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/news/study-abroad-travel-opportunities-ramping-back“We are thrilled that study abroad opportunities around the world are once again available to our students."
/news/study-abroad-travel-opportunities-ramping-backEEB's disease ecologist and agroecologist Alison Power, co-authors paper by current and former Cornell researchers: maslins, or cereal species mixtures, have the unique capacity to adapt in real time to increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather caused by climate change.
/news/ancient-farming-strategy-holds-promise-climate-resilienceAnthropologist Noah Tamarkin has received the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of social science, anthropology, and folklore.
/news/genetic-afterlives-receives-book-prizeProfessional Development Grants are available thanks to generous alumni donations.
/news/grants-help-students-conferences-job-hunting-expensesA&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
/news/wondering-what-read-2023-faculty-offer-ideasThe awards celebrate cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community.
/news/town-gown-awards-honor-food-related-community-partnershipsSmall communities struggle with infrastructure ill-suited to rural life. Phoebe Sengers is improving design processes for better outcomes.
/news/designed-rural-livingThe number of undergraduate veterans enrolled at Cornell has nearly quadrupled over the past five years, thanks in part to outreach by a team of student veteran peer counselors.
/news/breaking-barriers-peer-outreach-boosts-student-veteransA new group provides female athletes of color at Cornell with a community of women who understand their challenges.
/news/student-group-women-color-athletics-creates-spaceCornell's president highlighted recent achievements of Arts and Sciences faculty.
/news/pollack-lauds-amazing-cornellians-state-university-speech-0Four A&S faculty members have been honored for their excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.
/news/weiss-teaching-award-honors-eight-exceptional-facultyMatthew Garcia '25 was in the first cohort of student-veterans to move in to the university’s new Veteran Program House on University Avenue.
/news/student-veteran-finds-sense-community-cornellFriday’s concluding keynote will be delivered by Jonathan Flatley, a scholar of literature and the relationship between politics and aesthetics .
/news/conference-explores-theme-repair-multiple-humanities-disciplines-0“These efforts recognize the critical questions Jewishness raises and its place as part of a shared heritage.”
/news/new-jewish-studies-major-approved-college-arts-sciences"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
/news/community-read-launches-society-humanities-repair-themeHer major work, “Women Scientists in America,” has redrawn the historical landscape of women in science.
/news/rossiter-honored-writing-women-back-history-scienceFrom Ithaca to Hawaii to Ecuador, students in the Robert S. Harrison College Scholars Program took advantage of the summer as a time to explore their research interests.
/news/harrison-college-scholars-explore-politics-wellness-environment-summer-workMadeline Sterling '08, an Arts & Sciences alum, is part of a team launching a research program to elevate the value of home care workers.
/news/overlooked-undervalued-cornell-research-seeks-elevate-home-care-workersA group of students, including some in the Nexus Scholars Program, completed field work and analysis this summer on soil coming from a long-term forest fertilization experiment.
/news/chasing-carbon-trees-soilsTheir map will visualize research about the spread of existing or known and new or emerging zoonotic diseases.
/news/studying-connections-between-animal-human-healthEnabling farmers to tinker with their own systems and involving them early in the design process could better translate technology from the lab to the field.
/news/researchers-consider-invisible-hurdles-digital-ag-design"These faculty members and graduate teaching assistants have made tremendous contributions for the benefit of our students, guiding their educational paths and molding their experiences."
/news/arts-and-sciences-faculty-honored-teaching-advising-excellenceKuunemuebari Donovan Mini is a Science and Technology Studies major.
/news/i-feel-sense-community-and-family-part-track-and-field-teamMedical statistics compiled and published by the British military played an important role in introducing “race” as a categorical reality, Suman Seth argues.
/news/victorian-medicine-shaped-modern-concepts-raceAbena Gyasi is a Biology & Society and Psychology major.
/news/education-privilege-and-can-be-used-goodStudents Against the Sexual Solicitation of Youth (SASSY), together with a Tompkins County team, targeted the local lodging industry for outreach efforts.
