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From left, seniors Jesse Kapstad ‘24, Aja'nae Hall-Callaway ‘24 and Abhyuday Atal ’24 have wildly different interests, but all took advantage of numerous opportunities at Cornell.
The journey from high school to college and then through college amid Covid was anything but smooth for the Class of 2024. But thanks to persistence, tenacity and help from advisors and faculty, they’re thrilled to be headed off to various adventures. Three members of the Arts & Sciences graduating class sat down with us to talk about their journeys and offer some advice for incoming students…
Paul Jensen ’85 had a successful career in public relations, but when he left his job at a big agency four years ago, he was longing to get back to something he loved and missed: his music.Today, Jensen spends half his workdays running his independent PR consultancy, PJPR, and the other half dedicated to songwriting, recording and performing. He released his first solo album, “Journey Back Home,”…
Chris Kitchen
Sebastian Young, left, and Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano, stand in the Guadalupe Maravilla exhibit at the Johnson Museum.
At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.
Their common themes? Migration, activism and healing.
The exhibit, “Guadalupe Maravilla: Armonía de la Esfera” (Harmony of the Sphere) opened in…
Richlove Nkansah ’26 was buzzing with excitement the week before spring break – she had just launched her business and was headed to California to pitch it to a group of Silicon Valley Cornell alumni and entrepreneurs.
Nkansah is the co-founder, with Harmony Prado ’24, of CultureCare, a digital platform for BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color) therapists to manage their practice and…
Two Cornell seniors have been selected as junior fellows of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and will spend next year conducting research with the organization in Washington, D.C.
McKenzie Carrier ’24, a government and Spanish major in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Margot Treadwell, ’24, a student in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, will both be assigned to…
There are two more opportunities this semester to delve deeply into science through the art of film at Cornell Cinema in the College of Arts & Sciences.
The last two showings of the cinema’s “Science on Screen” initiative will include:
Worlds Collide – "Particle Fever," CLASSE, and the Future of Particle Physics, with post-doc Xuan Chen, Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based…
Cólm Tóibín, the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, will visit campus April 11 to deliver the Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading, part of the Spring 2024 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series in the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts & Sciences. The reading will feature works by Irish and Irish American writers.
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David Folkenflik '91, spoke with Cornell faculty members Mabel Berezin, center, and Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, right, during a March 26 event in New York City.
Cornell faculty and alumni took part in a wide-ranging discussion focused on nationalism around the world during a March 26 New York City event featuring NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik ’91, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts & Sciences.
The event, held at Cornell’s ILR Conference Center on Lexington Avenue, featured Mabel Berezin, the…
Chris Kitchen
Members of the Ithaca Community visited campus for the March 15 event, creating butterflies under the guidance of entomologist/artist/Cornell doctoral student Annika Salzberg.
The “butterfly effect” was in full bloom on March 14-15 as campus and community members celebrated the environmental and literary legacies of former Cornell professor Vladimir Nabokov.
The celebrations began with a packed crowd listening to a March 14 talk celebrating the opening of Cornell University Library’s “From Nabokov’s Net” exhibit in Mann Library. Events continued on March 15 with a…
Mary Mulvanerton, long-time department manager for the Department of Astronomy and associate director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS), passed away on March 6 at the age of 64, after an extended illness. She’s being remembered by friends and colleagues as a mentor, advisor, friend and fierce advocate for the work of the department.
"Mary was a…
The second in a series of lectures, “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China," is scheduled for April 10 and will feature Rana Mitter, the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Mitter will speak about “Money, Morale and Mayhem: Economic and Emotional Landscapes in the Formation of Revolutionary China, 1946-1949,”at 4:45 p.m…
Doctoral student Megan Jeffreys just couldn’t seem to get Ailcey’s runaway slave ad out of her head.
“A yellow girl about 12 years of age,” reads the 1803 ad from the Alexandria Advertiser and Commercial Intelligencer that Jeffreys discovered. “She is a girl of bold countenance, tolerable straight hair, quite a large mouth…”
“This was one of the first moments when it hit home for me,…
On March 13, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will host “Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after Oct. 7,” one of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year events.
The 5 p.m. talk will feature scholars Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, and Marc Lynch, Ph.D. ‘97,…
The College of Arts & Sciences is preparing for Giving Day on Thursday, March 14 and we hope the whole Cornell community can join in to support the work and growth of our students and faculty.
Last year, A&S alumni, parents, students, and friends joined together to raise more than $1.1 million for the College of Arts & Sciences on Giving Day.
Your gift allows the College to…
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Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature at Cornell, where he had an office in Goldwin Smith Hall.
A giant of 20th century literature known for such novels as “Lolita” and “Pale Fire,” Russian émigré and former Cornell professor Vladimir Nabokov was also a prodigious lepidopterist who collected and studied butterflies since the age of five.
“It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology and never written any…
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From left, Christine Balance, Alexis Boyce, Yu An Chen ’22, Alexandria Kim ’23 and Pearl Ngai ’23 at this year’s Cornell Asian Alumni Association Pan-Asian Banquet in New York City’s Chinatown.
