
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.
/news/creativity-flourishes-student-run-milstein-salon-0The event featured a cello ensemble, a fashion shoot spread and a series of poetry and prose readings.
/news/creativity-flourishes-student-run-milstein-salon-0Milstein Program Short Courses offer students a way to learn the technical skills they crave and create opportunities to socialize across different majors and years.
/news/short-courses-open-doors-milstein-studentsOriginally the brainchild of Milstein student Finley Williams '24, the Milstein Salon became the first student-conceived, student-run Milstein Program event.
/news/creativity-flourishes-student-run-milstein-salonStudents experienced cryo-electron microscopy as part of a collaboration with Cornell’s Center for Teaching Innovation.
/news/students-visit-virtual-world-learn-research-techniqueGrants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation will help make humanities research more accessible to scholars and the public.
/news/goffe-collaboration-key-major-humanities-grantsThe film by Jeffrey Palmer and Austin Bunn has been entered into five film festivals; they’ll hear word of acceptance soon.
/news/faculty-members-film-focuses-boarding-school-escapeAndrea 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.
/news/mstudio-event-mediated-experience-vr-andrea-stevenson-wonA 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-spaceWhat are students up to with wooden skewers, popsicle sticks, Scotch Tape and a rainbow collage of pipe-cleaners?
/news/milstein-students-greet-new-year-team-building-eventsHear from four of the 29 students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity about their summer at Cornell Tech.
/news/summer-reflections-milstein-studentsMilstein students spent eight weeks this summer wrestling with societal questions about technology's role in our world.
/news/milstein-students-spend-summer-producing-questioning-exploringAustin 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.
/news/pma-prof-honored-fellowship-screenwriting-workTwenty Milstein Program seniors will graduate this year with degrees in everything from biology to linguistics to computer science to physics.
/news/first-class-milstein-students-heads-toward-graduationAbena Gyasi is a Biology & Society and Psychology major.
/news/education-privilege-and-can-be-used-goodMilstein students will present poster and media highlighting their projects. This reception is open to the Cornell Community.
/news/milstein-expo-may-6-2022-5pmEmily Kam '22 is an Information Science Major/Creative Writing Minor and a member of the Milstein Program’s first graduating senior cohort.
/news/senior-highlight-emily-kam-22Prof. 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.
/news/new-m-studio-talk-prof-matthew-wilkensThe 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
/news/underground-railroad-project-releases-new-3-d-modelOn 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-hoursFrom 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.
/news/panelists-explore-science-very-very-smallMilstein students Gloria Cai (‘24), Keyi Ding (‘23), and Noah Watson ('23) contributed to "(Mis)Information on Digital Platforms" article with Cornell Professor Sarah Kreps.
/news/milstein-students-contribute-epidemiology-publicationGifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
/news/support-arts-sciences-giving-day-march-16Designer/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)
/news/life-slash-talk-professor-chris-csikszentmihalyiProf. 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.
/news/skin-deep-crafting-tech-body-talk-prof-cindy-hsin-liu-kaoTopics include “Life in the Slash," “Skin Deep: Crafting Tech onto the Body" and "Mining for Meaning: The Novel as Data Set."
/news/milstein-program-announces-spring-calendar-eventsThe new “Voices on the Underground Railroad” website focuses on nine documented or rumored stops on the Underground Railroad in Central and Western New York.
/news/freedom-seekers-speak-new-underground-railroad-siteFour 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-competitionA $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
/news/alumni-gift-supports-doctoral-students-humanitiesThe 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-openThe 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-opportunitiesFollowing a competitive application process, eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator, announced the 20 student teams selected for participation in the 2021-22 cohort.
/news/elab-introduces-newest-cohort-student-startupsThis fall, the Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is coordinating a community of practice featuring workshops led by faculty to explore digital storytelling methods
/news/community-practice-explores-digital-storytelling-classroomThe 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-teamwork“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.
/news/project-celebrates-beauty-humpback-whale-songsA multidisciplinary team of Cornell students and faculty and local schoolchildren began an archeological dig Sept. 18 at St. James AME Zion church in Ithaca.
/news/excavation-explore-churchs-role-underground-railroadNew 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.”
/news/best-selling-science-writer-talk-about-epidemics-life-expectancy-innovationAs 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...
/news/milstein-program-juniors-work-community-engaged-projects-throughout-pandemicSophomore students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity spent their first summer in person at Cornell Tech.
/news/nyc-summer-shapes-milstein-students-thoughts-about-futureMilstein 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...
/news/steven-johnsonThe 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.
/news/eu-lacks-leverage-pushing-privacy-standards-amazon-microsoftResearch supported by the 14 grants ranges from the physics of quantum computing to the design of new musical instruments.
/news/2m-new-frontier-grants-boost-high-impact-researchFacebook’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.
/news/who-guarding-facebooks-guardians-lawmakers-can-step-oversightWhat 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...
/news/godmother-vr-speaks-milstein-students-about-career-immersive-journalismThree 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.
/news/event-examines-ethics-politics-and-future-aiMilstein 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...
/news/cornell-edtech-startup-rapstudy-mixes-pop-songs-educational-lyrics-amplify-learningNonny 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.
/news/xr-futureMilstein 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...
/news/milstein-program-recruiting-freshman-2024-cohortFederal 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.
/news/jj-vaccine-pause-sign-super-cautious-health-agenciesProfessor 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.
/news/djs-linnaeus-and-plantation-historyThe April 15 Arts Unplugged virtual event will be moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin ’99, of CNBC and The New York Times.
/news/panel-examine-intersection-artificial-intelligence-ethics-politics-and-policy