Mahiro Abe ‘20 came to Cornell with a passion for astronomy and cosmology. Thanks to an Arts & Sciences Tanner Dean’s Scholar Grant, he is conducting research this summer at the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility (CNF) to help develop instruments that can be used to trace regions of star formation and probe cosmology.“Working in a nanofabrication facility has made me…
Since freshman year, Emily Wang ‘20, has been combining social justice and healthcare by interning at the Ithaca Free Clinic. From working to start a non-profit to investigating patient outcomes, this biology major and Public Service Center Scholar is continuing her work this summer with the clinic’s chronic care program thanks to an Arts & Sciences Summer Experience Grant.“I love the…
After taking a freshman writing seminar on visual depictions of women reading throughout history, Ellie O’Reilly’s ’20 passion for feminism, art history and English grew.Thanks to an Arts & Sciences Summer Experience Grant, O’Reilly is spending her summer researching representations of women in early New England. O’Reilly, an English and history of art double major, is working at the Atwood…
Thanks to a fellowship from Cornell’s Southeast Asia Program, Javier Agredo’19 is spending the summer studying Thai at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute. Agredo, who has a passion for language documentation and preservation, has also had the chance to attend Gamelan performances, a traditional musical ensemble from Indonesia, and explore the city of…
An average day for Conan Gillis ‘21 starts with a math class in the morning, followed by a trip to the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection at Kroch Library, where he might hold a letter by Thomas Jefferson or view a 1,000-year-old manuscript. In the evenings, he often participates in a fencing practice run by two Olympic-level fencers.“The opportunity to do these things, and on a daily basis,…
Having worked as a research assistant in Michael Goldstein’s Behavioral Analysis of Beginning Years (B.A.B.Y.) lab at Cornell, Kathryn Garrisi ‘19 was eager to learn how other labs approach the study of the infant mind.With the help of an Arts & Sciences Summer Experience Grant, Garrisi is spending the summer at the Yale Infant Cognition Center, where she is helping with their research as…
As an aspiring public servant, Natalia Hernandez ’21 wanted an internship that would allow her to see how national higher education policies can affect students locally. Through a summer experience grant, Hernandez ‘21 is spending the summer working in Washington D.C. as a government relations and communications intern at the National Council of Higher Education Resources (NCHER).NCHER is a…
Allen Porterie ‘20 is spending the summer at the University of Notre Dame, where he is exploring the performance of black masculinity in theatre. Porterie, an English major with a minor in theatre, is studying how actors and directors frame the black masculine body on stage. Porterie began this work last summer at Louisiana State University's Pre-Doctoral Scholars Institute with Angeletta…
After studying the criminal justice system and hearing the experiences of incarcerated family and friends, Benjamin Finegan ‘19, a government major, decided to spend his summer interning at The Urban Justice Center for the Corrections Accountability project (CAP) in New York City.“The most abhorrent human and civil rights violations in the United States occur in jails and prisons,” Finegan said. …
Governments and institutions play a critical role in advancing economic growth in the developing world, and researchers in macro and microeconomic policy design will gather later this month in New York City to explore that role.The 2018 Workshop on Macro-development,scheduled for June 22-23 at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island, aims to foster multidisciplinary research by opening…
Helping his supervisors brainstorm ideas on how to brand and promote artists such as Drake, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj is among the list of things Tristan Magloire ‘20 is up to this summer.A government major, Magloire received a Summer Experience Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences, which has helped him to take on the position of social media and digital marketing intern at The…
With the help of a Summer Experience Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences, Rachel Diao ‘19 will be able to take advantage of a research opportunity in Cologne, Germany this summer. Diao, a biological sciences major, is working with Dr. Adam Antebi, managing director of a lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing.“I originally found this internship last year and worked…
