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New Century for the Humanities

Simultaneously critical and creative, timeless and timely, global and individual, the humanities embrace the complexity of a rapidly changing world and inspire us to seek to understand it. 

Advancing Science

Cornellians illuminate world's scientific strides

Cornell Chronicle

A platoon of Cornell faculty, alumni and students contributed to the mix of eminent global researchers at the 2016 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., Feb. 11-15. They offered fresh thought on the world’s scientific strides.

English

Elisha Cohn publishes book on theories of the aesthetic in Victorian literature

A&S Communications

This past December, Assistant Professor of English Elisha Cohn published her new book Still Life: Suspended Development in the Victorian Novel (Oxford University Press), an extension of her research on Victorian novels and theories of the aesthetic.

Music

Composer, emeritus professor Steven Stucky dies at 66

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty remember the "gentle yet powerful influence" of Steven Stucky, emeritus professor of music and Pulitzer Prize winner, who died this month at his home in Ithaca.

Big Ideas in the Humanities

Humanities faculty tackle timely issues in ‘Big Ideas’ panels

A&S Communications

Six panels of faculty from across various disciplines in Arts and Sciences will share glimpses of their latest research on topics as diverse as technology and humanitarianism in a series of “Big Ideas” panel discussions this semester.

Environment

Humanists offer critical perspective on climate change

A&S Communications

Humanities professors research the impacts of climate change beyond the numbers.

Student ambassadors

The beauty of Cornell: "In the middle of nowhere but in the middle of everything"

A&S Student Ambassador

One of our Arts & Sciences student ambassadors shares her favorite spots on campus, including one you may not know about.

Theatre

Roasting Shakespeare with 'The Complete Works'

Performing & Media Arts

Director Jeff Guyton can’t remember the first time he heard the saying, but believes it’s the perfect way to describe his upcoming production, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] (Feb. 25-March 5). “If you love Shakespeare, you will love this play. If you hate Shakespeare, you will love this play.”

Humanities

NEH chair to deliver Society for the Humanities lecture

Cornell Chronicle

 William D. Adams, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), will deliver the Society for the Humanities’ annual Future of the Humanities Lecture Wednesday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. in Klarman Hall Auditorium. His topic: “The Common Good and the NEH at 50.”

Economics

Kaushik Basu's immersion in Indian politics

Cornell Chronicle

At the jam-packed first installment of Cornell University Library’s Chats in the Stacks series for the spring semester Feb. 4 in Mann Library, World Bank chief economist and Cornell professor Kaushik Basu spoke about his new book, “An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policymaking in India.”

Latin American Studies

Conference highlights work in Latin American studies

Cornell Chronicle

 Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students from a variety of disciplines will share their research and work on Latin America at the inaugural conference of the Latin American Studies Program (LASP), Feb. 19 at the A.D. White House.

Chemistry

Center for Materials Research grants aid New York companies

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Center for Materials Research JumpStart program, funded by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), has helped 71 New York state small businesses develop and improve their products through university collaborations.

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Humanities

‘Dramatic’ plaster casts installed in the Groos Atrium of Klarman Hall

Once, she soared above the heads of Cornell greats like A.A. Ammons and Roald Hoffmann as they debated the great questions of their time in the Cast Gallery of Goldwin Smith, later turned into the Temple of Zeus café. Then for years she lay forgotten, abandoned to dust and mold and neglect.

Breakthrough Discovery

Cornell theorists affirm gravitational wave detection

Cornell Chronicle

Professor Saul Teukolsky and senior research scientist Lawrence Kidder in the physics and astronomy departments contributed to the historic discovery about gravitational waves that proved Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Humanities

Society for the Humanities Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Arts & Sciences Communications

For 50 years, the Society for the Humanities has fostered path-breaking scholarship in the humanities. It has sponsored numerous internal grants, workshops and funding opportunities for Cornell faculty and graduate students in the humanities, as well as hosting over 100 annual lectures, workshops, colloquia and conferences organized by Cornell’s distinguished humanities faculty.