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Teaching

Critical thinking – attained through physics

4/26/2017 Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story profiles the work of Natasha Holmes, assistant professor of physics, who studies the teaching and learning of physics, particularly in lab courses.

Humanities

Alumni gift endows Picket Family Chair in English

4/26/2017 A&S Communications

The gift will "enrich the experience of our undergraduate majors and minors and provide them with a fuller sense of community."

Performance

'Baltimore' confronts racial tensions on college campuses

4/25/2017 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

4/25/2017 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

4/24/2017 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

4/21/2017 Chronicle of Higher Education

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Student Research

Intrigued by chemistry

4/21/2017 Cornell Research

"I applied to colleges as a prospective chemistry major because of my interest in the field, despite knowing that I’d probably have to make a greater effort than others to develop my skills," said Ashley Vincent '17.

History

Migration, Forced by Climate Change

4/21/2017 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

4/21/2017 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

4/21/2017 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

4/21/2017 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

4/20/2017 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?

4/19/2017

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

4/19/2017 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

4/19/2017 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.

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