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Four people stand in front of a building, wearing dress coats and hats
Provided by the family of Dr. Edward Hart Martin Luther King Jr. and colleagues stand outside Anabel Taylor Hall on Nov. 13, 1960, during King’s first visit to Ithaca. Left to right: Kenneth Hagood ’60, a Cornell student organizer; Martin Luther King Jr.; the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a co-founder with King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Dr. Edward Hart, an Ithaca ophthalmologist and chair of the Cornell Committee Against Segregation.
Four people stand in front of a building, wearing dress coats and hats
Provided by the family of Dr. Edward Hart Martin Luther King Jr. and colleagues stand outside Anabel Taylor Hall on Nov. 13, 1960, during King’s first visit to Ithaca. Left to right: Kenneth Hagood ’60, a Cornell student organizer; Martin Luther King Jr.; the Rev. Joseph Lowery, a co-founder with King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Dr. Edward Hart, an Ithaca ophthalmologist and chair of the Cornell Committee Against Segregation.
Africana Studies and Research Center

MLK's 1960s visits to Cornell still resonate today

Cornell Chronicle
A farmer holds multiple varieties of wheat and barley from his field
Alex McAlvay/New York Botanical Garden A farmer holds multiple varieties of wheat and barley from his field in Kutabir District, Amhara, Ethiopia.
A farmer holds multiple varieties of wheat and barley from his field
Alex McAlvay/New York Botanical Garden A farmer holds multiple varieties of wheat and barley from his field in Kutabir District, Amhara, Ethiopia.
A white box with a lense on the right end with complex equipment on the underside; a sensor bound for Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image, taken in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on July 23, 2019, shows a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument (its lens is in the large circular opening).
A white box with a lense on the right end with complex equipment on the underside; a sensor bound for Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This image, taken in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on July 23, 2019, shows a close-up of the head of Mars 2020's remote sensing mast. The mast head contains the SuperCam instrument (its lens is in the large circular opening).
person playing piano
Simon Wheeler Milstein students Luke Ellis and Gordi Tenev perform at the First Milstein Fall Salon.
woman playing guitar
Simon Wheeler Milstein student Pareesay Afzal '24 performs an original song at the Salon.
Student experiences

Creativity flourishes at student-run Milstein Salon

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity
An auditorium with a large crowd celebrating a graduation
Lindsay France/Cornell University In Barton Hall on Dec. 18, the university’s 20th recognition ceremony for December graduates honored more than 700 recipients of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees.
An auditorium with a large crowd celebrating a graduation
Lindsay France/Cornell University In Barton Hall on Dec. 18, the university’s 20th recognition ceremony for December graduates honored more than 700 recipients of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees.
December graduates

December graduation celebrates unique paths to Cornell education

Cornell Chronicle
four students on stairs
Patrick Shanahan First-year students, from left, Nic Oke, Richlove Nkansah, Kira Pawletko and Hamid Rezaee.
four students on stairs
Patrick Shanahan First-year students, from left, Nic Oke, Richlove Nkansah, Kira Pawletko and Hamid Rezaee.
Student stories

First-years share their transformational journeys ... so far

A&S Communications
Three people use a flashlight to look at a blue tarp over their heads
Katie Holmes Cinnamon Mittan-Moreau, Ph.D. ’21 (foreground) and other Florida Field Course participants check on a research project.
Several people wearing outdoor clothing walk in a line through sandy scrub land
Katie Holmes Doctoral candidates and instructors participating in Cornell’s Florida Field Course hike through the Everglades Headwaters landscape near Archbold Field Station, south-central Florida.
Life Sciences

Florida Field Course benefits biology students, study finds

Cornell Chronicle
Collage of black and white text fragments shaped like a fiddle
Kristin Marconi and Christine Snivley A Freedom on the Move-inspired image Project by an eighth grade student at Olentangy Orange Middle School in Lewis Center, Ohio
Collage of black and white text fragments shaped like a fiddle
Kristin Marconi and Christine Snivley A Freedom on the Move-inspired image Project by an eighth grade student at Olentangy Orange Middle School in Lewis Center, Ohio
Two people stand in front of a display table for the product Pretaa
Provided Michael at a recent symposium on addiction disorders with Eliza Foltz, Pretaa’s chief revenue officer, who is currently in her third year of recovery.
Two people stand in front of a display table for the product Pretaa
Provided Michael at a recent symposium on addiction disorders with Eliza Foltz, Pretaa’s chief revenue officer, who is currently in her third year of recovery.
two women
Chris Kitchen Aaliyah Brown ’23, left, and Milan Taylor ’24, taught a mini field course for community members at the site in November.
items in plastic bags
Chris Kitchen Some of the artifacts discovered at the site this fall.
Community engagement

Excavation uncovers 2K more artifacts at St. James church site

A&S Communications
The Kiplinger family
Provided A photo from the 1980s shows, from left to right, Knight '69, Austin '39 and Todd '68 Kiplinger. In the background is a portrait of Austin's father, W. M. Kiplinger, who founded the Kiplinger publishing organization.
The Kiplinger family
Provided A photo from the 1980s shows, from left to right, Knight '69, Austin '39 and Todd '68 Kiplinger. In the background is a portrait of Austin's father, W. M. Kiplinger, who founded the Kiplinger publishing organization.
Alumni support

Scholarship fund grows to help more A&S students

A&S Communications
three women
Provided Arden Podpora, center, with other delegates to the COP27 conference.
three women
Provided Arden Podpora, center, with other delegates to the COP27 conference.
Student experiences

Students enthused by COP27 reparations agreement

A&S Communications
student wearing VR headset
Sreang Hok/Cornell University A student uses a VR headset as Jackwin Hui, right, a student technology specialist at CTI who helped to set up and troubleshoot the headsets, looks on.
student wearing VR headset
Sreang Hok/Cornell University A student uses a VR headset as Jackwin Hui, right, a student technology specialist at CTI who helped to set up and troubleshoot the headsets, looks on.
Classroom innovation

Students visit virtual world to learn research technique

A&S Communications
A star shining brightly onto the red surface of a planet.
Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian New observations of WASP-39b with the James Webb Space Telescope have provided a clearer picture of the exoplanet, showing the presence of sodium, potassium, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. This artist's illustration also displays newly detected patches of clouds across the planet.
A star shining brightly onto the red surface of a planet.
Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian New observations of WASP-39b with the James Webb Space Telescope have provided a clearer picture of the exoplanet, showing the presence of sodium, potassium, water, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide in the planet's atmosphere. This artist's illustration also displays newly detected patches of clouds across the planet.
three women with tote bags
Provided Dana Oshiro '24, right, a Laidlaw scholar, spent six weeks working with Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) and VinUniversity on projects to combat adverse childhood events.
three women with tote bags
Provided Dana Oshiro '24, right, a Laidlaw scholar, spent six weeks working with Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI) and VinUniversity on projects to combat adverse childhood events.
Global experiences

Laidlaw scholars at Cornell gain global perspectives

Cornell Chronicle