Entrepreneurship at Cornell has announced that Tiffany Norwood ’89 has been named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2022. She will be honored on campus April 28-29 at the Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration event.
Norwood’s company, Tribetan, uses technology, music, video and animations to teach entrepreneurship, innovation and practical creativity. Norwood is also co-founder of SimWin…
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Aisha Conte, whose app, Auset’s Cabinet, provides information on holistic and natural remedies
Twenty-six student companies received awards from Entrepreneurship at Cornell that will allow them to work on their businesses this summer. With businesses ranging from drinking water treatment to alternative medicine to kitchen robots, the students come from nearly every college or school within Cornell, including several of Cornell’s graduate programs.
The Marla and Barry Beck…
A group of graduate students from Cornell is collaborating with students across the country to create a scholarly podcast focused on issues of diversity in archaeology.
SAPIENS Talk Back launched its first two episodes in January and February and is planning to release a new episode every other week. The episodes include an in-depth discussion with guests from the SAPIENS podcast the week…
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Solina Kennedy '19, left, interviews Jane-Marie Law
When Solina Kennedy ’19 lay on the ground at Greensprings Natural Cemetery in Newfield, she thought it was indeed a place that could “cradle her bones.” So did Jane-Marie Law, her professor, who each year takes members of her Religion and Ecological Sustainability class to visit the cemetery as part of their research on the environmental impacts of burial practices.
Kennedy’s experience in…
A new Cornell major in cognitive science was approved by New York State last month, allowing students in the College of Arts & Sciences to combine their interests in philosophy, psychology, computer science, linguistics and neurobiology and behavior.
“There’s an impressive history of study in this area at Cornell,” said Shaun Nichols, professor of philosophy in the College of Arts &…
A new organization, founded by students in the College of Arts & Sciences, offers support and guidance for students who want to translate their research at Cornell into projects that will benefit their hometowns.
Cornell Origins Urban Life Development (COULD) was founded by seniors Eric Kohut and Erika Gonzalez under the guidance of Professor Pilar Parra and with support from the David M…
"When the night of our escape came, I laid on the ground next to my sister wide awake, waiting to hear the seven knocks that would signal our time of departure. I laid there and prayed. I prayed that my sister and I would be free at last, together, as my mother wished for us.”
So begins the story of Gloria Jones, a fictional freedom seeker whose story is one of many that can be heard on…
Alumnus Dexter Thomas PhD ’20 was recently honored with an Emmy for his reporting as an on-camera correspondent for VICE News Tonight.
The honor covers a series of stories, “American Uprising,” that he and his colleagues put together focused on the protests in 2020 following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Thomas, who focused on Asian studies at Cornell, said the stories…
A new Silbermann piano has joined the instrument collection at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
The piano, which has a hammer action that could produce gradations of loud and soft, was invented in the late 17th-century by the Florentine instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori, who lived from 1655-1731. The Cornell addition is modeled after a piano created in 1749 by Gottfried…
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Praveen Gunendran ‘24 and Daniel Tuan ’24 created an app to help app artists within the music industry connect with one another.
Four teams of undergraduate students were named winners of the Big Ideas Competition at Cornell, with ideas that help musicians connect, detect heart problems, train unemployed young adults and help with pollution issues in developing countries.
More than 60 teams entered the 2021 Cornell competition (the largest in the Blackstone LaunchPad network), with business ideas in four tracks:…
An interdisciplinary seminar in the fall semester took students from Ithaca to New York City to explore African American heritage sites and the people whose work keeps this history alive.
For Nia Whitmal, a doctoral student in anthropology, the course, “Black Memory Workers and their Spatial Practices: Explorations on African American Heritage Spaces in New York City,” allowed her to see the…
A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities will recognize and support a select group of high-potential graduate students in their fourth or fifth years, enabling them to focus on their research and complete their dissertations, free from teaching obligations…
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Peter & Phyllis Webb were born enslaved and brought to the Town of Caroline as children. They married in 1819. Peter purchased his freedom in 1818 for $350; Phyllis remained enslaved until New York abolished slavery in 1827. Their descendants still live in Tompkins County.
“In 1850, the federal census recorded 19 black residents in the Town of Caroline in Tompkins County.” So begins Ethan Dickerman’s essay about the Tompkins County Rural Black Residents Project, a website he created that details where Black residents in the county lived from 1820 to 1870.
