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Students head across globe thanks to Summer Experience Grant funding

8/16/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

The grants helped 108 A&S students afford unpaid or minimally-paid summer positions.

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Undergrads relish challenging Nexus Scholar projects

8/2/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

Nexus Scholars spent eight weeks this summer working with researchers on campus on projects in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences.

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New support fund for astronomy graduate students announced

7/27/2023 by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

The Riccardo Giovanelli Graduate Student Support Fund was announced July 15 at “Gas-trophysics Across the Universe.”

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Uncovering historical mysteries at the A.D. White House

7/26/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

Aidan Goldberg '25 is spending his summer putting together a history of the A.D. White House.

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A comic takes on little-known histories

7/26/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

Andy Warner '06 is the New York Times best-selling author of "Brief Histories of Everyday Objects,” “This Land is My Land,” “Pests and Pets” and “Spring Rain.”

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Science plans for telescope’s first light focus of CCAT Consortium meeting

7/25/2023 by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

“This was a critical meeting as we are less than two years out from anticipated first light with the facility," said project director Gordon Stacey.

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NASA selects Cornell astronomer for ULTRASAT observatory

7/24/2023 by : Staff , A&S Communications

… planned to launch into geostationary orbit around Earth in 2026. … NASA selects Cornell astronomer for ULTRASAT …

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Serve in Place grants offer international experiences

7/18/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

"This hands-on experience and research is great preparation for future projects."

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Using data for policy decisions: NSF funds economics study

7/17/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

Three economics researchers aim to include undergraduate researchers in their 2023-2026 project, “Mostly Harmless Statistical Decision Theory.”

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Networking events help students explore career pathways

7/11/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

The A&S Career Connections Committee hosts events during summer and winter breaks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

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Three A&S professors among finalists for Falling Walls summit

7/6/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

The Falling Walls Science Summit 2023, set for November 7-9 in Berlin, will explore the forefront of scientific trends that shape the world.

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Young alums find career support through A&S office

6/30/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

The College's Career Development staff have seen an increasing number of young alumni contacting career counselors for help.

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Students take on summer experiences with help from alumni

6/29/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

A total of 135 students in the College of Arts & Sciences are accessing the College’s Summer Experience Grants this year.

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Book on Southeast Asian art dedicated to professor

6/28/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

"Performing Prowess" traces the ways cultural forces of Hindu belief have persisted in Southeast Asia.

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Poll arranges music for guitar to resonate with past and present

6/28/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

Through historical research and instrumental innovations – like playing on a seven-string guitar – Michael Poll has developed a framework to "translate" lute and violin pieces for guitar.

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PMA prof’s film wins top honors at three festivals

6/27/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

“Campfire,” an original short film by Associate Professor Austin Bunn, won the Provincetown International Film Festival’s "best queer short" award, making it eligible for an Academy Award nomination.

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British adapted Mughal systems of justice to establish rule in India

6/26/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

“Empires of Complaints” by Robert Travers won honorable mention from the Law and Society Association's James Willard Hurst Book Prize.

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A&S honors 23 faculty with endowed professorships

6/21/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

The professorships are possible because of generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.

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Japanese poets open new ways of thinking about media

6/21/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

In new research, Andrew Campana examines cinema-centered poetry in Japan from the 1910s and 1920s, discovering the ways poetry chronicles lasting human impressions left by “new” media.

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Working toward Black reproductive justice from the Library of Congress

6/15/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

Tamika Nunley is the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History this year at the Library of Congress.

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‘Gas-trophysics’ symposium expands on work of two Cornell astronomers

6/15/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

“Gas-trophysics Across the Universe,” a July 15 symposium, will celebrate the work and lives of renowned Cornell astronomers Peter Gierasch and Riccardo Giovanelli.

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A&S staff appreciated with pirate-themed picnic

6/8/2023 by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

Dean Ray Jayawardhana told staff on June 7: “You are what makes this place run and what makes the College the exciting and vibrant place it is. I’m lucky to be embedded among such a dedicated, proud and spirited group of people.”

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Software offers new way to listen for signals from the stars

5/30/2023 by : Staff , A&S Communications

The research aims to detect repetitive patterns, a way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) within our cosmic neighborhood.

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Book catalogues consciousness from amoeba to human and beyond

5/25/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

In "The Consciousness Revolutions," Shimon Edelman traces the evolution of consciousness, from the most basic phenomenal awareness of bacteria to the pleasures and pains of human self-consciousness to the political possibilities of social consciousness.

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Register now for Reunion 2023

5/23/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

The College of Arts & Sciences will welcome alumni to campus June 8-11 with a host of events for Cornell Reunion 2023, celebrating the classes of 3s and 8s.

