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Three people sitting on a city bench with one standing behind; they are laughing together — Provided The collaborators who created the concert "Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind": (seated l-r) playwright Virginia Grise, novelist Helena María Viramontes, and composer Martha Gonzalez. Standing is Kendra Ware, the production's director.

Creative Writing Program

Performance and conference honor Viramontes

10/9/2023 A&S Communications

Held Oct. 20-21, “Lest Silence Be Destructive" will feature readings, discussions and the first public performance of a musical album based on Viramontes' work.

Provided Tung-Hui Hu

Digital humanities

Poet and scholar of digital media to deliver annual Digital Humanities Lecture

10/6/2023 A&S Communications

Tung-Hui Hu will talk on “The Grid vs. the Set: Early Attempts at Classifying Data” October 18.

U.S. House of Representatives in 2019 — NATO/Creative Commons license 2.0 Speech by the NATO Secretary General at a Joint Meeting of the US House of Representatives and Senate

Politics

With McCarthy out, ‘we are slouching towards political chaos’

10/6/2023 A&S Communications

With our government stalled, our democracy is threatened like never before, says comparative sociologist Mabel Berezin.

Creative Writing Program

Manuel Muñoz, MFA ’98, wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

10/5/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In his writing, Muñoz draws on his roots growing up in a Mexican-American family of farmworkers in California’s Central Valley.

Illustration of a polar bear in a kettle, sipping a pink cocktail and roasting a weenie over a fire — David Levine Illustrating the humor in "Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change,”

Climate 2030

‘Climate Change Comedy Hour’ on Nov. 2

10/24/2023 A&S Communications

Environmental historian Aaron Sachs will use a combination of gallows humor, history and silly videos to show how we can shift our attitude about climate change -- and how that shift might help us get to the next stage of climate activism.

two people standing by blackboard — Chris Kitchen Michelle Seneca, left, and John Whitman, right.

Linguistics

Coming home: Gayogohó:nǫˀ language programs expand reach

10/4/2023 A&S Communications

This summer, 40 members of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ diaspora came from all over the U.S. for a language camp on their ancestral homeland.

Dark, late evening sky in purple and orange over the ornate dome of St. Peter's Church in Rome; many pedestrians crowd cobblestone sidewalks in the foreground — Alberico Bartoccini/Unsplash St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

Religion

Synod of Synodality ‘much needed listening session’

10/4/2023 A&S Communications

The gathering in Rome is unique both in structure and theme, says Daniel Gallagher, a professor of practice in the classics department.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz receives NIH award for ‘transformational’ project

10/4/2023 A&S Communications

Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has received a New Innovator Director’s Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.

two women sitting on stage — Chris Kitchen Anderson, left, and Peraino, right traced the arc of Anderson's multi-decade career.

Arts Unplugged

Laurie Anderson visit offers a glimpse of her world

10/3/2023 A&S Communications

… … Music … Performing and Media Arts … Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson took a captivated Cornell audience on a trip … This story also appeared in The Cornell Chronicle. … … Laurie Anderson visit offers a glimpse of her world …

Three people in lab coats behind a clear wall inscribed with organic chemistry symbols — Lindsay France/Cornell University Chemist Song Lin

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Two chemistry professors win Cope Scholar Award

10/10/2023 A&S Communications

Tristan Lambert and Song Lin have been honored for work in organic chemistry.

Black and white photo from 1914: a woman in a dark suit and hat highlighted by flowers stands on a wooden dock — Mary Crawford, awaiting the nine-day voyage to France in 1914

Alumni

New memoir spotlights pioneering female surgeon's WWI service

10/3/2023 Cornellians

The book curates the diaries and letters of ‘double Red’ alum and Cornell trustee Mary Crawford 1904, MD 1907.

Book cover: The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

Performing and Media Arts

Scholars spearhead anthology of women’s theater writing

10/3/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The first wide-ranging anthology of theater theory and dramatic criticism by women and woman-identified writers contains entries by more than 80 scholars, including Cornell faculty and alumni.