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Artistic Noise Helps At-Risk Youth Through Art
A Harlem-based nonprofit started 25 years ago, helps at-risk youth create art.
Oct. 20, 2025 • Kaila Hu, The Daily Orange
Read the original article in the Daily Orange. Artistic Noise, a Harlem-based nonprofit , started when two women, Francine Sherman and Lauren Adelman, initiated an art-making activity fo...
Remembering Debra Castillo
Scholar and champion of Latinx students, dies at 72
Oct. 14, 2025 • Kathy Hovis, Cornell University
Editorial note: Debra Castillo served as one of the original CNY Humanities Corridor advisory board members representing Cornell University from 2017 to 2021. She was also active as a Working Grou...
New Recognition Program & 2025-26 Dates and Deadlines
Updates for the 2025-26 academic year include a new prize program to recognize Working Groups
Oct. 2, 2025 • CNY Humanities Corridor
We’re excited to launch a new Working Group Recognition Program to recognize the power and promise of humanities collaborations across institutions! After this academic year, we will award at lea...
Spotlighting Humanities Research Outcomes
New publications page features books and articles acknowledging the Corridor's support
Aug. 1, 2025 • CNY Humanities Corridor
People participating in CNY Humanities Corridor programs are publishing, and we’re doing our best to track those longer-term outcomes. Through our new Publications page , we shine a spotlight on...
Azra Hromadžić Produces “Labor of Love” in New Book Release
A multi-layered exploration of “riverine citizenship,” drawing on history, politics, memories and love
April 4, 2025 • Colette Goldstein, Syracuse University
In sixth grade, Azra Hromadžić started “writing” a book, though she might have not realized it at the time. The memories young Hromadžić formed while growing up near the Una — a river winding thro...
Writing Through Prison: Storytelling, Power and Community
Emphasizing the transformative power of writing and education
April 1, 2025 • Kaylee Ramirez, Syracuse University
When David Todd was released from prison after serving 21 years, he knew his experience as a returning citizen would be difficult. Yet he could not predict the challenges he would face living outsi...
Getting Your Book Published
University press editors demystify the process
Feb. 13, 2025 • CNY Humanities Corridor
Whether you’re trying to publish your first book or your fifth, figuring out how to navigate the process successfully can be mysterious and challenging. In this Feb. 7, 2025, roundtable, area unive...
Academic Peer Review Strategies
How to Give (and Receive) Feedback
Jan. 17, 2025 • CNY Humanities Corridor
Peer review is foundational to our profession as scholars. But does anyone ever teach us how to provide effective peer review to our colleagues? And how do we interpret the mixed bag of peer review...
Writing Retreat Fosters Community
Faculty Research Gets a Boost with Comet A3, Beautiful Fall Weather, and Shared Purpose
Nov. 18, 2024 • Aimee Germain, CNY Humanities Corridor
October 2024 saw the 4th edition of the CNY Humanities Corridor’s annual writing retreat on the Syracuse University Minnowbrook campus on Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondacks. From an initial pool...
Demystifying AI for Museum Students and Pros
Sept. 16, 2024 • Kim Walters, RIT News
“We wanted to take the fear and anxiety out of conversations about AI and museums and libraries," said Juilee Decker, Ph.D., director of RIT’s dynamic undergraduate museum studies BS program. ...