New provost's task force continues push for a diverse Cornell faculty
Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff has launched a task force to recommend new approaches to enhance and accelerate the diversity of the Cornell faculty.
Exhibition, research project highlight learning from Rembrandt’s art
Rembrandt van Rijn’s art and artistic practice have fascinated scholars and collectors for centuries. His printmaking methods, and prints from across hiscareer, are revealed as an inspirational resource for research and teaching in a new exhibition of his etchings at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Award-winning poet, actor, activist to visit Nov. 2
Carlos Andrés Gómez, an award winning poet, actor, speaker, and writer from New York City, will be visiting Cornell for a public performance sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 2, in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorum (132 Goldwin Smith Hall).
36 Cornellians named to Presidential Task Force
A broad, representative group of three dozen students, faculty and staff — including 10 faculty and students from the College of Arts & Sciences — has been named to the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate, Cornell President Martha E. Pollack announced Dec. 4.
Second century mosaic graces Klarman Hall atrium
The floor mosaic sat in storage for nearly 80 years and was a gift from Princeton University researchers to Cornell colleagues.
An “unfiltered” voice
“Whatever we’re talking about, we try to do it civilly and quietly," says A&S alum and CNN host S.E. Cupp '90.
Museum course dives into artistic, literary connections
Graduate students explored texts and artworks with themes of movement, escape and water and curated a related gallery installation as part of a fall course at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Benjamin Anderson wins Charles Rufus Morey Book Award
Benjamin Anderson’s recently published “Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art” (Yale University Press, 2017) has won the 2018 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award of the College Art Association (CAA).
New novel reflects #MeToo moment
“Birds of Wonder,” a new novel by Cynthia Robinson, addresses sexual violence, porn addiction, and sexual tourism. “It’s an appropriate story for this #MeToo moment,” said Robinson, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art in the Department of the History of Art.
Faculty participate in Ithaca's Spring Writes Literary Festival
Arts & Sciences faculty will participate in this year’s Community Arts Partnership’s Spring Writes Literary Festival, taking place in downtown Ithaca May 3-6. The festival features literary-themed events, including panels and workshops geared towards emerging and established writers, as well as events for the general public such as readings, performances, play readings, and performances. This is the festival’s ninth year showcasing Finger Lakes Region writers.
Graduate student curates exhibit at the Johnson Museum
Yuhua Ding, a doctoral candidate in history of art, has curated an exhibition currently on view at the Johnson Museum of Art entitled “Debating Art: Chinese Intellectuals at the Crossroads.”
Students curate Johnson Museum exhibit
A new student-organized exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art surveys American artists’ use of landscape as the country expanded between the middle of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Troy Sherman: 'Fanclub Collective has taught me what it means to create and foster safe, alternative, radical spaces of mutual appreciation and respect'
Troy Sherman
History of Art & Comparative Literature
Harwich, MA
What is your main extracurricular activity--why is it important to you?
Amanda House: 'If Cornell taught me one thing, it was how to live a fuller, warmer life'
Amanda House
Computer Science
Overland Park, KS
Why did you choose Cornell?
Faculty honored for teaching and advising
College of Arts and Sciences faculty members Benjamin Anderson and Saida HodžIć have been awarded the Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, and Vivian Zayas and Edward Swartz have been awarded the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Graduate student grants fund community-engaged projects
Recently awarded Engaged Graduate Student Grants will support 21 Cornell doctoral students and their community partners researching a range of topics, including arts and agriculture, education and the environment, health and history.Grant recipients come from both the Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses and represent 15 fields of study – the most since the program launched in 2016, with a particular increase in projects from the social sciences.
Media studies launches new initiatives
At Cornell, the field of media studies is flourishing, with new initiatives, new hires, and new courses.
Einaudi Center welcomes new program directors
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has selected new leaders for its South Asian, East Asian, Latin American, and peace and conflict studies programs, as well as in its international relations minor.
A&S junior explores early photographs of New England women
After taking a freshman writing seminar on visual depictions of women reading throughout history, Ellie O’Reilly’s ’20 passion for feminism, art history and English grew.
An art historian, a tweet and an unexpected result
Image: Conceptual installation by Colombian-born sculptor Doris Salcedo at the 2007 exhibition at the Tate Modern in London. Photo credit: Gilberto Dobón, Wikimedia Commons
Book explores Latin American modernity, technology
The impact of technology on modernity has been a worldwide phenomenon, but Western art historians tend to ignore the “global south” – less developed countries – as María Fernández explores in her new edited work, “Latin American Modernisms and Technology.”
Slave ship image helped end slavery, new book shows
Art historian Cheryl Finley provides the first in-depth look at how the 18th-century slave ship schematic became an enduring symbol of black resistance, identity and remembrance.
New exhibit finds art in unusual places
Marbled plastic, strange fluorescent colors, irregular forms: Large-format photographs on display in the John Hartell Gallery scale images of tiny plastic toys up 30 times.
Seven projects awarded 2018 digitization grants
Seasoned documents and artifacts are starting fresh digital lives through the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, which is funding seven projects this year. Launched in 2010, the program supports faculty members and graduate students in creating online collections vital for their own and for general scholarship.