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Students enjoy in-person activities around the Arts Quad during March Wellness Days
Extraordinary Journeys, the Class of 2021
Alumni support

Support Arts & Sciences on Giving Day March 14

A&S Communications

Your gift allows the College to fulfill our mission — to prepare our students to do the greatest good in the world.

Movie poster: Oppenheimer
Universal Pictures
Alumni

Poised for Oscar gold, Oppenheimer boasts a Big Red distinction

Cornellians

Thanks in part to its physics-centric plot, the hit movie may depict more Cornellians than any other feature film in history.

Elbert Cox: a black and white portrait of a person wearing doctoral regalia
Elbert Cox, PhD 1925
Alumni

Remembering the Cornellian who broke racial barriers in math

Cornellians

After becoming the first Black person to earn a PhD in the field, Elbert Cox, PhD 1925, spent a lifetime inspiring others to follow.

The frozen ocean world of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn.
Astronomy

Ice shell thickness reveals water temp on ocean worlds

Cornell Chronicle

Decades before any probe dips a toe – and thermometer – into the waters of distant ocean worlds, Cornell astrobiologists have devised a way to determine ocean temperatures based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space.

Daniel Baugh
History

Daniel Baugh, ‘giant’ of British maritime history, dies at 92

Cornell Chronicle

… wrote two major books: “British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole” (1965) and “The Global Seven Years War: …

Historic black and white image: a person sitting at a desk, writing
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Library Vladimir Nabokov taught Russian literature at Cornell, where he had an office in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Arts Unplugged

Events celebrate Nabokov as butterfly scientist

Cornell Chronicle

… who collected and studied butterflies since the age of five. “It is not improbable that had there been no … primarily due to habitat loss, they suddenly went from being very plentiful to being an endangered species.” … and nontraditional materials. “This 21st century engagement with Nabokov’s science-art practice transformed the …

Book cover: Subjunctive Aesthetics
Latin American studies

On climate change, artists ‘imagine the world otherwise’

A&S Communications

Carolyn Fornoff explores how contemporary Mexican writers, filmmakers and visual artists have reacted to climate change in her book "Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change."

five women in front of red background
Provided From left, Christine Balance, Alexis Boyce, Yu An Chen ’22, Alexandria Kim ’23 and Pearl Ngai ’23 at this year’s Cornell Asian Alumni Association Pan-Asian Banquet in New York City’s Chinatown.
Asian American Studies Program

Asian American studies celebrates new endowment funding

A&S Communications

"The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having.”

two people with model of church
Provided Architecture graduate students Zachary Sherrod M.S. ’23 and Chi-Chia Tsao M.S. ’23 created an exhibition model of St. James AME Zion Church with funding from a Rural Humanities Grant.
Rural Humanities

Grants available to fund rural humanities projects

A&S Communications

… faculty from any discipline can  apply for up to $10,000 in support  of public-facing research humanities projects … with indigenous communities and Black farmers, gay campsites and our Latinx neighbors, the St. James AME Zion … literature and German studies (A&S). The initiative has supported faculty initiatives ranging from a project to …

Painting of mountains
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2005 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges, 1874. Watercolor heightened with gouache over traces of graphite on two sheets of blue-gray wove paper (glued together in a vertical seam at left), 11 7/16 × 26 1/8 in. (29 × 66.4 cm).
History of Art and Visual Studies

Grant to enhance art history book

A&S Communications

… "Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France.” … “Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France,” is forthcoming from Yale University Press in … Valley, c. 1853. Salted paper print, 10 7/16 × 14 5/8 in. (26.5 × 37.1 cm) “It’s a thrill to get to see them all …

Rome at sunrise: Cathedral dome in the distance, bridge in the foreground
Chris Czermak/Unsplash
Classics

Three juniors awarded Caplan Travel Fellowships

A&S Communications

… have been selected as the 2024 Harry Caplan Travel Fellows, supported by the Department of Classics. … to visit Athens, Greece to interact with the archaeological sites and artifacts in person so that she can better … increase public viewing access of these ancient Athenian sites. Koca, a scholar in the Robert S. Harrison College …

Several people on a rocky beach in warm clothing, collecting trash
Sarah J. Thornington/Provided One recent Engaged Opportunity Grant project will support shore clean-up efforts in Massachusetts.
Community engagement

New grants support student involvement in community projects

Cornell Chronicle

… New grants support student involvement in community projects …

Person holding a newborn
Hollie Santos/Unsplash
Molecular biology and genetics

Babies use their immune system differently but efficiently

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists have long believed that a newborn’s immune system was an immature version of an adult’s, but new research shows that newborns’ T cells – white blood cells that protect from disease – outperform those of adults at fighting off numerous infections.

Lenka Zdeborová
Lenka Zdeborová
Physics

Spring 2024 Bethe Lecture bridges physics and computer science

A&S Communications

During three events March 13-15, Lenka Zdeborová will explore how principles from statistical physics provide insights into challenging computational problems.

Several people pose in front of a sign that says "HACKATHON"
Abigail Younger Members of "The Freshmen," the grand challenge winners at the hackathon, stand with judges, deans and mentors.
Computer science

Freshmen win top prize at digital ag hackathon

Cornell Chronicle

… More than 120 students took part in the Digital Agriculture Hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital … India’s pollution problem during the Digital Agriculture Hackathon Feb. 16-18. “The Freshmen,” as they cleverly named themselves, entered the hackathon knowing they wanted to find a solution to a …