Soraya Nadia McDonald, cultural critic for The Undefeated, a website exploring the intersection of race, sports and culture, has been named winner of the 2019-20 Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
Their projects served communities across New York, from improving soil at community farms in New York City to developing an anti-racism curriculum for Hudson Valley teens.
Professor Emerita of English Alison Lurie, the award-winning and critically acclaimed writer who set some of her fiction on a campus with a striking similarity to Cornell’s, died Dec. 3 in Ithaca. She was 94.
Seventy-five years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, close to 200 people gathered in Ithaca to explore the continuing question of the role moral courage plays in confronting hate.
For the first time in Cornell’s 154-year history, students this year can take a class to learn the language of the Cayuga Nation, whose traditional territory is now home to Cornell’s Ithaca campus.
Cornell events in June include a special Reunion exhibition at the Johnson Museum; programs at Cornell Botanic Gardens and a free concert on the Arts Quad.
A team from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has put forth a new sustainability framework for injecting as much information as possible into the pre-design and early design phases of a project.
Considered an ultra-hot Jupiter – a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night side and then falls from the sky like rain – the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet may be even more sizzling than scientists had realized.
From writing on Papyrus to exploring today’s throwaway technologies, students in the first media studies foundation course delved into how media shape our lives today and have through time.