News

three people at a table — Kathy Hovis From left, faculty members Alexandra Kleeman, Philip Milner and Talbot Andrews presented their work at the June 6 panel.

Reunion 2025

Professors address climate change from multiple disciplines

6/10/2025 A&S Communications

The panel, during Reunion 2025, was called "Beyond the Apocalypse: New Narratives and Innovations for Climate Action."

people on a stage taking a bow — Casey Martin YAMATO The Drummers of Japan played Feb. 2 in Bailey Hall as part of this year's Concert Series.

Alumni support

Gift creates new Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series at Cornell

6/2/2025 A&S Communications

A $2 million gift from the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts will rename the Cornell Concert Series and allow it to continue its efforts to bring world-class musicians to campus.

person smiling — Tony Rinaldo/Harvard Norton

Faculty honors

Norton honored with top alumni award from Harvard

5/29/2025 A&S Communications

The Centennial Medal recognizes alumni who have made fundamental and lasting contributions to knowledge, their disciplines, their colleagues and society

Alumni excellence

Med student Grace Staes ’22 feels prepared for the work

5/29/2025 A&S Communications

Staes said her major in anthropology has proven to be an asset in medical school.

two people talking to a group — Simon Wheeler Associate Professor Roger Moseley, left, is taking over as the new director of the Milstein Program, a job that Associate Professor Austin Bunn, right, has held for the past three years.

Academic innovation

Music professor named new director of Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

5/27/2025 A&S Communications

Roger Moseley, associate professor of music, will begin in the new role July 1.

Cornell-Ithaca Collaborations

“We are La Voz” event highlights Latine artists

4/25/2025 A&S Communications

A collaboration between Cornell faculty, students and Ithaca community members is bringing together a monthlong event in downtown Ithaca, focused on Latine artists.

Alumni excellence

Alumna earned congressional arguing chops on campus

4/23/2025 A&S Communications

Rep. Beth Van Duyne ’95, who represents Texas’ 24th Congressional District, recently won re-election to her third term.

three pianos on a stage — Simon Wheeler Three instruments from the Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards sit onstage awaiting performers before a 2024 concert in Barnes Hall.

Alumni support

Center for Historical Keyboards boosted by $5 million gift

4/17/2025 A&S Communications

The gift will secure the future of the center's museum-quality holdings, as well as a rich program of concerts, festivals and educational offerings.

three people smiling sitting a table — Simon Wheeler Cornell Writing Centers tutor Finley Williams, center, works with student Julianna Cross, right, as new tutor Catherine Seo, left, looks on.

A focus on writing

Knight Institute creates ‘culture of writing’ on campus

4/11/2025 A&S Communications

The institute coordinates the Cornell Writing Centers, Graduate Writing Service, writing workshops, first-year writing seminars and other programs.

students carrying banner at graduation reading Cornell 2024 — Paul Newman/University Photography The 2024 graduation ceremony

Career outcomes

2024 A&S grads report stellar career outcomes

4/2/2025 A&S Communications

Jen Maclaughlin credits the College’s first-year advising seminars for at least part of the success for 2024 graduates.

two people looking at books — Douae Maarouf ’27/Student and Campus Life Justin Eburuoh ’27, left, and Branden Sattler ’26 check out books from the Language House Library. Beginning in the fall, the Language House will include students who use American Sign Language, in addition to those speaking French, Spanish, Mandarin and Korean.

Language experiences

Language House opens to students learning ASL

4/1/2025 A&S Communications

Students who want an immersive on-campus experience with American Sign Language (ASL) can now sign up to live in the Language House.

Entrepreneurship

Student creates company focused on luxury African bags

3/21/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The newest episode of Startup Cornell, a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, features Cornell senior Micere Mugweru ’25, the founder of Mizoma Africa.

Person standing at a podium — Linda Glaser Reading a poem in Quechua

Language Resource Center

Share and hear poetry in many languages at this April 9 event

3/21/2025 A&S Communications

The event celebrates April as National Poetry Month.

