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Over 50 Students Receive NSF Graduate Fellowships

The National Science Foundation offers approximately 2,000 fellowships per year to research-based master’s and doctoral students pursuing STEM studies.

Town-gown awards honor food-related community partnerships

The awards celebrate cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community.

Anthropologist examines aging in U.S. ‘Through Japanese Eyes’

Older people occupied a significant part of life for <a href="https://anthropology.cornell.edu/yohko-tsuji">Yohko Tsuji</a> Ph.D. '91 when she was growing up in Japan. Her widowed grandmother lived with the family, creating a traditional three-generation household, and elders were a positive part of daily life.

This photo was taken by Iman in June 2022 in Khiam’s infamous detention center in South Lebanon.

Iman Ali Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Iman Ali, PhD student in socio-cultural anthropology, was selected as a 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program fellow.

Amiel Bize is Awarded Seed Grant

Amiel Bize received a Cornell Center for Social Sciences seed grant.

‘Genetic Afterlives’ receives book prize

Anthropologist Noah Tamarkin has received the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of social science, anthropology, and folklore.

Excavation uncovers 2K more artifacts at St. James church site

This semester’s work also featured an end-of-semester mini-field course for local children and youth presented by two Cornell students.

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Fictional civilization leaves behind lasting legacy

Llhuros – its relics, rituals, poetry, and music – as well as the academic commentary it inspired, "documents just one tiny little sliver of Cornell’s history. But it’s a fascinating one.”

Armenian-Azerbaijan ceasefire puts ‘treasures of human history’ at risk

On Wednesday, Armenian demonstrators demanded Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan resign following a ceasefire agreement that is considered a victory for Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, following the worst fighting in the region in decades.

Fulbright winners hope for global research, teaching in 2021

<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"> When Lisa Malloy ’17 visited China for the first time in 2018, she was amazed by the pervasiveness of artificial intelligence in everyday life. </div></div>

Akhil Kang

Akhil Kang is a PhD candidate in Socio-cultural Anthropology at Cornell University. Akhil is academically and politically invested in shifting the anthropological gaze away from the marginalized and towards the elite. Their PhD project builds an anthropology of the elite and they study upper caste victimhood and woundedness in parts of North India. With a focus on questions related to affect and body politics, Akhil is ethnographically exploring what makes an upper caste - an upper caste. They are an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of several fields including critical caste and dalit studies; feminist and queer studies; affect and media studies; biopolitics and postcoloniality. Their project has received support from the Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant.

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A&S secures gifts, embarks on McGraw Hall renovation

The refurbishment and preservation of McGraw has become a top priority for the College of Arts & Sciences and the university.

Book examines Black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa

The book opens larger questions about the relationship between genetics, citizenship, race and origins.

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Grants fund community-engaged learning curricula

<div> <div> The Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI) recently awarded <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/grant/engaged-curriculum-grants/">Engaged Curriculum Grants</a> to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university. </div></div>

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Faculty research university’s ties to Indigenous dispossession

A faculty committee is exploring Cornell’s history as a land-grant institution and the nation’s dispossession of Indigenous peoples.

Artifacts from upstate Indigenous towns digitized, repatriated

Artifacts from two Native American towns are beginning to share their rich stories online thanks to a collaborative project by anthropologists, librarians and Indigenous community members.

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Twenty new Engaged Faculty Fellows named

A total of 20 faculty members from eight colleges have been named <a href="https://engaged.cornell.edu/program/faculty-fellowship/">Engaged Faculty Fellows</a>, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines. The program is offered through the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI). Nearly 100 faculty members have become fellows since the program launched in 2013.

Applications open for Klarman fellowships

The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.

Smithsonian dream comes true for A&S student

Harper Tooch ’21 combined her interests in anthropology, archaeology and art history to study the culture of Armenia.

Amiel Bize

Name and title: Amiel Bize, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Economic anthropology (value, capitalist margins, post-agrarian rural life, risk, gleaning) Current research project:

Natasha Raheja

Name and title: Natasha Raheja Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Documentary, ethnographic film, migration, borders, bureaucracy, nationalism, South Asia Current research project:

Chloe Ahmann

Name and title: Chloe Ahmann, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Environmental anthropology, urban history, United States Current research project:

Noah Tamarkin

Name and title: Noah Tamarkin, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Social politics of genetics, race, citizenship and belonging, South Africa Current research project:

Alex Nading

Name and title: Alex Nading, Associate Professor, Anthropology Academic focus: Medical anthropology, environmental studies, science and technology studies, labor Current research project:

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Faculty research group addressing monuments, heritage

An interdisciplinary group of scholars is exploring “Unsettled Monuments, Unsettling Heritage,” through a grant from the provost's Radical Collaboration task force focused on the arts and humanities.