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<p><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Twelve faculty-led projects, including six in Arts & Sciences, have been awarded approximately $213,000 under the Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum (ICC) grant program.</span></p>
<h3>Christian Brickhouse</h3><h3>Linguistics & Anthropology </h3><h3>Buffalo, NY</h3><p><strong>Why did you choose Cornell?</strong></p><p>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.</p>
<h3>Rabindra Willford</h3><h3>Anthropology</h3><h3>Ithaca, NY</h3><p><strong>What was your most profound turning point while at Cornell?</strong></p>
<p>Students will study international issues related to land use and community health, as well as the chemistry of craft beer production.</p>
<p>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.”</p><p>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.”</p>
<h3>Lydia Mrowiec</h3><h3>Anthropology</h3><h3>Chicago, IL</h3><p><strong>What is your main extracurricular activity? Why is it important to you?</strong></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.acsf.cornell.edu/grants/facinres/index.php">Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future</a> (ACSF) has announced 10 <a href="http://www.acsf.cornell.edu/grants/facinres/index.php">faculty-in-residence fellows</a> in the social sciences, humanities and arts for 2016-17.</p>
<p><em><a href="http://anthropology.cornell.edu/hirokazu-miyazaki">Hirokazu Miyazaki</a>, professor of anthropology and director of the <a href="http://einaudi.cornell.edu/">Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies</a>, is the program chair for this year’s <a href="http://culanth.org/">Society for Cultural Anthropology</a> biennial meeting at Cornell May 13-14.</em></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p><p>The Nazca Lines are ancient, gigantic (several are over 300m long) geoglyphs drawn on a desert in Peru. </p>
<p>With the opening of Klarman Hall, colleagues in departments that were spread out across campus can now collaborate more easily. </p>
<p style="line-height: 20.8px;">Kennedy taught popular courses about human biology, evolution and forensics.</p>
<p>In an op-ed in <em>The Washington Post, </em>anthropologist Adam Smith offers lessons from history on Donald Trump's proposed wall as a solution to border problems.</p>
<p>Alum Andy Arnold '13 spent six months in Kenya on a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant researching the country's elite runners.</p>
<p>“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.</p>
<p>In reaction to the current immigration ban, <a href="http://anthropology.cornell.edu/hirokazu-miyazaki">Hirokazu Miyazaki,</a> professor of anthropology, writes <a href="http://bit.ly/2ksJnhS">this opinion piece</a> 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.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://einaudi.cornell.edu/">Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies</a> 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).</p>
<div dir="ltr">“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.</div><div> </div>
<p>The perspectives learned and connections made through cross-cultural exchange are critical to creating a society of global citizens.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
Twelve Cornell graduate students have been selected for the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPDP), the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies announced.
The oral history project and field trip were supported by an Engaged Opportunity Grant.
For the past four years, Stacey Langwick has worked with producers of therapeutic foods and herbal medicines in Tanzania.
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>