<p><a href="http://history.arts.cornell.edu/faculty-department-garcia.php">María Cristina García</a>, the Howard A. Newman Professor in American Studies at Cornell, is the recipient of a 2016 <a href="https://www.carnegie.org/programs/andrew-carnegie-fellows/">Andrew Carnegie Fellowship</a>, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced.</p>
<p> Ten Cornell doctoral students will work with community partners in New York state and around the world on individual research projects supported by Engaged Cornell. The first <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/funding/graduate-student-grants/rfp-2016/">Engaged Graduate Student Grants</a> were announced by Vice Provost Judith Appleton.</p>
<p>Students and faculty in the <a href="https://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/courses/off/turin/">Cornell in Turin</a> program were recognized recently for their work in Turin’s San Salvario neighborhood as part of their research studies of migration and services for immigrants in Italy.</p>
<p>Cuban poet and slave Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854) and his 1839 “Autobiografía de un esclavo,” the only slave narrative to surface in the Spanish-speaking world, are the starting point of an examination of 19th-century Cuban literature and social politics in Gerard Aching’s recent book, “Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba.”</p>
<p>Students used Cornell’s photography and textile collections in creative ways as they developed research, critical thinking and writing skills in a pair of fall first-year writing seminars.</p>
<p>Faculty remember the "<span style="line-height: 27.7333px;">gentle yet powerful influence" of Steven Stucky, emeritus professor of music and Pulitzer Prize winner, who died this month at his home in Ithaca.</span></p>
<p> </p><p>Cornell faculty, staff and graduate students from a variety of disciplines will share their research and work on Latin America at the inaugural conference of the <a href="https://lasp.einaudi.cornell.edu/">Latin American Studies Program</a> (LASP), Feb. 19 at the A.D. White House.</p>
<p>“Fiction can transform a particular history into art of universal significance,” author and Kappa Alpha Professor of English <a href="http://english.arts.cornell.edu/people/?id=97">Robert Morgan</a> said Nov. 19 in “History and Fiction: The Growth of an Artist – Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’,” a talk in Goldwin Smith Hall.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">A podcast bridging the STEM-humanities divide launched by two grad students has found listeners in six countries.</span></p>
<p>Professor Emeritus of Music <a href="https://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3345372&fh_id=14255">Marice Wilbur Stith</a>, who as director of bands conducted the Cornell University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band over his 23-year Cornell career, died Oct. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center after a long illness. He was 89.</p>
<p>American poet Robert Frost was not above toying with his friends, or his readers. And one of his best-known works may be his grandest joke of all, as detailed in a new book by David Orr, “The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong” (Penguin).</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">“Those lacking jobs, education and resources are essentially voiceless in the [democratic] process,” Cornell's new president said. </span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p style="line-height:1.5;">Stanford ’50 and Joann Taylor’s $5.2 million gift will support postdoctoral fellowships and the Society for the Humanities.</p>
<p>Engaged Cornell has awarded its inaugural Engaged Curriculum Grants to 18 projects initiated by faculty across the university. The grants, totaling $930,299, support work that places community-engaged learning at the heart of the Cornell student experience.</p>
<p>First-year students arriving on campus this week are members of Cornell’s most racially diverse incoming freshman class since the university began keeping records on race in the early 1980s.</p>
<p>Graduate student Tonia Ko’s career as a young composer and artist has hit a new level, with several recent international honors, concert commissions and performance premieres, including a piece performed on bubble wrap.</p><p>Ko, 26, was one of nine recipients of the 63rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards, held May 18 in New York City. The winners ranged in age from 14 to 26.</p>
<p>Growing up in Ethiopia in the early 1980s and coming to the United States as a young teenager in 1989, Dagmawi Woubshet witnessed unprecedented expressions of mourning and loss in both countries in response to the AIDS crisis.</p>
