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Rays of Hope

Asian American communities strengthen ties while apart

Cornell Chronicle

Before the Ithaca campus closed in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, members of Cornell’s Asian American community enjoyed strong connections to each other.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Catherine Badding: 'My support network influenced my Cornell education the most'

Catherine Badding​ Chemistry & chemical biology State College, PA Why did you choose Cornell?

Anthropology & Archaeology

Brooke Laskowsky: 'I collected bioarchaeological data on a skeletal collection from two tomb sites in Peru'

Brooke Laskowsky​ Anthropology & Archaeology​ Deerfield, NH What was your favorite class and why? My favorite course that I have taken is ANTHR 4246: Human Osteology. This intensive laboratory course provided me with skills to conduct research in my favorite anthropological discipline, bioarchaeology, and provided a physical foundation for understanding the embodiment of illness and injury.

Biological Sciences

Austin Chiu: 'Advocate for your own learning and growth'

Austin Chiu​ Biological Sciences Las Vegas, Nv What are the most valuable skills you gained from your Arts & Sciences education? My coursework throughout the years, especially in the humanities, has better equipped me to think analytically about the world. My professors have been incredible mentors, encouraging me to develop a critical understanding of not only history, but also the production of knowledge itself.

Religious Studies & Asian Studies

Ana Penavić: 'My most treasured memory? Folk music on Sunday nights'

Ana penavic​ RELIGIOUS STUDIES & ASIAN STUDIES SMITHTOWN, NY Why did you choose Cornell?

English

Alumna receives Pulitzer’s newest prize, for audio reporting

Cornell Chronicle

Molly O’Toole ’09 was part of the “This American Life” reporting team that produced the November 2019 episode “The Out Crowd.”

English

Alumna honored with BBC award

A&S Communications

Christine “Xine” Yao, M.A. '13, Ph.D. '16, was named one of the 2020 BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinkers. The program, now in its 10th year, affords early career academics a platform to share their ideas via BBC Radio 3 and other outlets.  “It is an amazing opportunity to work with the BBC to share my expertise and hopefully provoke different ways of understanding the world,” Yao said.

Teaching Excellence

Teaching assistant award winners champion inclusivity

Cornell Chronicle

Doctoral students Sri Lakshmi Sravani Devarakonda and Cheyenne Peltier have been named winners of the 2019-20 Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Psychology

How people react to the threat of disease could mean COVID-19 is reshaping personalities

Houston Chronicle

In an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle, Vivian Zayas, professor of psychology, says the effects of the coronavirus pandemic will be imprinted on the personality of the United States for a long time.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi
English

Africans, African Americans, and the History of Slavery

Cornell Research

In his poetry, fiction and essays, and Mukoma Wa Ngugi, associate professor of English, asks why tensions endure between Africans and African Americans despite a history of common political struggle. In this Cornell Research article, he talks about his first encounters with what it meant to be Black in the United States——in his father’s library in Kenya, reading James Baldwin and Richard Wright and issues of Ebony and Jet.

History of Art & Visual Studies

Immersive calligraphy at the Johnson Museum

Cornell Chronicle

The monumental scroll stretches nearly 60 yards around the Bartels Gallery in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art – an immersive calligraphy experience by Tong Yang-Tze, one of Taiwan’s foremost calligraphers working today. The scroll’s subject – and title – is “Immortal at the River,” referencing a poem by 16th century Chinese poet Yang Shen.

Government

'Extraordinary uncertainty' for Brazil as Senate mulls aid package

A&S Communications

The COVID-19 virus arrived in Latin America later than Europe and the United States, but it is currently spreading across the region, with peaks expected to come later in May. Brazil, the continent’s most populous country, has the largest numbers of cases so far. This week, the country’s Senate is expected to vote on an economic package for states and cities to compensate for economic losses.

Performing and Media Arts

Student-run theater festival to appear online May 9

A&S Communications

Festival 24, the semiannual student-run theater festival from the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts, is launching online under a new title, Festival 24.0. The Festival, which is normally held at the beginning of each semester, will happen on Saturday, May 9, at 8:00 p.m. EST via Zoom to provide a performance opportunity for students while in-person theater events are suspended.

Rays of Hope

Timeout: students and young alumni reflect on life on pause

These young Cornellians are finding new sources of inspiration in everyday life.

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Long-dead stars can yield clues to life in the cosmos

Cornell Chronicle

The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets – particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs. The chemical properties of those far-off worlds could indicate that life exists there. To help future scientists make sense of what their telescopes are showing them, Cornell astronomers have developed a spectral field guide for these rocky worlds.