Arts & Humanities

Student receives Kheel Center award for outstanding research

ILR student Strummer Dunn '29 gets award for research paper on Southern Appalachian textile workers.

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Archaeologist and art historian Andrew Ramage dies at 87

Andrew Ramage, professor emeritus in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences died on Nov. 2 in Ithaca.

Lincoln’s rare handwritten Gettysburg Address on view Nov. 19 

On the anniversary of its delivery, the public gets to see Lincoln's famous address for one-day only.

Student club helps incarcerated people earn a second chance

For students in the Cornell University Parole Initiative Club, parole applications are more than just paperwork.

New book details history of sound’s claim on our attention

An essay collection about auditory attention studies in the long 19th century, co-edited by College of Arts and Sciences scholars, connects music, technology and cognition to modern attention. 

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City of Asylum writer to give reading Nov. 10

Ukrainian poet Olena Boryspholets will present a Nov. 10 reading at Cornell University featuring her work “Orpheus and Eurydice in New York.” 

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Laura Donaldson, professor emerita of English, dies at 79

Donaldson, whose research focused on religion, Native American culture and gender studies, died Oct. 18.

Journalist Graeme Wood to discuss al-Qaeda’s fate and origins Nov. 16

Organized by Cornell's Program on Freedom and Free Societies, the talk by Wood will examine al-Qaeda’s successes and failures alongside U.S. counterterrorism efforts since 9/11. 

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Hundreds of students attend new startup career fair

The expo brought together companies in fields from robotics to defense to health tech to food.

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