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Memorial

M.H. Abrams remembered with verse, music, stories

Cornell Chronicle

A memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium brought together much of what M.H. “Mike” Abrams cherished – poetry, Elizabethan music, family, friends and colleagues.

DISCOVERY

Under Saturnian moon's icy crust lies a 'global' ocean

Cornell Chronicle

The Cassini-Huygens mission could lead to more discoveries in the search for Earth 2.0.

INCOME INEQUALITY

Measuring impacts of income inequality on democracy

Gretchen Ritter ’83, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, writes about democracy and inequality in this piece in The Cornell Daily Sun.

TEACHING

Teaching Slavery to Reluctant Listeners

New York Times Magazine

Edward Baptist, associate professor of history, writes about his experience teaching college students about slavery, in this piece in the New York Times magazine.

AFRICANA STUDIES

Africana initiatives connect academics, activism

A&S Communications

Center aims to become hub for students interested in research, current issues and making an impact.

CREATIVE WRITING

Creative writing professor honored with lecture series

A new lecture series at California State University Long Beach that brings ethnic U.S. writers to campus will be named after Helena Viramontes, professor and director of creative writing in Cornell’s Department of English. 

CREATIVE WORKS

Katherine Howe releases new novel

Lecturer Katherine Howe of the American Studies Program released her YA novel "The Appearance of Annie Van Sinderen" Sept. 15.This novel follows her New York Times bestseller novel "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane," and her YA debut novel "Conversion," which has been published in 25 languages.

AWARDS

Chemistry assistant prof. receives NSF Early Career award

Assistant Professor Kyle Lancaster of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology was recently granted an award from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. 

ALUMNI

After the Tony, director Sam Gold ’00 dives into varied projects

A&S Communications

When director Sam Gold ’00 thinks about whether he wants to take on a new project, it’s all about the challenge of creating something meaningful.“I want to start with what I believe in and care about, a subject matter that speaks to me or a formal challenge that pushes me as an artist,” he says.

SUSTAINABILITY

Art, Science and the Thirsty World

Listen in as Roald Hoffmann, Nobel Prize winner and emeritus professor of chemistry,  joins with other professors and students to discuss the intersection and integration of cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject of water, through community engagement in Greece, and a collaboration between Cornell and Oxford, in this video from Cornell's Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.