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Performance

'Baltimore' confronts racial tensions on college campuses

Performing & Media Arts

A racist caricature drawn on a freshman dorm room door is the catalyst that precipitates intense discussions and confrontations about race in “Baltimore.” The play by Kirsten Greenidge, which runs April 28 to May 6 at Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, references the riots in Ferguson, the Black Lives Matter movement and the deaths of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin,

Curriculum

A&S holds student forum on new curriculum proposal

A&S Communications

Student feedback and questions will be passed on to faculty as they consider curriculum changes.

Alumni

Arts & Sciences alum wins Pulitzer for reporting

A&S Communications

Chivers' piece details the story of a Marine Corps veteran diagnosed with PTSD.

Government

The Federal budget's threat to foreign policy

Chronicle of Higher Education

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Student Research

Intrigued by chemistry

Cornell Research

… "I applied to colleges as a prospective chemistry major because of my interest in the field, despite … Chemistry and Chemical Biology … Vincent '17 admits that she used to earn average grades in chemistry in high school. “The reason why I chose chemistry …

History

Migration, Forced by Climate Change

Cornell Research

Climate change is a game changer: glaciers melt, sea levels rise, weather patterns become unpredictable. Garcia is exploring its impacts in her latest book project, "Climate Refugees: The Environmental Origins of Refugee Migrations," which looks at environmentally driven migrants.

Poetry

Interwoven - coal, colors, and other stories

Cornell Research

“I write in books, not in individual poems,” says poet Lyrae N. Van Clief-Stefanon, English. “A group of poems that make up a book will have an over-arching through line, all these threads that I’m holding together.”

Awards & Honors

Physics professor to receive prestigious award in Prague

A&S Communications

David Mermin, the Horace White professor of physics emeritus, has been named the recipient of this year’s Dagmar and Václav Havel Foundation VIZE 97 Prize.

Awards & Honors

Four Cornell students win 2017 Truman, Udall scholarships

Cornell Chronicle

Celina Scott-Buechler is studying how human-made forces drive change in marine coral reef systems.

Interdisciplinary

Scholars, artists convene to discuss black girls, women

Cornell Chronicle

In politics and activism, popular culture and social media, “black girls and women are hyper-visible,” according to associate professor of Africana studies Oneka LaBennett. They are portrayed “as ‘at risk’ and as cultural trendsetters, yet simultaneously rendered invisible in public policy discourses.”

Government

Why are lower-income Americans apolitical?

Jamila Michener explores the relationship between lower-income Americans and participation in politics.

Sociology

Trump can’t win on immigration if he scraps climate change funds

The Hill

Filiz Garip, professor of sociology, writes in this Hill op-ed that de-funding climate change programs will undercut Donald Trump's goals for immigration, and explains why.

English

Book redefines disinformation in American democracy

Cornell Chronicle

Disinformation has been a constant force in American history, according to a new book by Eric Cheyfitz, the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters.

Interdisciplinary Conference

ISS supporting faculty research projects, conference

Cornell Chronicle

From analyzing how labor policies contributed to rapid economic growth in Europe in the 1950s to testing the therapeutic value of virtual reality technology, Cornell social science research projects are receiving assistance from the Institute for the Social Sciences’ (ISS) Small Grants Program.

Linguistics

Team measures effects of sentence structure in the brain

Cornell Chronicle

When we learn to read, we say one word at a time. But how does the brain actually put words together when we read full sentences?