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For Bixby Piccolo Hill ’27, ‘It was always Cornell’

… sitting in the audience and thinking to myself, ‘I could do that. And I really want to do that!’” Bixby says. “I remember going up to the boy who … theater. Bixby relishes the mixed plate of opportunities he has in the Performing & Media Arts (PMA) Department in the …

Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation: teaching the way people learn

As vice provost for academic innovation, Prof. Steve Jackson has been working to ensure that teaching in university classrooms, labs, studios, and field sites is aligned with what the latest research tells us about how people learn best.

Faculty poet Valzhyna Mort reads her poem, “In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks”

"I wrote this poem when I couldn't write a different poem," Mort says. "And this inability to write made me feel homeless in language and in poetry."

Rising stars: Harrison Award honors recent alumni leaders

Four special guests, including Arts & Sciences alumni, will be honored at the Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference in Baltimore in February.

For the joy of x, y, and z

With Professor Strogatz helping to lead the charge, the Math 101 initiative will attempt to decrease disparities, democratize the subject and better prepare young people to solve math problems.

Exploring the complexities of the US-China relationship

As part of the Cornell University 2023 Stewardship Report, this story highlights how donor philanthropy is supporting faculty and their pursuit of new knowledge and solutions that do the greatest good for people and communities all around the world.

Learn about the cosmos with Cornell astronomers

Professlor Martha Haynes organizes monthly Zoom events led by Cornell faculty, research staff, and student experts on a variety of astronomy topics.

Michael Madon ’94 enlists smart technology to help people battle drug addiction

Pretaa, inspired by the Latin meaning ‘to be ready,’ draws upon Madon's Cornell English degree, his Wharton MBA, his military training and his technical expertise.

Student veteran finds a sense of community at Cornell

Matthew Garcia '25 was in the first cohort of student-veterans to move in to the university’s new Veteran Program House on University Avenue.

Big Red volleyball standout advocates for women in sports

… Psychology major Sydney Moore ’24 was honored at the ESPY ceremony for her efforts to empower fellow athletes. … professionally, and Moore had naturally gravitated to the sport. Then a friend invited her to volleyball … Jean King at the ESPYs. While the annual award typically has both male and female winners, King marked the 50th …

Between Two Slices of Bread, an Enduring Big Red Bond

Two ’06 classmates enjoyed a simple-but-tasty sandwich for decades—then the Washington Post shared it with the world

In a Brutally Honest Memoir, Alum Recalls Addiction and Imprisonment

Having returned to complete her degree in literatures in English, reporter Keri Blakinger ’11, BA ’14, now covers the prison system for the Marshall Project.

For those who dream, Cornell is your place, says Farid Ferdows ’21

Farid Ferdows ’21 says that from his first day on campus, Cornell welcomed him.

Class of 2020: Learning to let it flow

Eight members of the Class of 2020 share candid reflections on their lives over this past year.

XR is the future

Nonny de la Peña, one of pioneers of Extended Reality, or XR, and the founder of Emblematic Group, shared her story in a focus talk co-sponsored by the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity on April 8.

Truth matters: A conversation with Republican John Kasich

As part of its ongoing effort to encourage bipartisan dialogue and problem solving, the Cornell Institute for Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) and Government Department co-hosted a conversation with former Governor John Kasich and former Representative Susan Molinari (R-NY). The talk was moderated by Steve Israel, IOPGA director and former U.S. Representative (D-NY), and by Doug Kriner, IOPGA faculty director and Clinton Rossiter Professor in American Institutions at Cornell.

Finding your North Star: aligning your purpose and your paycheck

… “Finding what we love doing, what we’re good at, and what the … (OEI) at Cornell University. For the past five years, OEI has contributed to the culture of public engagement at … and journalism jobs into the non-profit world. He had to show that his skills and experience were relevant in the …

“Zoomed-out”: extracurricular life in the time of COVID-19

… Cornell students adapted to changing circumstances, as they improvised to sing, dance, make … flexibility and creativity, as they figured out how to do the things they love in new ways. Their passion and … can be done effectively virtually, since only one person has to sing at a time,” Brian says. The cost of these …

Green is the new normal: faculty talk about teaching in fall 2020

Big Red podcasters: finding their voice

Alumni startup: making student votes count

Juliana Bain ’20, Noe Abernathy ’20, and Devki Trivedi ’20 met during their first year at Cornell. Bain and Trivedi lived in the same dorm (floor 5 of High Rise 5), and Bain and Abernathy shared a house together for most of the next three years. Today, the trio are part of the core team behind Voteology, a startup focused on motivating college students to vote.

Diverse alums gather for conversations on race, justice

John Rawlins III '06, president of the Cornell Black Alumni Association, urged listeners to give the black community space to “share how we feel and to express what we want.”

Timeout: students and young alumni reflect on life on pause

These young Cornellians are finding new sources of inspiration in everyday life.

TeleTown Hall: building treatment capacity in pandemic

… How long will it take to develop a vaccine for COVID-19? And how quickly can it be scaled up to … Global Affairs hosted a TeleTown Hall April 8 to explore these questions. … How long will it take to develop a vaccine for COVID-19? And … TeleTown Hall: building treatment capacity in pandemic …

Cornell CIS hosts recipients of 'Genius Grant'

… On October 3-4, 2019, Cornell CIS (Computing and Information Science) celebrated its 20th anniversary. To mark the event, CIS hosted a symposium showcasing the game-changing impact of computing on a breadth … brought with it a sense of responsibility, “to go out and do something worthy of this award.” He recalled the sense of …

Alumna writes go-to guide for teaching climate change

Ingrid Zabel '87 has created The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change.

Reunion 2019: a time to treasure Cornell

… agriculture-based industries. “Beer, Wine and Hard Cider: How CALS Is Helping Grow Business for New York Entrepreneurs … and what Cornell Law faculty, students and alumni are doing in response. On June 8, a panel of faculty and alumni …

A tale of friendship and mathematics

… A lifelong friend endows the Frank Spitzer and Narahari Umanath Prabhu Assistant … Australia in the early 1960s, when he wrote the book "Stochastic Processes: Basic Theory and Its Applications." The … Prabhu first became interested in queueing theory, or “how things work” as he puts it, when he was in England …

Bringing the world to campus

… brought more than 800 high school students to campus in April. The conference, which is organized annually by the Cornell … more than 800 high school students to campus in April. The conference, which is organized annually by the Cornell … program in shaping his own career trajectory. “The Model UN has taken me across the United States and across the ocean …

Contested terrain: Historian probes Earth’s polar regions

… Dawn Berry is a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Cornell, and former postdoctoral fellow in foreign policy, security studies, and … at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.How did you become interested in foreign policy relating to …

Learning Hindi, Teaching English

… Students have three weeks of Hindi instruction on campus, then a three-week immersion in India. … to fully understand and participate in Indian culture, one has to be conversant in Hindi/Urdu. An Internationalizing … of Arts and Sciences, open the door to such possibilities for students at Cornell. “For a long time I had been hoping …