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Fourteen people stand on the steps of a house, ready to party — Provided Cornell Undergraduate Veterans Association students pose for a group photo at the university’s new Veteran Program House before Slope Day 2022

Student veterans

Student veteran finds a sense of community at Cornell

10/14/2022 Alumni Affairs & Development

Matthew Garcia '25 was in the first cohort of student-veterans to move in to the university’s new Veteran Program House on University Avenue.

A few dozen people sit around a large square of tables in a room decorated with maps

Global Cornell

Global Cornell awards support new international courses

10/14/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Five International Cornell Curriculum grants totaling $114,000 will support faculty developing courses that feature international experiences for students.

Person speaks in front of a class sitting using dynamic hand gestures — Jason Koski/Cornell University Gustavo Quintero, PhD student in Romance Studies (ROMS), teaches Spanish (SPAN) 3020.

Language learning

Grant supports language learning research

10/14/2022 A&S Communications

“Understanding the impact of Languages Across the Curriculum on all participants will allow us to build on its success and offer multilingual students more opportunities to engage with their disciplinary content in languages other than English."

Frank Schroeder in glasses, beard and black shirt in front of lab equipment and next to woman with long black hair, white shirt and glasses. — Boyce Thompson Institute Boyce Thompson Institute's Frank Schroeder and Jingfang Yu in BTI’s Center for Advanced Mass Spectrometry (CAMS).

Brain Research

Chemist offers new insights into how serotonin regulates behavior

10/14/2022 Boyce Thompson Institute

The findings could ultimately lead to more effective treatments for a wide range of mental health disorders.

Looking down on a campus with buildings, green lawn, and a lake in the distance

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Staff changes will support interdisciplinary research

10/14/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Julia Thom-Levy, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named associate vice provost for physical sciences.

Two squares: on the left, large squares of black, purple and green. On the right, much higher resolution — Provided View of a cell before (left) and after lipid expansion microscopy is applied, showing details of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), an organelle involved in cell membrane processes.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Lipid expansion microscopy uses the ‘power of click chemistry’

10/13/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered a way to apply expansion microscopy, which expands cell components to make them more visible, to lipids using click chemistry, recognized with the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Government

Book: Partisanship led to disastrous response to COVID-19

10/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Survey data shows how the Trump administration’s partisan response led ordinary citizens to prioritize what was good for their “team” rather than what was good for their country.

Three people sitting on a couch, laughing — Provided The Plunge co-hosts (l-r) Chi-Min (Mimi) Ho, Liz Kellogg and Mike Cianfrocco

Molecular Biology and Genetics

New podcast explores imaging technique cryo-EM

10/12/2022 A&S Communications

Co-host Liz Kellogg, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics: "In every interview, we heard stories that we hadn’t expected and learned something new about each other and about the field."

Performing and media arts

Indigenous dance troupe show focuses on residential schools

10/12/2022 Department of Performing & Media Arts

The internationally-renowned Indigenous Canadian Kaha:wi Dance Theatre will perform their poignant "The Mush Hole" at Cornell on Friday, Oct. 28.

Creative Writing Program

Sandeep Parmar, Zalaznick Distinguished Visiting Writer, to read Oct. 20

10/12/2022 A&S Communications

This year’s Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading will include a conversation with poet Valzhyna Mort, associate professor of literatures in English.

Two people performing with dramatic hand gestures and facial expressions — Provided The members of the Flying Words Project

American Sign Language

American Sign Language (ASL) Literature Series features ASL Poets/Storytellers

10/11/2022 A&S Communications

Six American Sign Language (ASL) poets and storytellers will visit Cornell between Oct. 12 and Nov. 28, in conjunction with this semester’s ASL Literature course.