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Student creates company focused on luxury African bags

The newest episode of Startup Cornell, a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, features Cornell senior Micere Mugweru ’25, the founder of Mizoma Africa.
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Share and hear poetry in many languages at this April 9 event

The event celebrates April as National Poetry Month.
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Alumna’s book wrestles with society’s expectations of women

From Kate Chopin to Maya Angelou to Shakespeare, Nicole Lipson ’98 uses literature to grapple with gender roles.
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Three A.D. White Professors-at-Large on campus this spring

This semester, visiting A.D. White Professors-at-Large will explore themes of democracy, reparatory justice and Latin American narratives during public talks.
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Students gain decision-making insight from alumna Cheryl Einhorn

“If you’re outside of your comfort zone, then you’re on the right track."
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War, love and loyalty: The ‘Iliad’ in Ithaca on March 12-13

A virtual event with translator Emily Wilson and a daylong community reading of portions of Homer’s epic poem highlight the spring Arts Unplugged event.
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Remembering William Kennedy, professor emeritus in comparative literature

Kennedy taught the history of European literature and literary criticism from antiquity to the early modern period.
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Remembering Molly Hite, professor emerita of English

Hite taught at Cornell from 1982 until her retirement in 2013.
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Prof’s new novel imagines a U.S. without Texas

Charlie Green’s new novel, “The Shah of Texas,” published Feb. 18 from Gold Wake Press.
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Documenting Uyghur history for the sake of the future

Zilala Mamat '26 has been traveling abroad to document the stories of Uyghur people.
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Alumna playwright honored with Dramatists Guild award

Playwright Gloria Oladipo '21 is also an award-winning cultural critic and journalist with The Guardian.
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Junior wins international reporting honor

Gabe Levin, editor in chief of the Cornell Daily Sun and a student in the College of Arts & Sciences, spent the summer of 2024 reporting on the Israel-Gaza war.
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Bowers student explores privacy, healthcare, satellite imagery

Vipin Gunda ’25 is excited about projects that apply his computer science knowledge to real-world challenges.
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Cornell Cinema preview: Vampires, courtroom drama, animation and more

The spring season of films at Cornell Cinema has begun.
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Explore home space in a teenage sitcom during upcoming lecture

"Sanctuary from the Storm: Making (My) Room with The Torkelsons," will explore Sheppard’s fondness for the 1990s television show and what the show’s representation of home spaces can tell us about the way television influences living practices.
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Latina/o Studies offers new way to connect with alumni

“Fridays with Alumni” kicks off Jan. 31 featuring Kim Cardenas '17 & Joseph De Los Santos '19,
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PMA prof’s new audiobook capitalizes on hair-raising adventure

Austin Bunn's twist-laden thriller is set on one of the most extreme environments on earth.
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Alums offer mentoring to students exploring career options

Melissa Lewin ’00 and her husband Rob ’99 are active backers of Cornell through their support of Cornell’s Public History Initiative and the archaeology program.
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Ithaca startup’s product builds bone health using NY milk protein

Two friends who bonded over shared concerns over their bone health have formulated a bioavailable calcium chew using milk protein from Finger Lakes dairy farms.
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Professor’s model perfectly predicted Trump victory

A Cornell professor’s election forecasting model correctly picked Trump’s win this year in all 50 states – and would have correctly predicted 95% of states in every election since 2000.
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Student creates AR glasses with transcriptions for people with hearing loss

Nirbhay Narang ’25 has created smart glasses that use AI to provide transcriptions of conversations in real time.
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Food waste solution wins top prize at hackathon

The hackathon included more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students from almost all of Cornell’s Ithaca campus schools and colleges.
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Mathematician Al Schatz dies at 90

Alfred H. Schatz, an emeritus professor of mathematics who taught at Cornell for nearly 50 years, died at home on Oct. 11 after a long bout with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.
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Art + tech exhibit looking for student work