A new $500,000 alumni gift to the Asian American Studies Program (AASP) in the College of Arts and Sciences will allow the program to increase the number of special events and speakers it brings to campus and provides support for an ongoing oral history project, which connects current students to alumni and tells the story of the history and activism that led to the establishment of Cornell’s…
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Architecture graduate students Zachary Sherrod M.S. ’23 and Chi-Chia Tsao M.S. ’23 created an exhibition model of St. James AME Zion Church with funding from a Rural Humanities Grant.
Six first-year students from the Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Engineering and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science came away with top honors for their agricultural innovation idea to address India’s pollution problem during the Digital Agriculture Hackathon Feb. 16-18.
“The Freshmen,” as they cleverly named themselves, entered the hackathon knowing they…
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Statue of Mao
A series of lectures — two in each semester — will focus on “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China."
The first lecture will feature Andrew Walder, the Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor at Stanford University, speaking about “China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed.” It will take place from 4:45 to 6:15 p.m. March 7 in Room 120 of the Physical Sciences…
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Balać stands to the right behind actors Ryan Reynolds, left, and Rob McElhenney.
As a documentary filmmaker, alumnus Miloš Balać ’11 has to immerse himself in his work – which for the last three years meant living in Wrexham, Wales and learning everything he could about football (soccer).
The experience paid off last month when Balać took home an Emmy award for his work on the FX/Hulu documentary “Welcome to Wrexham.”
“It felt so great to be in a room with my colleagues…
Andrew Lorenzen ’22, a double major in government and performing and media arts (PMA) in the College of Arts & Sciences, is the winner of a 2024 Marshall Scholarship, which provides funds for U.S. students to pursue two years of graduate study at an institution in the United Kingdom. He is one of 51 students chosen for the honor this year.
With the scholarship, Lorenzen will pursue a…
When Nini Kaur ’26 found out that President Biden was visiting her hometown of Pueblo, Colo. to talk about climate programs, she knew she had the perfect subject for her class assignment.
Kaur and other students in Prof. Caroline Levine’s Communicating Climate Change class last fall were tasked with writing an opinion piece spurring readers to take action related to climate, to appear in a…
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Amelia Tomson ’24, right, and Joy Davis ’22, left seated, talk with their families during a graduation reception Dec. 17.
Friendship runs deep for Amelia Tomson ’24 and Joy Davis ’22. So deep that Davis flew all the way from Portland, Ore. to see Tomson receive her undergraduate degree during Cornell's December graduation Dec. 17.
Tomson, a psychology major in the College of Arts & Sciences, met Davis during her first year and they ended up living together .
“We were hallmates freshman year and we just…
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Students spent hours researching Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection at the Cornell Insect Collection.
One of the most important lessons Estefania Perez ’21, learned during her time at Cornell — to be bold — continues to pay off for her as she begins her career.
Perez, a first-generation college student and part of the Posse Program, was also chosen for the Pathways Internship Program her sophomore year. Mentors from Arts & Sciences Career Development helped her prepare and apply for about…
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Franklin Zheng '25 experimented with AI in three of his classes this semester.
This semester, rather than banning the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for his assignments, three of Franklin Zheng ’25’s five professors actually required him to use it. It’s a trend happening in universities around the country, as AI becomes another research tool rather than something to be feared.
For Zheng, AI helped him analyze 70,000 court records to find themes, topics, keywords and…
Patrick Shanahan
Krystyna Golovakova works with students in her Ukrainian language class.
A few times a week, songs from Ukraine can be heard coming from a classroom in Goldwin Smith Hall. Cornell's Ukrainian program is bringing the country’s culture to campus through language learning, folk tradition and history. The effort is led by Krystyna Golovakova, a native of Ukraine and a recent refugee from the war-torn nation.
This summer, Golovakova and Serge Petchenyi, multimedia…
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Shirley Lim's most recent book on Anna May Wong.
Before Anna May Wong became one of 20 women chosen for a new series of U.S. quarters, Shirley Lim ’90 felt she was “toiling away in obscurity” studying and writing about the actress’ life.
Now Lim’s research has been featured in two PBS documentaries, she’s been interviewed by NPR, she appeared as a guest on the Mobituaries podcast and her book on Wong was featured in The New York Times. She’s…
A Nov. 16 talk sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts and Sciences will shed light on the history of hate movements in the U.S.
“The Intersectionality of Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Racism,” a talk by Ross Brann, the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies & Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (A&S), will begin at 4 p.m. in the Alice Statler…
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Dayal Meshri, right, and his daughter, Gita, left, in the newly renovated Baker 200 auditorium.
More than 40 percent of Cornell students spend time in Baker Laboratory Room 200 taking chemistry classes. And even more fill the 494-seat lecture hall for courses in other subjects, including American studies, biology, Classics, economics and government.
This fall, when students entered the room, they were greeted by a new, light-filled space and a photo celebrating the couple who made the…
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will offer a panel discussion, “Understanding Events in Israel – Palestine” from 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 in Room 165 of McGraw Hall. (Note: Location has changed to allow for greater occupancy, but seating is limited.)
Panelists will provide historical context for the recent developments in the region and respond to questions from the audience.
