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Students sit at table in restaurant under bright lights.
Kristen Warner Cornell students enjoy the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
Student experiences

Cornell students explore opportunities in film at Sundance

A&S Communications

A professor in Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts brought students to the Sundance Film Festival.

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Provided Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Ph.D. ’21, presents during a Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Graduate student research

Eight students advance to 3MT finals

Cornell University Graduate School

Three A&S-affiliated graduate students are among the competitors advancing to the final round of the 2024 Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT), having competed in a pool of 22 students in the preliminary round.

Amber Bal
Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Amber Bal

Cornell University Graduate School

Amber Bal, a doctoral candidate in romance studies, studies the urban-rural divide in 20th and 21st century French and Francophone literature.

city brownstones in the foreground, skyscrapers in the distance under a blue sky
Linmiao Xu on Unsplash View from Brooklyn
Housing politics

NY’s fundamental need: New housing of every ‘shape, size and price’

A&S Communications

Soaring rents and home prices have created a city of haves and have-nots, says Cornell history scholar Jacob Anbinder, who studies how America’s most progressive cities become unaffordable for a significant portion of the population.

Goldwin Smith Hall, home of the English department

Students host first undergraduate philosophy conference

A&S Communications

Sophia Gottfried '25 talks about putting on Cornell's first undergraduate philosophy conference.

Smiling woman with glasses and shoulder-length brown hair.

Understanding politics at home and abroad: Sarah Cutler '16

A&S Communications

Sarah Cutler, an alumna of Arts & Sciences, has used her work in journalism to help people understand political polarization in the U.S.

Graph showing a curve sprinkled with rainbow dots
This data visualization shows the geodesic training trajectory of different deep neural networks as they advance from total ignorance to full certainty
Physics

Replica theory shows deep neural networks think alike

Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration between researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania found that most successful deep neural networks follow a similar trajectory in the same “low-dimensional” space.

Kate Manne
Philosophy

A moral philosopher contemplates the evils of 'fatphobia'

Cornellians

After penning two acclaimed books on misogyny, Kate Manne turns her attention to a different—but related—form of oppression

Yuval Grossman
Ryan Young/Cornell University Yuval Grossman, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been visiting Arab villages in Israel during academic breaks since 2019 to teach math to school children. His last trip was in January.
Physics, math and connection

Choosing connection: Physics professor teaches Arab youth in Israel

Cornell Chronicle

Professor Yuval Grossman has been traveling to Israel to lead math and physics activities with young people in Arab villages since 2019. His most recent trip was in January.

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Platon Matakaev/Unsplash Moscow
Russia

Russia’s presidential election is ‘not so important’ as what will come after

A&S Communications

“The potential domestic and battlefield implications of another mobilization after the election are the things to watch.”

Margarita Suñer
Linguistics

‘Innovative’ linguist Margarita Suñer dies at 82

Cornell Chronicle

Margarita Amalia Suñer, professor of linguistics emerita in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), died in Ojai, California on Feb. 29 after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 82.

Two people talking while crouched together on a lawn, studying something
Cheyenne Reuben-Thomas, a doctoral student in the field of ecology and evolutionary biology, does field work on land management.
Sustainability

Grad student grants support sustainability, biodiversity

Cornell Chronicle

Thirty-one graduate students across three colleges, including A&S, have been awarded research grants from the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Filament formation enables cancer cells’ glutamine addiction

Cornell Chronicle

Blocking the formation of filaments – multi-enzyme structures that fuel cancer activity – may offer new ways to control cancer cell proliferation, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers.

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Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’98
Society for the Humanities

Pheng Cheah Ph.D. ’98 to deliver Culler Theory Lecture

A&S Communications

“Beyond the World as Picture: Worlding and Becoming the Whole World [devenir tout le monde],”will examine philosophical accounts of the ways in which we organize the concept of reality.

Several people pose around a sign for "Southern African Policy Institute"
Eva Telesca (first row, black and white stripes) and fellow study abroad students visit the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research.
Global Cornell

Students to discuss navigating identities abroad

Cornell Chronicle

Panelists who have studied in countries ranging from Denmark to South Africa will speak about their perspectives on gender, sexuality, race and identities that impacted them while abroad during an upcoming global freedom of expression event.