In a ceremony on campus Nov. 4, the papers of Fidelia “Flying Bird” Fielding, were transferred from Cornell University Library to the Mohegan Tribe. Tribal Historic Preservation Officer James Quinn received the rare manuscripts.
A group of 32 students from three colleges at Cornell will make up the first cohort of Humanities Scholars in a new program that will start in the fall, offered by the College of Arts & Sciences.
“Politics and Justice in the Era of Donald Trump” will be explored in a lecture series at Cornell featuring eminent social scientists, beginning on Sept. 12.
Classics professor Astrid van Oyen's new book is an archaeological study of Roman socio-economics, and how storage could make or break farmers and empires alike in the pre-industrial world.
The Cherry Artists’ Collective is commissioning a new work of livestream theater exploring life under pandemic quarantine. The play is being written by authors around the world.
Political cartoonist Pedro X. Molina fled his country in 2018 as the government came down hard on critics, killing more than 300 people and imprisoning hundreds more, including many journalists. Molina is now an Artist Protection Fund fellow in residence and visiting critic at Cornell.
Rather than making people less political, religion shapes people’s political ideas, suppressing important group differences and progressive political positions, according to sociologist Landon Schnabel.
The Office of Engagement Initiatives recently awarded Engaged Curriculum Grants to 19 teams of faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university.