Ray Jayawardhana, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named provost of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Astronomy professor Rachel Bean has been named interim A&S dean, effective July 13.
Thomas Feng, a doctoral student in performance practice, is identifying and cataloging the piano music of the late Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, a composer with a cult following.
With artificial intelligence poised to assist in profound scientific discoveries that will change the world, Cornell is leading a new $11.3 million center focused on human-AI collaboration that uses mathematics as a common language.
Featuring an introduction by professor Kaja McGowan and essays by Cornell alumni and current doctoral candidates, "Performing Prowess" traces the ways cultural forces of Hindu belief have persisted in Southeast Asia
“Campfire,” an original short film by Associate Professor Austin Bunn, won the Provincetown International Film Festival’s "best queer short" award, making it eligible for an Academy Award nomination.
“Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-1793” by Robert Travers won honorable mention from the Law and Society Association's James Willard Hurst Book Prize.
In new research, Andrew Campana examines cinema-centered poetry in Japan from the 1910s and 1920s, discovering the ways poetry chronicles lasting human impressions left by “new” media.