Grants aim to unite networks to increase impact

Three teams have been awarded Public Issue Network Grants, providing up to $30,000 in funding for each project over three years. The grants support faculty, staff, students, alumni and community partners as they weave broader, more effective networks of potential collaborators, coordinate resources and increase the impact of their work on a particular social issue.

First group of Zhu Fellows named in Arts & Sciences

Four doctoral students studying fields in the College of Arts & Sciences are the inaugural recipients of the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities.

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Amiri Baraka’s poetry topic of March 31 Abrams talk

M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, poet and theorist Fred Moten will deliver a lecture on radical Black politics and the poetry of Amiri Baraka.

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Colanzi book wins Ribera del Duero prize

A book by Liliana Colanzi, assistant professor of Romance studies, has won the Ribera del Duero prize, honoring the best short stories in Latin America and Spain.

Women want to work, despite workforce precarity

Despite persistent gaps in workforce participation, when it comes to wanting to work, the gender gap has all but disappeared over the last 45 years, according to Cornell sociologist Landon Schnabel.

Active Learning Initiative awards 5 new grants

The Active Learning Initiative has announced its Phase IV grants. The winning proposals, from Classics, Government, History, the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, included collaborations that extend across Cornell.

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Visiting journalist: Science writing is ‘good for the world’

On March 15, award-winning science journalist Natalie Wolchover, Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts and Sciences, gave a master class on “Bringing Science to Life Through Storytelling” in Lewis Auditorium.

Vanderbilt's Jonathan Metzl to deliver Krieger Lecture

“Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Shaped the American Pandemic” is the topic for the lecture.

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Dianne Harris to deliver Future of the Humanities Lecture

 “Access and the 21st Century University,” March 23, will focus on the meaning of  "access" to liberal arts education.

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