Alumni authors

Alumna’s book wrestles with society’s expectations of women

3/17/2025 A&S Communications

From Kate Chopin to Maya Angelou to Shakespeare, Nicole Lipson ’98 uses literature to grapple with gender roles.

Red brick gothic house — Sreang Hok/Cornell University. The A.D. White House

Visiting professors

Three A.D. White Professors-at-Large on campus this spring

3/10/2025 A&S Communications

This semester, visiting A.D. White Professors-at-Large will explore themes of democracy, reparatory justice and Latin American narratives during public talks.

three people talking — Rachel Philipson Cheryl Einhorn visits with students as they brainstorm solutions during her talk.

Alumni visits

Students gain decision-making insight from alumna Cheryl Einhorn

2/27/2025 A&S Communications

“If you’re outside of your comfort zone, then you’re on the right track."

Public engagement

War, love and loyalty: The ‘Iliad’ in Ithaca on March 12-13

2/26/2025 A&S Communications

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.

In Memoriam

Remembering Molly Hite, professor emerita of English

2/24/2025 A&S Communications

Hite taught at Cornell from 1982 until her retirement in 2013.

In Memoriam

Remembering William Kennedy, professor emeritus in comparative literature

2/24/2025 A&S Communications

Kennedy taught the history of European literature and literary criticism from antiquity to the early modern period.

woman holding a photo — Provided Saniyem Iminova, an Uyghur woman who's the daughter of a Uyghur general who fought during the Uyghur war for independence, holds a photo of her relatives.

Student research

Documenting Uyghur history for the sake of the future

2/19/2025 A&S Communications

Zilala Mamat '26 has been traveling abroad to document the stories of Uyghur people.

Faculty books

Prof’s new novel imagines a U.S. without Texas

2/19/2025 A&S Communications

Charlie Green’s new novel, “The Shah of Texas,” published Feb. 18 from Gold Wake Press.

person standing outside — Provided Gabe Levin

Student honors

Junior wins international reporting honor

2/10/2025 A&S Communications

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.

Alumni awards

Alumna playwright honored with Dramatists Guild award

2/10/2025 A&S Communications

Playwright Gloria Oladipo '21 is also an award-winning cultural critic and journalist with The Guardian.

Computer Science

Bowers student explores privacy, healthcare, satellite imagery

1/28/2025 A&S Communications

Vipin Gunda ’25 is excited about projects that apply his computer science knowledge to real-world challenges.

person in tunnel — Courtesy of Rialto Pictures Still from "The Third Man" (1949, dir. Carol Reed)

Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema preview: Vampires, courtroom drama, animation and more

1/27/2025 A&S Communications

The spring season of films at Cornell Cinema has begun.

Society for the Humanities

Explore home space in a teenage sitcom during upcoming lecture

1/24/2025 A&S Communications

"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.

a bunch of people in a group smiling — Provided Alumni gather around Professor Maria Cristina Garcia during a Reunion 2024 event.

Latina/o Studies Program

Latina/o Studies offers new way to connect with alumni

1/24/2025 A&S Communications

“Fridays with Alumni” kicks off Jan. 31 featuring Kim Cardenas '17 & Joseph De Los Santos '19,

audiobook cover with people falling off a mountain

Faculty creative works

PMA prof’s new audiobook capitalizes on hair-raising adventure

1/23/2025 A&S Communications

Austin Bunn's twist-laden thriller is set on one of the most extreme environments on earth.

two people on a park bench — Melissa '00 and Rob '99 Lewin during a visit to campus in 2020. Provided

Alumni mentors

Alums offer mentoring to students exploring career options

1/9/2025 A&S Communications

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.

Three people stand behind a product table for "Seen Nutrition" — Provided With new national interest in menopause healthcare, Bitar (left) and Han (right) have grown a customer base from Hawaii to Florida to Alaska.

American Studies

Ithaca startup’s product builds bone health using NY milk protein

12/23/2024 Cornell Chronicle

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.

