waves matter? And why is the recent detection of waves from colliding neutron stars causing such a stir?

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Government

Govt. professor has questions for new CIA director

Time Magazine

In this opinion piece in Time magazine, Joseph Margulies, professor of government and law and a civil rights attorney, writes about one of his clients and President Trump's new nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel.

Student experiences

Summer grants can support student research, travel

A&S Communications

Through departments or the college, A&S students can find various ways to fund their summer adventures.

American Studies

Dave Zirin to deliver 2018 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture

A&S Communications

Professional athletes have recently faced increasing criticism when they engage in political discourse, even though athletes have long had a history of political engagement. Dave Zirin, award winning sports editor for The Nation, will deliver the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture on “The History of the Activist Athlete” March 22 at 4:45 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

English

The Complete Archie

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Like generations of Cornell writers, I sat in the light of speech with poet and longtime English professor Archie Ammons morning after morning over coffee in the Temple of Zeus—first in the grand cavern that the café occupied on the left side of the Goldwin Smith lobby, later in the more modern but much diminished setting on the right, to which it was shifted in 1997.