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Oil painting of a person in robes at a desk, holding a flaming heart — Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 78.74 × 62.23 cm Saint Augustine, oil on canvas by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645–50

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow traces ideas of slavery from ancient Rome to upstate NY

6/9/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Toni Alimi’s book project, “Slaves of God,” delves deep into the Augustine cannon, explaining the philosopher’s reasons for justifying slavery.

A stately government building under a partly cloudy sky

Democracy in the U.S.

Jan. 6 hearings: What’s missing are key White House witnesses

6/9/2022 A&S Communications

As the House Committee charged with investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol prepares to hold the first of several hearings on June 9, Doug Kriner and Steve Israel share from their recent poll designed to measure public opinion of election reforms.

Alumni

Chris Pavone ’89 Pens Globe-Trotting Tales Packed with Twists and Turns

6/8/2022 Cornellians

The bestselling author’s latest thriller follows a heroine with a secret past—and a kidnapped husband.

Person casts a net from a canoe on a calm lake — Hennie Stander/Unsplash Fishermen on Lake Victoria in Uganda

Graduate student research

Two Doctoral Students Receive Africa Fund Fellowships

6/6/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

Angela Nankabirwa, doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology, will collect and analyze harmful algal bloom samples taken from Africa’s Lake Victoria.

Person staning inside a room with a book shelf — Cornell University file photo In a 2005 file photo, Epoch editor Michael Koch, standing, reviews fiction and poetry submissions in the Epoch Magazine office with creative writing graduate students Douglas Mitchell M.F.A ’07 and Stephanie Gehring M.F.A ’07.

Creative Writing Program

Michael Koch, Epoch editor, remembered for ‘quiet grace’

6/7/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Koch’s expertise made a mark on American literature and influenced writers who went on to publish bestselling and prize-winning works of fiction and poetry.

Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Michael Lee

6/7/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

"As a poet with the heart of a historian, I’m interested in attending to the interrelated histories of European colonialism and industrial warfare through the lyric."

Map of North and Central America, made of flag colors — Geography and Space/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Flag map of Central America and North America

International relations

In blow to U.S. diplomacy, Mexican president skips key regional summit

6/6/2022 A&S Communications

The Summit of the Americas, taking place this week in Los Angeles, typically represents an opportunity for leaders to move their agendas forward.

Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Germán Reyes

6/6/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral candidate in economics from Argentina, Reyes studies how test-score gaps eventually lead to income inequality.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Song Lin wins EPA Green Chemistry Challenge award

6/6/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Lin's new process uses readily available substances and inexpensive electrodes to create the large and complicated molecules widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Sociology

Sociology department unveils new augmented reality window

6/3/2022 A&S Communications

The AR redesign of a display in Uris Hall was a collaborative exploration involving student researchers, staff and faculty.

Barn-like building with open doors, lit within — Provided The Soil Factory, a large, unremarkable warehouse on the southern edge of Ithaca, has become a collaboration center in 2021 for students, scientists, artists, community members and everyone in between.

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Tear down academic silos: Take an ‘undisciplinary’ approach

6/2/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A new Cornell study suggests that solving societal problems such as climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers from varying disciplines could work together collaboratively.

American studies

The ‘great replacement’ theory rises again, ending in tragedy

6/2/2022 The Washington Post

History shows that ethnic and racial diversity has proved to be renewal, not replacement, writes Glenn Altschuler in Washington Post commentary.

Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Esther Kondo Heller

6/1/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

With a research travel grant, Heller will go to Nairobi this summer to research an archive of interviews with the Taarab musician Sitara Bute.

astronaut with Spacetrain written on sky

Staff remembrances

Posthumous album brings Cornell staffer’s music to life

6/2/2022 A&S Communications

An album featuring the work of Daniel Gaibel, former information technology manager for the Language Resource Center (LRC), will debut this weekend at the Ithaca Festival.

Three people in a sunny room with yellow walls — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Student documentarians Milan Taylor, Adele Williams and Justice Hoff at Loving House.

LGBTQ studies

Student films document Cornell’s LGBTQ history

6/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The film projects for the introductory class, which draws students from all of Cornell’s schools and colleges, celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cornell’s LGBT Studies Program.

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