Dickerman, a master’s student at the Cornell Institute for Archaeology & Material Studies who focuses on…
An upcoming book by a Cornell doctoral student explores a new field of study related to the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, typically referred to as drones, in warfare.
“Drones and Global Order: Implications of Remote Warfare for International Society” (Routledge, 2021) edited by Paul Lushenko, Srinjoy Bose and William Maley, will be released Dec. 29.
Much of the current literature on…
In Honduras, Sonia Nazario met 10- and 11-old boys whose friends were murdered when they refused to join a gang and young girls who were forced to become girlfriends of gang leaders or watch their families killed. In Mexico, she met Enrique, a 16-year-old Honduran boy who risked his life to try to join his mother in the U.S.
“If your house is on fire, you’re going to run,” Nazario said of her…
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Amaya Garnenez works with Lejla Camdzic, right, in the Stache Lab.
Applications are now open for the new Nexus Scholars Program, which connects and supports undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences with opportunities to work side by side with Cornell faculty from across the College over the summer on frontline research projects.
Open to first-year students, sophomores and juniors, the program also includes professional development…
Students in 20 businesses pitched their ideas to 150 Cornell alumni, investors and friends during the eLab pitch night Nov. 11 at Cornell Tech in New York City.
The night gave students one of the first opportunities to share their ideas since they were chosen for eLab in September. Their ideas ranged from home monitoring to nursing shortage solutions to astronomical tourism.
“I think the…
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Adrian Lee '22, left, and Mar’Quon Frederick '22, right, move furniture from Balch Hall into trucks to be taken to homes involved in the Sunflower Housing Initiative.
Research from a team of Cornell and Ithaca College faculty and students provided key insights to Tompkins County legislators as they recently approved funding for a new housing program to help formerly incarcerated people.
Two houses of the Sunflower Housing program, a collaboration between Opportunities, Alternatives and Resources of Tompkins County (OAR); Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services…
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Students in the class Elements of Music (Music 1101) listen to A.D. White Professor-in-Large Wynton Marsalis (left) Nov. 2 in Lincoln Hall.
Adedayo Perkovich ’25 felt a little intimidated when she saw that Wynton Marsalis’ chair had been placed right next to hers on stage during their Monday rehearsal.
“Mr. Marsalis has been a household name in my family since I was really little,” says Perkovich, principal oboist in the Cornell Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Wind Symphony. “I grew up hearing his music and talking…
Although Molly O’Toole ’09 says she has “the best job in the world” as an immigration and national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times, she also admits it’s been quite a while since she’s written a happy story.
O’Toole, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow in the College of Arts & Sciences this semester, shared career advice, political insights and anecdotes from her…
Three Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and authors will be on campus Dec. 1 to talk about their work covering immigration, an event hosted by the Distinguished Visiting Journalist program in the College of Arts & Sciences.
"Move: An Urgent Conversation with Award-winning Immigration Journalists and Authors" will feature journalists Sonia Nazario, Nadja Drost and moderator Molly O’Toole…
The son of Toni Morrison M.A. ’55, will visit campus Nov. 9 for a film screening and discussion of “The Foreigner’s Home,” a documentary based on Morrison’s monthlong guest-curated 2006 series of cultural events at the Louvre.
Ford Morrison, the novelist’s son and co-producer of the film, will join in a discussion after the screening with Dominique Bourgois, editor of Toni Morrison’s French…
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Marylynn Salmon, right, staged this photo as a joke with a male friend in 1972, to highlight their very different reading materials.
As an undergrad, Marylynn Salmon ’74 sometimes found herself bored or distracted in classes, but she was never bored in Professor Mary Beth Norton’s Racism and Sexism in American History class.
“How much more fun it is to discuss Nancy Shippen’s mother-in-law than the Yalta Conference,” Salmon wrote in her diary from that year. “I’m afraid that I’ll never be an intellectual, but rather…
A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, MD ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony, open to the public, and a talk open to members of the Cornell community. These events are the sixth in a series of Arts Unplugged events sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Marsalis, famed jazz trumpeter,…
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Amaya Garnenez works with Lejla Camdzic, right, in the Stache Lab.
A new program in the College of Arts and Sciences will support undergraduates working on research projects with faculty members over the summer.
