Laurie Anderson visit offers a glimpse of her world
The Sept. 26 talk was recorded and is now available to view on eCornell.
Cornell Cinema’s season showcases cult classics, Disney, greatest films of all time
The cinema's fall schedule includes "Rocky Horror Picture Show," as well as some of the British Film Institute’s top movies of all time.
A&S dean Jayawardhana named provost at Johns Hopkins
Rachel Bean, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor in the Department of Astronomy and senior associate dean for math and science, has been named interim A&S dean.
PMA prof’s film wins top honors at three festivals
“Campfire,” an original short film by Associate Professor Austin Bunn, won the Provincetown International Film Festival’s "best queer short" award, making it eligible for an Academy Award nomination.
Theatre collaboration sets stage for community engagement
A&S faculty and students are part "Fertile Grounds,” a community-based play premiered by Ithaca theater organization Civic Ensemble.
Nexus Scholars Program expands research opportunities to 101 students
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.
'I’ve gained a deeper understanding of how technology can be leveraged for social good'
Ishika Agrawal is an information science major.
'I designed a website that highlights contemporary Haudenosaunee artists'
Rayna Klugherz is a history of art and American studies major.
'We are all wonderfully entangled'
Hal Reed is an information science and history major.
Milstein first-years take advantage of community, opportunity
First-year students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity talk about their varied experiences.
New faculty award celebrates community engagement across Cornell
Two Arts and Sciences professors are among the 13 Cornell faculty members receiving Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
Milstein speaker to explore “The Battle for Your Brain”
Nita Farahany, a scholar who focuses on ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies, will be the featured speaker for an April 12 event hosted by the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity.
Lawmakers struggle to differentiate AI and human emails
A field experiment investigating how GPT-3 might be used to generate constituent email messages showed that legislators were only slightly less likely to respond to AI-generated messages than human-generated.
Migrations announces winners for creative writing, art
Four winners of the competition by the Migrations Global Grand Challenge are affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nexus Scholar applications open for summer 2023
The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
'This education is a privilege and can be used for good'
Abena Gyasi is a Biology & Society and Psychology major.
Milstein Expo -- May 6, 2022 5pm
Milstein students will present poster and media highlighting their projects. This reception is open to the Cornell Community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.