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A sampling of the instruments that Jesse Jones built for the Cornell ReSounds project.
An Oct. 24 concert in Barnes Hall will feature a rebuilt experimental keyboard originally created in the 1960s by David Rothenberg and Robert Moog Ph.D. ’65. It will be the first time the instrument will be played in public. The concert begins at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
The Rothenberg-Moog 31-tone keyboard will be played by Xak Bjerken, professor of music in the College of…
N.R. Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys Limited, will offer the keynote address during an India Conference at Cornell Oct. 13-15 that will span economics, politics and policy.
“India’s Economy in a Changing Global Landscape" will include leading economists and corporate leaders assessing the state of India's economy. They will explore India's historical, present and future trajectories and…
Chris Kitchen
Michelle Seneca, left, and John Whitman, right.
This summer, Jim Wikel, a member of the Gayogohó:nǫˀ diaspora who now lives in Oregon, traveled to his ancestral homeland in New York for the first time, to learn his ancestral language with 40 other diaspora members at a Cornell camp.
Just being in the region was profound, Wikel said.
“One night as we were singing, I realized that this was the first time that land had heard those…
Chris Kitchen
Anderson, left, and Peraino, right traced the arc of Anderson's multi-decade career.
Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson took a captivated Cornell audience on a trip through the arc of her career during a Sept. 26 talk at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
The talk was recorded and is now available to view on eCornell.
Part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series, Anderson’s conversation with music Professor Judith Peraino ranged from her…
Landon Schnabel, the Robert and Ann Rosenthal Assistant Professor of Sociology, received the Early Career Award from the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion Section.
The organization encourages and enhances research, teaching, and other professional concerns in the study of religion and society. This award recognizes a scholar who has made an outstanding contribution…
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Brenda Schertz teaches her students American Sign Language as well as deaf history, education and cultural norms.
Students who are interested in learning American Sign Language (ASL) have a number of new opportunities at Cornell this year.
They can now minor in ASL, take advantage of an expanded set of upper-level classes, participate in a number of ASL events on campus and be part of an active student club.
“I’ve taken an ASL class every semester and can’t imagine my college career without this…
Undergraduate students in scientific field courses often talk about their research with mentors, peers, family and friends and those interactions are important in shaping student views of themselves as scientists, according to research by Cornell doctoral student David Esparza.
Esparza’s paper, “Professional social connections are associated with student science identity in a research-based…
Pioneering multimedia artist Laurie Anderson will offer a public talk in the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts as part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series during a two-day visit to campus.
Anderson is a writer, director, composer, visual artist, musician and vocalist who has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater, experimental music and…
When Jackie DeAngelis ’02 was working as a financial researcher and writer at CNBC, she longed to try out what it would be like in front of the camera. So, on Friday nights after the broadcasts were over, she’d hang out in the studio, writing scripts and filming herself on the anchor desk.
The managing editor thought she had potential, but the vice president of news said she still needed…
Do you think you’ve seen the greatest films of all time? Do you have a go-to "cult" film? How about a favorite Disney movie?
No matter, a trip to Cornell Cinema this semester gives you the chance to see any of these, as well as a tribute to silent film star Anna May Wong and some of the most inspiring new films from the past year.
“What I am most excited about this semester is that we’re…
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Lesly Morocho, center, works with her class in Singapore.
Sometimes it’s hard for Cornell students to accomplish all that they want to do during the summer.
They want an experience that will help them move forward with their career or grad school plans, but they also need to have a paying job so that they can help with expenses or fulfill their financial aid requirements.
That’s where Summer Experience Grants come in. A fund established in 2019 by…
Patrick Shanahan
Blythe Wong '25 feeds some of the thousands of Poecilia parae fish in Mudd Hall.
This summer, Blythe Wong ’25 has been “fishing for answers” to understand how genes and hormones shape the way organisms look and behave, working with thousands of tiny Poecilia parae fish swimming in the aquariums of Ben Sandkam’s lab in Mudd Hall. Sandkam in an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Wong has not…
Patrick Shanahan
Aidan Goldberg '25 looks at the collection of A.D. White memorabilia in the Cornell Library Rare and Manuscript Collection.
Two older women keep watch from paintings on one wall of the former library at the A.D. White House and Aidan Goldberg ’25 is on a quest to find out who they might be.
That’s just one of the historical mysteries Goldberg is solving as he spends the summer putting together a history of the house, which was the home of Cornell’s first president, then housed the university’s art collection and…
During Andy Warner’s ’06 junior year study abroad in Lebanon, the country’s government collapsed after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. There were street protests and flashes of political violence and bombings, but Warner never thought about coming back home. Instead, he started drawing comics, lots of them.
“None of the international students were leaving. When you…
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Denise Rose, right, worked with other Cornell students on a study of mental health in India.
On a typical day this summer, Denise Rose ’25 visits with residents of indigenous communities in Kotagiri, India, talking about their mental health concerns and the resources available to them.
“I plan to pursue a master’s of public health degree, so this hands-on experience and research is great preparation for future projects,” said Rose, a biology and society major in the College of Arts …