Students took creative approaches to thinking about the challenges of meeting energy needs in this year's Imagining Energy Futures Competition. Winners of the annual competition were announced on May 30. Organized by Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature; Al George, professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering and systems and the John F. Carr, professor of…
As a volunteer at George Junior Republic, Rachel Whalen ’19 works with students at the William George Agency for Children and Family Services. One way she’s found to reach them is through a new club, Poetic Justice, which is a collaborative effort between Whalen and GJR students to provide a safe space for students to express themselves through poetry and other creative means.Poetic Justice was…
From left: Dana Bardolph, Danielle Vander Horst, Lindsay Petry, Elizabeth Bews, and Elizabeth ProctorCornell’s team won the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Ethics Bowl on April 12 in Washington, DC. They were the first Cornell team to participate in the competition, which has been held for 14 years.The Cornell team consisted of first year M.A students in the Cornell Institute of…
A professor from the University of Pennsylvania will visit campus April 19 to examine how writer Zora Neale Hurston’s work can be used to look at black life today.Deborah Thomas, the R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology, will discuss “What Zora Neale Hurston Gives Black Studies: Tell My Horse, Imperial Politics and Everyday Love” at 4:30 p.m. at the Africana Studies and Research Center…
Mitchell Duneier from Princeton will visit campus for a 4:30 p.m. talk April 11 about his book, "Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, The History of an Idea." The talk will take place in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.“Mitch’s visit and the topic of his talk are vital to the kind of work Cornell’s Jewish Studies program is doing,” said Jonathan Boyarin, the Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann…
After spending years involved in student publications during high school and then at Cornell, Samantha Henig ‘06 is now an editorial director for audio at The New York Times and the co-author of “Twentysomething,” a book on the culture and science of being young, which she wrote with her mother in 2013.“I’ve always been interested in journalism,” Henig said. “I especially love my current work…
A professor from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, will visit campus March 7 to deliver a lecture examining the history of activism among sexual minority groups in Zimbabwe. Marc Epprecht, professor of Global development studies, History and Cultural studies will offer “Reflections on the Struggle for Sexual Minority Rights in Zimbabwe” at 4:30 p.m. at the A.D. White House.“Cornell and the…
The Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players (CCCP) will host The Switch Ensemble for a five-day artistic residency Feb. 26 to March 3 that will include workshops, a lecture recital, a recording session and two concerts.The concerts will feature pieces composed by Cornell graduate students and faculty, and performed by the Switch Ensemble.“The ensemble is eager to collaborate with young composers and…
The Creative Writing Program of Cornell’s English Department launches its Spring 2018 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series with poet Julie Sheehan on Thursday, February 1, 4:30pm, at the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. Sheehan is the author of three poetry collections: Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise; Orient Point; and Thaw. A Whiting Writers’ Award winner, her poems…
Mike Yunxuan Li ‘20, like many sophomores in the College of Arts & Sciences, has focused on classes he enjoys. From exploring fields that he is curious about to interacting with professors outside his main areas of interest, Li explained how he is making the most of his time at Cornell.How did you choose Cornell?I liked Cornell's wide range of courses to choose from, its diverse social…
Mi Comunidad, which means “My Community,” is a student-run mentoring program run by graduate and professional students affiliated with the Latin@ Graduate Students Coalition (LGSC) and supported by the Latina/o Studies Program and the Latina/o Student Success Office.“The goal was to create a program that was more focused on fostering friendships than professional relationships,” said Andrea Monge…
Six students were recently honored by the Department of Performing & Media Arts as winners of the Heermans-McCalmon writing competition for the best playwriting and screenwriting produced by students.“Giving students platforms for artistic expression is so important,” Gloria Oladipo ‘21 said. “PMA students need platforms for their work in the same way that science students need labs to run…
Katherine McCulloh ‘12 thinks math is an art.“Before attending Cornell I didn’t see math as the intricate art it is,” she said, “but being exposed to math at such an advanced level at Cornell helped me push myself to think, to see mathematics on a deeper level and construct more concrete arguments.”Now on the math team at Success Academy Charter Schools, McCulloh said math has opened up many…
