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Religion

Professor explores contemporary and historic Islam

Arts & Sciences Communications

Islam has been much in the American news lately, but Chiara Formichi says the stereotypes media reinforce do us a disservice. “It’s important that we as faculty help students to break up assumptions and see that Islam is not just what is portrayed in the media,” she says. 

Music, Performing & Media Arts

CCA 2016 Biennial to focus on empathy

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) 2016 Biennial, “Abject/Object Empathies,” will feature 12 new projects by invited artists, Cornell faculty members and students. Most of the works will be presented on campus between Sept. 15 and Dec. 22, all on the theme of the cultural production of empathy.

Interdisciplinary study

New University Courses tackle love, food justice

A&S Communications

If you’ve ever wondered about love (and who hasn’t?), there’s a new university course for you this year. And if you ponder the issue of food justice and how it relates to our tiny town of Ithaca, there’s one for that too.Those topics are two of the new ones covered this year through the University Courses Initiative, which was begun in 2012 and will offer 18 courses this year.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

$1.3M NIH grant funds brain development, cancer research

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers will seek to uncover fundamental processes in brain development and their links to brain cancers with a new grant.

Orientation

Dean Ritter Welcomes the Class of 2020

A&S Communications

“Cornell’s story is America’s story, and we are in this great ‘unfinished symphony’ together."

Someone in the China Summer School signing a paper
International collaborations

Summer School in Theory holds first session in Shanghai

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty from more than 40 East Asian universities attended the inaugural one-week session of the East China Normal University (ECNU)/Cornell Summer School in Theory (ECSST) in Shanghai.ECSST provides an opportunity for select humanities and arts faculty to interact and explore contemporary international debates in media, literary and visual studies; art and philosophy.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Cornell builds bridges with Qatari 'doctors of the future'

Cornell Chronicle

The Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine-New York welcomed three special young guests recently: high school students from Qatar, visiting the United States for the first time to get a sneak peek into the world of academic medicine.

President's Council of Cornell Women

Three A&S assistant professors win research grants

Cornell Chronicle

Twelve Cornell assistant professors, including three from the College of Arts & Sciences, have been awarded research grants by the Affinito-Stewart Grants Program.The program, administered by the President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW), aims to increase the long-term retention of women on the Cornell faculty by supporting the completion of research important in the tenure process.

Near Eastern Studies

Doctoral student works to uncover birth of inequality on Cyprus

A&S Communications

The Fulbright and NSF-funded scholar will spend nine months on the island surveying fortresses and villages.

Linguistics

Cheyenne, how meaning is coded in language

Cornell Research

Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, many are endangered. An endangered language is one that is at risk of losing all of its native speakers.

English

95th Birthday Reading to Honor Renowned Writer and Professor Emeritus James McConkey

A&S Communications

The Cornell Department of English Creative Writing Program launches the Fall 2016 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series on Thursday, September 1, 4:30pm, inRhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, with a celebration of the life and work of Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus James McConkey on the occasion of his 95th birthday.

Sociology

Cornellians to share breaking sociology research in Seattle

Cornell Chronicle

Forty-seven Cornell faculty and graduate students will be among the 4,600 sociologists to descend on Seattle Aug. 20-23 for the American Sociological Association’s 111th annual meeting. Nearly 600 sessions and 3,000 research paper presentations will address society’s most pressing problems.

Neurobiology

Right or left? Study shows how zebrafish answer key question

Cornell Chronicle

Very little is known about the wiring of nerve cells in the brain that allow a fish, or any animal, to make fundamental choices to move to the left or to the right. A study of zebrafish larvae published Aug. 9 in the journal eLife for the first time reveals a circuit that determines the direction of a lightning-quick turn to escape a predator.

Kepler planet image
Space Exploration

Astronomers offer a new bucket list for other worlds

Cornell Chronicle

Forget Rome. Ignore Madrid. Overlook tropical islands. Cash in your frequent flier miles and book a cruise to far-flung, exotic exoplanets.

Liberal Arts

NYC institute builds community with liberal arts courses

Cornell Chronicle

The nonprofit Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), co-founded in 2012 by Ajay Chaudhary ’03, offers deep subject matter outside of traditional institutional walls, giving the local community access to liberal-arts education.