"Vote here" sign beside a line of people

Government

Professor’s model perfectly predicted Trump victory

12/17/2024 Cornell Chronicle

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.

person wearing glasses — Provided Nirbhay Narang '25 models the smart glasses he's created for people with hearing loss.

Computing and Information Science

Student creates AR glasses with transcriptions for people with hearing loss

11/7/2024 A&S Communications

Nirbhay Narang ’25 has created smart glasses that use AI to provide transcriptions of conversations in real time.

Four people stand with a mascot bear — Provided The grand prize winners for the Food Hackathon pose with Touchdown the Bear after the weekend.

Entrepreneurship

Food waste solution wins top prize at hackathon

11/5/2024 Cornell Chronicle

The hackathon included more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students from almost all of Cornell’s Ithaca campus schools and colleges.

Mathematics

Mathematician Al Schatz dies at 90

10/31/2024 Cornell Chronicle

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.

person wearing VR glasses — Photo by Sara Kurig on Unsplash

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Art + tech exhibit looking for student work

10/22/2024 A&S Communications

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.

Provided Satellite images used by the Caucasus Heritage Watch to discover the destruction of heritage sites.

Archaeology & Anthropology

Archaeology conference focuses on cultural erasure

10/22/2024 A&S Communications

“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.

two people looking at sheet music that's sitting on a piano — Rulan Chao Pian Collection at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Chao discussing music with his daughter Rulan Chao Pian

Music & Asian studies

Events celebrate Chinese composer who also transformed language

10/21/2024 A&S Communications

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.

Government & History

Belnick presidential forum focuses on election and democracy’s future

10/18/2024 A&S Communications

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.

American Sign Language

ASL program offers performance series, welcomes new faculty

10/17/2024 A&S Communications

Lisa Sunde also helps to advise the American Sign Language club and manages the weekly ASL conversation hour in the Language Resource Center.

man talking to two students — Chris Kitchen Weiner talked with students during a reception (which included pizza) after the talk.

Alumni experiences

A slice of wisdom from Russell Weiner ‘90

10/7/2024 A&S Communications

Russell Weiner ’90, CEO of Domino’s, shared career and life advice during a Sept. 20 talk on campus.

Near Eastern Studies

Pulitzer Prize-winning author from Jerusalem to speak Oct. 10

10/2/2024 A&S Communications

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

A crowd of about 75 people stands behind a low box full of dirt; six people in the front hold shovels with red handles during a ceremonial "groundbreaking" event — Provided Members of the Cornell community break ground on the McGraw Hall renovation project on Sept. 19.

McGraw Hall renovation

Celebration kicks off McGraw Hall project

9/30/2024 Cornell Chronicle

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.

people walking outside with binoculars — Provided “Birding buddies” go on a birding walk through Stewart Park at the end of the spring semester.

Engaged learning

‘Birding buddies’ build social and science communication skills

9/26/2024 A&S Communications

Cornell students and high school students with disabilities or communication challenges met for 12 weeks to explore birds and build communications skills.

Economics

Economics conference considers tech, political impacts on global economy

9/20/2024 A&S Communications

Economists from around the world will come to campus Oct. 3-5 to explore the changing global economy.

Performing and Media Arts

Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs to visit campus for talk

9/17/2024 Cornell Chronicle

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.

cooling towers from power plant — jplenio from Pixabay

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Panelists to examine crypto mining impacts

9/5/2024 A&S Communications

Bitcoin mining consumes 2.3% of all U.S. electrical demand.

Career Development

From portfolios to pizza, fall A&S career events explore diverse fields

9/4/2024 A&S Communications

"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."

Asian American Studies Program

Mohawk community newspaper founder to give Kops Lecture

8/29/2024 Cornell Chronicle

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.

Dean Peter Loewen posing behind the A.D. White statue on the Arts Quad — Heather Ainsworth

College leadership

New A&S dean relishes ‘life in a university’

8/28/2024 A&S Communications

Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.

