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Arts Unplugged event features Sundance film screening, masterclass

The second Arts Unplugged celebrates indigenous culture with talks, film, food and more. Thursday, Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Alumna writes go-to guide for teaching climate change

Ingrid Zabel '87 has created The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change.

$6M alumni gift launches Humanities Scholars Program

… Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program … alumni gift will help launch the Humanities Scholars Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, offering a signature learning, research … $6M alumni gift launches Humanities Scholars Program …

LaFeber-Silbey Lecture: 'California Dreaming'

Historian Francis J. Gavin will present this year’s LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, “California Dreaming – The Crisis and Rebirth of American Power in the 1970s”. The talk is Thursday, October 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kaufmann Auditorium/Room G64 in Goldwin Smith Hall. Sponsored by the Department of History, the talk is free and open to the public.

Prof wins national chemistry award

Associate Professor of Chemistry Kyle Lancaster was recently honored with the National Fresenius Award from Phi Lambda Upsilon.

New graduate fellowships boost humanities, social science scholars

The one-year fellowships allows students to focus on their research without having to teach.

Professor’s perceptron paved the way for AI – 60 years too soon

In July 1958, the U.S. Office of Naval Research unveiled a remarkable invention.An IBM 704 – a 5-ton computer the size of a room – was fed a series of punch cards. After 50 trials, the computer taught itself to distinguish cards marked on the left from cards marked on the right.It was a demonstration of the “perceptron” – “the first machine which is capable of having an original idea,” according to its creator, Frank Rosenblatt ’50, Ph.D. ’56.

New podcast season explores inequality

Lecture to address issues of diversity at elite schools

Are elite institutions ready for an increasingly diverse student body? Anthony Jack, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will address this question in a lecture Oct. 3 at 3:30 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building, Room G10.

PMA 10-Minute Play Festival set for Oct. 3-5

Animate grocery store items, a haunted 500-dollar bill, and the provocative case of actor Jussie Smollett are among the varied topics explored in this year’s 10-Minute Play Festival from the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) and the Graduate Researchers in Media and Performing Arts (GRMPA). The annual festival, now in its seventh year, serves as a laboratory for the development of student-written plays and presents students with a range of opportunities in theater.

Prof studies forgotten communities through literature

Helena Viramontes focuses her lens on the Latino experience in the United States.

Prof researches the behavior of geometric structures

Assistant professor of mathematics Kathryn P. Mann studies basic mathematical objects through the field of geometric topology. She investigates their symmetries and looks at how the objects change under transformations.

Hoffman challenge course tests Milstein students’ teamwork

Students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity are entering the second year of the program, welcoming a new group of first-year students this fall, as well as getting to know students who were admitted last spring.

New season of 'Antiquitas' features great battles

How do you trick a disciplined opponent with state-of-the-art equipment into entering a killing field? How do you turn an enemy’s strengths into his weaknesses? How do you get inside an enemy’s head?

Cornell Neurotech lecture to feature Caltech scientist

Renowned neuroscientist David J. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology will discuss the relationship between brain circuitry and behaviors in the 2019 Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Lecture.The talk will be held Sept. 26 at 4 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building, with a reception to follow. The lecture is free and open to the public.