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A doctoral candidate in science and technology studies with a focus on the anthropology of science, Domingues studies how investigators use scientific methods and humanities theories to reconstruct the lives of past humans.
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This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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The end-of-year HSP research conference May 5 featured presentations by 45 senior undergraduates.
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Olivia Snyder is a biology and society major.
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Peter Terrazas is a science and technology studies major.
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Her three-volume work, “Women Scientists in America,” sheds light on the many ways women were involved in the advancement of science, as well as how they were pushed out of the field.
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“We are thrilled that study abroad opportunities around the world are once again available to our students."
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A paper by Cornell researchers suggests maslins have the unique capacity to adapt in real time to extreme weather.
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Anthropologist Noah Tamarkin has received the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies in the category of social science, anthropology, and folklore.
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Professional Development Grants are available thanks to generous alumni donations.
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A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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The awards celebrate cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community.
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Small communities struggle with infrastructure ill-suited to rural life. Phoebe Sengers is improving design processes for better outcomes.
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The 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.
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A new group provides female athletes of color at Cornell with a community of women who understand their challenges.
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Cornell's president highlighted recent achievements of Arts and Sciences faculty.
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Four A&S faculty members have been honored for their excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.
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Matthew Garcia '25 was in the first cohort of student-veterans to move in to the university’s new Veteran Program House on University Avenue.
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Friday’s concluding keynote will be delivered by Jonathan Flatley, a scholar of literature and the relationship between politics and aesthetics .
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“These efforts recognize the critical questions Jewishness raises and its place as part of a shared heritage.”
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"The Society for the Humanities thought there is no better way to kick off the year of Repair, than to begin at home."
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Her major work, “Women Scientists in America,” has redrawn the historical landscape of women in science.
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From 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.
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Madeline Sterling '08, an Arts & Sciences alum, is part of a team launching a research program to elevate the value of home care workers.
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A 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.
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Their map will visualize research about the spread of existing or known and new or emerging zoonotic diseases.
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Enabling 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.
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"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."
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Kuunemuebari Donovan Mini is a Science and Technology Studies major.
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Medical statistics compiled and published by the British military played an important role in introducing “race” as a categorical reality, Suman Seth argues.
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Abena Gyasi is a Biology & Society and Psychology major.
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Students Against the Sexual Solicitation of Youth (SASSY), together with a Tompkins County team, targeted the local lodging industry for outreach efforts.
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Science & Technology Studies Fall 2022 Course Offerings
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Biology & Society Fall 2022 Course Offerings
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Jeffrey 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.
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Four doctoral students studying fields in the College of Arts & Sciences are the inaugural recipients of the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities.
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This 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.
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On 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.
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Bruce 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.
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Beginning in spring 2022, a graduate minor in media studies will be available to students in fields across the Graduate School at Cornell University.
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Two 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.
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Four 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.
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Trevor 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.
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How 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...
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The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
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Lissette Lorenz is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Miami, Florida.
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Every 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...
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Peruse our Spring 2022 Science and Technology Studies and Biology and Society course offerings here.
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Researchers used India’s biometrics-based individual identification system to examine how the system works for the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people.
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