The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/professor/)
Students learn how to learn, and the most important thing we do is teach them how to learn, including how to speak articulately, write precisely, and think critically. When we do that, they in turn teach us how to learn.
Prof. Claudia Goldin ’67, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, shared personal insights from different periods in her life in an exclusive interview to The Sun.
At a rally for Palestine in the City of Ithaca on Sunday, Prof. Russell Rickford said he was “exhilarated” by Hamas’s attack on Israel, which provoked outrage.
Why has there been such a sharp decline in the study of literatures in English? Should we no longer teach Joyce, Woolf and the like?
Prof. Craig Altier and Prof. Kyu Rhee are collaborating to co-direct the new Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education, with the aim of better understanding and improving treatments for microbes resistant to existing medications.
Prof. Chiara Formichi, Asian Studies, has spent her career researching the relationship between Islam and Asian cultures, having published her most recent book in April 2020.
“I think Cornell understands that permanent tenured faculty are healthier for the institution, and provide a better classroom experience that ultimately results in better student learning outcomes,” said Professor Adam Smith, archaeology.
When a student petition successfully led to the firing of a New York University chemistry professor, there were mixed responses amongst students, educators and administrators. An incident like this, where students held enough power to demand such a change, would not have happened 50 years ago. While there are many similarities between being a student today and being a student in the past — the same struggles of fitting in, first relationships, difficult academics and so on exist — there are also significant differences. The time that we live in dictates what it means to be a college student.
Cornell’s student-instructor culture is vastly different, however, especially in the large departments and STEM classes. With the large (and growing) student population, there just aren’t enough faculty to facilitate meaningful relationships in classes unless the subject is niche and the class is small. Moreover, while Ithaca isn’t New York City, the city is large enough that there isn’t the small-town phenomenon of bumping into professors out and about.
Prof. Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, applied economics and policy, has recently been appointed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board.