Creativity flourishes at student-run Milstein Salon
The event featured a cello ensemble, a fashion shoot spread and a series of poetry and prose readings.
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Short Courses Open Doors for Milstein Students
Milstein Program Short Courses offer students a way to learn the technical skills they crave and create opportunities to socialize across different majors and years.
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Creativity Flourishes at Student-Run Milstein Salon
Originally the brainchild of Milstein student Finley Williams '24, the Milstein Salon became the first student-conceived, student-run Milstein Program event.
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Students visit virtual world to learn research technique
Students experienced cryo-electron microscopy as part of a collaboration with Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation.
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Goffe: Collaboration is key to major humanities grants
Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation will help make humanities research more accessible to scholars and the public.
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Faculty members' film focuses on boarding school escape
The film by Jeffrey Palmer and Austin Bunn has been entered into five film festivals; they’ll hear word of acceptance soon.
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MStudio Event: "Mediated Experience in VR" with Andrea Stevenson Won
Andrea Stevenson Won, director of Cornell's Virtual Embodiment Lab, will speak about her lab's work with virtual reality at this 11/2 M Studio Talk.
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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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Milstein students greet new year with team-building events
What are students up to with wooden skewers, popsicle sticks, Scotch Tape and a rainbow collage of pipe-cleaners?
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Summer reflections from Milstein students
Hear from four of the 29 students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity about their summer at Cornell Tech.
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Milstein students spend summer producing, questioning, exploring
Milstein students spent eight weeks this summer wrestling with societal questions about technology's role in our world.
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PMA prof honored with fellowship for screenwriting work
Austin Bunn, associate professor of performing and media arts, has been awarded a New York State Council for the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in screenwriting.
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First class of Milstein students heads toward graduation
Twenty Milstein Program seniors will graduate this year with degrees in everything from biology to linguistics to computer science to physics.
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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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Milstein Expo -- May 6, 2022 5pm
Milstein students will present poster and media highlighting their projects. This reception is open to the Cornell Community.
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Senior Highlight: Emily Kam ('22)
Emily Kam '22 is an Information Science Major/Creative Writing Minor and a member of the Milstein Program’s first graduating senior cohort.
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New M Studio: A Talk with Prof. Matthew Wilkens
Prof. Matthew Wilkens will talk about his work with literary text mining, geolocation extraction, genre detection, and the cross-pollination of critical and social-scientific methods.
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Underground Railroad project releases new 3-D model
The 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
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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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Panelists explore ‘Science of the Very, Very Small’
From a nanoscale “brobot” flexing its muscles to a discussion of the artistry of scientific images, participants at a March 9 event got an up-close look at how quantum science and nanotechnology are shaping our lives.
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Milstein Students Contribute to Epidemiology Publication
Milstein students Gloria Cai (‘24), Keyi Ding (‘23), and Noah Watson ('23) contributed to "(Mis)Information on Digital Platforms" article with Cornell Professor Sarah Kreps.
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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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Life in the Slash: a Talk with Professor Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Designer/Technologist/Critic Prof. Csikszentmihalyi (Info Science) spoke about his career as an artist and technologist, dedicated to developing technologies that don't reinforce the status quo. He is the former founder/director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media and MIT Media Lab's Computing Culture group. He currently teaches "Designing Technology for Social Impact Practicum" (IS 4940)
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Skin Deep: Crafting Tech onto the Body -- A Talk with Prof. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
Prof. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, founder and director of Cornell's Hybrid Body Lab spoke with Milstein students Wednesday night about her about her work creating inclusive and diverse designs for emerging soft wearable technologies.
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Milstein Program announces spring calendar of events
Topics include “Life in the Slash," “Skin Deep: Crafting Tech onto the Body" and "Mining for Meaning: The Novel as Data Set."
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Freedom seekers speak on new Underground Railroad site
The new “Voices on the Underground Railroad” website focuses on nine documented or rumored stops on the Underground Railroad in Central and Western New York.
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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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Alumni gift to A&S supports doctoral students in the humanities
A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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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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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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eLab introduces newest cohort of student startups
Following a competitive application process, eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, announced the 20 student teams selected for participation in the 2021-22 cohort.
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Community of practice explores digital storytelling in the classroom
This fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods
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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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Project celebrates the beauty of humpback whale songs
“The Whale Listening Project,” which runs Sept. 23-26, is a four-day immersion in the beauty of whale song and a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the best-selling 1970 album, “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” co-produced by pioneering bioacoustics researchers Roger Payne, Ph.D. ’61, and Katy Payne ’59, a retired research associate with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research Program.
