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Music

'Healing through the arts': Kim presents refugee project

Cornell Chronicle

Violinist and Assistant Professor of Music Ariana Kim found inspiration last year among a group of refugees and asylum-seekers in Italy.

ILR student Sofia Lokelani Boucher ’19 performed a chant, hula dance and poem in Hawaiian in honor of Earth Day
Language learning

Languages, dance, dessert celebrate National Poetry Month

A&S Communications

A celebration of National Poetry Month and language learning on April 21 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art featured multilingual poetry, song, dance and an international dessert reception. The goal, said Dick Feldman, director of the Language Resource Center (LRC), was “to experience the beauty of poetry in many languages and to celebrate success in learning those languages.”

American studies

Historian to unpack 400 years of class-based injustices in America

A&S Communications

Historian Nancy Isenberg will take on the topic of class and privilege in America at the Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture.

Psychology

Why I don't want my daughter to learn about US presidents

The Hill

Katherine D. Kinzler, associate professor of psychology, writes in this opinion piece in The Hill about her concerns about the male dominated world of presidential politics."I can imagine the hypothetical study I would design in my experimental psychology lab to test the childhood impact of learning that our nation’s 45 presidents have all been men," she writes.

Outreach

Cornell, Boynton students find common ground through writing

A&S Communications

The experience helps Cornell students see that their community extends beyond campus.

Undergraduate Education

New Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education named

A&S Communications

Rachel Bean, professor of astronomy, will begin her new post July 1.

Teaching

Critical thinking – attained through physics

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story profiles the work of Natasha Holmes, assistant professor of physics, who studies the teaching and learning of physics, particularly in lab courses.

Humanities

Alumni gift endows Picket Family Chair in English

A&S Communications

The gift will "enrich the experience of our undergraduate majors and minors and provide them with a fuller sense of community."

Performance

'Baltimore' confronts racial tensions on college campuses

Performing & Media Arts

A racist caricature drawn on a freshman dorm room door is the catalyst that precipitates intense discussions and confrontations about race in “Baltimore.” The play by Kirsten Greenidge, which runs April 28 to May 6 at Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, references the riots in Ferguson, the Black Lives Matter movement and the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin,

Curriculum

A&S holds student forum on new curriculum proposal

A&S Communications

Student feedback and questions will be passed on to faculty as they consider curriculum changes.

Alumni

Arts & Sciences alum wins Pulitzer for reporting

A&S Communications

Chivers' piece details the story of a Marine Corps veteran diagnosed with PTSD.

Awards & Honors

Physics professor to receive prestigious award in Prague

A&S Communications

David Mermin, the Horace White professor of physics emeritus, has been named the recipient of this year’s Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 Prize.

Government

The Federal budget's threat to foreign policy

Chronicle of Higher Education

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Awards & Honors

Four Cornell students win 2017 Truman, Udall scholarships

Cornell Chronicle

Celina Scott-Buechler is studying how human-made forces drive change in marine coral reef systems.

Student Research

Intrigued by chemistry

Cornell Research

"I applied to colleges as a prospective chemistry major because of my interest in the field, despite knowing that I’d probably have to make a greater effort than others to develop my skills," said Ashley Vincent '17.