The College of Arts and Sciences awarded $1.25 million in grants to faculty members pursuing critical developments in areas ranging from quantum materials to sustainable technologies.
James Walsh will spend three years tapping into Cornell’s robust resources in the field of logic, combining the precision and methods of math with the interests of philosophy.
Screenwriter, novelist and educator Howard Rodman ’71 will be on campus Oct. 17 for a reading of his most recent book, "The Great Eastern," in one of two public events hosted by the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.
In “Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong,” Fuhrmann places this Thai poet among the most significant of the 20th century, arguing that his poetry adapts Buddhist principles to “re-enchant,” through art, a Thailand and Southeast Asia depleted by modernization during his lifetime.
Natalie Nesvaderani is one of 23 recipients of a 2019-20 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, administered through the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
A monumental calligraphy scroll on display in the Bartels Gallery in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, by Tong Yang-Tze, one of Taiwan’s foremost calligraphers, can be viewed online.
Novelist and short story writer Imbolo Mbue will speak on campus Thursday, Sept. 13, as part of the Dyson School’s Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Series.
In a new book, “Movies on Our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement,” psychology professor emeritus James Cutting explores the perceptual, cognitive and emotional reasons we enjoy popular films.
In his new book, “The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts nor Forgeries,” humanities professor Éric Rebillard argues that martyr narratives are “fluid texts,” written anonymously, but not as literal historical documents.
In “Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle,” Oren Falk considers the medieval Icelandic sagas as case studies, arguing that violence serves as a technique for dealing with uncertainty.