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Excavation to explore church’s role in Underground Railroad
A multidisciplinary team of Cornell students and faculty and local schoolchildren began an archeological dig Sept. 18 at St. James AME Zion church in Ithaca.
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Best-selling science writer to talk about epidemics, life expectancy, innovation
New York Times best-selling science and technology writer Steven Johnson will visit campus Sept. 22 to meet with students and faculty and offer a talk to the Cornell community, “20,000 More Days: How We Doubled Global Life Expectancy in Just 100 years.”
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Milstein program juniors work on community engaged projects throughout pandemic
As a child of immigrants and a student in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity, I am glad that my Milstein community project allows me to work with a local organization dedicated to helping immigrants learn English.Open Doors English (ODE) is an organization in downtown Ithaca that provides English as a second language courses to...
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NYC summer shapes Milstein students’ thoughts about future
Sophomore students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity spent their first summer in person at Cornell Tech.
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Steven Johnson
Milstein Program Speaker Series presents...20,000 MORE DAYS: How We Doubled Global Life Expectancy in Just 100 Years featuring author Steven Johnson Moderated by Associate Professors and Director of the Milstein Program, Austin Bunn, and Professor and Director of the Master of Public Health Program, Alexander J. Travis.Wednesday, September 22...
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EU lacks leverage in pushing privacy standards on Amazon, Microsoft
The European Union’s privacy watchdog, the European Data Protection Supervisor has opened two investigations into EU institutions’ use of cloud computing services offered by Amazon and Microsoft. Sarah Kreps, professor of government, says the EU is in a difficult position when it comes to privacy and cloud storage.
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$2M in New Frontier Grants boost high-impact A&S research
Research supported by the 14 grants ranges from the physics of quantum computing to the design of new musical instruments.
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‘Who is guarding Facebook’s guardians?’ Lawmakers can step up oversight
Facebook’s Oversight Board voted to uphold the social media company’s suspension of former President Donald Trump on its platforms but insisted the company must review the suspension to determine an appropriate length of time and develop clearer policies to balance freedom of expression and public safety. Professor of government Sarah Kreps says that Facebook’s Oversight Board acts like a private firm without real accountability of its own and that its consequential decision making over Facebook’s policies require additional independent oversight.
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‘Godmother of VR’ speaks with Milstein students about career in immersive journalism
What would experiencing the news be like, if you could be at the scene yourself? Would you be more likely to take action on issues that spoke to you? Nonny de La Peña, the founder of Emblematic Group and a personage called “the Godmother of VR” by some, is here to open your eyes to the possibility of that experience.Ms. de la Peña spoke to the...
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Event examines the ethics, politics and future of AI
Three leading Cornell scholars discussed governmental, social and moral ramifications of artificial intelligence in “Politics, Policy & Ethics of the Coming AI Revolution” on April 15, an Arts Unplugged event sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin ’99, of CNBC and The New York Times.
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Cornell edtech startup rapStudy mixes pop songs, educational lyrics to amplify learning
Milstein Program student Reza Madhaven '22 is the Head of Tech for rapStudy, an edtech startup founded by Cornell University students which pairs popular song melodies with lyrics that help elementary and middle school students learn about anything from fractions to the scientific method. "I think for a long time everybody's known the power that...
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XR is the future
Nonny de la Peña, one of pioneers of Extended Reality, or XR, and the founder of Emblematic Group, shared her story in a focus talk co-sponsored by the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity on April 8.
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Milstein Program Recruiting Freshman for 2024 Cohort
Milstein Program Recruiting Freshman for 2024 Cohort Application Deadline: Thursday, April 15. Freshman, are you looking for an opportunity to be at the nexus of technology and humanity? The Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity combines a liberal arts education with cutting edge programs and courses at Cornell Tech at the New York City...
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J&J vaccine pause a sign of ‘super cautious’ health agencies
Federal health agencies have recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after six people developed blood clots within two weeks of receiving the one-shot vaccine. Government professors Sarah Kreps and Doug Kriner, who have surveyed nearly 2,000 American adults on issues regarding their willingness to get a vaccine, comment.
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DJs, Linnaeus, and Plantation History
Professor Tao Leigh Goffe works at the intersection of environmental humanities, science, and technology. As a researcher, writer, and DJ, she is especially interested in histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization.
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Panel to examine the intersection of artificial intelligence with ethics, politics and policy
The April 15 Arts Unplugged virtual event will be moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin ’99, of CNBC and The New York Times.
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