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Esther Kondo Heller
Esther Kondo Heller
Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Esther Kondo Heller

Cornell University Graduate School

With a research travel grant, Heller will go to Nairobi this summer to research an archive of interviews with the Taarab musician Sitara Bute.

astronaut with Spacetrain written on sky
Staff remembrances

Posthumous album brings Cornell staffer’s music to life

A&S Communications

An album featuring the work of Daniel Gaibel, former information technology manager for the Language Resource Center (LRC), will debut this weekend at the Ithaca Festival.

Three people in a sunny room with yellow walls
Noël Heaney/Cornell University Student documentarians Milan Taylor, Adele Williams and Justice Hoff at Loving House.
LGBTQ studies

Student films document Cornell’s LGBTQ history

Cornell Chronicle

The film projects for the introductory class, which draws students from all of Cornell’s schools and colleges, celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cornell’s LGBT Studies Program.

Two people study at a table, seen from above
Jason Koski/Cornell University Students work in the Physical Sciences Building
Undergraduate research

A Big Red Undergraduate Journal

Cornell Research

Victoria Alkin gathered a team of students and supporters to create CURJ, a publication dedicated to research by Cornell undergraduates.

Person leading a singing group in a chapel
Ryan Young / Cornell University
Alumni

The University Chorus Makes Beautiful Music

Cornellians

Originally known as the Women’s Glee Club, the group will celebrate its centennial at Reunion ’22.

Drawing of exoplanet
Undergraduate research

Peering through alien atmospheres

Cornell Research

Jonathan Barrientos is exploring the possibility of life on Earth-like planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets.

J Nation blowing on an instrument made out of long white pipes, with a yellow balloon attached
Provided Cornell Physics junior J Nation performing on their balloon-powered “foghorgan.”
Education Innovation

Instrument-building festival challenges, inspires

Cornell Chronicle

Hosted by the Cornell ReSounds Project, the FutureSounds Festival featured guest builders and performers as well as newly designed instruments and compositions by Cornell students.

The three researchers are sitting around a desk and Ailong Ke is pointing to an image of the IscB molecule on the computer screen.
Provided From left to right: Chunyi Hu, Gabriel Schuler and Ailong Ke.
Nanoscience

Discovery offers starting point for better gene-editing tools

Cornell Chronicle

“Transposons are specialized genetic hitchhikers, integrating into and splicing out of our genomes all the time...by defining these enzymes in high resolution, we can tap into their powers.”

Ray Jayawardhana
College leadership

Jayawardhana reappointed A&S dean, named Bethe professor

Cornell Chronicle

“Dean Jayawardhana has been an exceptional leader of the university’s most academically diverse college,” Provost Michael Kotlikoff said.

three students chatting
Simon Wheeler Milstein seniors gathered for a reception and dinner with faculty, staff and other mentors on May 4.
Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

First class of Milstein students heads toward graduation

A&S Communications

… the world, and when you have a group of people working together to solve an issue, humanities becomes increasingly … the Milstein program is a great way to help you get your feet wet and to have access to technology, to play …

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Student success

Cornell celebrates bumper crop of Fulbright students

Cornell Chronicle

Seven 2021 graduates and recent Cornell alumni accepted Fulbright U.S. Student awards to research, study or teach English during the 2021-22 academic year, 15 were chosen for 2022-23.

woman outside
Provided Najva Akbari, an optics expert in the lab of Chris Xu in the College of Engineering.
Neurotechnology

Mong fellowship advances neuroimaging collaboration

A&S Communications

Their work could have future implications for human health, setting a path for research into understanding brain function.

Wei Wang, in a blue shirt and black plastic-framed glasses, sits in a lab looking at an instrument while he adjusts another instrument with his right hand.
Noël Heaney/Cornell University Doctoral student Wei Wang of the Itai Cohen Group helped design an artificial cilial system using platinum-based components that can control the movement of fluids at the microscale.
Physics

Artificial cilia could someday power diagnostic devices

Cornell Chronicle

The technology could enable low-cost, portable diagnostic devices for testing blood samples, manipulating cells or assisting in microfabrication processes.

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Graduate student spotlight

Student Spotlight: Tessy Schlosser

Cornell University Graduate School

Tessy Schlosser is a doctoral candidate in government from Mexico City, Mexico.

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Government

Where red and blue meet: cancel culture, fair elections

Cornell Chronicle

A new survey of American voters finds glimmers of hope that Democrats and Republicans can agree on steps needed to shore up an increasingly shaky democracy.