/news/students-county-agency-raise-awareness-commercial-sexual-exploitation-childrenScience & Technology Studies Fall 2022 Course Offerings
/news/science-technology-studies-fall-2022-course-offeringsBiology & Society Fall 2022 Course Offerings
/news/biology-society-fall-2022-course-offeringsJeffrey Mathias is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies. He attended SUNY Purchase College as an undergraduate and chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the interdisciplinary nature of the Science and Technology Studies Department.
/news/graduate-student-spotlight-jeffrey-mathiasFour doctoral students studying fields in the College of Arts & Sciences are the inaugural recipients of the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities.
/news/first-group-zhu-fellows-namedThis year’s Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation Writing Boot Camp, hosted by Cornell University Graduate School, went virtual and broke records, drawing 400 writers from 50 institutions.
/news/record-high-attendance-writing-boot-campOn Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
/news/more-12m-donated-support-students-24-hoursGifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
/news/support-arts-sciences-giving-day-march-16Bruce Lewenstein, professor of science communication in both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed Cornell’s 13th university ombudsman.
/news/bruce-lewenstein-appointed-university-ombudsmanBeginning in spring 2022, a graduate minor in media studies will be available to students in fields across the Graduate School at Cornell University.
/news/media-studies-initiative-launches-new-graduate-minor-0Two recent papers by Owen Marshall uncover the technological practices that brought human speech and insect feeding behavior under electro-acoustic control in the mid-20th century.
/news/artificial-echoes-and-insect-synthesizers-0Four teams of undergraduate students were named winners of the Big Ideas Competition at Cornell, with ideas that help musicians connect, detect heart problems, train unemployed young adults and help with pollution issues in developing countries.
/news/heart-monitor-tinder-musicians-win-big-ideas-competitionTrevor Pinch, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Science and Technology Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, who helped found multiple areas of study related to science, technology and sound, died Dec. 16.
/news/pioneering-professor-trevor-pinch-dies-69How to study the experiences of people who are being scored by automated systems—and who may not necessarily be aware of their predicament? In this new article, Malte Ziewitz and Ranjit Singh (PhD ’20) discuss the methodological challenges of studying data subjects over time, drawing on materials from a yearlong investigation of people’s credit...
/news/critical-companionship-some-sensibilities-studying-lived-experience-data-subjectsThe program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
/news/nexus-scholars-program-applications-now-openLissette Lorenz is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Miami, Florida.
/news/student-spotlight-lissette-lorenzEvery Monday, faculty and grad students in the Department of Science and Technology Studies gather in a conference room in Morrill Hall. Sometimes they listen to a presentation on information that grad students need to know related to research or other department matters. But most Mondays, they gather to offer suggestions and feedback to each...
/news/weekly-group-helps-sts-profsgrad-students-refine-papersPeruse our Spring 2022 Science and Technology Studies and Biology and Society course offerings here.
/news/spring-2022-course-offeringsResearchers used India’s biometrics-based individual identification system to examine how the system works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.
/news/big-data-can-render-some-low-resolution-citizensThe Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
/news/new-program-expands-undergrad-research-opportunitiesThe collaborative nature of innovation was one of the key messages author Steven Johnson delivered during a campus visit Sept. 22, as a guest of the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.
/news/author-worlds-greatest-ideas-came-interdisciplinary-teamworkLisa Lehner recently published an open-access article in BMC Public Health titled 'Beyond the "information deficit model" - understanding vaccine-hesitant attitudes of midwives in Austria: a qualitative study'. Read more here
/news/lisa-lehner-publishes-article-vaccine-hesitancyBruce Lewenstein will be part of the leadership group of a new NSF-funded Science & Technology Center on “programmable plants”. Professor Lewenstein will be leading the “social, ethical, and public engagement” theme within the overall project. S&TS faculty members Phoebe Sengers, Malte Ziewitz, and Steve Hilgartner are also involved in the...
/news/25m-center-will-use-digital-tools-communicate-plantsThe Technology and Law Colloquium – a hybrid Cornell University course and public lecture series – will return this semester with talks from 13 leading scholars who study the legal and ethical questions surrounding technology’s impact in areas like privacy, sex and gender, data collection, and policing.
/news/techlaw-colloquium-features-privacy-covid-and-incarcerationA review of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs was recently published in Science magazine by Professor Suman Seth. Read more
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