Cornell researchers used computational text analysis to sift through more than 300 American coming-of-age novels published over the last 100 years and identified rigid gender stereotypes in the attributes and occupations of feminine and masculine characters.
A research project collecting records of freedom-seeking enslaved people in the pre-Civil War U.S. came to a halt when researchers received a stop-work order from the National Endowment for the Humanities in early May.
Savely Senderovich, professor of Russian literature and medieval studies emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences for more than 30 years, died on April 1 in Clarkstown, New York. He was 89.
A $2 million gift from the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts will rename the Cornell Concert Series and allow it to continue its efforts to bring world-class musicians to campus.
Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History Emerita, was honored May 28 by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
