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two woman standing at railing — Jesse Winter Natalie Arimah '19, left, and Jen Maclaughlin were able to connect this month at a student-alumni networking event in New York City.

Career development

Young alums find career support through A&S office

6/30/2023 A&S Communications

The College's Career Development staff have seen an increasing number of young alumni contacting career counselors for help.

illustration of gravitaional waves — NANOGrav/Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonnet The NANOGrav collaboration has found the first evidence for low-frequency gravitational waves permeating the cosmos. The finding was made possible with 15 years of pulsar observations that turned the Milky Way into a galaxy-sized gravitational wave detector.

Astronomy

After 15 years, gravitational waves detected as cosmic ‘hum’

6/29/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A 15-year collaboration in which Cornell astrophysicists have played leading roles has found the first evidence of gravitational waves slowly undulating through the galaxy.

Science and Technology Studies

Steven Jackson named vice provost for academic innovation

6/29/2023 Cornell Chronicle

“Teaching is at the center of what we do,” said Jackson, who has a with a dual appointment in the Department of Science and Technology Studies.

woman sitting on bench — Provided Olivia Ochoa enjoys a break in Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. She's working this summer with the Migration Policy Institute.

Student summer experiences

Students take on summer experiences with help from alumni

6/29/2023 A&S Communications

A total of 135 students in the College of Arts & Sciences are accessing the College’s Summer Experience Grants this year.

Black and white image of two people sitting on a bench, seen from behind — Marc A. Sporys/Unsplash A couple

Sociology

Spouses sharing friends may live longer after widowhood

6/28/2023 Cornell Chronicle

New Cornell sociology research: The “widowhood effect” – the tendency for married people to die in close succession – is accelerated when spouses don’t know each other’s friends well.

Book cover: Performing Prowess — An open access book, “Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present” published in May. A hardcover edition will be published in Thailand later this year.

History of Art and Visual Studies

Book on Southeast Asian art dedicated to professor

6/28/2023 A&S Communications

"Performing Prowess" traces the ways cultural forces of Hindu belief have persisted in Southeast Asia.

Person sitting on a stone wall, holding a guitar near trees — Chris Kitchen Michael Poll

Klarman Fellows

Poll arranges music for guitar to resonate with past and present

6/28/2023 A&S Communications

Through historical research and instrumental innovations – like playing on a seven-string guitar – Michael Poll has developed a framework to "translate" lute and violin pieces for guitar.

Person in the driver's seat of a pickup truck, seen through the back window — Provided A scene from Austin Bunn’s new short film “Campfire.”

Faculty excellence

PMA prof’s film wins top honors at three festivals

6/27/2023 A&S Communications

“Campfire,” an original short film by Associate Professor Austin Bunn, won the Provincetown International Film Festival’s "best queer short" award, making it eligible for an Academy Award nomination.

History

British adapted Mughal systems of justice to establish rule in India

6/26/2023 A&S Communications

… as well as several Persian treatises in which Indian officials tried to explain Mughal practices of governance to … to racialized practices of colonial governance. Company officials were constantly suspicious of Indian petitioners …

Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Elias Beltrán

6/20/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

Beltrán is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature from the Bronx, N.Y.

Illustration of three planets side-by-side — Carl Sagan Institute/R. Payne Artist impression showing the exoplanet LP 890-9c’s potential evolution from a hot Earth to a desiccated Venus.

Astronomy

Exoplanet may reveal secrets about the edge of habitability

6/21/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A recently discovered exoplanet may be key to solving how close a rocky planet can be to a star, and still sustain water and life.

Aerial view of the Arts Quad in the fall

Faculty excellence

A&S honors 23 faculty with endowed professorships

6/21/2023 A&S Communications

The professorships are possible because of generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.

Illustration of an enchanting city scene: buildings outlined in glowing lights that are reflected in a pool — Provided An illustration depicting Asakusa District in Tokyo, a thriving movie theater and entertainment area in early twentieth century Japan.

Asian Studies

Japanese poets open new ways of thinking about media

6/21/2023 A&S Communications

In new research, Andrew Campana examines cinema-centered poetry in Japan from the 1910s and 1920s, discovering the ways poetry chronicles lasting human impressions left by “new” media.

Five metal balls hang from wires in a frame — Engin Akyurt/Unsplash

Mathematics

Flow proof helps mathematicians find stability in chaos

6/20/2023 Quanta

Quanta Magazine profiles math professor Kathryn Mann for her contributions to a series of new papers describing elusive dynamical systems.

Philosophy

Political philosopher Richard Miller dies at 77

6/16/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Remembered as "a remarkable scholar and teacher, a true polymath," Miller was heralded for extending traditional boundaries of philosophy to incorporate the social sciences.

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