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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

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.

Book cover: The Counterhuman imaginary
Literatures in English

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

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 … but they are also weird proxies for the human, in ways that point toward counterhuman opportunities or affects—like …

Book cover: Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery
Comparative literature

Tracing Indian Ocean slavery through Iranian cinema

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

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.

Ali Soong in front of NBCU banner
Alumni careers

Cornell alumna shapes future of media at NBCUniversal

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

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

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.

Jamila Michener
Government

Poverty is a political choice, Michener tells NYS Senate

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’

Cornell Chronicle

Writer Vladimir Nabokov spent much of his time on campus in nature and in the Cornell Insect Collection.

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

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

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

A&S Communications

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

Image of Kent Lynn Goetz

Kent Lynn Goetz

Professor Emeritus
Performing and Media Arts

Gold surface of a computer chip
Physics

DOE funds new research to advance computer chip technology

A&S Communications

Cornell researchers are part of a project to enable sustainable hardware for AI and quantum computing, one of 11 projects selected by DOE to receive a total of $73 million.

Image of Colin Behrens

Colin Behrens

Visiting Lecturer
Classics