For the first time in university history, Cornell students have won Student Music Awards from DownBeat Magazine, one of the world’s premiere jazz publications. A collection of nine students from the After Six ensemble won the award for outstanding performance in the blues/pop/rock category: Kobby Adu ‘24, Turner Aldrich ‘26, Austin Burgett ‘25, Luke Ellis ‘24, Kaleb Kavuma ‘25, Noëlle Romero…
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Russian missile on display during a 2013 parade
Russia announced it will conduct exercises simulating the use of nuclear battlefield weapons in response to statements made by French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron, suggesting the potential for increased engagement in Ukraine.David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University specializing in military history, defense policy and…
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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…
This year’s Mayfest, May 17-21, features five “fabulous concerts,” say artistic directors Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, by “fan favorite” guest musicians playing music from Bach to Britten to Hildegard von Bingen – and the world premiere of a composition by Christopher Stark DMA ‘13. Tickets can be purchased in-person or online; all concerts will be held on the Cornell campus and the…
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Historical photo of the A. D. White House
Fifty years ago, Cornell’s Society for the Humanities moved into the Andrew Dickson White House, home of Cornell’s first president. To honor the anniversary, the Society has produced a booklet chronicling the history of the A.D. White House as president’s home, art museum and locus for the humanities at Cornell: “The Andrew Dickson White House: Home of the Society for the Humanities since 1973.”…
A papyrus village survey from the second century B.C.E., included in the new book “Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt,” gives a snapshot of an ancient Egyptian household: A woman named Tharetis who managed a shrine to the goddess Isis lived with her 70-year-old husband and their adult son, a priest. “We know nothing else about this family, but the description is…
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,”…
On May 1, a public event organized by trans Cornellians will address issues and harms facing the community from a trans perspective. “Dispelling the Trans Specter: A Politics and Philosophy of Solidarity,” will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in 132 Goldwin Smith. The event is free and the public is invited.A reception will follow the event, featuring a trans-positive book giveaway from Buffalo…
As media correspondent for NPR, David Folkenflik ’91 has to respond to breaking news regardless of what else he’s doing, and that necessity didn’t change just because he was on campus as this year's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist for the College of Arts and Sciences. But despite managing two major stories he still made it to every stop on a packed schedule that included meetings with…
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Wenbo Tang studies memory to help develop therapies for memory-related diseases, and also to improve AI systems
Memories are more than mental records of events, according to neuroscientist Wenbo Tang; for humans, a sense of self is wrapped up in the memories our brains hold–or let go of.
“When a human being loses their memories, it’s not just as simple as losing a record of their life. More importantly, I think, we lose a sense of who we are,” said Tang, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in neurobiology and…
Sarah Kreps has been analyzing the military since her days as an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force, so when the History Channel went looking for experts for their new series, “The Proof Is Out There: Military Mysteries,” she was a natural fit.
Kreps, the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences, adjunct professor of law, and the…
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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…
President Biden has announced plans to triple the rates of tariffs on steel and aluminum from China amid pressure from labor unions concerned about the survival of the U.S. steel industry amid Chinese competition.
Allen Carlson is an associate professor of government at Cornell University, and an expert on Chinese foreign policy. Carlson says it’s crucial to note that President Biden…
Arts & Sciences Career Development will celebrate the Class of 2024 during its second annual senior celebration, April 25, from noon-3 p.m. in their office, Goldwin Smith Hall 172.
“For the senior celebration, we want to recognize our seniors and celebrate their next steps into their professional careers,” said Jen Maclaughlin, director of A&S Career Development. The celebration event…
Of the 300 Iranian missiles and drones launched against Israel on Saturday, nearly all were shot down well before reaching Israeli territory.
David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University where he specializes in military history and defense policy. Based on the evidence, he says the Iranian attack seemed designed more for show, than an attempt to actually inflict…
Physicist Keefe Mitman, selected as an Einstein Fellow in the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, has chosen to do his research at Cornell University, working with Nils Deppe, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S).
