In her recently published chapbook, "Chinatown Sonnets,” Dorothy Chan ‘12 reflects on her experiences growing up and the influence she felt from Philadelphia’s Chinatown neighborhood, nearby her hometown, and Chinatowns all over the world.
Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy and director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute, is featured in the new IMAX film, “The Search for Life in Space,” now released internationally.
Paul McEuen, John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Physics, has been named a Citation Laureate for his seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics.
Julia Adolphe ‘10 is one of 19 recipients of the 2017 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The awards are given to concert music composers up to 30 years of age whose works are selected through a national competition.
<p>Nima Arkani-Hamed is one of the leading particle physicists in the world. On September 25, he will be presenting the lecture, “Three cheers for ‘Shut up and Calculate!’ in fundamental physics,” in his last public talk as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. </p><p>The talk, at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell’s Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, is free and open to the public. There will be a pre-lecture reception held outside of Schwartz Auditorium from 6:30-7:30pm.</p>
<p><a href="http://chemistry.cornell.edu/roald-hoffmann">Roald Hoffmann</a>, Frank H.T Rhodes Professor Emeritus of Humane Letters, was awarded the inaugural Primo Levi Prize from the German Chemical Society and the Italian Chemical Society in Berlin, Germany Sept. 10. </p>
“Great scientist, teacher, leader and friend,” reads the plaque on the newly named Terzian Conference Room on the sixth floor of the Spaces Sciences Building, unveiled in a ceremony on Aug. 31.
Within the last 18 months, the college has added directors of admissions, advising and career development and hired seven new staff members for those offices.
“Chasing the North Star,” the new novel by Robert Morgan, Kappa Alpha Professor of English, was recently chosen by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), for the Southern Book Award in the category of historical fiction.
“Bitter Banquet,” an original staged song cycle composed and performed by Annie Lewandowski, lecturer in music, will be staged at the newly opened Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca, on September 29 and 30.
A medieval game of numbers was one of many activities in the engaged learning course, "The Art of Math: Mathematical Traditions of Symmetry and Harmony."
From researching the intersection of international law and nuclear weapons to meeting Queen Noor of Jordan, Brandon Mok ‘19, a history major in the College of Arts & Sciences, spent his summer immersing himself in international affairs.
o honor Cassini’s achievements and Cornell’s research role, the Department of Astronomy will hold a community farewell celebration Sept. 15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.
<p><strong>State of the College Address</strong><br />Gretchen Ritter, The Harold Tanner Dean of Arts & Sciences<br />Cornell University</p><p>Thank you all for coming together today.</p><p><img alt="" src="/sites/as/files/1_1.png" /></p>
Russell Rickford, associate professor of history, was awarded the 2016 Hooks National Book award for his book “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination.”
Anthropology’s new Global Gateways course sequence helps students take advantage of off-campus opportunities, from engaged learning programs to study abroad.
Whether ancient zoographers’ views were shaped by scientific study or by casual encounters with animals in nature will be explored in a conference Sept. 8-10 at Cornell, “Zoographein – Depicting and Describing Animals in Greece, Rome, and Beyond.”
<p>After spending a year helping human trafficking victims in Mumbai, India, alum Katharine Poor ‘16 is headed to Texas to work for an organization that aids refugees and undocumented immigrants.</p>
Faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences are exploring questions about recent events in their research and scholarship, and students have the opportunity to engage with their expertise through numerous courses this Fall relevant to our current national climate.
Under sunny skies on Saturday, Aug. 19, incoming first-year students, transfer students, and their families gathered on the Arts Quad for a convocation ceremony.
<p>For the past two years, Meera Kattapuram ’17 has been conducting research on infectious diseases and micronutrients in a Cornell lab, focusing especially on the role they play in the health of mothers and young children. This summer, she got a chance to see her research in action in an Ecuadoran hospital.</p>
<p>Ten new Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech will work under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance technologies that promise to provide insight into how brains work, as well as strategies to fix them when they don’t.</p>
<p><a href="http://chemistry.cornell.edu/yimon-aye">Yimon Aye</a>, a Howard Milstein faculty fellow and assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been honored by the Eastern New York Section of the American Chemical Society as the 2017 Buck-Whitney Award winner. Aye has been invited to give a talk at the awards ceremony Nov. 15 in Troy, N.Y.</p>
<p>Milos Balac ’11 found out that his language skills in Serbian and French – as well as his time on the Cornell ski team and his American studies courses — have paid off handsomely so far in his career as a documentary filmmaker.</p><p>Balac, a producer at Film 45 based in Santa Monica, is hard at work these days finishing up a project about Serbian tennis great Novak Djokovic.</p>
<p>Zhangmin Abigail Chen ‘19, a College Scholar focusing on government and China & Asia-Pacific studies, is pursuing her interests in international affairs and non-profit management as an intern at the Carter Center’s China Program this summer.</p><p>The Carter Center, founded in 1982 by President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, is a nongovernmental organization commited to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering.</p>
<p>The hometown of <a href="http://chemistry.cornell.edu/roald-hoffmann">Roald Hoffmann</a>, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus, has held an event, with lectures and music, to commemorate Hoffmann’s 80th birthday, which was July 18.</p>
<p>Colleagues are planning a symposium in August to celebrate the birthday of <a href="http://chemistry.cornell.edu/jerrold-meinwald">Jerrold Meinwald</a>, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, who turned 90 in January. The symposium will take place during the meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology in Kyoto, Japan. </p>
<p>Men continue to be much more likely to earn a degree in STEM fields than women, despite efforts made over the last few decades. New research from <a href="http://inequality.cornell.edu/">Cornell's Center for the Study of Inequality</a> (CSI) on fields of environmental study offers unexpected hope in closing this gender gap.</p>
<p>Prize-winning French novelist Laurent Binet’s new book features a chapter on a fictional conference at Cornell, organized by none other than (the real) <a href="http://english.cornell.edu/jonathan-d-culler">Jonathan Culler</a>, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>
Rebecca Macklin, a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Leeds, has received an All Disciplines Fulbright Award to undertake research at Cornell University.