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Elaborate, painted building (St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow) — Ivan Shilov/Unsplash

International relations

The west would harm itself with rash seizures of frozen Russian assets

1/4/2024 Financial Times

A watertight legal basis for confiscations is lacking because the US and its allies are not openly at war with Moscow, argues historian Nicholas Mulder in an op-ed.

Two dark brown fish, seen from above — Margaret A. Marchaterre/Provided A male midshipman fish, left, and a female swim in shallow Northern California waters. Their midbrain plays a key role in initiating and patterning trains of sounds used in vocal communication.

Neurobiology and Behavior

In chatty midshipman fish, the midbrain awakens a gift of gab

1/4/2024 Cornell Chronicle

The midbrain in these fish may serve as a useful model for how mammals and other vertebrates, including humans, control vocal expressions.

Satellite of the middle east region, seen from space: brown land, dark blue sea, highlights of snow, unusual for the region — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Creative Commons license 2.0 Image from a satellite showing a portion of the Middle East

Science and Technology Studies

Maps have political power, sociologist says

1/4/2024 A&S Communications

A new paper examines the politics at play in the maps published in 2020 as part of a peace plan proposed by the Trump Administration.

Jillian Goldfarb

Associate Professor, Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS)

Black and white historic image of Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900 — Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections A Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900. Image adjusted into positive from Gerow Brill's glass plate negatives kept in Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections.

Cornell Library

Digitized images illuminate U.S. colonial period in the Philippines

1/3/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Idyllic images of the Philippines taken by a Cornell alumnus in 1902 illuminate the tumultuous U.S. annexation of the archipelago in the aftermath of the Philippine-American War, according to a Ph.D. student in history.

Innovative curriculum

Student opinion pieces encourage action on climate change

1/3/2024 A&S Communications

Students in Prof. Caroline Levine’s Communicating Climate Change class wrote opinion pieces spurring readers to take action related to climate.

Vera H.P. Hsu

Visiting Lecturer
Music

Four donuts in a stack: frosted pink, covered with sprinkles — Annie Spratt/Unsplash

Philosophy

What if ‘food noise’ is just…hunger?

1/2/2024 New York Times

… of Arts and Sciences, in a New York Times opinion piece . Coined to name the experience of thinking about or longing …

Two people stand together in a studio with paints and paintings — Olya Frank/Provided Gordon Sander and Jonathan “JJ” Manford ’06

Alumni

For two Cornellian pals, art meets life — now in book form

12/22/2023 Cornellians

An enduring friendship between alums — dating back to when they were mentor and student — has led both to cultivate their creativity.

Weinan Sun

Assistant Professor
Neurobiology and Behavior

college campus buildings under a partly cloudy sky, with a lake beyond

History

Cornell historian testifies in landmark Indigenous rights case

12/21/2023 A&S Communications

Jon Parmenter helped the defense successfully assert an Aboriginal right to trade based on 18th century treaties.

Global leaders

Cornell’s ’24-25 Schwarzman Scholars named

12/20/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A&S young alumni are among this year’s group of 150 scholars, who are from 43 countries and 114 universities. Schwarzman Scholars, an international program, nurtures a network of future global leaders.

Awards