Economics

Staller Lecture hosts Dartmouth economist Heidi Williams

8/21/2024 A&S Communications

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

person standing by academic poster — Farroha

Summer Experience Grants

SEG grants fund summer internships, research projects

8/13/2024 A&S Communications

The grants help pay for housing, food, transportation and other expenses for students with minimally-paid or unpaid summer internships or positions.

Alumni innovation

Milstein Program alum named to Forbes 30 under 30 list

8/8/2024 A&S Communications

Kush Jain's ’22 company, ORama AI, has developed a high-tech glove to help people learn to read Braille.

three people working on a computer — Chris Kitchen Jean Bernard Cerin, left, worked with students Anthony Washington, center, and Zeke A.B. Lawrence, right, this summer.

Nexus Scholars

Faculty, students pair up for summer Nexus Scholar research projects

8/2/2024 A&S Communications

More students can afford to stay on campus to work in faculty labs during the summer thanks to generous alumni.

two people working behind a computer — Chris Kitchen Students Sneah Singhi ’26, left, and David Behdad ’25 work in the observation room at the B.A.B.Y Lab, which studies infant language acquisition.

Nexus Scholars

Nexus Scholars study climate change inequality and infant language learning

7/29/2024 A&S Communications

The program provides undergraduates with summer opportunities to conduct research with and be mentored by faculty from across the college.

boys outside a school — Gillian Harrill Actors from "Ghosts" walk around the schoolhouse during filming in Oklahoma.

Faculty creative works

PMA profs’ film earns spot in PBS film festival

7/24/2024 A&S Communications

“Ghosts” tells the story of three Kiowa children who escaped a government boarding school in the winter of 1891.

Media studies

Cornell crafts multifaceted game studies program

7/17/2024 A&S Communications

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.

Student scholarships

Kramnick Scholarship Fund tops $1 million mark

7/17/2024 A&S Communications

The scholarship is funded by more than 400 alumni who say their lives were changed by his teaching and his friendship.

Graduate student projects

Pinkonomics Podcast covers women in the economy

7/3/2024 A&S Communications

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."

Faculty excellence

A&S honors 10 faculty with endowed professorships

7/1/2024 A&S Communications

With these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 76.

Recording studio for Earth to EZRZ album

Music

Restored Moog synthesizer featured on new album

6/28/2024 A&S Communications

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.

woman speaking to a group of students — Jesse Winter Amy Mulderry ‘96, interim president of CarelonRx, part of Elevance Health, hosted the event this year at Elevance’s office space in Manhattan.

Career Services

Alums share career advice during NYC event

6/28/2024 A&S Communications

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

Provided OIiver Vonnegut

Student publications

Oliver Vonnegut, Tufts undergrad, wins top prize in Cornell journal

5/31/2024 A&S Communications

Vonnegut, the grandson of author Kurt Vonnegut, is a rising senior at Tufts University.

Student experiences

Milstein first-years listen closely, shape stories with strangers

5/31/2024 A&S Communications

Students created innovative audio projects and sharpened their skills with various technologies.

group of people — Provided A group of seniors in the Humanities Scholars Program.

Humanities Scholars Program

Humanities scholars research free speech, AI, sports culture and the Supreme Court

5/21/2024 A&S Communications

“This year’s Humanities Scholar Program conference was spectacular. The range of topics covered, the diversity of approaches, and the level of mastery demonstrated by the students were inspiring,” said interim director Lawrence Glickman.

three people standing in Klarman Atrium — Patrick Shanahan 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.

Student experiences

Finding your calling at Cornell

5/3/2024 A&S Communications

Three members of the A&S Class of 2024 share wisdom for incoming students about taking advantage of all of Cornell's resources.

person sitting with guitar — Provided Paul Jensen

Alumni careers

Musical alumnus: Pivoting to a new career was worth the wait

4/30/2024 A&S Communications

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.

two people standing in a museum exhibit — Chris Kitchen Sebastian Young, left, and Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano, stand in the Guadalupe Maravilla exhibit at the Johnson Museum.

