Mission Statement
The American Indian Program strives to develop new generations of educated Native and non-Native peoples who will contemplate, study and contribute to the building of Nation and community in Native America.
Greetings and Welcome !
The American Indian Program (AIP) invites you to visit our community! On this website you can access information about Cornell University's undergraduate and graduate admissions, find out about student services support, American Indian Studies courses, community outreach, various social and cultural events, and learn about AIP’s residential program house, Akwe:kon.
To see our Mission Goals and History, click About Us.
To see our latest AIP Newsletter, click here.
We encourage all prospective students to review the Student Life pages of our website for information about admissions and student services. If you have further questions, feel free to contact the AIP office, staff, or faculty members at 607-255-6587.
Autumn Ecoforum - October 23-24, 2009
The Indigenous Graduate Student Association (IGSA) and the American Indian Program (AIP) announces Making Connections; Understanding Our Relations: An Autumn Ecoforum. October 23rd and 24th. IGSA and the AIP of Cornell University invite you to lovely Ithaca at the height of autumn color for a two-day interdisciplinary forum of discussions on ecological / environmental / indigenous connections. Join our exciting and provocative guest speakers and discussion leaders in small group conservations across a range of disciplines focused on topics that engage important differences and explore vital common ground between indigenous and Western ecological perspectives. The conference is free and open to students, teachers, and the general public. Click here for more information.
The American Indian Program at Cornell University is pleased to announce its membership in the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (NCAIS). Slated to begin in July 2009, the Consortium will be trans-national in scope and will organize conferences, symposia, workshops and courses, as well as offer fellowships for graduate students and faculty from fifteen to eighteen member institutions in the United States and Canada. Thus far, other institutional members include Harvard, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of British Columbia, University of Montana, Miami of Ohio, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Through its 2004 acquisition of the Huntington Free Library, Cornell University ranks in the top three research libraries for AIS in North America, second only to the Newberry Library and the Library of Congress. Cornell's commitment to NCAIS will ensure that its investment in the Huntington Free Library is fully optimized for the future.
Andrew Curley (Development Sociology graduate student) has been selected as an awardee of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship which helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the U.S. and abroad. NSF Fellows are expected to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals will be crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation’s technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large.
Simon Tu (Government graduate student) has been selected as an awardee of the Ford Foundation’s three year pre-doctoral fellowship. Pre-doctoral fellowships are awarded in a national competition administered by the National Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards are made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Melanie Stansbury (Development Sociology graduate student) has been awarded the policy fellowship from the Udall Foundation, the Lynn Reyer Award for Tribal Community Development and the Rural Sociological Society’s Dissertation Endowment Award.
In addition, we have nominated Maeve Kane (History Department graduate student) for a place in the Newberry Consortium Summer Graduate Institute.
Congratulations!