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Smoke dancers, ASL poetry and explorations of endangered languages will highlight a series of events at Cornell University Oct. 15-Nov. 6 that celebrates the importance of language throughout U.S. history.
The 2026 Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award has been awarded to Evelyn Elmer Fettes, a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics. Evelyn completed advanced studies of Indonesian through the Shared Course Initiative (SCI) and is currently conducting field research in Indonesia for her dissertation on syntactic microvariation in nominal phrases of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Cornell University Arts & Sciences ambassador shares advice for freshmen adjusting to college life. The College of Arts & Sciences column emphasizes campus libraries, exploring majors, professor mentorship, community and balanced self-care.
Ukrainian Easter eggs, or pysanky, are on display in Goldwin Smith Hall in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences through the end of the spring 2026 semester. The exhibit, displaying work by staff member Lori Radcliff-Woods, is one of several new initiatives Cornell’s Ukrainian Program is undertaking to bring the culture, language and history of…
Grit Matthias Phelps, German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers, or delete keys.
Cornell University will host “Indigenous Voices in Abiayala/Latin America,” on April 9 at 4:45 p.m., exploring Indigenous media self-representation in Latin America – known as Abiayala in the Guna language. Held in the in the A.D. White House and organized by Polly Lauer, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in Romance studies in Cornell’s College of Arts and…
Cornell University Humanities Scholars traveled to Washington, D.C. to advocate for increased National Endowment for the Humanities and National Archives funding, meeting with congressional offices to highlight the impact of humanities programs on education. Their two‑day trip underscored how federal support strengthens community partnerships, language programs, and public humanities initiatives benefiting campuses and local organizations…
The LRC's Translator Interpreter Program trains and coordinates multilingual volunteers who provide free translation and interpretation services throughout the local community.
The Cornell University Language Resource Center held its fifth annual World Languages Day (WLD) event on Saturday, October 25, 2025. Over 110 middle and high school students registered for the event, making this the largest turnout of any previous WLD.
“The Future of Language Advocacy” on Nov. 15 will feature Cornell Translator Interpreter Program founders Fatema Sumar ‘01 and alumna Joyce Muchan ‘97.
The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.
The David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement awarded nine grants to a diverse array of projects that connect classroom learning with hands-on collaboration.
The 2025 Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award was awarded to Mahnoor B. Cheema, a senior in Biological Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Mahnoor has completed four semesters of Punjabi through the Shared Course Initiative (SCI) and embodies the deep passion for language, heritage, and cultural connection that this award celebrates.
Students who want an immersive on-campus experience with American Sign Language (ASL) can now sign up to live in the Language House.
The event celebrates April as National Poetry Month.
Cornell University held its fourth annual World Languages Day (WLD) event on Saturday, October 26, 2024. The day-long event invites middle and high school students from the Ithaca community and greater New York state to experience the varied opportunities for language learning available at a higher education institution. This year, over 55 middle and high…
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
To celebrate Cornell’s commitment to fostering global literacy and cross-cultural understanding, the Language Resource Center in the College of Arts and Sciences will host World Languages Day on Oct. 26.
Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.
The Language Resource Center (LRC) welcomes a new team member, Ashley Griffith. As the LRC Engagement and Outreach Coordinator, she will coordinate and promote special language learning initiatives such as conversation hours, language tutoring, World Languages Day, Lingua Mater, and Sweet Poetry.
The upcoming International Fair is poised to spark students’ interest in the world on Aug. 28.
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
The 2024 Lisa Sansoucy Language Scholar Award was awarded to Avneet Kaur Mehr, a sophomore in Biology & Society who just completed two semesters of Punjabi as part of the Shared Course Initiative (SCI). The award is named in memory of our friend and colleague Lisa Sansoucy, who passed away in December of 2021. It…
“Any poem, any language” is the theme of the Language Resource Center’s second annual celebration of National Poetry Month, April 17
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