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Sustainability

Environmental Humanities Lecture Series begins Oct. 4

A&S Communications

The 2017-18 Environmental Humanities Lecture Series will bring to campus four pioneering scholars in the environmental humanities, beginning with Heidi Hutner (Stony Brook University).

Humanities

Arts & Sciences Launches ‘What Makes Us Human’ Podcast Series

A&S Communications

The series showcases the newest thinking from across the disciplines about what it means to be human in the 21st century.

Mathematics

Mathematician to examine gerrymandering solutions in Kieval Lecture

A&S Communications

Mathematician Moon Duchin of Tufts University will discuss how mathematicians can make meaningful interventions in the redistricting process in this year’s Kieval Lecture, “Political geometry: Mathematical interventions in gerrymandering,” on Thursday, October 5, 4:00 pm in Martha Van Renssalaer Hall G71

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

The future of human-robot interaction

Roboticist Guy Hoffman describes a future with robots based on relationship, not conflict.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

A view from the science of non-humans

Studies of animal behavior move psychologist Elizabeth Adkins-Regan to ask whether there is even such a thing as “human.”

Education Innovation

Education researcher Natasha Holmes transforms physics lab courses

Cornell Chronicle

Walk into the lab section of any science course and you’ll see students busy with beakers, microscopes, calculators and more. But what’s really going on in their minds?

Government & Sociology

Germany’s far-right party AfD won the Facebook battle. By a lot.

The Washington Post

Graduate students Thomas Davidson and Julius Lagodny report on their research into social media use by Alternative for Germany (AfD)in this Washington Post opinion piece.The pair, who are studying in the fields of sociology and government, undertook the project to determine whether the party's social media use helped it to win 12.6 percent of seats in Germany's recent parliamentary elections, a number that surprised many.

Alumni Awards

A&S graduate awarded Fulbright grant

A&S Communications

A&S graduate awarded Fulbright Award to examine LGBTQ education in the Netherlands

English

Alumni wins chapbook contest

A&S Communications

In her recently published chapbook, "Chinatown Sonnets,” Dorothy Chan ‘12 reflects on her experiences growing up and the influence she felt from Philadelphia’s Chinatown neighborhood, nearby her hometown, and Chinatowns all over the world.

Near Eastern Studies

Munther Younes wins Sophie Washburn French Instructorship

Munther Younes, senior lecturer in Near Eastern Studies, has been named the winner of this year's Sophie Washburn French Instructorship

Industry Outreach & Knowledge Transfer

Five New York companies awarded JumpStart funding

Cornell Chronicle

Five New York companies have been awarded funding through the Cornell Center for Materials Research JumpStart program, which is supported by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation.

Arts & Humanities

Cornell Council for the Arts supports 35 new projects

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) is supporting 35 projects that will be presented on campus this academic year. Through its Individual Grant Program, the CCA awarded 15 grants of $2,500 each to Cornell faculty, departments and programs, and 20 grants of $1,000 each to undergraduate and graduate students and student organizations. Recipients were selected by a panel of faculty in the arts.

Chemistry & physics

Center for Materials Research's NSF funding extended, increased

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Materials Research – which through research and education is enhancing national capabilities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and materials research at all levels – has been has been granted $23.2 million for the next six years from the National Science Foundation.

English

Senior reflects on finding a “home” in the English major

Salvador Herrera ‘18 reflects on his journey entering Cornell pre-med to finding joy in reading Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”

Arts & Sciences Career Development

Panel of recruiters discuss the value of a liberal arts degree

A&S Communications

"I had a breadth of experiences and knowledge that recruiters found interesting."