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Government

Einaudi program promotes nuclear freeze movement’s legacy

Forty years ago this month, disarmament advocate and researcher Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg told peace activists assembled for Mobilization for Survival’s annual meeting that a bilateral nuclear arms freeze “could change the world.”

The Arts Quad in the summer
Social sciences

Grants seed social science research, conferences

Studies exploring the effects of disadvantaged neighborhoods, a reimagined school recess and customized avatars were among a slate of faculty projects receiving grants this fall from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).

What Makes Us Human?

New podcast episode traces roots of educational inequalities

Inequalities institutionalized during the Civil War era remain with us today, says Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana studies and director of American studies.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Visualizing data through storytelling

A&S Communications

By graphically representing data, information becomes more accessible to different audiences. Anna Feigenbaum, a writer, researcher and educator who focuses on creating social change through technology and communication, visited campus Nov. 18-20 for two workshops on data storytelling, sponsored by the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity and open to all students.

English

Conan O’Brien correspondence with E.B. White surfaces

When two Cornell University Library staffers heard comedian Conan O’Brien talk in his podcast about a letter he sent to famed author E.B. White nearly 40 years ago, they had a thought: What if that note from the then-16-year-old O’Brien was among the 25,000 letters in the library’s E.B. White Collection?

English

George Hutchinson’s ‘Facing the Abyss’ cited by MLA

Professor George Hutchinson has been recognized by the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America in the competition for its fourth annual Matei Calinescu Prize, with an honorable mention for his book “Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s” (Columbia University Press).

Campus & Community Engagement

Learning Where You Live course empowers students

A&S Communications

“The course changed how I think about my future. It made me realize that success has many definitions as all of us live different lives.”

Career experiences

Students have multiple opportunities for career exploration over break

A&S Communications

Alumni offered advice at networking sessions and students tuned in virtually to gain insights related to internships and job searches.

Creative Writing

Susan Choi, MFA ’95, wins National Book Award

“I get to lead a life centered on books and bring other people into that world.”

History

Historian and medievalist Brian Tierney dies at 97

Professor Emeritus Brian Tierney, who taught medieval history at Cornell for 33 years and was recognized as a leading authority on medieval church law and political thought, died Nov. 30 in Syracuse. He was 97.Tierney taught in the Department of History from 1959 until his retirement in 1992 as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies.

What Makes Us Human?

New podcast episode examines an impact of incarceration

A&S Communications

“Climate of Fear” explores the impact of incarcerated parents on their children’s education.

Biological Sciences

Post-kidney Transplant diagnostics

Cornell Research

Jonathon Han '21 spent his summer with nephrology patients at Weill Cornell Medical Center working to improve the diagnosis of post-transplant kidney-related diagnostics. He is profiled in a recent Cornell Research story.

Psychology

Student spotlight: Rachel King

Rachel King is a doctoral student in psychology from Rockford, Illinois. After earning her undergraduate degrees from Rock Valley Community College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she chose to attend Cornell for the intellectual freedom provided by its interdisciplinary nature.

Languages

Sign of the times: American Sign Language thrives on campus

Cornell Chronicle

The new ASL classes meet the College of Arts & Sciences’ three-semester world language requirement.

Drawing depiction of antibiotic resistant bacteria in film.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Physical forces affect bacteria’s toxin resistance, study finds

Cornell Chronicle

A random conversation between two Cornell researchers led to a collaboration between a chemist and an engineer.