Jane Mendle says a major motion picture addressing menstruation openly is astonishing, adding that as a society we don’t talk enough about adolescent periods which leads to a lack of treatment for menstrual problems in young girls.
A new episode of The Humanities Pod podcast tells the stories of self-liberated fugitives from American slavery through the lens of 30,000 original documents.
Visiting alumni filmmakers, Scott Ferguson ’82 and Michael Kantor ’83, told stories from their time at Cornell and their careers in film and television production and gave tips to students interested in entertainment careers.
On June 2, the Ithaca theater organization Civic Ensemble will premiere “Fertile Grounds,” a community-based play that invites the audience onto a fictional farming cooperative involving people of color to explore the relationship of grief, community and wellness.
The Klarman Postdoctoral Fellowship program in Arts and Sciences has been expanded to 10 fellows per cohort and extended by five years, thanks to additional significant support from Seth Klarman ’79 and Beth Schultz Klarman.
The Active Learning Initiative has awarded three-year postdoctoral fellowships to three departments at Cornell. The fellows will work closely with department faculty to facilitate improvements in student learning by helping faculty research, develop, and implement new teaching materials and approaches.
A new working group, co-founded by Cornell faculty, invites a community of Black scholars, educators and activists to reflect on their girlhoods – all in order to better serve the Black girls with whom they work.
