Maya Phillips, a critic at large for The New York Times, has been named winner of the 2020-21 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. The award committee comprises the heads of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale Universities.
Human footprints believed to date from the end of the last ice age have been discovered on the salt flats of the Air Force’s Utah Testing and Training Range by Cornell researcher Thomas Urban.
Four projects have been selected for Cornell Library’s annual Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, which boosts the collaboration of scholars and library specialists to transform physical materials into lasting online resources for teaching and research.
Pauline Flaum-Dunoyer has interviewed more than a dozen women physicians of color, and donated the recordings and transcripts to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine, where their legacies will be preserved for future generations.
Students in a new moral psychology class spent the semester working with local non-profits to tackle issues from migrant family justice to food insecurity to sustainable agriculture.
Ann Simmons of The Wall Street Journal has been named the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences for the fall.
Enzo Traverso critiques a new trend in historical writing, in which historians place themselves in their books, framing their accounts of history as first-person investigations and revealing emotional ties to their subjects.
