Shonni Enelow, assistant professor of English at Fordham University, has won the 2015-16 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, administered by Cornell.
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies will lead an effort to help doctoral students strengthen dissertation research proposals with support from the Social Science Research Council.
Two books by Lanre Akinsiku, a recent graduate of the Department of English's MFA program in fiction and a Cornell lecturer in English, earned top honors from the New York Public Library.
Four College of Arts and Sciences professors gave brief talks before engaging in a Q&A session with the audience about the documentary, "I Am Not Your Negro" Feb. 8 on campus.
Cornell is once again participating in the Wikipedia Art + Feminism edit-a-thon, designed to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia, on Saturday, March 11.
Sara Warner, associate professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences and recently named a Stephen H. Weiss Junior Fellow, produces a political cabaret in Ithaca Feb. 19.
Emeritus professor of physics Kurt Gottfried has been honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with its Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award.
A project to train graduate teaching assistants in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields to increase their use of active-learning classroom strategies has received a grant from the Association of American Universities.
Cornell's Department of Near Eastern Studies will hold a teach-in to combat Islamaphobia Feb. 17 from 10 a.m. to noon. in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall.
