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Person in red jacket speaks to a full auditorium — Sreang Hok/Cornell University Corey Earle teaches in spring 2023

Alumni

From corks to Corey to the cosmos: The Hill’s most ‘legendary’ courses

5/9/2023 Cornellians

Cornellians offers a (not-at-all-comprehensive) roundup of quintessentially Cornellian classes—and invites you to weigh in!

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Student achievement

Cornellians named Schwarzman, Goldwater and Udall scholars

5/8/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Three students and a recent graduate have won national scholarships that will prepare them for future global leadership and careers in STEM and public service.

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Graduate student research

Two doctoral students selected as Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows

5/8/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

The fellowships will provide a stipend as well as funding for research and other activities.

Extraordinary Journeys

'Tackling Japanese was one of the most rewarding academic experiences I have had'

5/15/2023

Margaret Kops Kuveke is a psychology and French major.

Alumni

Alum aimed for zero waste—and wrote a book about it

5/8/2023 Cornellians

… and Year of No Clutter (2017). “I have this real stubborn optimism. I always feel like there’s a way—and if I could …

Extraordinary Journeys

'I learned it's possible to impact systems and structures that appear out of reach'

5/15/2023

Prameela Kottapalli is a College Scholar, government & feminist, gender and sexuality studies major.

Michelle Wang, next to a microscope and with dangling wires and equipment behind her — Robert Barker, Cornell University Michelle Wang

Honors

Physics professor elected to National Academy of Sciences

5/3/2023 Cornell Chronicle

… A soil scientist, a virologist, a molecular biologist and a … Hyde Bailey Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science Soil and Crop Sciences Section, in the College of …

Government

Vaccine campaign research highlights the power of individual self-interest

5/5/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers Sarah Kreps and Douglas Kriner surveyed residents of Italy who went unvaccinated, despite strong government policies and penalties.

Two small flags on a table top — Sgt. Mikki L. Sprenkle/U.S. Army Photo

U.S.-China relations

Even China isn’t convinced it can replace the U.S.

5/4/2023 New York Times

Ideology in China is itself malleable, rather than a rigid cage that determines policy, government professor Jessica Chen Weiss writes in a New York Times opinion.

Person leaning against a wall, holding a violin — Provided Violinist Maria Ioudenitch

Music

Mayfest chamber music festival returns to Ithaca May 19-23

5/5/2023 A&S Communications

… and new collaborators for five world-class concerts May 19-23. … and new collaborators for five world-class concerts May 19-23 , featuring works from Mozart to Messiaen and Arensky to … of Time. Finally, the festival concludes on Tuesday, May 23 at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall with Schubert’s Sonatina No. …

Bright pink circle shot through with blue against a black background — NASA/CXC/SAO/IXPE This image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, the first object observed by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite, combines some of the first X-ray data collected by IXPE, shown in magenta, with high-energy X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in blue. The satellite later detected polarized X-rays from 4U 0142+61, a highly magnetized neutron star located in the Cassiopeia constellation.

Astronomy

Neutron star’s X-rays reveal ‘photon metamorphosis’

5/4/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Scientists were surprised when a NASA satellite detected that lower- and higher-energy X-rays were polarized differently, with electromagnetic fields oriented at right angles to each other.

Extraordinary Journeys

'The pandemic served as a reminder to focus on the present'

5/15/2023

Lirong Yao is a computer science major.

Extraordinary Journeys

'I've realized that no idea or dream is too big.'

5/15/2023

Syrielle Clement is a sociology major.

Extraordinary Journeys

'I'm interested in topics that relate math and computer science to climate and ecology'

5/15/2023

… two teammates, I worked over the course of a weekend to optimize a food distribution schedule for a mobile food … computer science to climate and ecology. I studied how to optimize wind turbine placement, developed a method to help …

Extraordinary Journeys

'Cornell not only permits but rewards a wide curiosity'

5/15/2023

Daniel Kim is a religious studies and chemistry major.

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