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Jeffreys
History

Freedom-seekers inspire doctoral candidate’s work

A&S Communications

History doctoral candidate Megan Jeffreys is using runaway slave ads as one of the foundations of her work.

trees with pink blossoms in front of a clock tower and a library building
Free Expression

Talk focuses on academic freedom post Oct. 7

Cornell Chronicle

On March 13, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will host “Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after Oct. 7,” one of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year events.

Inside a legistative chamber, seats circling a central podium
Richard Ying and Tangui Morlier/Creative Commons license 3.0 French National Assembly
Sociology

France’s abortion rights vote sets potential ‘worldwide precedent’

A&S Communications

France is the first county in the world to include a right to an abortion in its constitution, underscoring the role of culture, religion and secular governance in the preservation and progress of individual freedoms, says sociologist Landon Schnabel.

Student observing solar eclipse with special glasses
Astronomy

Student buses planned for eclipse viewing

A&S Communications

Cornell students can travel right to the heart of the eclipse’s path, thanks to the student-led Astronomical Society at Cornell.

Dr. Yunn-Shan Ma
Provided Dr. Yunn-Shan Ma will conduct the Empowerment Through Music concert March 9.
Music

Concert celebrates International Women’s Day

A&S Communications

The annual Empowerment Through Music concert will be held Saturday, March 9 at 7:30 pm in Sage Chapel.

Students enjoy in-person activities around the Arts Quad during March Wellness Days
Extraordinary Journeys, the Class of 2021
Alumni support

Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 14

A&S Communications

Your gift allows the College to fulfill our mission — to prepare our students to do the greatest good in the world.

Movie poster: Oppenheimer
Universal Pictures
Alumni

Poised for Oscar gold, Oppenheimer boasts a Big Red distinction

Cornellians

Thanks in part to its physics-centric plot, the hit movie may depict more Cornellians than any other feature film in history.

Elbert Cox: a black and white portrait of a person wearing doctoral regalia
Elbert Cox, PhD 1925
Alumni

Remembering the Cornellian who broke racial barriers in math

Cornellians

After becoming the first Black person to earn a PhD in the field, Elbert Cox, PhD 1925, spent a lifetime inspiring others to follow.

The frozen ocean world of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
Astronomy

Ice shell thickness reveals water temp on ocean worlds

Cornell Chronicle

Decades before any probe dips a toe – and thermometer – into the waters of distant ocean worlds, Cornell astrobiologists have devised a way to determine ocean temperatures based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space.

Daniel Baugh
History

Daniel Baugh, ‘giant’ of British maritime history, dies at 92

Cornell Chronicle

Daniel A. Baugh, professor emeritus of history, died Feb. 9 at his home in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was 92.

Historic black and white image: a person sitting at a desk, writing
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Library Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature at Cornell, where he had an office in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Arts Unplugged

Events celebrate Nabokov as butterfly scientist

Cornell Chronicle

On March 15 the College of Arts & Sciences took over the Mann Library for the semester's Arts Unplugged, "Nabokov, Naturally," celebrating esteemed Cornell faculty member, Vladimir Nabokov as writer and "butterfly man."

Book cover: Subjunctive Aesthetics
Latin American studies

On climate change, artists ‘imagine the world otherwise’

A&S Communications

Carolyn Fornoff explores how contemporary Mexican writers, filmmakers and visual artists have reacted to climate change in her book "Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change."

five women in front of red background
Provided From left, Christine Balance, Alexis Boyce, Yu An Chen ’22, Alexandria Kim ’23 and Pearl Ngai ’23 at this year’s Cornell Asian Alumni Association Pan-Asian Banquet in New York City’s Chinatown.
Asian American Studies Program

Asian American studies celebrates new endowment funding

A&S Communications

"The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having.”

two people with model of church
Provided Architecture graduate students Zachary Sherrod M.S. ’23 and Chi-Chia Tsao M.S. ’23 created an exhibition model of St. James AME Zion Church with funding from a Rural Humanities Grant.
Rural Humanities

Grants available to fund rural humanities projects

A&S Communications

Funding is available for faculty and students with projects related to rural humanities.

Painting of mountains
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2005 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges, 1874. Watercolor heightened with gouache over traces of graphite on two sheets of blue-gray wove paper (glued together in a vertical seam at left), 11 7/16 × 26 1/8 in. (29 × 66.4 cm).
History of Art and Visual Studies

Grant to enhance art history book

A&S Communications

A Millard Meiss Publication Fund award will support the publication of Kelly Presutti's "Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France.”