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A&S faculty honored for exemplary teaching, advising

5/23/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

“Helping students realize their greatest potential is at the core of our mission in the College of Arts & Sciences."

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Multi-college scholars think deeply about cities

5/17/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

Part of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Cornell students explored creative ways to understand urban landscapes during two cross-disciplinary courses this year.

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Life is full of possibilities: Meet the extraordinary class of 2023

5/15/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

Read about the Cornell experiences of some of the amazing students in our graduating class.

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Nexus Scholars Program expands research opportunities to 101 students

5/15/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.

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From poetry to philosophy to politics, Humanities Scholars share research

5/11/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

The end-of-year HSP research conference May 5 featured presentations by 45 senior undergraduates.

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Reversible magnetic field found around a fast radio burst for the first time

5/11/2023 by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

“These new observations are another step forward in understanding the remarkable engines and the diversity of fast radio bursts.”

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Thai elections defy long-standing rule banning criticism of monarchy

5/11/2023 by : Staff , A&S Communications

A growing dissatisfaction within Thailand with the country’s conservative monarchy makes a May 14 election significant.

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Government scholar compares founding histories of six modern states

5/10/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

Comparing Britain, the United States and France with the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Richard Bensel uncovers a paradox at the heart of every modern state founding.

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Mayfest chamber music festival returns to Ithaca May 19-23

5/5/2023 by : Laurel Gilmer , A&S Communications

Cornell's international music festival welcomes longtime friends and new collaborators for five world-class concerts May 19-23.

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If verified, drone strike against Putin could be a significant turning point

5/3/2023 by : Staff , A&S Communications

Military historian David Silbey and Lt. Col. Paul Lushenko, doctoral candidate, comment on an alleged drone strike on the Kremlin.

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Two physics graduate students chosen for DOE program

5/2/2023 by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

The fellowship provides world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources at DOE national laboratories.

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Sudan’s return to peace hinges on re-empowering civilian government

5/1/2023 by : Staff , A&S Communications

Prof. Rachel Beatty Riedl comments on the violence in Sudan.

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May Day strikes: French far-right gains ground as working people's party

5/1/2023 by : Staff , A&S Communications

Prof. Mabel Berezin comments on the May Day strikes in France.

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Arts and Sciences faculty featured on Academic Minute

4/27/2023 by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

Five faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences were featured on a “Cornell week” on The Academic Minute radio program from May 1-5.

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Milstein first-years take advantage of community, opportunity

4/27/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

First-year students in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity talk about their varied experiences.

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‘Heroic’ physicist Toichiro Kinoshita dies at 98

4/27/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

Toichiro Kinoshita, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died March 23. He was 98.

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Passage of ERA legislation ‘long overdue’

4/27/2023 by : Staff , A&S Communications

The U.S. Senate is set to vote today on a measure that could allow the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to be added to the U.S. Constitution, a century after its introduction.

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'Parking missile subs in South Korea creates multiple risk scenarios'

4/26/2023 by : Staff , A&S Communications

The United States will deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in 40 years — part of a new agreement, signed Wednesday, and signaling Washington's commitment to defend Seoul against nuclear threats from North Korea.

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Recent alumna awarded Bernheimer Prize

4/25/2023 by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

Hannah Cole, Ph.D. '20, has been awarded this year’s Bernheimer Prize for her dissertation, “A Thorny Way of Thinking: Botanical Afterlives of Caribbean Plantation Slavery.”

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Film co-produced by Natalie Melas wins award

4/25/2023 by : Linda B. Glaser , A&S Communications

The Award for Film and Video from the Society of Architectural Historians has been given to the film “We Love We Self Up Here.”

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MacArthur Fellow to give Krieger Lecture on 19th-Century Black political organizing

4/25/2023 by : Melissa Totman , A&S Communications

May 2, MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman will give a talk, “Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th-Century Black Political Organizing,” on the history of 19th century Black activism.

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Klarman Fellow studies vocal learning in parrots

4/25/2023 by : Kate Blackwood , A&S Communications

By studying the brain mechanisms of vocal learning in budgies, Zhilei Zhao explores how social learning is implemented in the brain.

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Students’ island clean-up trip inspires multimedia projects

4/24/2023 by : Kathy Hovis , A&S Communications

Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.

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Noted life of an “Atlantic Creole” focus of Becker Lectures

4/24/2023 by : Claire Perez , A&S Communications

This year's Carl Becker Lectures, April 25-27, will illuminate the extraordinary life of Captain Francisco Menéndez.

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Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule

4/19/2023 by : Laurel Gilmer , A&S Communications

Music department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.

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