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two women sitting on stage — Chris Kitchen Anderson, left, and Peraino, right traced the arc of Anderson's multi-decade career.

Arts Unplugged

Laurie Anderson visit offers a glimpse of her world

10/3/2023 A&S Communications

The Sept. 26 talk was recorded and is now available to view on eCornell.

Three people in lab coats behind a clear wall inscribed with organic chemistry symbols — Lindsay France/Cornell University Chemist Song Lin

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Two chemistry professors win Cope Scholar Award

10/10/2023 A&S Communications

Tristan Lambert and Song Lin have been honored for work in organic chemistry.

Black and white photo from 1914: a woman in a dark suit and hat highlighted by flowers stands on a wooden dock — Mary Crawford, awaiting the nine-day voyage to France in 1914

Alumni

New memoir spotlights pioneering female surgeon's WWI service

10/3/2023 Cornellians

The book curates the diaries and letters of ‘double Red’ alum and Cornell trustee Mary Crawford 1904, MD 1907.

Book cover: The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

Performing and Media Arts

Scholars spearhead anthology of women’s theater writing

10/3/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The first wide-ranging anthology of theater theory and dramatic criticism by women and woman-identified writers contains entries by more than 80 scholars, including Cornell faculty and alumni.

A figure featuring four black and white grids with colorful shapes on each — Dan Mao/Provided Leveraging the geometric thinking in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice to predict new effects

Physics

Physicists realize fractionalization without a magnetic field

10/3/2023 A&S Communications

The Kim Group leveraged geometric thinking in a twisted bilayer graphene lattice to predict new effects, a novel approach.

Two young people standing behind a large sign filled with snapshots of people — Kuzzat Altay/Unsplash A 2021 demonstration, "Stop Uyghur genocide," in Washington, D.C.

International studies

Uyghur children in China’s genocide: A symposium

10/2/2023 A&S Communications

Reported violations of ethnic minority children’s rights by the Chinese government will be explored in a symposium Oct. 27.

Person speaking into a microphone, looking thoughtful

Economics

Staller Lecture to explore the economics of AI Oct. 12

10/2/2023 A&S Communications

… Economics … us understand and improve human decision-making. His talk, “Economics and AI” will be on Thurs., Oct. 12 at 4:30 p.m. in … Staller Lecture to explore the economics of AI Oct. 12 …

four people holding certificates — Roger William Photography for Cornell University. From left to right: Xuan Chen, Zachary Ulibarri, Sarah Gilbert, and Samantha Sanft. Not pictured: Alyssa Kaganer and Anusha Shankar.

Postdoctoral scholars

Six postdocs honored with achievement awards

10/2/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

Cornell employs 790 postdoctoral scholars who are appointed across nearly 90 departments where they actively participate in the university’s research, teaching, and extension missions.

Student receives top honor for Boccaccio essay

10/2/2023 A&S Communications

Grace Aiono ‘26 has been awarded this year’s Giuseppe Velli Prize by the American Boccaccio Association (ABA) for the best undergraduate student essay on the works of Giovanni Boccaccio.

Sun setting over a city — ideepakmathur/Wikimedia Commons Ahmedabad, site of India's first Heat Action Plan, a comprehensive extreme heat early warning and preparedness plan.

Global Cornell

Global center promises design solutions for warming world

9/29/2023 Global Cornell

A Cornell-led project team – with Global Hubs partners in India, the U.K, Ghana and Singapore – has received a two-year $250,000 design grant from the National Science Foundation to bring more comfortable days and nights to homes everywhere.

Person standing in front of a poster showing outer space — Stella Ocker, Ph.D. ’23 won a Brinson Prize fellowship, which she began Sept. 1 at the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California

Astronomy

Cornell astronomy to offer Brinson Prize

10/2/2023 A&S Communications

The Brinson Prize supports postdoctoral scholars in carrying out novel research in observational cosmology.

The U.S. Senate chamber (blue carpet, yellow walls) with the Senators seated at their deks — Senate Photo Studio/public domain Class photo of the 111th United States Senate inside the chamber, 2010

Government

‘Age alone’ should not dominate the decision for older politicians to resign

9/29/2023 A&S Communications

We need to recognize and remember the mark made by Dianne Feinstein says professor Elizabeth Sanders, but it’s also time for older politicians to begin considering the length of their careers.

Michelle Wang, next to a microscope and with dangling wires and equipment behind her — Robert Barker, Cornell University Michelle Wang

Physics

Physicist Michelle Wang named Biophysical Society Fellow

9/29/2023 A&S Communications

Wang was chosen for “advancing our understanding of transcription, replication, and chromatin dynamics through the lens of DNA mechanics and topology.”

musicians playing their instruments on a stage, seated or standing behind music stands — Provided The Cornell University Wind Symphony performs "A Place That Is Yours" by Catherine Likhuta

Humanities

Cornell celebrates 15 years at the heart of CNY Humanities Corridor

9/28/2023 A&S Communications

The corridor is a consortium of 11 universities and colleges endowed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

A small, colorful bird on a thick branch

Neurobiology and Behavior

When needs compete, love trumps thirst

9/27/2023 Cornell Chronicle

When a lonely and thirsty male zebra finch encountered a female, his thirst waned and he instead focused his attention on her, a shift reflected in the dopamine system.

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