Research initiatives

Johnson Museum exhibit considers migration and its effects

4/18/2024 A&S Communications

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.

woman standing with arms crossed — Chris Kitchen Richlove Nkansah '26

Student entrepreneurs

Life as a Cornell entrepreneur: ‘I have people in my corner who inspire me’

4/10/2024 A&S Communications

Richlove Nkansah '26 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 connect to clients.

Student excellence

Two seniors chosen as fellows by Carnegie Endowment

4/9/2024 A&S Communications

McKenzie Carrier ’24 and Margot Treadwell, ’24 will spend next year conducting research with the organization in Washington, D.C.

Two actors in a scene from the movie "Back to the Future"

Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema offers tasty, mind-stretching Science on Screen showings

4/5/2024 A&S Communications

Science on Screen® supports creative pairings of current, classic, cult, and documentary films with introductions by figures from the world of science, technology and medicine.

Literatures in English

McEneaney Memorial Reading features Irish author Cólm Tóibín

4/2/2024 A&S Communications

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,

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Panel explores rise of nationalism across the globe

4/1/2024 A&S Communications

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.

kid working with art materials to make a butterfly — Chris Kitchen 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.

Arts Unplugged

Nabokov celebrated for crossing arts/science boundaries

3/27/2024 A&S Communications

An avid lepidopterist since childhood, Nabokov was known to spend most of his free time on campus in the Cornell University Insect Collection.

Red flag against a white sky — Alejandro Luengo/Unsplash Chinese flag

Special events

April 10 lecture focuses on formation of revolutionary China

3/22/2024 A&S Communications

Mitter’s talk will re-examine the classic question, “Did the communists win or the nationalists lose the Chinese civil war?”

person with sunflower umbrella — Provided

In Memoriam

Astronomy mourns Mary Mulvanerton, ‘amazing problem-solver’

3/22/2024 A&S Communications

She’s being remembered by friends and colleagues as a mentor, advisor, friend and fierce advocate for the work of the department.

woman outside on Cornell's campus — Jeffreys

History

Freedom-seekers inspire doctoral candidate’s work

3/5/2024 A&S Communications

History doctoral candidate Megan Jeffreys is using runaway slave ads as one of the foundations of her work.

trees with pink blossoms in front of a clock tower and a library building

Free Expression

Talk focuses on academic freedom post Oct. 7

3/4/2024 Cornell Chronicle

On March 13, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will host “Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after Oct. 7,” one of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year events.

Students enjoy in-person activities around the Arts Quad during March Wellness Days — Extraordinary Journeys, the Class of 2021

Alumni support

Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 14

3/1/2024 A&S Communications

Your gift allows the College to fulfill our mission — to prepare our students to do the greatest good in the world.

five women in front of red background — Provided From left, Christine Balance, Alexis Boyce, Yu An Chen ’22, Alexandria Kim ’23 and Pearl Ngai ’23 at this year’s Cornell Asian Alumni Association Pan-Asian Banquet in New York City’s Chinatown.

Asian American Studies Program

Asian American studies celebrates new endowment funding

2/29/2024 A&S Communications

"The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having.”

Historic black and white image: a person sitting at a desk, writing — Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Library Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature at Cornell, where he had an office in Goldwin Smith Hall.

Arts Unplugged

Events celebrate Nabokov as butterfly scientist

2/29/2024 Cornell Chronicle

On March 15 the College of Arts & Sciences took over the Mann Library for the semester's Arts Unplugged, "Nabokov, Naturally," celebrating esteemed Cornell faculty member, Vladimir Nabokov as writer and "butterfly man."

two people with model of church — Provided Architecture graduate students Zachary Sherrod M.S. ’23 and Chi-Chia Tsao M.S. ’23 created an exhibition model of St. James AME Zion Church with funding from a Rural Humanities Grant.

