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Climate

Dark comedy can lighten up fight against climate change

4/24/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In his new book, “Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change,” Aaron Sachs demonstrates how laughter can give strength even when things seem most hopeless.

Person wearing PPE holding two small, colorful birds — Chris Kitchen Zhilei Zhao and parrots

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow studies vocal learning in parrots

4/25/2023 A&S Communications

By studying the brain mechanisms of vocal learning in budgies, Zhilei Zhao explores how social learning is implemented in the brain.

An artist's drawing of a head with a clock and cogs inside, with a fly buzzing past. — Changfan Lin

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

New research sheds light on how circadian rhythms work

4/26/2023 Cornell Chronicle

… be tricky, as every protein is different, and we have to optimize for specific samples, which can be time-consuming …

Daniela Paola Alchapar/Unsplash Colorful tropical garden in the Caribbean

Comparative Literature

Recent alumna awarded Bernheimer Prize

4/25/2023 A&S Communications

Hannah Cole, Ph.D. '20, has been awarded this year’s Bernheimer Prize for her dissertation, “A Thorny Way of Thinking: Botanical Afterlives of Caribbean Plantation Slavery.”

man with video camera and another man with headphones — Provided Behind the scenes of “We Love We Self Up Here.” Cornell students Austin Lillywhite (left) and Afifa Ltifi (slightly visible besides) with filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam.

Comparative Literature

Film co-produced by Natalie Melas wins award

4/25/2023 A&S Communications

The Award for Film and Video from the Society of Architectural Historians has been given to the film “We Love We Self Up Here.”

Student experiences

Ask our ambassadors: My favorite memories

4/25/2023 A&S Student Ambassador

I could yell, celebrate, and parade around campus with the rest of the crowd, because, in that moment, I realized that I was one of them: I was a Cornell student.

TV screen, socked feet on a coffee table

Economics

‘Cheap thrills’: Low-cost leisure leads to less work, more play

4/24/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers found that people today work substantially less than they did generations ago because of virtually unlimited cheap entertainment increasingly at their fingertips.

two people dragging lobster traps — Anthony Lopardo Students Kevin Souhrada and Lindsay Manos drag lobster traps away from the shoreline on Cuttyhunk Island in Massachusetts.

Student experience

Students’ island clean-up trip inspires multimedia projects

4/24/2023 A&S Communications

Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.

Literature and climate change

Book goes underground to find how climate change shapes stories

4/21/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Prof. Karen Pinkus confronts the global threat of climate change by using select literary works from the 19th century.

History

Noted life of an “Atlantic Creole” focus of Becker Lectures

4/24/2023 A&S Communications

This year's Carl Becker Lectures, April 25-27, will illuminate the extraordinary life of Captain Francisco Menéndez.

Student experiences

Ask our Ambassadors: Finding Plato on the Arts Quad

4/24/2023 A&S Student Ambassador

It is within these halls, these classrooms, where I feel that I am benefitting from centuries of critical thought, deep questions and explorations into finding meaning in the human experience.

Museum display of a nude sculpture, cases of objects and a quote on the wall — Provided An exhibition focused on Pliny the Elder at Cornell’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Humanities

Museum exhibit illuminates Pliny’s study of art, nature

4/20/2023 Cornell Chronicle

… we are particularly pleased that Pliny’s big anniversary coincides with our 50th anniversary celebration of the … medieval manuscripts and early printed books, ancient coins and gems, insects and other natural specimens, and …

an orchestra and a chorus on a stage — Cornell Department of Music’s Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra

Music

Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule

4/19/2023 A&S Communications

Music department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.

Artful illustration featuring a bird's next filled with orange paint

Society for the Humanities

Year of ‘Repair’ ends with research conference at Society for the Humanities

4/19/2023 A&S Communications

The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.

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.”

Rural humanities

‘Out Here’ film event shines light on rural LGBTQ life

4/18/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A trio of short films showing the pleasures – and perils – of rural life for LGBTQ+ people will show April 26 as part of the Rural Humanities Initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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