Salah Hassan has been appointed to a five-year term as director of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center effective July 1, the Office of the Provost announced May 12. Hassan, chair of the Department of History of Art and associate professor of African and African Diaspora art history and visual culture, has served as the center's acting director for two years, overseeing the renovation and expansion of the facility that was celebrated with a formal dedication ceremony April 29.
Cornell professors George Hudler, Ravi Ramakrishna and Yervant Terzian have been recognized for distinguished teaching with Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships. (Jan. 26, 2012)
The libraries at Cornell and Columbia universities are collaborating on a study that aims to discover if libraries can help humanities doctoral students finish their Ph.D.s within 10 years. (Feb. 24, 2010)
More than 800 works of literature and arts and humanities scholarship at Cornell add up to a single letter in a new installation by book artist and Department of Art chair Buzz Spector. (Jan. 11, 2007)
New research suggests that today’s young adults are fond of and have an emotional connection to the music that was popular when their parents were their age in the 1980s.
The Humanities Book Art Project will be installed on campus at the Hirshland Gallery, Kroch Library, on April 4 and will be on display until April 25. (March 27, 2007)
As a cosmic dust magnet, Saturn's C ring gives away its youth. Once thought formed in an older, primordial era, the ring may be but a mere babe – less than 100 million years old.
David Bindel, assistant professor of computer science, and Amanda Hood, a doctoral candidate, have received the 2015 SIAG/Linear Algebra Prize for their paper "Localization Theorems for Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems."
Uli Wiesner and collaborators have developed a block copolymer self-assembled 3D energy storage architecture that could help change the way batteries are constructed.