Rural Humanities

Grants available to fund rural humanities projects

2/28/2024 A&S Communications

Funding is available for faculty and students with projects related to rural humanities.

Several people pose in front of a sign that says "HACKATHON" — Abigail Younger Members of "The Freshmen," the grand challenge winners at the hackathon, stand with judges, deans and mentors.

Computer science

Freshmen win top prize at digital ag hackathon

2/23/2024 Cornell Chronicle

More than 120 students took part in the Digital Agriculture Hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture and Entrepreneurship at Cornell.

statue of Chairman Mao — Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Statue of Mao

Asian studies

Speaker series focuses on China’s communist past and present

2/16/2024 A&S Communications

A series of four lectures — two in the spring and two in the fall of 2024 — will focus on “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China."

camera person behind two movie stars — Matthew Ashton - AMA, via Getty Images Balać stands to the right behind actors Ryan Reynolds, left, and Rob McElhenney.

Alumni accomplishments

Alum’s Emmy caps his ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ experience

2/9/2024 A&S Communications

Miloš Balać ’11 was the primary point person on the ground, connecting with the town and the team.

Alumni achievement

A&S grad wins Marshall Scholarship

1/5/2024 A&S Communications

The award allows Andrew Lorenzen ’22 to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

Innovative curriculum

Student opinion pieces encourage action on climate change

1/3/2024 A&S Communications

Students in Prof. Caroline Levine’s Communicating Climate Change class wrote opinion pieces spurring readers to take action related to climate.

people in grad robes with their family — Chris Kitchen Amelia Tomson ’24, right, and Joy Davis ’22, left seated, talk with their families during a graduation reception Dec. 17.

Celebrating our graduates

December A&S graduates share stories of growth

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

The College hosted a new pre-graduation reception in the Groos Family Atrium of Klarman Hall for December graduates and their families.

Four people on a stage, with instruments — Ryan Young/Cornell University Xak Bjerken performs the keys on the Moog-Rothenberg Keyboard during a concert in Barnes Hall.

Music

Long-lost Moog synthesizer finally makes it to the stage

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The rebuilt and rewired instrument, designed by theorist David Rothenberg and built by renowned synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog Ph.D. ’65, is now a part of Cornell’s instrument collection.

Seven people cluster around a table holding wooden boxes of butterfly specimens — Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Students spent hours researching Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection at the Cornell Insect Collection.

Literature and science

Class explores Nabokov as writer and ‘butterfly man’

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Writer Vladimir Nabokov spent much of his time on campus in nature and in the Cornell Insect Collection.

woman outside the capitol building — Provided Estefania Perez '21 was part of the Posse program and Pathways Internship Program while at Cornell.

Alumni careers

Alumna encourages undergrads to ‘be bold’

12/8/2023 A&S Communications

Estefania Perez ’21 is in her second year as a paralegal with the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

student with text from projector shining on his face — Chris Kitchen Franklin Zheng '25 experimented with AI in three of his classes this semester.

Classroom innovation

Welcoming AI into the classroom

12/5/2023 A&S Communications

Students are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence in everything from essay writing to computer code creation.

woman showing Ukrainian words on chalkboard — Patrick Shanahan Krystyna Golovakova works with students in her Ukrainian language class.

Ukrainian program

Classes, events show 'Ukraine is not only a country at war'

11/28/2023 A&S Communications

Cornell's Ukrainian program is bringing the country’s culture to campus through language learning, folk tradition and history.

book cover featuring Anna May Wong — Provided Shirley Lim's most recent book on Anna May Wong.

Alumni research

Alumna explores impact of Asian American Hollywood icon

11/13/2023 A&S Communications

Shirley Lim's ’90 research into Hollywood icon Anna May Wong is receiving lots of attention as Wong is pictured on a new set of U.S. quarters.

Community outreach

Talk to consider roots of antisemitism, racism, Islamophobia

11/8/2023 A&S Communications

A Nov. 16 talk sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the College of Arts and Sciences will shed light on the history of hate movements in the U.S.