The Hubble Fellowship Program enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA…
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Anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine
Ukraine parliament passed a bill on Thursday overhauling mobilization rules. It must be signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky before it becomes law.
David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University specializing in military history, defense policy and battlefield analysis.
Silbey says: “Ukraine’s recent bill changing the rules of mobilization is both a sign…
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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
The room on the Kiplinger Theatre stage is paneled in wood and faded yellow-green floral wallpaper. The lamps, beige and dim, barely disturb the shadows dominating every corner. Old family photos march up the wall. A taxidermy deer head gazes down upon a mustard yellow couch draped with a crocheted color-block throw. The stairs, carpeted in gray shag, look as though they might creak under the…
The Klezmatics, world-renowned klezmer performers from New York City’s East Village, are coming to the Cornell Concert Series. Their concert takes place Sat., April 13 at 7:30 pm in Bailey Hall.
The Klezmatics’ music is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while also incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and antifundamentalism, and…
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…
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More than 400 students rode in eight charter buses filled with Cornellians to Rochester, New York, to witness the total solar eclipse.
The April 8 solar eclipse was “definitely life-changing,” said Emma Linscomb ’27, a member of Cornell’s Society of Physics Students.
“Experiencing it with a bunch of other people was such a special thing,” she said, “especially people you go to school with.”
Linscomb was one of more than 400 students who rode in eight charter buses filled with Cornellians to Rochester, New York, 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…
“Any poem, any language” is the theme of “Sweet Poetry,” the Language Resource Center’s (LRC) second annual celebration of National Poetry Month. Sweet Poetry will be on Wed., April 17, from 5-7 p.m. in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall.
During the event, tasty treats will be served while Cornell community members offer live poetry recitations in multiple languages. The event booklet,…
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KISS lead guitarist Ace Frehley
Today, Kiss announced that it has sold its catalog, name and likeness to Pophouse Entertainment Group. Specific plans for Kiss’ avatars has not yet been revealed, but Pophouse teased that fans can look forward to a variety of entertainment.
Benjamin Piekut, professor of music at Cornell University, says the recordings can be endlessly reconfigured to bring Kiss to life for new audiences.
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NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik ’91 will lead a panel discussion on the role of dissenting writers in Russia, China, Belarus and elsewhere in a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Journalist program on April 17.
“Dissident Writers: A Conversation" will feature Folkenflik in conversation with Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America; and Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort,…
While Florida’s Supreme Court ruling on Monday allowed the state to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, in a separate decision released on the same day, the justices said that a proposed constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to an abortion could go on the November ballot.
Landon Schnabel, a professor at Cornell University, studies inequality, how it changes…
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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Azahara Oliva, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the international Suffrage Science Award for Life Sciences in 2024. Launched on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, the award aims to “create a self-perpetuating cohort of talent that can encourage others to enter science and reach senior leadership roles,” said…
Sarah Morris, Steinmetz Professor of Classical Archaeology and Material Culture in the Department of Classics and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, will deliver the Townsend Lectures in the Department of Classics at Cornell on April 10, 12 and 15.
Since 1985, the Prescott W. Townsend Memorial Fund has supported annual lectures given by scholars of international reputation…
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Henley Schulz ‘22 spent the summer in Washington D.C., working in the office of U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio.
Applications for the Cornell Summer Experience Grant are open and students should apply here by April 15.
“We provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions,” said Jennifer Maclaughlin, director of career development for the College of Arts & Sciences, adding that a total of $500,000 is available for A&S…
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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…
Two early-career scientists at Cornell have been awarded Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowships: Lígia Fonseca Coelho, a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences; and Zach Ulibarri, a postdoc in mechanical and aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering. The three-year postdoctoral fellowship provides recipients with resources,…
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Rowhomes on Pennington Avenue in Curtis Bay, Baltimore.
