While media outlets have done their part to amplify polarization across the U.S., journalists also have the resources to mend rifts and build community, alumni media professionals and faculty experts said in a panel discussion.
May 2, MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman will give a talk, “Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th-Century Black Political Organizing,” on the history of 19th century Black activism.
Pauline Flaum-Dunoyer has interviewed more than a dozen women physicians of color, and donated the recordings and transcripts to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, where their legacies will be preserved for future generations.
Fourteen students spent their spring break on a Massachusetts island, dismantling hundreds of discarded lobster traps, collecting sounds of the island and deepening their understanding of human impacts on marine life.
In his new book, “Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change,” history professor Aaron Sachs demonstrates how laughter can give you strength to persevere even when things seem most hopeless.
In her new book, “Subsurface,” professor Karen Pinkus confronts the global threat of climate change by using select literary works from the 19th century to delve underneath comfortable narrative layers and complacent ecological modes.
“Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,” an exhibition running through June 11 at the Johnson Museum, marks the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Roman author, natural philosopher and statesman.
