Professors from the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Human Ecology and Cornell's Institute of Politics and Global Affairs shared their thoughts during “The State of the American Dream,” Feb. 6 in New York City.
<p>When Mary Fessenden, <a href="https://cinema.cornell.edu/">Cornell Cinema</a> director, sits down to think about what films to show each semester, she has lots of movies in mind, but she also works closely with professors to find ties to the classes they’re offering.</p>
<p><a href="https://arthistory.cornell.edu/benjamin-anderson">Benjamin Anderson's</a> monograph “Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art” has been awarded the <a href="https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldPrizeWinner">2020 Karen Gould Prize in Art History</a> from the Medieval Academy of America, an award given each year for a distinguished book in the field of medieval art history. </p>
<p>Cornell’s Department of Music is collaborating with performers from Ithaca College and the community to offer Ithaca Sounding 2020, a multi-day, multi-venue event Jan. 30-Feb. 2.</p><p>The festival and symposium will feature concerts, workshops, talks, presentations and readings focused on modernist and experimental concert music by Ithacans past and present, including keyboard composers Julius Eastman, Sarah Hennies, Robert Palmer, Ann Silsbee and David Borden.</p>
<p>The National Endowment for the Arts has honored <a href="https://pma.cornell.edu/rebekah-maggor">Rebekah Maggor</a>, translator, theatre director, and assistant professor in the Department of Performing & Media Arts, with a Literature Fellowship in Translation. Her project is a collaboration with Mas’ud Hamdan, playwright, poet, and professor of Arabic literature and theatre at the University of Haifa.</p>
The creators of The World According to Sound will share the audio they've collected on campus -- from fish and frogs to Latin speakers and synthesizers -- in four live performances.
<p>Scholars from Germany and the UK, as well as numerous U.S. universities, will visit campus Nov. 7-9 for the first media studies conference sponsored by <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/news/humanities-proposal-springs-radical-collaboration-effort">CIVIC</a> (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s <a href="http://provost.cornell.edu/academic-initiatives/radical-collaboration/">Radical Collaboration</a> initiative focused on the humanities and the arts.</p>
<p>For 16 years, Cornell audiences have enjoyed lectures, performances and events sponsored by the Atkinson Forum in American Studies. This year, the Fisk Jubilee Singers will visit campus for a concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Alice Statler Auditorium.</p><p>Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. and the concert is free and open to the public.</p>
<p>Before Jeffrey Palmer ever held a video camera or took a filmmaking class, he felt pretty confident that he would be a good at it. So he bought some good equipment, put together a DVD with a series of shorts and applied to the country’s top film MFA programs.</p><p>He got into all of them.</p>
<p>An application to help students connect with others in their classes won the top prize – an automatic spot in this fall’s eLab class – at the <a href="http://eship.cornell.edu/">Entrepreneurship at Cornell</a> kickoff event, Sept. 4 in eHub Collegetown.</p>
<p>Two government graduate students — one studying the rise of populist radical right parties and the other the politics of domestic violence — have recently been honored with fellowships and other awards for their research.</p>
<p><a href="https://government.cornell.edu/david-alexander-bateman">David Bateman</a>, assistant professor of government, was recently named a co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Prize from the American Political Science Association for best book in history and politics, for his book "Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing a Mass Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France."</p>
<p><a href="https://chemistry.cornell.edu/h%C3%A9ctor-d-abru%C3%B1a">Héctor Abruña</a>, the Émile M. Chamot professor of chemistry & chemical biology, was recently awarded the <a href="https://www.ise-online.org/awards/frumkin.php">Frumkin Memorial Medal</a> from the International Society of Electrochemistry, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field.</p>
<p>The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology recently honored Professor Emerita <a href="https://nbb.cornell.edu/elizabeth-adkins-regan">Elizabeth Adkins-Regan</a> with its <a href="https://sbn.org/awards/daniel-s-lehrman-award.aspx">Daniel S. Lehrman Lifetime Achievement Award</a>, which is given to distinguished investigators in the field.</p>
Cedric Jimerson '40, M.D. '43, was honored with other veterans from his home state of Pennsylvania at a ceremony in Harrisburg, Pa. commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
<p>Looking at the two rows of miniature plaster casts now watching over diners in Klarman Hall’s Temple of Zeus, you’ll notice a few of the figures are missing. But never fear, art detective <a href="https://arthistory.cornell.edu/annetta-alexandridis">Annetta Alexandridis </a>(also known as an associate professor of history of art and of classics) is on the case.</p>
<p><em>Photo right: Garden triclinium (outdoor dining benches) at the Casa dell’Efebo, a wealthy house in Pompeii. Paintings of Egyptian landscapes decorate the sides of the benches where people once reclined to dine, and an artificial canal once flowed between the benches. (Photo by Caitlín Barrett)</em></p>
<p><img alt="Jill Frank" src="/sites/as/files/frank_jill250.jpg" style="margin: 5px; float: left;" />Government Professor <a href="https://government.cornell.edu/jill-frank">Jill Frank</a> was recently honored with the <a href="https://www.apsanet.org/MEMBERSHIP/Organized-Sections/Organized-Section-17-David-Easton-Award">David Easton Award</a> from the Foundations of Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association for her book “Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato's Republic” </p>
<p><a href="https://arthistory.cornell.edu/cheryl-finley">Cheryl Finley</a>, associate professor of history of art, has won the 2019 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize from the Bard Graduate Center for her book, “<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11258.html">Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon</a>.”</p>
<p>Cornell assistant professor <a href="https://chemistry.cornell.edu/song-lin">Song Lin</a>, a Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, was among 25 scientists selected from more than 260 applicants to receive <a href="https://www.onr.navy.mil/Science-Technology/Directorates/office-research-discovery-invention/Sponsored-Research/YIP.aspx">Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program</a> (YIP) awards, which support early-career academic scientists and engineers.</p>
<p>One of the true treasures of the college experience is the freedom to follow your curiosity and see where it takes you. In no major is this more encouraged than for College Scholars in the College of Arts & Sciences, who, as sophomores, propose a project that combines their varied interests and craft their college curriculum to follow those pathways.</p>
<p>As a child, <a href="https://history.cornell.edu/maria-cristina-garcia">Maria Cristina Garcia’s</a> family left Cuba for the United States to enjoy new freedoms that were lacking there. One of her first road trips as a new American was to see the Statue of Liberty and many of her photos from that trip show the statue in the background.</p>
