Medical statistics compiled and published by the British military played an important role in introducing “race” as a categorical reality, according to Professor Suman Seth.
The Active Learning Initiative has announced its Phase IV grants. The winning proposals, from Classics, Government, History, the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, included collaborations that extend across Cornell.
Exactly 46 years since they trucked into Cornell and delivered one of the most iconic and beloved performances of their long, strange career, remaining members of the Grateful Dead will return, as Dead & Company, to play a fundraiser concert in Barton Hall on May 8.
Naminata Diabate, professor of comparative literature at Cornell University, says that the “insurrectionary nakedness” used at the Portland protest this week can be an effective form of conflict management.
Marilyn Migiel, professor of Romance studies, has won the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for Veronica Franco in Dialogue,” forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press in spring 2022.
Thomas Feng, a doctoral student in performance practice, is identifying and cataloging the piano music of the late Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, a composer with a cult following.
Archaeologist Sturt Manning hopes to settle one of modern archaeology’s longstanding disputes: the date of a volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini, traditionally known as Thera.
Landon Schnabel, assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University, says that perceived hypocrisy in the actions of former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. could lead to further disenchantment with politicized religious institutions.
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, interim director of the Cornell Vocal Program, and pianist Ryan McCullough, DMA ’20, a visiting music faculty member, are featured on a new recording, “Beauty Intolerable: Songs of Sheila Silver.”
Junior Nate Reilly jumpstarts his own artistic career while working to enhance the arts from a systemic and policy-oriented lens as a participant in the Cornell in Washington program.
