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Biology

Wild honeybees offer clues on preventing colony collapse

3/31/2016 Cornell Chronicle

Over the past decades, millions of managed colonies of honeybees have died from varroa mites that transmit deadly viruses, yet wild colonies survive.Cornell researchers describe – in the March 11 issue of the journal PLoS One –experiments that help reveal how wild colonies endure mites and pathogens.

Foreign policy

Legacy of Cornell-led diplomacy detailed at Carnegie Hall

3/14/2016 Cornell Chronicle

… 1800s and through World War II. LaFeber called Cornell “the best place to teach the kind of history ... that I believe …

Science

Cornellians share scientific studies at AAAS meeting

2/2/2016 Cornell Chronicle

Stephanie Wisner ’16 presented her research at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting and exposition last week in Washington, D.C.

Sounds

Class creates online 'soundscape' of Cornell

12/15/2015 A&S Communications

Take an audio tour of the Cornell campus, thanks to this class blog.

Merrill Scholar thanks her high school teacher

Teaching excellence

Merrill scholars honor their mentoring teachers, professors

5/23/2019 Cornell Chronicle

… Willard Straight Hall. Thirty-four seniors – among the very best of the Class of 2019 – honored beloved, guiding-light … Willard Straight Hall. Thirty-four seniors – among the very best of the Class of 2019 – honored beloved, guiding-light … entire lives,” she said, “so the next time you have the best and the brightest, send them to Cornell.” Tenacity, …

In Memoriam

Anthropologist Terence Turner dies at 79

11/11/2015 Arts & Sciences Communications

Visiting Professor of Anthropology Terence Sheldon Turner, emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, died Nov. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center of a brain hemorrhage. He was 79.

IN REMEMBRANCE

Noted astronomer James Houck dies at 74

10/8/2015 A&S Communications

James R. Houck, a noted astronomer in the field of infrared spectroscopy for astrophysics, died in Ithaca Sept. 18 at age 74 from complications of Alzheimer's Disease.Houck received his Ph.D. from Cornell in condensed matter physics in 1967, then switched fields to astronomy. After post-doctorate work at the Naval Research Laboratory, he worked at Cornell until he retired as the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy in 2012.

ALUMNI

After the Tony, director Sam Gold ’00 dives into varied projects

9/21/2015 A&S Communications

When director Sam Gold ’00 thinks about whether he wants to take on a new project, it’s all about the challenge of creating something meaningful.“I want to start with what I believe in and care about, a subject matter that speaks to me or a formal challenge that pushes me as an artist,” he says.

Education

Student 'senators' debate U.S. budget in government class

1/14/2015 A&S Communications

“We’re down one Democrat. It’s going to be a slaughter,” someone called out.The students in Suzanne Mettler’s Introduction to American Government and Politics class huddled in small groups in eight different classrooms, bargaining, brokering deals and negotiating, trying to overcome gridlock and partisan loyalties to pass a budget.

Creative writing

Sally Wen Mao: A honey badger of a poet

7/1/2014 A&S Communications

… below.) Mao's work has been anthologized in "The Best American Poetry 2013" and is published or forthcoming …

Anthropology and Africana Studies

Africana alumna starts charter school in Arkansas

3/5/2014 A&S Communications

… and love to learn, a place that prepares kids to make the best choices about where to go to college," she says. "As …

two woman standing at railing — Jesse Winter Natalie Arimah '19, left, and Jen Maclaughlin were able to connect this month at a student-alumni networking event in New York City.

Career development

Young alums find career support through A&S office

6/30/2023 A&S Communications

… from the start and always worked with me to put my best foot forward in my materials.” Working with the office …

Person sitting on a stone wall, holding a guitar near trees — Chris Kitchen Michael Poll

Klarman Fellows

Poll arranges music for guitar to resonate with past and present

6/28/2023 A&S Communications

… past while also connecting with present-day listeners. “The best analogy is to translating literature,” Poll said. “In a …

Interior of a grand building with a central desk and arched opening along the sides; book shelves — Andreas Praefcke/Creative Commons license 3.0 Main Reading Room, Library of Congress (Jefferson Building), Washington, D.C.

American history

Working toward Black reproductive justice from the Library of Congress

6/15/2023 A&S Communications

… one of the most democratic institutions we have, one of the best examples of what is possible in our democracy,” said …

Raymond B. Craib

Associate Chair & Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History
History, Latina/o Studies Program, Romance Studies

… "Escape Therapy, ” Los Angeles Review of Books (January 2023) “Blast Off,” Anarchist Review of Books (Fall 2022) “ … ” Jacobin (April 22, 2022) “ Egotopia, ” Counterpunch (Aug. 23, 2018) " Lxs anarquistas ," Latin American Research Review (2023) …