College of Arts and Sciences

Tony-winning director, ‘Hill’ reporter return for campus talks

Jordan Fabian ’09 and Sam Gold ’00 will visit campus this spring to speak to students thanks to an alumni gift from the family of James H. Becker, a Class of 1917 graduate.

Sara Warner participates in ‘Therapy as Performance,’ premiering Jan. 19

"Therapy as Performance,” a new interdisciplinary series premiering Jan. 19 at The Cherry Artspace in Ithaca.

Apply for 2018 Arts and Sciences digitization grants

Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for 2018 awards to digitize collections for teaching and research.

Researchers learn the social function of babies’ babbling

New research shows that babies organize mothers’ verbal responses, which promotes more effective language instruction, and babbling is key.

Museum course dives into artistic, literary connections

Students explored texts and artworks with themes of movement, escape and water and curated a gallery installation at the Johnson Museum in a course in the "Connecting Research With Practice" initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Gifts create new Arts and Sciences professorships

Four new alumni gifts have helped the College of Arts and Sciences create three new professorships and fund a new graduate student position.

Across the universe, fast radio bursts ‘shout and twist’

Astronomers have found that the Cornell-discovered fast radio burst FRB 121102 – from 3 billion light years away – passes through magnetized plasma, causing the cosmic blasts to “shout and twist.”

Second-century mosaic installed in Klarman Hall atrium

A fragment of a second-century floor mosaic now holds a place of honor in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall.

Sara Holdren wins 2016-17 George Jean Nathan Award

Sara Holdren won the 2016-17 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, administered by Cornell's English department.