Global Cornell is offering competitive faculty grants in collaboration with Global Hubs partners.

Apply for funding to explore potential research collaborations with colleagues at Hubs universities.

These Joint Research and Seed Grants have been established to bring faculty from partner institutions together to develop joint projects that will strengthen Cornell and Global Hubs partner universities' strategic priorities and develop multidisciplinary cutting-edge research and curriculum to create academic and societal impact.

Please join us on September 28 (Ithaca) at 8:00–9:00 p.m. ET / September 29 (Hong Kong) at 8:00–9:00 a.m. HKT for a joint info session to learn more about the HKUST–Cornell grant opportunity. Q&A and collaboration matchmaking will follow a short presentation.

HKUST-Cornell Seed Funds:

Up to five (5) proposals will be fundedEach successful proposal may receive up to the equivalent of $5,000 USD from each university for a total of $10,000 USD Project duration: January 1–December 31, 2023Submission deadline: October 21 by 11:59 pm ET/October 22 by 11:59 a.m. HKTRegister today for the HKUST-Cornell Joint Info Session on Zoom

Learn about additional seed grants available with other Global Hubs partners.

Please join Cornell's Society for Buddhist Studies for the first lecture of the '22-'23 academic year, by Prof. Monima Chadha. Prof. Chadha is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia, and the inaugural Jack Karp Fellow at Cornell's Sage School of Philosophy.

Prof. Chadha researches the philosophy of mind in the classical Indian and contemporary western traditions. Her book, Selfless Minds (to be published by Oxford University Press), draws on Abhidharma-Buddhist philosophy and contemporary cognitive science to provide an account of conscious experiences, in particular subjectivity and agency, without positing the existence of subjects and agents.

While at Cornell, Dr. Chadha will be working on Vasubandhu’s Karmasiddhiprakaraṇa, “The Treatise on Action”, to develop an Abhidharma Buddhist account of moral responsibility without a self.

The talk is sponsored by the GPSA-FC, the Sage School of School of Philosophy, and the Department of Asian Studies, and is open to the entire Cornell community.

Sensing Borderlands: The DMZ, Camptowns, and the Theater of Repetition

Exploring what it means to practice photography in the normalized conditions of militarism, Jung Joon Lee’s forthcoming book Shooting for Change: Korean Photography after the War (Duke University Press) treats the transnational militarism of Korea not as a unique subject of Korean photography but a lens through which we may probe the officially and culturally sanctioned readings of images when returning to them at different times. In this talk, Lee considers the temporality and performance of repetition as a key onto-epistemic framework in visualizing the space of transnational militarism - namely, the DMZ and U.S. military camptowns in South Korea.

Jung Joon Lee is a 2022-23 Society Fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities and Associate Professor in the Department of Theory and History of Art and Design at Rhode Island School of Design. A specialist in histories and theories of photography, Lee’s research and teaching interests span the intersections of art and politics, transoceanic intimacies and decoloniality, and gender and sexuality. In addition to her forthcoming book on Korean photography, Lee is currently working on two book projects: a monograph exploring exhibitions as a space of minoritarian aesthetics, kinship making, and historical rupture; and the co-edited volume, Queer Feminist Elsewhere: Decolonial Making in Trans-Pacific Art.

This exhibit will focus on 3D data-visualization art in an immersive 3D display environment portraying COVID19 as abstract images of the viewer’s face and faces of the frontline worker of the COVID19 pandemic in real-time on a layered 3D projection surface (an abstract form of giant mask). With artistically interpreted data visualization, the exhibition aims at making people pause and reflect on how the COVID19 pandemic has affected our lives, how the world’s health and other frontline workers displayed the best of humanity, and how we cope with daily challenges. The real-time dynamic portraits of the audiences and people projected over a dark background of the COVID19 data will create an immersive interactive environment using spatial augmented reality (AR). COVID19 data, such as geographic region, socioeconomic class, vaccination, and different impacts on diverse demographic groups, will be retrieved from publicly available sources to create stories aligned with a positive message. An additional goal is developing an environmental intervention using spatial AR to offer a therapeutic experience for the audience and the built environment’s occupants. This project is a pilot for larger future applications demonstrating the emotional and psychological benefits of AR in everyday settings such as an office, a health care facility, a classroom, or a home.

Immersive technology (virtual reality, AR, mixed reality) is rapidly growing and reshaping storytelling with its unique ability to build empathy and to engage audiences. Specifically, projection mapping base spatial AR has the power to convert a built environment into a memorable exhibition space. The built environment significantly influences mental health. Myriad studies demonstrate the impacts of environmental elements on issues such as stress, depressive symptoms, and behavioral disturbances. About 1 in 4 American adults has a diagnosable mental disorder. The COVID19 pandemic brought many changes to how we live; uncertainty, new daily routines, social isolation, resulting in a significant increase in the number of people reporting symptoms of anxiety or depressive disorder. We will convert the built environment into a therapeutic agent using spatial AR with meaningful live data.

Dr. So-Yeon Yoon is an associate professor of Design + Environmental Analysis at Cornell University (yoon.human.cornell.edu) and the director of Design-User Experience-Technology (DUET) Research Lab. Yoon’s research focuses on design for optimal user experience employing emerging technology to understand the human response to the physical environment as well as the virtual environment. She was the president of the Design Communication Association from 2018 to 2021.

Jintae Kim is the Co-Founder and Director of TY Studio (tystudio.kr). Kim is a new media installation artist in Seoul, Korea. Kim’s work has been shown in theaters and exhibition halls. Some of his interactive installation art pieces have been featured in commercial settings.

Anne Seo-Young Lee is a PhD student in Design and Environmental Analysis and researcher of DUET lab. She received her Master’s degree in Information Science and Communication with an emphasis on Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience. Her research interests are in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), especially, design evaluation using emerging technologies to understand psychological and behavioral responses to different design elements in virtual environments. She is also interested in considering VR/AR/MR as a design research methodology tool.

Experience the installation in Martha van Rensselaer Hall Gallery from Sep 4-29, 2022.

2022 Cornell Biennial
Sponsored by the Cornell Council for the Arts and curated by Timothy Murray, the 2022 Cornell Biennial "Futurities, Uncertain" features exhibitions, installations, and performances by 23 international and 17 Cornell-based artists. Free and open-to-the-public events will rotate on the Cornell Ithaca campus and the Cornell Tech campus in New York City from July through December 2022.

Attend our Celebration Weekend from Sep 15-17, 2022 on the Cornell Ithaca campus. The full list of participants, along with the calendar of 2022 Cornell Biennial events, will be updated in real time at cca.cornell.edu/biennial.