Four Arts & Sciences students are part of the delegation of faculty, staff and students attending the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) this week in Bonn, Germany.“My background is in environmental governance and sustainable development, so one of my main goals for the conference was to learn firsthand about how…
Professor Gerard Aching encouraged students to think of the ways that empathy (or the lack of it) has impacted people’s actions throughout history and affects our individual actions toward others during a Bethe Ansatz talk Nov. 1.“Empathy is different from sympathy, which is compassion and pity toward another,” said Aching, professor of Africana and Romance studies. Rather than feel sorry for…
The Department of English will host the Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing Alumni Reading at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall.Lauren K. Alleyne ‘06, Tacey M. Atsitty ‘11, Jennine Capo Crucet ‘03, and Stephen D. Gutierrez ’87, winners of the prize given by the Department of English Program in Creative Writing, each receive a $5,000 stipend, and an…
Raymond Bally ‘19, like every other first year student at Cornell, lived on North Campus freshman year. But a month after moving into his freshman dorm, someone handed him a quarter-card about volunteering to be a firefighter in Cayuga Heights.Bally now lives full-time at the firehouse and is part of the team of volunteers that respond to emergencies in the Ithaca community. The Cayuga Heights…
The prospect of reaching out to alumni and industry leaders seems daunting to most students. For students who are more introverted, networking can be as hard as taking a prelim.So, the Arts & Sciences Career Development Center hosted its first “Networking for Introverts” workshop, led by Ana Adinolfi, senior career associate, Oct. 19 in Goldwin Smith Hall. The workshop was designed for…
“History doesn’t repeat, but it does instruct” is the ethos of Timothy Snyder's new book, ‘On Tyranny-Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.” Four Cornell professors will be holding a community read and public discussion of Snyder’s book that has been described as presenting “twenty lessons from the twentieth century adapted to the circumstances of today.”
Snyder’s book looks at the…
Fifteen Cornell student delegates, including six students from the College of Arts & Sciences, participated in the Clinton Global Initiative University conference Oct. 13-15 at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.The meeting brought together more than 1,100 student leaders, who made “Commitments to Action” in the initiative’s five focus areas: education; environment and climate change;…
How many people can say they can speak Latin? Erchen “Erial” Zheng ‘18, a senior classics major with a minor in history, is part of the growing number of scholars invested in learning Latin as a living language.“I started learning Latin in high school,” Zheng said, “but I think my love for the classical world began much earlier when I was in the third grade. It started with Greek myth and then…
The first installment of the Creative Writing MFA program’s four-part tradition in which new writers read selections from their poetry and fiction kicks off this monthMFA student Sasha Smith read selections from her poetry and Remy Barnes read fiction during the first readings Oct. 5 from 6-7 p.m. at Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St. Smith read two poems, “Leaving”’and “slavecatchers.” …
This story has been updated.What are the odds that two Cornell professors, who happen to be spouses, are longlisted for a prestigious literary award at the same time? Edmundo Paz-Soldán, professor of Spanish literature, and Liliana Colanzi MA '14, PhD '17, visiting lecturer, were both longlisted for the Gabriel García Márquez Award for the Short Story. Colanzi has now been chosen as one of five…
The Arts & Sciences Career Development Center held an alumni and employer panel, “Marketing Your Liberal Arts Degree,” Sept. 6 in the Physical Sciences Building.The panel, moderated by Jennifer Maclaughlin, assistant dean and director of the Career Development Center, included recruiters and alumni from Gap Inc., Capital One and Tortoise Investment Management, who offered in-depth details…
From entering Cornell pre-med to finding joy in reading Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” Salvador Herrera ‘18 reflected on his academic journey at Cornell in a recent post on Ivy Untold, a website founded by two Cornell students that provides a forum for minority students in the Ivy League to share their personal stories.Herrera has tailored his English major to explore the …
