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ROTC graduation

‘Stick to your values,’ general tells ROTC cadets

Cornell Chronicle

Tyler Barr learned about leadership under pressure while attending a summer program at officer candidate school as a midshipman in the Marine Corps ROTC program at Cornell.He called it “by far the most difficult six weeks of our lives,” as he recounted sleeping and eating very little while being pushed to his physical limits.

Africana Studies

Cornell’s first Africana studies Ph.D. among newest grads

Cornell Chronicle

Marsha Jean-Charles was 15 years old when she read a novel that would start her on the path to making Cornell history.“Breath, Eyes, Memory” is a semi-autobiographical novel by Edwidge Danticat. Like Jean-Charles, Danticat is Haitian-American and grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, a neighborhood known as Little Haiti.

My Favorite Class at Cornell

This week, Ambassador Eric writes about his favorite class at Cornell.By Eric Shen ’20 Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Music majors

Merrill Scholar thanks her high school teacher
Teaching excellence

Merrill scholars honor their mentoring teachers, professors

Cornell Chronicle

The arc of educational continuity and inspirational teaching was celebrated May 22 at the 31st annual Merrill Presidential Scholars convocation in Willard Straight Hall. Thirty-four seniors – among the very best of the Class of 2019 – honored beloved, guiding-light high school teachers and inspirational Cornell faculty members.

Humanities research

Undergrad humanities scholars present their research

Cornell Chronicle

Meredith Chagares ’19 began her senior thesis in history, literally, with a footnote – one that led her to do investigative work for “Anatomy of a Cover-Up: How and Why the United States Covered Up Japanese World War II Biological Warfare Experiments.”“I discovered about Japan’s experiments via a footnote while researching Nazi experiments,” she said.

Classics

Active learning connects past, present in new classics course

Cornell Chronicle

Active learning strategies transformed what could have been a class of slides and lectures this past semester into one in which students debated, created and thought critically about what statues mean, from antiquity to today.

College scholar program

College Scholars study AI, jury decisions, fake news and sonic meditations

A&S Communications

One of the true treasures of the college experience is the freedom to follow your curiosity and see where it takes you. In no major is this more encouraged than for College Scholars in the College of Arts & Sciences, who, as sophomores, propose a project that combines their varied interests and craft their college curriculum to follow those pathways.

Asian Studies

Army service leads to career in area studies

A&S Communications

Keith Taylor, professor of Asian Studies, celebrates his 50th anniversary as a U.S. Army veteran this Memorial Day, service to the country that determined his academic career.

Government, China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program

Weiss to Congress: Face China by strengthening democracy

Jessica Chen Weiss, associate professor of government, offered insights into China’s digital authoritarianism – and its surveillance, influence and political control – in testimony May 16 before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

History

History prof plays role in new Statue of Liberty Museum

A&S Communications

As a child, Maria Cristina Garcia’s family left Cuba for the United States to enjoy new freedoms that were lacking there. One of her first road trips as a new American was to see the Statue of Liberty and many of her photos from that trip show the statue in the background.

Government

Mettler selected as 2019 Radcliffe Institute fellow

Cornell Chronicle

Fresh off winning a Guggenheim fellowship, democracy scholar Suzanne Mettler, Ph.D. ’94, has just received another honor: a Radcliffe Institute fellowship.

Psychology

Grants fund 15 community-engaged research projects

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell student and faculty researchers and their community partners will use this year’s Engaged Cornell research grants to study Cornell’s socio-economic impact on Tompkins County, whether mobile research labs effectively engage underrepresented populations, and whether farmer-led research in Malawi influenced student learning and development.This year’s grants, 15 in all, were announced earlier this month by the Office of Engagement Initiatives.

Africana Studies and Research Center

Why, 65 years later, school segregation persists: New York City is a perfect case study

… writes in this NY Daily News piece  that New York City schools have not achieved the dream of Brown vs. Board of … busing, redrawing district lines or eliminating high-stakes admission tests. Parents who could afford to do so have also … Why, 65 years later, school segregation persists: New York City is a perfect case …

English

Morrison, architecture alumni honored by Arts and Letters academy

Cornell Chronicle

Writer Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, has been chosen to receive the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ highest honor for excellence in the arts. Three Cornell architecture alumni have also been named to receive 2019 Architecture Awards.Morrison earned the Gold Medal for Fiction. Two Gold Medals, in rotating categories in the arts, are awarded each year to those who have achieved eminence in an entire body of work.

Economics

Girls’ education suffers when high-achieving boys are peers

Cornell Chronicle

Boys, on the other hand, are not affected by high achievers of either gender.