Eight faculty members receive Weiss teaching awards

Cornell has recognized eight members of the faculty for excellence in teaching undergraduate students and contributions to undergraduate education at the university.The Stephen H. Weiss Awards were announced Oct. 18 by President Martha E. Pollack in a report to the Cornell University Board of Trustees. The eight awardees were unanimously recommended by a selection committee composed of six faculty members and two students, who considered 37 distinguished nominees in all.

Anthropologists to speak on climate change

How can we illustrate the gravity of climate change? Is it possible to grasp such a loss? Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, working to humanize the abstract concept of climate change and provide opportunities for dialogue, will deliver a free public lecture, “Of Flood and Ice,” on Wednesday Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House.

Alumnus turns College Scholar honors thesis into debut novel

"Pricked" chronicles the adventures of 22-year-old Briar Pryce in a magical, fairy-tale world hidden within modern-day Manhattan.

Jewish Studies Program presents reading of 'Enough to Go'

The Jewish Studies Program will present a staged-reading of the new-old play "Enough to Go" by former Ithaca resident Fred Peretz Cohn on Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall on the Cornell Campus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited, and while tickets are not required, reservations can be made at www.tinyurl.com/enough-to-go.

A&S Digitization Grants program seeks applications

In research, documents and artifacts must be discoverable online to have the broadest impact. Continuing to recognize this need, the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences is now in its 11th year of funding projects to create digital collections that are accessible to all researchers.

Four new minors now available to A&S students

The new minors are offered in public service studies, media studies, migration studies and science communication and public engagement.

Passing it on: The values I learned at Cornell

An alumna gives back to Cornell by working with other international students.

Following curiosity leads students through A&S requirements

A new system of requirements is simplifying the process for incoming students this fall in the College of Arts & Sciences. Many students find that the requirements expand their worldview and introduce them to topics and concepts they would not have encountered otherwise.

Brooke Laskowsky: 'I collected bioarchaeological data on a skeletal collection from two tomb sites in Peru'

Brooke Laskowsky​ Anthropology & Archaeology​ Deerfield, NH

What was your favorite class and why? My favorite course that I have taken is ANTHR 4246: Human Osteology. This intensive laboratory course provided me with skills to conduct research in my favorite anthropological discipline, bioarchaeology, and provided a physical foundation for understanding the embodiment of illness and injury.

Senior helps track COVID cases in Florida hometown

As a college senior stuck home during quarantine with an interest in infectious diseases and past experience with the World Health Organization (WHO), Dalton Price ’20 thought it was completely obvious that he would sign up to help in any way he could during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dalton Price: 'Some of the deepest, most personal conversations I have had with friends were at 4 a.m.'

Dalton Price Anthropology Port Orange, Fl

What are the most valuable skills you gained from your Arts & Sciences education?

Cornell library gains permanent access to genocide archive

Witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and other acts of genocide are dwindling in numbers, but their faces and voices will live on through Cornell University Library’s recently acquired permanent access to USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive (VHA).

Einaudi-funded Ph.D. students think globally, act remotely

Aparajita Majumdar, Ph.D. candidate in the field of history, spent six hours last summer hiking through the Khasi hills of eastern India to find one of the region’s famed living root bridges. Ana Ozaki, Ph.D. candidate in the field of history of architecture and urban development, befriended her cab driver in Maputo, Mozambique, while investigating how race and climate meet in that country’s architecture.

Anthropology faculty member awarded Wilson Fellowship

Matthew Velasco studies human skeletal remains from archaeological sites to reconstruct the lives and deaths of ancient peoples.

Center advances social sciences research with spring grants

Why has implicit bias persisted as self-reported attitudes have grown more tolerant? What are the consequences when owners of mobile platforms like Apple’s App Store compete in their own marketplaces? Could pretending to be a scientist help young girls overcome gender stereotypes about scientists?

DACA decision greeted with cautious optimism

While they say more needs to be done to secure permanent protected status for “Dreamers,” some Cornell faculty say they’re hopeful about the recent Supreme Court ruling, which ruled that the Trump administration’s move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in 2017 was unlawful.

Center for Social Sciences awards fall ’21 grants

Ten Arts & Sciences faculty and numerous graduate students won awards from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences.

New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities

The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.

Disability advocate Eli Clare to speak on COVID-19

Disability justice advocate Eli Clare has been chosen as a Distinguished Visiting Collaborator in the Central New York Humanities Corridor, and he will be hosted for two virtual talks by the Cornell Society for the Humanities in partnership with the Syracuse University Humanities Center.

Attacks upon cultural heritage are 'attacks upon a people'

Cornell University researchers Adam Smith and Lori Khatchadourian, who have used high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor and document endangered and damaged cultural heritage in the South Caucasus, comment on the case currently before the Hague.

Collaboration plants seeds for cultural, biological conservation

A campus collaboration with the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫɁ (Cayuga Nation) seeks to conserve biodiversity and simultaneously safeguard human cultural values and traditions – including language – that depend on these natural resources.

Excavation to explore church’s role in Underground Railroad

A multidisciplinary team of Cornell students and faculty and local schoolchildren began an archeological dig Sept. 18 at St. James AME Zion church in Ithaca.