Three teams have been awarded Public Issue Network Grants, providing up to $30,000 in funding for each project over three years. The grants support faculty, staff, students, alumni and community partners as they weave broader, more effective networks of potential collaborators, coordinate resources and increase the impact of their work on a particular social issue.
A new Mann Library exhibit, “Cultivating Silence: Nikolai Vavilov and the Suppression of Science in the Modern Era,” pays tribute to pioneering plant scientist Nikolai Vavilov and serves as a reminder of the threat of political censorship and persecution.
In her new book, “Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran,” Seema Golestaneh explores the ways the Sufi mystical experience – particularly the role of mystical knowledge – is shaping contemporary life in Iran.
An exhibit in the College of Human Ecology includes portraits of citizens who courageously addressed issues of social, environmental and economic fairness.
Drawing inspiration from 19th century glass artists, David Nasca's new installation “Model Organisms” in the Mann Library uses ocean life to create metaphors relating to humanity's present and imagined futures.
Noliwe Rooks, professor of American studies at Cornell University, says the discovery of 11 coffins in Tulsa represents our past and present but does not have to represent our future.
Composer Roberto Sierra won the 2021 Latin Grammy Award for the Best Classical Contemporary Composition with “Music From Cuba And Spain, Sierra: Sonata Para Guitarra.”
Two grants, from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation, are supporting a web of collaborative, public-facing humanities projects initiated by Tao Leigh Goffe, assistant professor of Africana studies and feminist, gender and sexuality studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
An acclaimed historian of the Caribbean and a multidisciplinary professor of the built environment have been appointed the newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large. Three full visits and three “mini” visits are planned for this semester.
