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The 2023-24 FAN Fellows, from left: Anthony Burrow, Anindita Banerjee, Iftikhar Dadi, Tara Holm, Gerlinde Van de Walle and Jocelyn Rose.
Faculty leadership
Banerjee will participate in a two-year academic leadership and governance fellowship.
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A rainbow over McGraw Hall and the Arts Quad after a summer rain storm.
Faculty honors
Two faculty members in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频 are the recipients of the 2023 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.
Issued by the Provost鈥檚 Office of Faculty Development and Diversity and the Cornell LGBT Resource Center, the LGBTQ+ Resource Guide for Faculty and Staff offers best practices, including using gender-inclusive greetings in meetings and classrooms, integrating LGBTQ issues into curricula and hiring and more.
Jamila Michener, associate professor of government, and Mark E. Lewis, director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, are the recipients of this year鈥檚 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.
Comparative Literature, Performing & Media Arts, Latino/a Studies
Maria Cristina Garcia, the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies in the 麻豆视频 and 麻豆视频, and聽Anthony Burrow, associate professor of human development in the College of Human Ecology, have won the inaugural Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service Through Diversity.
Are elite institutions ready for an increasingly diverse student body? Anthony Jack, assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, will address this question in a lecture Oct. 3 at 3:30 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building, Room G10.
Students, staff and faculty members who exceeded their job responsibilities to enhance the atmosphere for women at Cornell were recognized at the 20th Cook Awards luncheon March 12 in Warren Hall. Colleagues, family and academic leaders including deans, vice provosts, President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff attended the celebration.
A panel discussion, 鈥淐elebrating 150 Years of Ezra Cornell鈥檚 Promise: Reflections on What 鈥... Any Person 鈥 Any Study鈥 Means,鈥 will be held Monday, Oct. 29, at 4 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. The event is open to the public.
Cornell faculty members and academic staff participating in the聽Knowledge Matters Fellowship聽presented their projects, including comics, videos and websites, at a showcase wrapping up the yearlong transmedia training program May 10 at A.D. White House.
Faculty, staff and graduate students will gather for the fifth聽Empowering Women in Science and Engineering聽(EWISE) symposium on Wednesday, May 23, in Stocking Hall. The all-day symposium is open to graduate students, postdoctoral associates, researchers and faculty members.
Scholars are using websites, vlogs, information comics and PechaKuchas to reach wider audiences than journal articles that sometimes baffle the general public.
From analyzing how labor policies contributed to rapid economic growth in Europe in the 1950s to testing the therapeutic value of virtual reality technology, Cornell social science research projects are receiving assistance from the Institute for the Social 麻豆视频鈥 (ISS) Small Grants Program.
One in 10 people on Earth live in China鈥檚 cities. Over the past decade, nearly 200 million people in China have moved from rural to urban regions, and 8 million more are expected to relocate every year between now and 2050. Just what this means for China and the world has the attention of the聽Institute for the Social 麻豆视频鈥櫬爊ewest collaborative project, China鈥檚 Cities: Divisions and Plans.
Highly educated, high-income immigrants to the United States are changing the look and feel of American suburbs by tearing down older homes built just after World War II and building sprawling new houses, pejoratively called 鈥淢cMansions.鈥 But the changes are not always welcome by long-time neighborhood residents, said聽Suzanne Lanyi Charles, assistant professor in city and regional planning.
The聽Institute for the Social 麻豆视频鈥櫬燙reativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship聽(CIE)聽theme project tackled the challenges inherent in interdisciplinary research collaborations, particularly the issue of how sociologists, psychologists, economists, lawyers, musicians and entrepreneurs sometimes struggle to understand one another.
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell scholars is collaborating on a new project, The Causes, Consequence and Future of Mass Incarceration in the United States, supported by the Institute for the Social 麻豆视频 (ISS) and led by Peter Enns, associate professor of government.