The Cornell Council for the Arts recently honored Maria Adelmann and Catherine Galasso for their academic and artistic achievements in creative writing, film and dance.
Two esteemed Cornell scholar-historians used examples from two Cornell presidencies to illustrate the immense challenge of the role, during an Oct. 16 Trustee-Council Annual Meeting presentation.
Cornell's Department of Mathematics will explore the opportunities and risks of data collection, and will host public school classroom activities during its observance of National Math Awareness Month. (April 6, 2012)
Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.
The production of 'Precious Little' at the Schwartz Center, directed by Myles Kenyon Rowland '11, is a new version of the play by Madeleine George '96, who helped adapt it for the Cornell stage. (Feb. 21, 2011)
Katherine Howe writes about young women under pressure with a parallel story of an accuser at the Salem witch trials in her first young adult novel, “Conversion,” inspired by actual events.
An analysis by Cornell sociologist Steven Alvarado found that a major STEM enrichment program increases black students' high school STEM engagement but had little impact on black and Latino students’ aspiration to major in a STEM field in college.
Chris Barnes '09, an information science major who just graduated from Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, was recently selected by UWIRE as one of the top 100 student journalists in the country. (June 1, 2009)
A $1 million award from the Keck Foundation has helped support new research into topological superconducting by a group led by Eun-Ah Kim, associate professor of physics.