The Nexus Scholars program, funded by nearly $5 million in philanthropic support, will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of…
Undergraduate students interested in the intersection of religion and politics or society can now apply for a new prize, to be given out next spring.
The Joseph E. Connolly ’72 Memorial Prizes were established by Jay Branegan ’72, a close friend of Connolly, as well as other friends and family around the world. Connolly majored in government and history and wrote his thesis on the role…
The College of Arts & Sciences welcomed a new director of human resources, Donna Lynch-Cunningham, on Oct. 4. Cunningham was previously human resources divisional director for the James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.
At Emory, Lynch-Cunningham was also the deputy Title XI coordinator for the graduate school, developed a yearlong onboarding program for…
When you consider some of the biggest innovations that have changed public health — pasteurization, disease eradication, water purification — you’ll see behind the scenes an entire network of unsung heroes and heroines, author Steven Johnson says. Not just the inventors or scientists who developed the technology, but the visionaries, evangelists, activists, artists, mothers, milkmaids, pilots,…
Schuster worked in the Kotlikoff lab as an undergrad.
Though the COVID-19 pandemic — combined with a boom in application numbers — made this year’s cycle an unusually competitive one for students applying to medical and law schools, Cornell students successfully navigated the process and are headed to some of the country’s top professional schools this fall.
Sukhmani Kaur ’21 knows exactly what she will specialize in at Harvard Law School.
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Two recent College of Arts and Sciences’ doctoral graduates, Sadia Shirazi PhD ‘21 and Dexter Lee Thomas PhD ’20, have been named Emerging Voices Fellows by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Cornell will also be hosting an ACLS post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History.
Thomas and Shirazi are two of 48 new fellows in the program, which “identifies and assists a vanguard…
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A student looks at the cover of the Cornell Daily Sun from Sept. 12, 2001, at Kroch Library.
“I was born five days after September 11.”
“I was just a month old when the attacks happened.”
“My mom has told me stories of carrying me around the house while we were watching the news.”
Most of the members of Cornell’s Class of 2023 were infants when the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 occurred. This fall, 20 of them are exploring that time period in a new class, “Introduction…
New York Times best-selling science and technology writer Steven Johnson will visit campus Sept. 22 to meet with students and faculty and offer a talk to the Cornell community, “20,000 More Days: How We Doubled Global Life Expectancy in Just 100 years.”
Johnson is the author of 13 books, including “The Ghost Map,” “Mind Wide Open,” “Where Good Ideas Come From,” and his newest,…
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A 1993 rally on Ho Plaza
Faculty, staff, students and alumni are planning a series of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cornell’s women’s studies program, now Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS), as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activism and advocacy on campus.
“TRANS*forming the Future: 50 years of Feminist and LGBT studies at Cornell,” kicks off Sept. 16 from 4:30-6 p.m…
At a summer networking event, Surita Basu ’23 was relieved to hear from Cornell alumni whose careers have gone in many different directions.
“It definitely reinforces the idea that your first position out of college does not have to determine what kind of work you will do for the rest of your career and that it is always possible to challenge yourself and try new things,” said Basu, an…
Miriam Shearing '56 served as chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
The Nevada county commissioner who told Miriam Shearing ‘56 that women don’t belong in the courtroom could never have predicted how those words would motivate Shearing throughout her life, eventually leading her to the state’s top judicial position, chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court.
“I knew I wouldn’t get an appointment (from that county commission). I realized that if I want the job…
Ever heard whale song on the Slope? Body percussion in the Johnson Museum? Musical sets including those sounds, as well as the Cornell Chimes, jazz, poetry, violin and other acoustical music will take place Sept. 4-5 during the ReSounds Festival on campus.
The festival kicks off a yearlong project focused on innovation in acoustic instruments and includes installations at the Johnson Museum…
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Pre-Freshman Summer Program students Canyon Cross, Delia Ferry and Lukman Moyosore catch up after class near the Physical Science Building.
Participating in Cornell’s Prefreshman Summer Program (PSP) helped Canyon Cross ’25 – a first-generation college student from Texas who hopes to major in biology and society – realize in advance how challenging the work would be.
