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Three people sit in armchairs, part of a panel discussion event
Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Valzhyna Mort, center, discusses the risks writers take to speak out in many countries, with Suzanne Nossel, left, and David Folkenflik ’91.
Three people sit in armchairs, part of a panel discussion event
Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Valzhyna Mort, center, discusses the risks writers take to speak out in many countries, with Suzanne Nossel, left, and David Folkenflik ’91.
Freedom of Expression

Paying a price to speak out, dissident writers help preserve freedoms

Cornell Chronicle
Five people perform a dance, creating a V formation with their bodies
Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Student dancers rehearse an ensemble piece that will be part of the "This table has been a house in the rain" performance April 25-27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts: (from left) Isabel Padilla, doctoral candidate in performing and media arts; Irene Kim ’24; Taylor Pryor, doctoral candidate in literatures in English; Molly Hudson ’25; and Eliza Salamon ’24.
Five people perform a dance, creating a V formation with their bodies
Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Student dancers rehearse an ensemble piece that will be part of the "This table has been a house in the rain" performance April 25-27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts: (from left) Isabel Padilla, doctoral candidate in performing and media arts; Irene Kim ’24; Taylor Pryor, doctoral candidate in literatures in English; Molly Hudson ’25; and Eliza Salamon ’24.
Performing and Media Arts

'A place at the table': Exploring free expression through dance

Cornell Chronicle
three people working in a film set that looks like a mid-century living room. The fly space of a theater is visible above the room's walls
Simon Wheeler/Cornell University Crew members prepare to film on the set of "Remembering Colin Stall," which took over the Kiplinger Theatre stage for much of the spring 2024 semester: (l-r) Jamen Meistrich, assistant director; Indeana Underhill, director of photography; and script supervisor/on set prop master Victoria Serafini, Ph.D. candidate in Performing & Media Arts
three people working in a film set that looks like a mid-century living room. The fly space of a theater is visible above the room's walls
Simon Wheeler/Cornell University Crew members prepare to film on the set of "Remembering Colin Stall," which took over the Kiplinger Theatre stage for much of the spring 2024 semester: (l-r) Jamen Meistrich, assistant director; Indeana Underhill, director of photography; and script supervisor/on set prop master Victoria Serafini, Ph.D. candidate in Performing & Media Arts
Performing and Media Arts

Film set in Schwartz Center: A pop-up laboratory for building worlds

A&S Communications
Shiqi Lin
Chris Kitchen Shiqi Lin next to a poster in her office depicting 25 years of covers from the Chinese culture magazine Neweekly, which reflect China's social changes during the past quarter century.
Shiqi Lin
Chris Kitchen Shiqi Lin next to a poster in her office depicting 25 years of covers from the Chinese culture magazine Neweekly, which reflect China's social changes during the past quarter century.
Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow: Digital media connects people in a polarized world

A&S Communications
Painting of mountains
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2005 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges, 1874. Watercolor heightened with gouache over traces of graphite on two sheets of blue-gray wove paper (glued together in a vertical seam at left), 11 7/16 × 26 1/8 in. (29 × 66.4 cm).
Painting of mountains
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2005 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges, 1874. Watercolor heightened with gouache over traces of graphite on two sheets of blue-gray wove paper (glued together in a vertical seam at left), 11 7/16 × 26 1/8 in. (29 × 66.4 cm).
History of Art and Visual Studies

Grant to enhance art history book

A&S Communications
Jake Turner
Ryan Young/Cornell University Jake Turner, NASA Hubble/Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and part of the Carl Sagan Institute, is a science adviser on a radio telescope made of four antennas that each extend to eight feet long and are packed into an eight-inch canister for launch.
Jake Turner
Ryan Young/Cornell University Jake Turner, NASA Hubble/Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and part of the Carl Sagan Institute, is a science adviser on a radio telescope made of four antennas that each extend to eight feet long and are packed into an eight-inch canister for launch.
Astronomy

Earth to be exhibit A for lunar exoplanet research

Cornell Chronicle
Overhead view of Cornell's campus buildings under a light sky, with a lake in the distance
Lindsay France/Cornell University Klarman Postdoctoral Fellows pursue research on a wide variety of topics in the social sciences, sciences and humanities.
Overhead view of Cornell's campus buildings under a light sky, with a lake in the distance
Lindsay France/Cornell University Klarman Postdoctoral Fellows pursue research on a wide variety of topics in the social sciences, sciences and humanities.
Klarman Fellows

Twelve new Klarman Fellows to pursue innovative, timely research in A&S

A&S Communications
Satellite of the middle east region, seen from space: brown land, dark blue sea, highlights of snow, unusual for the region
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Creative Commons license 2.0 Image from a satellite showing a portion of the Middle East
Satellite of the middle east region, seen from space: brown land, dark blue sea, highlights of snow, unusual for the region
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Creative Commons license 2.0 Image from a satellite showing a portion of the Middle East
Science and Technology Studies

Maps have political power, sociologist says

A&S Communications
A gold building foregrounded by rows of stalls and many parked motorcycles
Natasha Raheja/Provided In Jodhpur, India, computer typists offer services to migrants from stalls at the kutchery, an administrative maze housing hundreds of private vendors and dozens of government offices, pictured here in October 2019.
A gold building foregrounded by rows of stalls and many parked motorcycles
Natasha Raheja/Provided In Jodhpur, India, computer typists offer services to migrants from stalls at the kutchery, an administrative maze housing hundreds of private vendors and dozens of government offices, pictured here in October 2019.
Anthropology

In India, computer typists embody ‘fuzzy’ nature of state borders

Cornell Chronicle
Three people sitting in chairs on a stage
Ryan Young/Cornell University David Folkenflik ’91 (left) moderates the panel “Free Press in a Free Society: U.S. Newsrooms on the Front Lines” with Suzanne Mettler, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in government, and Sewell Chan, editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune.
Three people sitting in chairs on a stage
Ryan Young/Cornell University David Folkenflik ’91 (left) moderates the panel “Free Press in a Free Society: U.S. Newsrooms on the Front Lines” with Suzanne Mettler, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions in government, and Sewell Chan, editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune.
Free Expression Theme Year

What’s worth protecting about a free press? NPR’s Folkenflik asks panelists

Cornell Chronicle
Three people sitting on a city bench with one standing behind; they are laughing together
Provided The collaborators who created the concert "Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind": (seated l-r) playwright Virginia Grise, novelist Helena María Viramontes, and composer Martha Gonzalez. Standing is Kendra Ware, the production's director.
Three people sitting on a city bench with one standing behind; they are laughing together
Provided The collaborators who created the concert "Riding the Currents of the Wilding Wind": (seated l-r) playwright Virginia Grise, novelist Helena María Viramontes, and composer Martha Gonzalez. Standing is Kendra Ware, the production's director.
Creative Writing Program

Performance and conference honor Viramontes

A&S Communications
A figure featuring four black and white grids with colorful shapes on each
Dan Mao/Provided Leveraging the geometric thinking in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice to predict new effects
A figure featuring four black and white grids with colorful shapes on each
Dan Mao/Provided Leveraging the geometric thinking in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice to predict new effects
Physics

Physicists realize fractionalization without a magnetic field 

A&S Communications
Person standing in front of a poster showing outer space
Stella Ocker, Ph.D. ’23 won a Brinson Prize fellowship, which she began Sept. 1 at the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California
Person standing in front of a poster showing outer space
Stella Ocker, Ph.D. ’23 won a Brinson Prize fellowship, which she began Sept. 1 at the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California
Astronomy

Cornell astronomy to offer Brinson Prize

A&S Communications