BSOC/STS Major Fall Semester Enrollment Period

BSOC/STS Major Fall Semester Enrollment PeriodMajor applications will be accepted for both the Biology and Society and Science and Technology Studies Majors from September 23-October 23.Biology and Society Applications will be accepted here: https://sts.cornell.edu/biology-society-major-application Science and Technology Studies Applications...

The Dilemma of Cybersecurity

Taylor Parrott awarded Knight Institute’s Gertrude Spencer Portfolio Prize

We're delighted to congratulate Taylor Parrott and their student Jay Sangwan for winning the Knight Institute’s Gertrude Spencer Portfolio Prize that recognizes the excellent collaboration between teacher and student that led to Sangwan’s outstanding portfolio of essays from Fall 2019.  Taylor’s creative and well-crafted writing assignments,...

STS PhD candidate Jeffrey Mathias awarded an AHA/NASA 2020-21 Fellowship

STS PhD candidate Jeffrey Mathias was awarded an AHA/NASA 2020-21 Fellowship. With it, he plans to continue work on his doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled “‘Pathologies of Boredom’: Isolation and the Cold War Human Sciences.”Read more

30 Arts & Sciences faculty honored with endowed professorships

The College is able to bestow these honors to outstanding faculty thanks to generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.

China’s global data security initiative is “wholly aspirational”

STS graduate student Lisa Lehner receives six-month fellowship at the KLI

STS graduate student Lisa Lehner received a six-month fellowship at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI) in Klosterneuburg, Austria. She will be starting her stint as a resident fellow on October 1st, 2020. The KLI is an interdisciplinary center for advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences, and...

Seven Graduate Students Receive Wu Scholarships

Seven graduate students were recently awarded Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu Scholarships. These awards provide recipients with funds to help with any aspect of doctoral study, from research expenses to personal living expenses.

Project to investigate digital ag’s impacts on rural America

As technology begins to transform farming, a team of Cornell researchers is exploring how digital agriculture could affect small and midsized farms, as well as its likely effect on the environment, to inform the design of these developing technologies.

How our current times are changing the curriculum

Professors throughout A&S are discussing the impacts of the pandemic and campaigns for racial justice in classes this fall.