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Campus Community Leadership Award winner Netra Shetty ’25 (center-left) poses with (from left) Marla Love, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students; Alec Brown, program manager of the Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars Program; Monica Yant Kinney, interim vice president for university relations; Sarah Bartlett, volunteer and outreach manager at the Ithaca Free Clinic; and Taili Mugambee, lead program coordinator of Ultimate Reentry Opportunity, outside of Day Hall
For her work supporting the Ithaca community and people struggling with incarceration and drug addiction across New York, Netra Shetty ’25 earned the 2025 University Relations Campus Community Leadership Award.
Through volunteer work, research and advocacy, the 5,824 students admitted to the Class of 2029 reflect Cornell’s commitment to changing lives through public engagement.
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Four of Twin Court’s bandmates (from left) Mandy Gurung, Caleb Levitt ’24, Wyatt Westerkamp ’22 and Gracekelly Fulton ’25 rehearse in the Gamelan room in Lincoln Hall.
The Cornell Gamelan Ensemble and a collection of antique instruments sparked the formation of Twin Court – a band that melds rock and traditional Indonesian music.
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2024 George Peter Award winner Sarah Albrecht, administrative manager of the Science and Technology Studies Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, embraces Suman Seth, the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of The History of Science and chair of the department, at the Feb. 24 award ceremony.
For her skilled management and healthy sense of humor, Sarah Albrecht, administrative manager of the Science and Technology Studies Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, received the Employee Assembly’s 2024 George Peter Award for Dedicated Service.
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A mouse in the study peers out of a hiding spot inside in a semi-natural outdoor enclosure. Scanners placed around the enclosure collected 7.4 million readings from identification tags implanted in the mice to track how they behaved in the environment.
The last day of classes nears, but there are still events across campus over the next week, including the Milstein Program's Art + Tech exhibit of student work.
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Anna Davidson, senior research associate and lecturer in natural resources in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, displayed a canoe covered in messages from people who live in the Mohawk River watershed in The Concourse at the Empire State Plaza in Albany this summer. It is now on display in Mann Gallery.
Pick from several concerts, attend the Town-Gown Awards, consider the Supreme Court and get advice for a career in film at events around campus.
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Jamelle Bouie speaks on campus in 2016. Now a columnist for The New York Times, Bouie will be part of the Belnick Family LaFeber/Lowi Presidential Forum on Oct. 30.
Hear from experts about the election and the future of democracy, listen to the music of a 1914 alumnus who experimented with blending Chinese and Western musical traditions, and more.
Eleven teaching faculty from across the university have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching, Interim President Michael I. Kotlikoff announced Oct. 22.
Among those recognized for contributions to advising undergraduates are Paul Merrill, associate professor of practice in music, and Ravi Ramakrishna ’88, professor of mathematics.
Journalist Kyaw Hsan Hlaing, who exposed the realities of violence perpetrated by the military in his native Myanmar, has been awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to support his work toward a Ph.D. in political science at Cornell.
Professor Ross Brann discussed how racist depictions of the behavior and appearance of Jews and Muslims encouraged ancient peoples to view them as others in a talk held Nov. 16.
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Christopher Mahn ’24 holds up a float coat he wore as a mechanic on an aircraft carrier. He also contributed his cranial (or helmet) and boots from his time in the Navy to the collection of military items from Cornell veterans. Items bear signs of individualization, including jokes written on the back of the float coat.
Three A&S faculty members are recipients of 2023 Stephen H. Weiss Teaching Awards, which honor a sustained commitment to teaching and mentoring undergraduate students.