“I realize that I’ve never had to study extensively, so I’m trying to find the happy medium between getting enough sleep, socializing and studying,” said Cross, whose…
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Deborah Ogunribido ’23 works July 28 with Shawn Milano, research associate, in the lab of Richard Cerione, Goldwin Smith professor of chemistry and chemical biology, in Baker Hall as part of the CHAMPS program.
… in medicine, but she was unsure of her skills in chemistry, a core area that pre-med students must study. That … Summer Program (PSP) in summer 2019, which included a chemistry class as part of that curriculum. “At PSP, I … language,” she said. “But by the end of it, I loved chemistry. I realized that the idea of having a ‘growth …
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Trence as "Slightly" with Clarissa Ramos as "Wendy" in "Lost Girl" by Kimberly Belflower, produced in the Hangar Theatre Wedge series.
Avery Bower ’23 may have sweated through the heat this summer in Washington, D.C., but he says it was worth it to experience an in-person internship at the Republican Attorneys-General Association.
“I’ve worked on campaigns in the past and I know I want to go to law school,” said Bower, a government and history major whose summer projects included everything from campaign finance reports to…
Emma Harte worked to protect shorebirds this summer.
Emma Harte ’22 spent a lot of time at the beach this summer, protecting and studying piping plovers and common terns. Aisha Conte ’23 did research to support two projects — a legal effort to force government action to stop the pollution of water in Ghana caused by illegal mining and a guide to help women refugees in South Africa to become effective leaders in their communities.
Both students…
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Annie Rogers ’23 works in the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech.
Annie Rogers ’23 didn’t think she had interest in: learning another programming language; discovering how the brain works; or becoming an entrepreneur.
But after spending eight weeks this summer living and studying in New York City as a student in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity, “it’s opened up a whole new world of possibilities.”
Rogers is one of 20 students who…
Eric Kohut ’22 enjoyed his work at a daycare center near his hometown of Union City, N.J. during the summer after his freshman year, but he noticed that families faced many barriers to accessing mental health care for their children. Many parents didn’t know of any bilingual mental health providers and, for other families, mental health issues still carried a stigma.
When Kohut returned to…
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Zabelina and Lee photograph a piano by Joseph Simon (1835) as part of their efforts to document the collection of the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards.
When Elizaveta Zabelina ’24 works on the replica of a ca. 1800 Johann Schantz piano that’s part of the instrument collection at the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards, she can’t help feeling a bit philosophical.
“Because of the distinction of materials and work, which was one of a kind in historical instruments, each instrument has its own spirit and character and tells us something new,”…
When Amy (Snyder) Kaminski ’98 was a kid, her grandfather took her outside to see meteor showers. She remembers being amazed and wanting to pick up every book she could on astronomy. That led her to enter Cornell as an undergrad planning to major in space sciences, and eventually to positions at NASA.
Now Kaminski is the editor of a new book about space science and public engagement and…
Students throughout the university can now minor in Global Asia Studies, with faculty approving the new area of study in May. The new minor complements the other minors already offered by the Department of Asian Studies, which focus on specific sub-regions.
The undergraduate minor in Global Asia Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences is intended for Cornell students who wish to explore…
For members of the Class of 2021, landing their first job has been a bit more challenging than during a regular year. Last year’s summer internships, which often lead to full-time offers, were either remote or revoked for many students. This year’s career fairs and in-person networking events were also moved online and companies were uncertain about hiring prospects.
Still, seniors are showing…
When the Los Angeles Times wanted to determine whether people still believed in the American dream, they turned to a pair of Cornell researchers with a deep background in public opinion surveys to do the work. When an advocacy organization wanted to know whether Black parents felt comfortable sending their children back to school during the pandemic, they sought out the team as well.
Ben…
Joe Connolly ’72, left and Jay Branegan ’72, right
Jay Branegan ’72 and Joe Connolly ’72 had the kind of college friendship that doesn’t end at graduation. They were fraternity brothers, traveled Europe by Eurail one summer and lived together their senior year in college and again after college when they both worked in Chicago.
“We were good friends sophomore year, but best friends after that summer in Europe,” Branegan said. The relationship…
Students in the College of Arts & Sciences are curious, creative and inspired. Despite a second year of disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors have continued to conduct research, expand their intellectual pursuits and create deep friendships and memories. Explore the extraordinary journeys of this year’s graduates and see how their paths have prepared them not only for a…
