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Innovative curriculum

Student opinion pieces encourage action on climate change

1/3/2024 A&S Communications

Students in Prof. Caroline Levine’s Communicating Climate Change class wrote opinion pieces spurring readers to take action related to climate.

Four donuts in a stack: frosted pink, covered with sprinkles — Annie Spratt/Unsplash

Philosophy

What if ‘food noise’ is just…hunger?

1/2/2024 New York Times

Kate Manne writes that “food noise,” ubiquitous on social media, is a rebrand of some of the most basic human drives: hunger, appetite, craving – and she argues that we should resist this reframing.

Two people stand together in a studio with paints and paintings — Olya Frank/Provided Gordon Sander and Jonathan “JJ” Manford ’06

Alumni

For two Cornellian pals, art meets life — now in book form

12/22/2023 Cornellians

An enduring friendship between alums — dating back to when they were mentor and student — has led both to cultivate their creativity.

college campus buildings under a partly cloudy sky, with a lake beyond

History

Cornell historian testifies in landmark Indigenous rights case

12/21/2023 A&S Communications

Jon Parmenter helped the defense successfully assert an Aboriginal right to trade based on 18th century treaties.

Global leaders

Cornell’s ’24-25 Schwarzman Scholars named

12/20/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A&S young alumni are among this year’s group of 150 scholars, who are from 43 countries and 114 universities. Schwarzman Scholars, an international program, nurtures a network of future global leaders.

Awards

NY Times op-ed by philosopher Kate Manne wins award

12/21/2023 A&S Communications

The award honors “standout pieces that successfully blend philosophical argumentation with an op-ed writing style.”

Faculty excellence

Math professors honored as AMS fellows

12/20/2023 A&S Communications

Two professors in the Department of Mathematics were recently named fellows in the American Mathematical Society.

Hand-lettered sign "No Justice, No PEACE" held by a person in a crowd — Clay Banks/Unsplash

Africana Studies

Reparations commission ‘step in right direction,’ but education is key to understanding

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, an expert in Africana studies, wrote about how America should respond to its history of racism in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.

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Sociology

LGBTQ Catholics in a state of ‘conditional belonging’

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Sociologist Landon Schnabel says the blessing of same-sex couples is an important and complex step for the Catholic Church.

people in grad robes with their family — Chris Kitchen Amelia Tomson ’24, right, and Joy Davis ’22, left seated, talk with their families during a graduation reception Dec. 17.

Celebrating our graduates

December A&S graduates share stories of growth

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

The College hosted a new pre-graduation reception in the Groos Family Atrium of Klarman Hall for December graduates and their families.

Literatures in English

Animals, disasters, love: Book traces nonhuman voices in literature

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Laura Brown's research looks beyond “the singular, autonomous, rational, human protagonist" to find that many other-than-human presences appear in literature – with a lot to say to readers.

Book cover: Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery

Comparative literature

Tracing Indian Ocean slavery through Iranian cinema

12/18/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, Professor Parisa Vaziri explores how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of Indian Ocean slavery.

Several dozen people crowd together, looking up at the camera — Roger William Photography 2023 Dean’s Scholars

Graduate student honors

Nearly 70 students recognized at pinning ceremony

12/15/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

Dean’s Scholars are selected for their demonstrated commitment to academic excellence and advancing aspects of diversity, access, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the academy and other communities.

Alumni careers

Cornell alumna shapes future of media at NBCUniversal

12/15/2023 A&S Communications

When Ali Soong ‘16 goes to work each day at NBCUniversal, she uses various skills she acquired at Cornell.

A gold building foregrounded by rows of stalls and many parked motorcycles — Natasha Raheja/Provided In Jodhpur, India, computer typists offer services to migrants from stalls at the kutchery, an administrative maze housing hundreds of private vendors and dozens of government offices, pictured here in October 2019.

Anthropology

In India, computer typists embody ‘fuzzy’ nature of state borders

12/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

State borders are taken for granted as fixed, hard lines, but Natasha Raheja argues that crossing spaces are, in reality, expansive and indistinct.

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