In the wake of the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the port city’s role as the second largest exporter of American coal has come into clear focus. With coal exports expected to be snarled for more than a month, coal shipping executives are eager for a return to business as usual.
But residents who have experienced effects of the transport and storage of coal in…
Theda Skocpol, Harvard scholar and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell, will present the public lecture “Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy – Roots and Responses” on April 9 at 4 p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
The event is part of Skocpol’s A.D. White Professors-at-Large (ADW-PAL) visit April 8-12 and is co-sponsored by the Department of Government. She was elected in…
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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…
Neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz has been awarded a MIND Prize (Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery) from the Pershing Square Foundation. The Foundation’s announcement said that the prize aims to “change the paradigm of neuroscience research by creating a community of next-frontier thinkers who can uncover a deeper understanding of the brain and cognition.” The seven 2024…
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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.
Every time Shiqi Lin traveled back home to China on breaks from college in the U.S., she was sure to pack two things: her phone and a sound recorder.
Armed with these digital tools, she would walk through teeming neighborhoods bustling with new construction to archive disappearing landscapes and interview people whose lives had been upended by China’s massive drive toward urbanization.
“I…
The Cornell and Ithaca communities can see a unique blend of mime and mathematics during two days of events planned by the Cornell Department of Mathematics to celebrate April as Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM). The math-themed events and speakers are scheduled on April 19 and 20.
The MAM Public Lecture will feature Tim Chartier, the Joseph R. Morton Professor of Mathematics and…
As a government and Africana studies double major, Alec Giufurta ’21 pursued a wide range of coursework as a Cornell student, but his passions always focused on public service. This passion still motivates him as a first-year student at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. A great deal of what he loved about his time at Cornell matches what he loves about Berkeley Law.
“The…
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…
The Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) has received a $500,000 gift in support of conferences and other activities centered around economic theory.
Named in honor of the late Tapan Mitra, longtime professor of economics at Cornell and two-time chair of the department, the Dr. Tapan Mitra Economics Fund continues his passion for top-level collaboration…
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Cornell students enjoy the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Doctoral student Nia Whitmal has been working on documentary films with the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem since 2023. Her trip to the Sundance Film Festival with the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) this January helped her see another side of film production.
“I got to meet Theda Hammel, director of 'Stress Positions,' which was at Sundance, starring John Early,” Whitmal…
The New York Senate and Assembly are calling for housing deals that offer incentives for developers while also providing tenant protections. It’s part of a push ahead of the due date for the state budget. However, the proposals don’t fully align with Governor Kathy Hochul’s plans.
Jacob Anbinder, a Klarman postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, researches how America’s most progressive…
While some Arts & Sciences students choose to focus on one field of study, many also choose a more interdisciplinary pathway. Sarah Cutler ‘16 majored in Near Eastern studies and government, and leveraged her time at Cornell by adding in several experiences abroad.
Now, she's the city of Boise reporter at the Idaho Statesman and is pursuing her interest in political polarization. She…
Students are organizing Cornell’s first undergraduate philosophy conference March 23, which will include students from Northeastern University, New York University, Barnard College, Cornell and other campuses.
Sophie Gottfried ‘25, conference organizer, said she held a philosophy conference on Zoom in high school during the pandemic. “It was really, really rewarding, and everyone…
With majority of opposition leaders in prison or abroad, Russians are preparing to vote in a presidential election that is unlikely to bring significant change.
Bryn Rosenfeld is an assistant professor of government at Cornell University and studies post-communist politics and public opinion. She suggests that after the election, we can expect the announcement of an unpopular policy.
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This year’s Culler Theory Lecture at the Society for the Humanities will examine philosophical accounts of the ways in which we organize the concept of reality.
Entitled “Beyond the World as Picture: Worlding and Becoming the Whole World [devenir tout le monde],” the Culler Lecture will be delivered by Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’98, professor of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley…
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,…