Submissions are due Oct. 31 and should combine art and technology in any way: video games, fashion, sculpture, graphic design, virtual reality, AI collaborations, performance, music, etc.
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Archaeology conference focuses on cultural erasure

“Unearthing Unseeing: Archaeology, Heritage, and Forensics in the Shadow of State Violence” will highlight new approaches to cultural remains caught up in contemporary conflicts and past trauma.
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Events celebrate Chinese composer who also transformed language

Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.
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Belnick presidential forum focuses on election and democracy’s future

Scheduled for Oct. 30 at 5 p.m. in Ives Hall, Room 305, the event is free and open to the public and a livestream is available.
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ASL program offers performance series, welcomes new faculty

Lisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.
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A slice of wisdom from Russell Weiner ‘90

Russell Weiner ’90, CEO of Domino’s, shared career and life advice during a Sept. 20 talk on campus.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author from Jerusalem to speak Oct. 10

Nathan Thrall will talk about his most recent book, “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy.”
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Celebration kicks off McGraw Hall project

More than 75 people, including university leaders, donors and members of the College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Council, celebrated the start of the $110 million McGraw Hall renovation project Sept. 19 with a “groundbreaking” ceremony.
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‘Birding buddies’ build social and science communication skills

Cornell students and high school students with disabilities or communication challenges met for 12 weeks to explore birds and build communications skills.
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Economics conference considers tech, political impacts on global economy

Economists from around the world will come to campus Oct. 3-5 to explore the changing global economy.
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Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs to visit campus for talk

Daveed Diggs, who won Tony and Grammy awards for his portrayal of the dual roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in “Hamilton,” will visit campus Sept. 25 for a talk as the 2024 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist.
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Panelists to examine crypto mining impacts

Bitcoin mining consumes 2.3% of all U.S. electrical demand.
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From portfolios to pizza, fall A&S career events explore diverse fields

"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
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Mohawk community newspaper founder to give Kops Lecture

Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer, founder and former editor of The Eastern Door newspaper, will be the featured speaker at the 2024 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, Sept. 10.
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New A&S dean relishes ‘life in a university’

Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
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Staller Lecture hosts Dartmouth economist Heidi Williams

The Department of Economics will bring economist Heidi Williams to campus for a Sept. 5 talk, "Innovation and Productivity Policies: A Budgetary Perspective.”
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SEG grants fund summer internships, research projects

The grants help pay for housing, food, transportation and other expenses for students with minimally-paid or unpaid summer internships or positions.
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Milstein Program alum named to Forbes 30 under 30 list

Kush Jain's ’22 company, ORama AI, has developed a high-tech glove to help people learn to read Braille.
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Faculty, students pair up for summer Nexus Scholar research projects

More students can afford to stay on campus to work in faculty labs during the summer thanks to generous alumni.
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Nexus Scholars study climate change inequality and infant language learning

The program provides undergraduates with summer opportunities to conduct research with and be mentored by faculty from across the college.
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PMA profs’ film earns spot in PBS film festival

“Ghosts” tells the story of three Kiowa children who escaped a government boarding school in the winter of 1891.
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Kramnick Scholarship Fund tops $1 million mark

The scholarship is funded by more than 400 alumni who say their lives were changed by his teaching and his friendship.
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Cornell crafts multifaceted game studies program

The field of game studies is growing at Cornell, including an expanded set of classes, workshops and symposia and a growing library collection of games.
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Pinkonomics Podcast covers women in the economy

Arundhati Singh approached the task using game theory and logic, to “strategize how women can go forward in this economic game that we seem to be stuck with."
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A&S honors 10 faculty with endowed professorships

With these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 76.
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Restored Moog synthesizer featured on new album

A new album of music — played on several innovative new instruments created and restored at Cornell, including a Moog synthesizer —will debut June 28 from the band EZRA, which includes a Cornell faculty member.
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Alums share career advice during NYC event

Students at a June Career Connections event networked with 15 alumni from A&S with various careers in the finance industry.