Study abroad, travel opportunities ramping back up
“We are thrilled that study abroad opportunities around the world are once again available to our students."
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Ancient farming strategy holds promise for climate resilience
EEB'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.
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‘Genetic Afterlives’ receives book prize
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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Grants help students with conferences, job-hunting expenses
Professional Development Grants are available thanks to generous alumni donations.
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Wondering what to read in 2023? A&S faculty offer ideas
A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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Town-gown awards honor food-related community partnerships
The awards celebrate cooperation between the university and the greater Ithaca community.
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Designed for rural living
Small communities struggle with infrastructure ill-suited to rural life. Phoebe Sengers is improving design processes for better outcomes.
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Breaking barriers: Peer outreach boosts student veterans
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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Student group, Women of Color Athletics, creates space
A new group provides female athletes of color at Cornell with a community of women who understand their challenges.
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Pollack lauds ‘amazing Cornellians’ in State of the University speech
Cornell's president highlighted recent achievements of Arts and Sciences faculty.
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Weiss teaching award honors eight exceptional faculty
Four A&S faculty members have been honored for their excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.
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Student veteran finds a sense of community at Cornell
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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Conference explores the theme of “Repair” from multiple humanities disciplines
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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New Jewish studies major approved in College of Arts & Sciences
“These efforts recognize the critical questions Jewishness raises and its place as part of a shared heritage.”
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Community read launches Society for the Humanities’ ‘Repair’ theme
"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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Rossiter honored for 'writing women back into the history of science'
Her major work, “Women Scientists in America,” has redrawn the historical landscape of women in science.
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Harrison College Scholars explore politics, wellness, environment in summer work
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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Overlooked, undervalued: Cornell research seeks to elevate home care workers
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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Chasing carbon from trees to soils
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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Studying connections between animal-human health
Their map will visualize research about the spread of existing or known and new or emerging zoonotic diseases.
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Researchers consider invisible hurdles in digital ag design
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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Arts and Sciences faculty honored for teaching, advising excellence
"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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'I feel a sense of community and family as part of the track and field team'
Kuunemuebari Donovan Mini is a Science and Technology Studies major.
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Victorian medicine shaped modern concepts of race
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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'This education is a privilege and can be used for good'
Abena Gyasi is a Biology & Society and Psychology major.
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Students, county agency raise awareness of commercial sexual exploitation of children
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
Science & Technology Studies Fall 2022 Course Offerings
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Biology & Society - Fall 2022 Course Offerings
Biology & Society Fall 2022 Course Offerings
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Jeffrey Mathias
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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First group of Zhu Fellows named
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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Record High Attendance at Writing Boot Camp
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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More than $12M donated to support students in 24 hours
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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Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 16
Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Bruce Lewenstein appointed university ombudsman
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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Media Studies Initiative launches new graduate minor
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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Artificial echoes and insect synthesizers
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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Heart monitor, ‘tinder for musicians’ win Big Ideas Competition
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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Pioneering professor Trevor Pinch dies at 69
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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Critical companionship: Some sensibilities for studying the lived experience of data subjects
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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Nexus Scholars Program applications now open
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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Student spotlight: Lissette Lorenz
Lissette Lorenz is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Miami, Florida.
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Weekly group helps STS profs/grad students refine papers
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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Spring 2022 Course Offerings
Peruse our Spring 2022 Science and Technology Studies and Biology and Society course offerings here.
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Big data can render some as ‘low-resolution citizens’
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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New A&S program expands undergrad research opportunities
The 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.
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Author: World’s greatest ideas came from interdisciplinary teamwork
The 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.
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Lisa Lehner publishes article on vaccine hesitancy
Lisa 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
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$25M center will use digital tools to ‘communicate’ with plants
Bruce 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...
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Tech/Law Colloquium features privacy, COVID and incarceration
The 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.
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The unsung players of epidemiology
A 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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