Emily Fridlund, a former postdoctoral associate in the Department of English and currently a visiting scholar, has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for her debut novel, “History of Wolves.”Established in 1969, the Man Booker Prize is Britain’s most prestigious literary award. Fridlund is shortlisted along with 5 other novelists, including some of the biggest names in fiction, such as…
After spending a year helping human trafficking victims in Mumbai, India, alum Katharine Poor ‘16 is headed to Texas to work for an organization that aids refugees and undocumented immigrants.A native of Boston, Poor double majored in American Studies and Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and wrote her honors thesis on modern-day eugenics in the discourse of drug marketing to women…
Ten new Mong Family Foundation Fellows in Neurotech will work under the mentorship of faculty across Cornell to advance technologies that promise to provide insight into how brains work, as well as strategies to fix them when they don’t.The fellowships are part of a multimillion-dollar seed grant from the Mong Family Foundation, through Stephen Mong ’92, M.Eng. ’93, MBA ’02, which launched…
Chemistry major Cathy Ly ‘19 is spending her summer in Ithaca doing research at Cornell, thanks to the J. Emory Morris Fellowship she received from the chemistry department. “I love doing hands-on work,” said Ly, “and being able to make invisible things tangible, to discover what isn’t immediately apparent to human eyes.” She’s interested in chemistry’s applications to astronomy and material…
Yimon Aye, a Howard Milstein faculty fellow and assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been honored by the Eastern New York Section of the American Chemical Society as the 2017 Buck-Whitney Award winner. Aye has been invited to give a talk at the awards ceremony Nov. 15 in Troy, N.Y.The Buck-Whitney Award recognizes original work in pure or applied chemistry and outstanding…
Freedom on the Move (FOTM), a project being spearheaded at Cornell, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create a database of fugitive slaves in North America, using information in “runaway” advertisements placed by slave owners.The ads, describing escaped slaves’ physical attributes, provide significant quantities of individual and collective…
The hometown of Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters Emeritus, has held an event, with lectures and music, to commemorate Hoffmann’s 80th birthday, which was July 18.Hoffmann was born in 1937 in the small town of Zolochiv, Ukraine, formerly a part of Poland. Having survived the Holocaust, he came to the U.S. in 1949 and studied chemistry at Columbia and Harvard, where…
Colleagues are planning a symposium in August to celebrate the birthday of Jerrold Meinwald, Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, who turned 90 in January. The symposium will take place during the meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology in Kyoto, Japan. Between 400-500 attendees are expected at the symposium, which include talks by chemical ecology researchers and a…
Zhangmin Abigail Chen ‘19, a College Scholar focusing on government and China & Asia-Pacific studies, is pursuing her interests in international affairs and non-profit management as an intern at the Carter Center’s China Program this summer.The Carter Center, founded in 1982 by President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter, is a nongovernmental organization commited to human rights…
Undergraduate and graduate students from Cornell worked with collaborators in Cyprus to apply tree-ring dating to clarify the ages of parts of the church of the Holy Cross at Palendri, a 12th century AD cultural heritage monument in Cyprus. The students participated in a seminar on dendrochronology and architectural history held on June 14th at the Church of the Holy Cross in the village of…
“I see video games as literary texts — just as film, television, comics and books are literary texts,” said Christopher Lombardo ‘18, who is spending his summer doing research at the University of Michigan Computer and Video Game Archive. His research, which is funded by a grant from the Tanner Dean’s Scholars Program, will be the foundation of his honors thesis. “Like each of those narrative…
On the famous list of the “161 Things to Do at Cornell” is spending a summer in Ithaca. From doing research with a professor to assisting with summer programs, students say spending a summer at Cornell can be a rewarding experience.“This is my second summer staying in Ithaca,” said Alice Jenkins ‘18. “I would absolutely recommend staying a summer in Ithaca. It’s the best time of year to explore…
Arts & Sciences student Emma Williams ‘19 is in Moshi, Tanzania for the summer studying the use of family planning among women of reproductive age. Williams, a biology and government double major, is also minoring in global health.“The majority of our academic time is spent collaborating with Tanzanian medical students on Moshi-specific case studies,” she said. “Studying abroad has enabled me…
