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Archaeology

Class examines Cornell past and future

<p>“Welcome to Cornell Ruins National Park,” Adam T. Smith tells his students. “We’re lucky today. We have a cache of objects to examine discovered in the ruins of McGraw Hall.”</p><p>This “Rise and Fall of ‘Civilization’” class examines traditional archaeological topics, like kingship and the origins of cities, partly by looking at our current civilization through the lens of a single site – the Cornell campus as it would look 1,000 years from now.</p>

4/28/2014 A&S Communications

Chemistry

A passion for justice and concern for patients shape this alum's life

<div>A poor childhood in Guyana spent watching his mother get pushed around gave Frank Douglas, Ph.D. '73, M.D. '77, an early awareness of injustice. At age 12 he was challenging his school principal on fairness, despite the risk to his academic future.</div>

3/5/2014 A&S Communications

Anthropology

Tall ship sailing is ongoing research project for Captain Lauren Morgens

<p>Captain Lauren Morgens '02 stands on the quarterdeck surveying her ship, red sash around her waist and a tall feather in her pirate hat. It is a cloudy August afternoon in Lewes, Del.; her crew has finished scrubbing the Kalmar Nyckel's deck, and the last sailor has come off the rigging. Once the tall ship clears the shallows, Morgens' command to "set the mizzen" rings across the ship in a sing-song cadence that seems as old as the sea itself.</p>

1/2/2014 A&S Communications

Government

Government is excellent prep for rabbinic career, says Michaels '68

<p><style type="text/css"><![CDATA[/* ><![CDATA[/* ><!]]]]><![CDATA[>*//*--><!]]>*/</style></p><p>James R. Michaels '68, a member of Cornell's 100th graduating class, always knew he wanted to be a rabbi. He dutifully chose a philosophy major when he entered Cornell but found that the department's emphasis then on linguistic evaluation wasn't a good fit.</p>

1/2/2014

Performing and Media Arts

Cathy Choi '93 used her major in theater as training for running a business

<p>Cathy Choi '93 entered Cornell with numbers on her mind. But an English class cross-listed with theater turned Choi away from her planned math major. "I had never read a play before in my life, but I got bitten by the bug and really fell in love," says Choi. "I ended up as a theater major."</p>

1/1/2014 Ezra Update

PIONEER

The College Years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a Founder of Queer Theory

<p>The advent of queer theory “caused a shock wave which has affected all intellectual disciplines,” as Didier Eribon, a leading French intellectual, once said. A look back at the undergraduate years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘71, a founder of queer theory, reveals a unique glimpse of where that shock wave first began.</p>

A&S Communications

Physics

Hawking’s black hole theorem observationally confirmed

Saul Teukolsky and other physicists at Cornell, MIT and elsewhere have confirmed Hawking's area theorem for the first time, using observations of gravitational waves.

Cornell Chronicle