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Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies

FGSS convenes ‘The Future is Feminist’ book club

Cornell Chronicle

The club is reading “How We Get Free” by Keeanga Yamatta-Taylor, “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir and “The Politics of the Veil” by Joan W. Scott.

Government

Roper Center to create world’s most comprehensive health opinion database

Cornell Chronicle

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, housed at Cornell, has been awarded a grant to provide an easily searchable portal on the public’s views about health dating back to 1935.

Science & Technology Studies

Students use library portal to talk global health care

A&S Communications

Zoee D’Costa ’19 and other students in the Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine class learned about more than just medicine during their international conversations.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

New podcast explores ‘What Do We Know About Love?’

Cornell Chronicle

This season's “What Makes Us Human” podcast explores the newest thinking by Cornell faculty about the relationship between humans and love.

Student entrepreneurship

Student helps formerly jailed chess hustlers get back on board

Cornell Chronicle

Originally the men earned $3 to $5 for every game they played; they now are teaching chess at an average of $30 per hour to people who seek them out in the park.

Performing & Media Arts

PMA professor receives Achievement in Scholarship Award

Performing & Media Arts

The Women and Theatre Program presented Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) professor J. Ellen Gainor with the Achievement in Scholarship Award at their annual conference in Boston on August 1.

Our Founding Vision

At 150, ‘… any person … any study’ still stands strong

Cornell Chronicle

One hundred and fifty years ago, the “radical” idea that was Cornell University became a reality.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein students get a glimpse of artist Xu Bing’s character

Cornell Chronicle

Bing's animation, “The Character of Characters,” is on display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Cornell Council for the Arts

CCA Biennial launches with art projects across campus

The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial launched with a tour of outdoor projects on campus Sept. 28 and artist panels at a conference Sept. 29. The Biennial features Cornell and invited artists, such as Carrie Mae Weems and Xu Bing, with 18 project installations and performances on the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival,” curated by CCA director Timothy Murray.

History

Garcia briefs D.C. policymakers on the history of refugee policy

Cornell Chronicle

Historian Maria Cristina Garcia tells Congress why the past matters in the current debate over refugee admittance into the United States.

Near Eastern Studies

Historians to discuss role of alcohol consumption in Muslim communities at Oct. 18 lecture

A&S Communications

Historians Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene will discuss the role of alcohol consumption in Muslim communities since early Islamic times during a public lecture Oct 18.

Science and Technology Studies

Acclimate or die: Book examines disease in the British Empire

Cornell Chronicle

Historian Suman Seth explores the intersection of disease theory and race in the British Empire.

History

Diplomat Fried to present LaFeber-Silbey Lecture Oct. 18

Cornell Chronicle

From NATO-Russian relations to the collapse of communism in Poland to Guantanamo Bay, Ambassador Daniel Fried ’75 has been on the front lines of U.S. foreign policy. He’ll share an analysis of U.S. foreign policy informed by his 40-year career in the U.S. government as this year’s LaFeber-Silbey lecturer.

Religious Studies

Theater scholar examines critical reception of religion on Broadway

Cornell Chronicle

Since the era of George Jean Nathan, Cornell Class of 1904, the first-string critics of New York’s major newspapers – overwhelmingly white, male and educated at elite universities – have wielded outsized influence on which plays and musicals succeed in New York and thus the nation.

Graduate Students

Grad students recognized at dean’s scholars pinning ceremony

Cornell Chronicle

The Graduate School Dean’s Scholars pinning ceremony Sept. 26 celebrated its inaugural year in 2017, but the 2018 ceremony was not without its firsts.