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Translating racial stories

5/31/2023 by : KeShonna Jackson ’24 , Cornell Research

In the late nineteenth century, revolutionary Chinese students looked to theater as a way of expressing their desire for change, according to Kun Huang, a doctoral candidate in comparative literature. For inspiration, they turned to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an American novel from 1852 written by the white abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, adapting the novel into a play in 1907. They focused on…

Two people study at a table, seen from above — Jason Koski/Cornell University Students work in the Physical Sciences Building

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A Big Red Undergraduate Journal

6/1/2022 by : KeShonna Jackson ’24 , Cornell Research

Cornell now has a digital and print publication dedicated to reporting the findings and research accomplishments of Cornell’s enterprising undergraduate students: the inaugural issue of the Cornell Undergraduate Research Journal appeared this spring, according to a Cornell Research article. "Research is a large part of the undergraduate experience at Cornell,” Victoria Alkin ’23, founder and…

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WARNING: Parents on Social Media

12/21/2021 by : KeShonna Jackson ’24 , Cornell Research

In the spring of 2020, two Arts and Sciences psychology students, Sterling Williams-Ceci ’21 and Annika Pinch ’20, as well as Human Ecology student Gillian Grose ’20, conducted a study of "sharenting" — the practice of parents sharing photos and stories of their children online. A Cornell Research article details how the surprising results of the study, one of the first to test an intervention on…

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Tiny spores full of promise

10/8/2021 by : KeShonna Jackson ’24 , Cornell Research

Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds, or PLSCI 2010. It’s a popular class at Cornell, but Eileen Tzng ’22 hasn’t actually taken it. Instead, she has taken it upon herself to study arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, microorganisms that are known to live in the roots of many plants on every continent except Antarctica. “These fungi can form beneficial relationships with about 80 percent of…