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A Very Spanish Summer: Interning at the U.S. Consulate General in Barcelona

This week, senior Hadassa shares with us how she spent her summer interning at the U.S. Consulate General in Barcelona, an experience that complemented her studies in Government and International Relations. By Hadassa Jakher '18, Government and Spanish double major, International Relations and Law & Society double minor 

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

3-D scanning project of 20,000 animals makes details available worldwide

Cornell Chronicle

What began as a Twitter joke between two researchers has turned into a four-year, $2.5 million National Science Foundation grant to take 3-D digital scans of 20,000 museum vertebrate specimens and make them available to everyone online.Cornell’s Museum of Vertebrates, with 1.3 million fish specimens, 27,000 reptiles and amphibians (called herps), and 57,000 bird and 23,000 mammal specimens, is one of 16 institutions involved and promises to feature prominently in the project.

English

Elisha Cohn: A humanistic point of view

A&S Communications

Animals, neuroscience, consciousness and medicine: Associate Professor of English Elisha Cohn’s interests range far and wide, all seen through the lens of narrative, her driving passion.

Near Eastern Studies

Near Eastern studies offers Middle East series to local teachers

Cornell Chronicle

A new initiative by Cornell’s Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES) to provide continuing education opportunities for local K-12 teachers launched Sept. 26. The collaboration with Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Educational Services (TST-BOCES) offers teachers a six-session professional learning opportunity focusing on the relationship between the United States and the Middle East through the lenses of politics, migration, religion and literature.

Performing & Media Arts

Escape from the Archive Conference examines relationship between performance & history

Performing & Media Arts

Scholars and artists will explore the interaction between history, theatre and performance during the Escape from the Archive Conference, Oct. 27-29 at the Schwartz Center. The conference, organized by doctoral students Caitlin Kane and Erin Stoneking from the Department of Performing and Media Arts, features lectures, performances and roundtable discussions on theatre, film, dance and opera.

Romance Studies

Two professors nominated for prestigious short story award

A&S Communications

… of Spanish literature, and Liliana Colanzi MA '14, PhD '17, visiting lecturer, were both longlisted for the Gabriel …

Classics

Classical Art- Ideal Form, Copy, Illusion

Cornell Research

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Sociology

The Cultures of Liberals and Conservatives

Cornell Research

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A panel discussing the Voyager anniversary
Astronomy

Cornellians celebrate the Voyagers’ historic Golden Record

Cornell Chronicle

Four decades after NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, about 800 Cornellians gathered at Bailey Hall Oct. 19 to celebrate the unprecedented mission, its famous Golden Record and the university’s role in the mission.

Cornell Tech-Ithaca partnerships

Milstein: Program will embrace long-held Cornell ethos

Cornell Chronicle

“Think differently” – it’s been a central theme at Cornell for more than 150 years and a driving force behind numerous educational initiatives including the new Cornell Tech campus, which opened this fall on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New Yor

Latina/o Studies Program

Award-winning poet, actor, activist to visit Nov. 2

A&S Communications

Carlos Andrés Gómez, an award winning poet, actor, speaker, and writer from New York City, will be visiting Cornell for a public performance sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 2, in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorum (132 Goldwin Smith Hall).

Book cover art for "On Tyranny"
Community read

Faculty host community read, discussion: 'On Tyranny'

A&S Communications

“History doesn’t repeat, but it does instruct” is the ethos of Timothy Snyder's new book, ‘On Tyranny-Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” Four Cornell professors will be holding a community read and public discussion of Snyder’s book that has been described as presenting “twenty lessons from the twentieth century adapted to the circumstances of today.”

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

The Law and the Human

The law plays a role in the social construction of what it means to be human

Career Development

Consortium connects Arts and Sciences students to potential employers

A&S Communications

A&S students can set up interviews in fields such as law, communications, marketing or scientific research.

How to Complete Distribution Requirements While Watching Music Videos

Writing on the theme of "Easing Back into Classes," junior Sheyla tells us about an exciting class on Beyoncé, intersectional identity, and feminism.  By Sheyla Finkner '19, Biology and Society major