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View of a city at dawn — Christoph Theisinger/Unsplash Colombo, Sri Lanka

Asian Studies

Protests in Sri Lanka unprecedented, unlikely to fade away

4/28/2022 A&S Communications

Pressure on the current government has not lessened, says Daniel Bass, manager of the South Asia Program and adjunct assistant professor of Asian studies.

Campus buildings and pink blossoms on trees

Student honors

Three students in STEM win 2022 Goldwater Scholarships

4/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A sophomore and a two juniors have won Goldwater Scholarships, the top undergraduate award for students pursuing careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Jeffrey Backus, ’23 and Abhi Sarma ’24, both in the College of Arts and Sciences,

Person carries a heavy cement block around a wall — Courtesy of the artist Lin Yilin, Safely Maneuvering Across Lin He Road, 1995, performance, 90 min, Guangzhou.

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow Nancy P. Lin interprets urban on-site art

4/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Focusing on Chinese contemporary art, Lin brings her fascination with urban spaces to her work as an art historian.

above-ground pipeline extends across a rugged landscape

Eurpoean economy

Russian gas threat could force European economy to reform

4/27/2022 A&S Communications

Cristina Florea provides a historical perspective on energy and economic development.

Undergraduate research

First cohort of A&S Nexus Scholars chosen for summer research positions

4/27/2022 A&S Communications

Fifty undergrads in the College of Arts & Sciences will take part in paid research projects in Ithaca this summer with faculty from throughout the College.

Illustration of a telescope in space — NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope

Astronomy research

Glowing Planets and Chemical Fingerprints

4/26/2022 Cornell Research

Nikole Lewis will be one of the first to characterize distant exoplanets using infrared data from the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope.

Student experiences

Student veteran Roland Molina continues to serve

4/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

As a student at Cornell and president of the Cornell Undergraduate Veterans Association, Molina has dedicated himself to strengthening the veteran community on campus.

Banners flying outside a stately building

International relations

Russia and Ukraine peace talks likely have nothing to do with ‘peace’

4/23/2022 CNBC

As peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine appear to be proceeding in fits and starts, Barry Strauss, writes that history shows that such talks are a way station to the real arena: the battlefield.

Eight people arranged in a circle; an artistic black and white photo — Cornell Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University Library Jessica Tanzer's photo of dancers from The Box, an all-genders queer nightclub in San Francisco.

LGBTQ celebration

Talks mark exhibits, campus LGBTQ milestones

4/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The “Radical Desire” symposium April 27 to 28 brings pioneering lesbian feminist scholars, publishers, and photographers to speak at Cornell.

Report cover: "Bipartisan Policy Review" — Natalie Kimbrough/Cornell

Foreign policy

Bipartisan Policy Review spotlights U.S. foreign policy options

4/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The annual publication, now in its third edition, is produced by the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy to "give voice to policy insights that are often drowned out in the partisan echo chamber.”

People in a subway car, Moscow — Sasha Matveeva/Unsplash People riding the Moscow subway

International conflict

Biden admin rhetoric strengthens Russian propaganda about U.S.

4/25/2022 A&S Communications

Majorities in Russia, going back to the 1990s, have consistently believed Russia has reason to fear Western NATO countries, says professor Brynn Rosenfeld, who studies post-communist politics and public opinion.

Thousands of people stroll up a wide avenue lined with red, white and blue flags

European politics

Despite election loss, Marine Le Pen influence in France to continue

4/25/2022 A&S Communications

This was Le Pen’s third try for the Presidency, professor Mabel Berezin points out, and in every try she gains more votes.

Person wearing graduation cap, seen from the back

Sociology

Girls raised by Jewish parents more likely to graduate college

4/22/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers from Cornell, Tulane and Stanford universities concluded that girls raised by at least one Jewish parent acquire a particular way of viewing the world that influences their education choices, career aspirations and various other experiences.

Cornell University file photo A.R. Ammons

Poetry

‘Ammons & the Falls’ highlights poet’s ties to Ithaca landscape

4/21/2022 Cornell Chronicle

… poets like Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore were to the first half.” …

Wheat field under a clear sky — Melissa Askew/Unsplash Wheat, a sanctioned Russian export

International relations

Don’t Expect Sanctions To Win the Ukraine War

Wall Street Journal

The outcome of sweeping Western sanctions on Russian has proven as difficult to predict as that of the war itself, Nicolas Mulder writes.

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