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Latina/o Studies

Latina/o Studies Program launches crowdfunding campaign

Arts & Sciences Communications

For 30 years, the Latina/o Studies Program (LSP) has been a hub for research and community. To celebrate the anniversary, the program has launched the “Let’s Dream Together” crowdfunding campaign to raise $20,000 in support of LSP students.

Faculty honors

Four faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Stephen Coate, María Cristina García, Suzanne Mettler and Fred Schneider will be honored at an Oct. 7 ceremony.

Science & Technology Studies

New book examines the genomics revolution

A&S Communications

Stephen Hilgartner examines how the governance and control of knowledge changed during the Human Genome Project.

Mathematics

Shapes, Floppy and Squeezable

Cornell Research

What does it mean to do research in math? According to Tara S.

Faculty honors

Baptist, Hutchinson awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Professor of history Edward Baptist and assistant professor of English Ishion Hutchinson are Cornell’s newest recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships.

Performing & Media Arts

Playwright Paula Vogel honored for LGBT activism

Cornell Chronicle

The event coincided with the Broadway opening of Vogel’s play, “Indecent,” at the Cort Theatre.

Economics, music

Cornell, a Rich Intellectual Gift

Cornell Research

Patrick Braga ’17 would have made Ezra Cornell proud.

A&S curriculum

Students host April 19 forum on proposed new A&S curriculum

A&S Communications

Students' thoughts and opinions will be shared with members of the curriculum review committee.

Alumni visits

Alum Dan Cohen ‘05, ‘Arrival’ and ‘Stranger Things’ producer, visits April 21

A&S Communications

… the short film that inspired another during an April 21 visit to campus as the 2017 Arts & Sciences Career … Now,” “Cut Bank,“ “Fist Fight” and “Table 19.” His upcoming films include the sci-fi thriller “Kin” and drama …

Africana studies

Africana symposium honored Locksley Edmondson

A&S Communications

Edmondson has been a major contributor to the articulation of Africana studies at Cornell.

History

Contested terrain: Historian probes Earth’s polar regions

Global Cornell

Dawn Berry is a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Cornell, and former postdoctoral fellow in foreign policy, security studies, and diplomatic history at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.How did you become interested in foreign policy relating to the Arctic and Antarctic, and why are these regions important?

Entrepreneurial students

Students from across campus pitch business ideas

A&S Communications

Students representing 11 startup companies with products ranging from organic skin care products to concussion detection devices pitched their businesses to a panel of judges March 20, vying for the 2017 Student Business of the Year, given by Entrepreneurship at Cornell. 

Asian studies

Students share tales of global climate change on Capitol Hill

Cornell Chronicle

"Making the climate change issue more personal, rather than hammering a person with ‘facts,’ is our first step in getting acceptance of it as a global problem."

Humanities research

Mellon grant supports open access to humanities texts

Cornell Chronicle

For the second year in a row, Cornell University Press has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant worth nearly $100,000 to fund the open access initiative, Cornell Open.“This is exciting news for the press and for the university,” said Laura Spitz, Cornell’s vice provost for international affairs. “Open access to humanities scholarship aligns with the mission of a global and engaged Cornell.”

Career exploration

Alumni triple gifts for summer experience grants

A&S Communications

The funding helps students with unpaid internships afford housing, travel and transportation costs.