Panel considers role of the press in a time of lies
A reunion panel featured journalists and professors taking on the problem of "fake news."
Incubator helps students move businesses forward during summer
Student business leaders gathered for pitch practice and feedback, then worked on their own at various locations across campus.
Summer Pathways interns make the most of experiences in D.C., California
"A place that once seemed intimidating and untouchable became strangely comforting," said Estefania Perez, of her Supreme Court internship.
Book traces rise of 'free enterprise' as cornerstone of conservatism
Might today's political rhetoric signal an end to the modern era of free enterprise?
Application portal opens for new Klarman Fellowships
“We are recruiting the most promising emerging researchers from around the world."
Grants create engagement opportunities for students
The Office of Engagement Initiatives has awarded $1,307,580 in Engaged Curriculum Grants to 25 teams of faculty and community partners that are integrating community-engaged learning into majors and minors across the university.This year’s awards involve 99 Cornell faculty and staff from 46 departments. The 39 community partners are from 10 countries; 11 projects are based in New York state.
Faculty Spotlight: Olga Litvak
Olga Litvak, Laurie B. and Eric M. Roth Professor of Modern European Jewish History
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Washington letter sheds light on Constitutional Convention
Constitution Day, Sept. 17, is a chance for all Americans to celebrate this nation’s founding document. And Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has a letter – handwritten by the “Father of our Country” himself – that offers some insight into the convention that produced that document.
New season of 'Antiquitas' features great battles
How do you trick a disciplined opponent with state-of-the-art equipment into entering a killing field? How do you turn an enemy’s strengths into his weaknesses? How do you get inside an enemy’s head?
LaFeber-Silbey Lecture: 'California Dreaming'
Historian Francis J. Gavin will present this year’s LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, “California Dreaming – The Crisis and Rebirth of American Power in the 1970s”. The talk is Thursday, October 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the Kaufmann Auditorium/Room G64 in Goldwin Smith Hall. Sponsored by the Department of History, the talk is free and open to the public.
$6M alumni gift launches Humanities Scholars Program
For the first time, undergraduates can be immersed in the work of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities.
Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced
Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program.The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.
Cornell tackles ‘migrations’ global challenge
Researchers from every corner of Cornell are mobilizing to tackle one of the grand challenges of the modern era.
Atkinson Forum hosts Fisk Jubilee Singers Oct. 26
For 16 years, Cornell audiences have enjoyed lectures, performances and events sponsored by the Atkinson Forum in American Studies. This year, the Fisk Jubilee Singers will visit campus for a concert at 8 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Alice Statler Auditorium.Doors will open at 7:15 p.m. and the concert is free and open to the public.
CIVIC radical collaboration initiative makes six new hires
CIVIC (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture), the provost’s Radical Collaboration initiative focused on the humanities and the arts, is halfway toward its goal of 10 new faculty.
Public History Initiative launches at Cornell
“Our initiative aims to stimulate new conversations about the sedimented histories that shape our contemporary world.”
Action figures in classical literature
This column by Michael Fontaine, professor of classics and Cornell’s associate vice provost for undergraduate education, appears in this month's Ezra Magazine.There’s a great story from the ancient world. As Cicero tells it, it goes like this:
Opinion: Why President Trump used lynching as a metaphor
Lawrence B. Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History, recently wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post discussing the historical origins of President Trump's use of the phrase "lynching" in a recent tweet concerning the impeachment inquiry.
Struggle to save America's cities is focus of University Lecture Nov. 14
City governments are often forced to rely on the private sector to support the public good. But it wasn’t always this way.
Study reframes the history of LGBT mental health care
"Clinical activists" in Philadelphia improvised new therapeutic approaches, guided by their own ethics and experiences.
Ghosh named director of new Humanities Scholar Program
Durba Ghosh, professor of history and director of the feminist, gender and sexuality studies program in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been named the director of the College’s new
History prof. discusses history of Thanksgiving meals
Postdoctoral associate of History Adrienne Bitar was featured in TIME Magazine dertialing the hisotry of vegetarian opposition to serving turkey on Thanksgiving. Bitar specializes in the study of American food and health history and culture. She is the author of "Diets and the Disease of Civilization
Historian and medievalist Brian Tierney dies at 97
Professor Emeritus Brian Tierney, who taught medieval history at Cornell for 33 years and was recognized as a leading authority on medieval church law and political thought, died Nov. 30 in Syracuse. He was 97.Tierney taught in the Department of History from 1959 until his retirement in 1992 as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies.
Grants seed social science research, conferences
Studies exploring the effects of disadvantaged neighborhoods, a reimagined school recess and customized avatars were among a slate of faculty projects receiving grants this fall from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).