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Hand-lettered sign "No Justice, No PEACE" held by a person in a crowd — Clay Banks/Unsplash

Africana Studies

Reparations commission ‘step in right direction,’ but education is key to understanding

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, an expert in Africana studies, wrote about how America should respond to its history of racism in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.

Two arms with hands joined. A tree is in the background — Dương Hữu/Unsplash

Sociology

LGBTQ Catholics in a state of ‘conditional belonging’

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Sociologist Landon Schnabel says the blessing of same-sex couples is an important and complex step for the Catholic Church.

people in grad robes with their family — Chris Kitchen Amelia Tomson ’24, right, and Joy Davis ’22, left seated, talk with their families during a graduation reception Dec. 17.

Celebrating our graduates

December A&S graduates share stories of growth

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

The College hosted a new pre-graduation reception in the Groos Family Atrium of Klarman Hall for December graduates and their families.

Literatures in English

Animals, disasters, love: Book traces nonhuman voices in literature

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

… Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature ,” she traces ways … tell the daily adventures of materials things like a gold coin or a corkscrew, trends in 18th century literature? Both protagonists—the lapdog and the gold coin—engage, in other-than-human ways, with the rise of the …

Book cover: Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery

Comparative literature

Tracing Indian Ocean slavery through Iranian cinema

12/18/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, Professor Parisa Vaziri explores how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of Indian Ocean slavery.

Several dozen people crowd together, looking up at the camera — Roger William Photography 2023 Dean’s Scholars

Graduate student honors

Nearly 70 students recognized at pinning ceremony

12/15/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

Dean’s Scholars are selected for their demonstrated commitment to academic excellence and advancing aspects of diversity, access, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the academy and other communities.

Alumni careers

Cornell alumna shapes future of media at NBCUniversal

12/15/2023 A&S Communications

When Ali Soong ‘16 goes to work each day at NBCUniversal, she uses various skills she acquired at Cornell.

A gold building foregrounded by rows of stalls and many parked motorcycles — Natasha Raheja/Provided In Jodhpur, India, computer typists offer services to migrants from stalls at the kutchery, an administrative maze housing hundreds of private vendors and dozens of government offices, pictured here in October 2019.

Anthropology

In India, computer typists embody ‘fuzzy’ nature of state borders

12/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

State borders are taken for granted as fixed, hard lines, but Natasha Raheja argues that crossing spaces are, in reality, expansive and indistinct.

A few musician rock out on a stage lit by yellow and purple spotlights — Provided This year’s most-read Chronicle story announced the return to Cornell of Dead & Company, which included members of the Grateful Dead, for a fundraising concert on May 8, benefiting Cornell’s 2030 Project and the nonprofit MusiCares.

In the news, 2023

The Dead rise: Cornell '77 tribute show among top stories of 2023

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

When Dead & Company came to Cornell in May for a benefit concert commemorating the Grateful Dead’s famed “Cornell ’77” show, it drew thousands to Barton Hall. The March announcement of the show was the most-viewed Chronicle story of 2023.

Government

Poverty is a political choice, Michener tells NYS Senate

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

On Dec. 12, Jamila Michener offered expert testimony during a New York State Senate committee hearing focused on the causes and effects of poverty in the state’s small and midsized cities.

Seven people cluster around a table holding wooden boxes of butterfly specimens — Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Students spent hours researching Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection at the Cornell Insect Collection.

Literature and science

Class explores Nabokov as writer and ‘butterfly man’

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

… entangled in Nabokov’s imagination. Nabokov represents the nexus of science and art, said Braeden Thomson ’24, a …

person adjusting an experimental set up — Chris Kitchen With new tools he develops, Li detects interacting electrons in specialized two-dimensional (2D) materials

Physics

Klarman Fellow: Studying electron interactions with ultrafast lasers and more

12/14/2023 A&S Communications

New experimental tools developed by Hongyuan Li give insight into an exponentially complicated world.

Four people on a stage, with instruments — Ryan Young/Cornell University Xak Bjerken performs the keys on the Moog-Rothenberg Keyboard during a concert in Barnes Hall.

Music

Long-lost Moog synthesizer finally makes it to the stage

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The rebuilt and rewired instrument, designed by theorist David Rothenberg and built by renowned synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog Ph.D. ’65, is now a part of Cornell’s instrument collection.

students looking at a display — Chris Kitchen Students view some of the exhibits at the Cultura y Poder event in Rockefeller Hall.

Curriculum

Undergraduates celebrate Latinx history through Rockefeller Hall exhibition

12/13/2023 A&S Communications

The collaborative mixed media projects, showcased online and in Rockefeller Hall, explore how culture strengthens and uplifts communities.

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Reparations commission ‘step in right direction,’ but education is key to understanding

LGBTQ Catholics in a state of ‘conditional belonging’

December A&S graduates share stories of growth

Animals, disasters, love: Book traces nonhuman voices in literature

Tracing Indian Ocean slavery through Iranian cinema

Nearly 70 students recognized at pinning ceremony

Cornell alumna shapes future of media at NBCUniversal

In India, computer typists embody ‘fuzzy’ nature of state borders

The Dead rise: Cornell '77 tribute show among top stories of 2023

Poverty is a political choice, Michener tells NYS Senate

Class explores Nabokov as writer and ‘butterfly man’

Klarman Fellow: Studying electron interactions with ultrafast lasers and more

Long-lost Moog synthesizer finally makes it to the stage

Undergraduates celebrate Latinx history through Rockefeller Hall exhibition

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