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Location: Uris Hall, G08
MW 10:10-11:25 | 3 credits
Y. Duan
W 11:15-1:45 | 3 credits
K. Haines-Eitzen
Call for Applications for Summer 2027
Eligibility: Cornell undergraduates
Application Deadline: November 15, 2026
The Weiner Family Summer Fellowship, established in honor of Gelek Rimpoche, will award two undergraduate students with up to $5,000 each in pursuit of the academic study of Buddhism. The award may be used for travel, accommodation, research materials, living expenses, coursework fees, and more. Preference will be given to students with strong coursework in religious studies and Asian religions.
Memorial prizes for undergraduate essays on religion and politics/society.
Eligibility: Cornell undergraduates from all colleges are eligible to apply.
Throughout history and across the contemporary global sphere, religious practice and ideology interweave themselves in the political and social fabric of human life. The Joseph E. Connolly ’72 Memorial Prizes are awarded to undergraduates who have demonstrated exceptional scholarship at the intersection of religion and politics or society. The Connolly Prizes seek to support, recognize, and inspire imaginative, wide-ranging undergraduate research that addresses these themes in any area of the humanities, and relating to religion(s), religious beliefs, and religious practices in the broadest sense.
Books featured by the alumni website Cornellians for May 2026 include, y Cornell College of Arts and Sciences alumni and faculty, a ‘poetic memoir,’ a study of the Gospel of John, and the final mystery from a genre luminary.
Cornell admits the Class of 2030 emphasizing real-world impact, enrolling 5,776 students from 102 countries. At Cornell University, the diverse cohort reflects the land-grant mission and applied learning goals across multiple colleges.
Sarah Mullally’s historic installation as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury highlights rapid institutional change within Anglicanism. Cornell University sociologist Landon Schnabel emphasizes how incremental reforms built support for her swift rise.
Use of Christian apocalyptic language by commanders reflects a climate shaped from the top down, says one Cornell expert. Another adds: the belief that Christians should actively bring about the end times rests on a misreading of the Book of Revelation.
For the ancient Greeks, an image could be understood as a seal pressed on a material to leave a mark, as opposed to an inferior imitation (mimēsis), scholar Verity Platt argues in a new book.
Daniel Gold, a professor of Asian studies emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on Feb. 16 in Ithaca. He was 78.
The fourth Gospel of the New Testament holds many of the Bible’s most well-known passages, but also some of its controversies.
We explore religious traditions through comparative, contextual and thematic studies. Our courses are built on the established scholarly tradition of the study of religion as an academic, as opposed to a confessional, pursuit.
