College of Arts and Sciences

Manipulating nature with X-ray lasers is topic of Oct. 18 lecture

Physicist Margaret Murnane in this fall’s Hans Bethe Lecture Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.

Atomic bomb survivor calls for peace in interfaith series lecture

Toyokazu Ihara, a survivor of the United States’ 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, spoke about the threat of nuclear weapons Sept. 28.

Innovations in chemistry education help undergrads

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology offers classes to teach students quantitative reasoning necessary for success in the physical sciences.

Mathematician to examine gerrymandering solutions in Kieval Lecture

Mathematician Moon Duchin of Tufts University will discuss how mathematicians can contribute to the redistricting process Oct. 5.

Environmental Humanities Lecture Series begins Oct. 4

The 2017-18 Environmental Humanities Lecture Series will bring to campus four pioneering scholars in the environmental humanities.

Judy Hart’s fight for women’s rights – and a park

Judy Hart '63 is founding superintendent of the Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York.

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Community engagement initiatives deliver reciprocal benefits

On Sept. 27, a forum in downtown Ithaca with Cornell faculty, staff, and partners offered stories of experiences and answered questions about implementing community-engaged initiatives.

A&S alum hosts medical school interns for summer experiences

Every summer for the last six years, College of Arts and Sciences alumnus Hank Fessler ’77 has welcomed a group of Cornell students to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to join research labs and explore careers in medicine.

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Cornell launches ‘What Makes Us Human’ podcast series

“What Makes Us Human,” a new podcast and essay series from the College of Arts and Sciences, will showcase the newest thinking about what it means to be human in the 21st century.