Internationalization grants awarded to faculty
Twelve faculty-led projects, including six in Arts & Sciences, have been awarded approximately $213,000 under the Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum (ICC) grant program.
Christian Brickhouse: 'Read things you disagree with just to sharpen your mind.'
Christian Brickhouse
Linguistics & Anthropology
Buffalo, NY
Why did you choose Cornell?I chose Cornell for a bunch of different reasons, but the most important is that, when I visited, it felt right to me. I could see myself enjoying the next four years of my life here, while getting an amazing education. I liked that educational breadth was just as important as depth and that I was encouraged to explore my interests.
Rabindra Willford: 'Approach your professors early and often.'
Rabindra Willford
Anthropology
Ithaca, NY
What was your most profound turning point while at Cornell?
Nine projects receive undergrad engaged research funding
Students will study international issues related to land use and community health, as well as the chemistry of craft beer production.
Cornell group aids in Nepal earthquake recovery
Following the April 2015 Nepal earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people, Maya Devi Neupane, president of the United Women’s Savings and Credit Cooperative, said her Kaule community on the Phyukhri Ridge “felt orphaned, abandoned.”She continued, “The earthquake destroyed our homes and our [Women’s Cooperative] building. We had to take shelter in the plastic greenhouse ‘tunnels’ where we had begun a tomato-growing project.”
Lydia Mrowiec: 'I have had a passion for prison activism for many years.'
Lydia Mrowiec
Anthropology
Chicago, IL
What is your main extracurricular activity? Why is it important to you?
Atkinson Center faculty fellows to expand sustainability conversation
The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (ACSF) has announced 10 faculty-in-residence fellows in the social sciences, humanities and arts for 2016-17.
Einaudi director on collaboration and crossing borders
Hirokazu Miyazaki, professor of anthropology and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, is the program chair for this year’s Society for Cultural Anthropology biennial meeting at Cornell May 13-14.
Mellon seminar tours a changing, urbanized Amazon
A 10-day journey to cities in the Brazilian rainforest gave students a firsthand look at the complex conditions of urbanization in the Amazon. The field trip in March, part of the spring seminar Forest Cartographies, focused on issues of community, housing, resettlement, deforestation, political ecology, anthropology and archaeology.
Classes re-create Nazca Lines on Arts Quad
Uthara Suvrathan, a visitng Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Materials Studies, recently led her class (ARKEO/ANTHRO 2140, "Fantastic Frauds and Myths in Archaeology") in a Nazca Lines activity on the Arts Quad. The Nazca Lines are ancient, gigantic (several are over 300m long) geoglyphs drawn on a desert in Peru.
College departments and programs now in new locations
With the opening of Klarman Hall, colleagues in departments that were spread out across campus can now collaborate more easily.
Kennedy endowment funds evolutionary biology lectures
Kennedy taught popular courses about human biology, evolution and forensics.
"For five millennia, politicians have proposed walls like Trump’s. They don’t work."
In an op-ed in The Washington Post, anthropologist Adam Smith offers lessons from history on Donald Trump's proposed wall as a solution to border problems.
Understanding the mind of an Olympian
Alum Andy Arnold '13 spent six months in Kenya on a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant researching the country's elite runners.
Campus group creates a different kind of writing community
“My name’s Ishmael, what’s yours?” -- or would “Call me Ishmael” better open a narrative about whaling? Tone, diction, style: these are the kinds of questions Cornell’s Historians Are Writers! (HAW) grapple with in their meetings.
Lessons we can learn from an exchange of dolls
In reaction to the current immigration ban, Hirokazu Miyazaki, professor of anthropology, writes this opinion piece in the Japan Times, telling the story of Sidney Gulick, who, frustrated with the immigration ban of 1924, decided to turn his attention to the next generation.
Einaudi Center launches dissertation development program
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies will lead a campuswide effort to help doctoral students strengthen their dissertation research proposals with a new grant from the New York-based Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
Alumna shares career path with pre-vet students
“I had no idea what I wanted to do as a career when I first came to college, and began taking a variety of classes,” Elizabeth Bodner ‘80 explained when she spoke with students during a Feb. 3 visit to campus as part of a Career Conversations event hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences Career Development Center.
Bulletin immerses readers in Southeast Asian cultures
The perspectives learned and connections made through cross-cultural exchange are critical to creating a society of global citizens.
Cornell hosts Hong Kong sustainability meeting April 6-7
Cornell’s wide-ranging, interdisciplinary expertise in global sustainability issues will be front and center when the university hosts a conference about sustainability research, community engagement and opportunities for collaboration in Asia, April 6-7 in Hong Kong.
Anthropology graduate students awarded Engaged Cornell grants
Three graduate students in the Department of Anthropology were recently named recipients of Engaged Graduate Student Grants for 2017. The grants were awarded to 16 graduate students across the Cornell community in various disciplines.
Einaudi Center announces first group of dissertation program awardees
Twelve Cornell graduate students have been selected for the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPDP), the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies announced.
Class gathers oral histories of Caribbean residents in Brooklyn
The oral history project and field trip were supported by an Engaged Opportunity Grant.
Anthropologist explores toxicity and healing in East Africa
For the past four years, Stacey Langwick has worked with producers of therapeutic foods and herbal medicines in Tanzania.
Doctoral student named Newcombe fellow
Doctoral candidate Emiko Stock is one of 21 students to be named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow for 2017 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.