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Performing & Media Arts & English

Edy Kennedy: 'Be brave enough to stay exactly as and where you are'

Edy Kennedy Performing & Media Arts Blackwood, NJ What was your favorite class and why? I loved Austin Bunn's Screen and Story: Script Analysis because it was the first class that made me watch movies in a way that I will never be able to unsee the process of production for the film.

Biological Sciences & Computer science

David Zhang: 'Cornell has taught me that anyone can make an impact'

David Zhang Biological Sciences Computer Science

Comparative Literature, French

Juliette Ovadia: 'Cornell is an academic community founded on tolerance and inclusion'

Juliette Ovadia​ Comparative Literature and French Chicago, Ill. Why did you choose Cornell?

Rays of Hope

Senior helps track COVID cases in Florida hometown

A&S Communications

As a college senior stuck home during quarantine with an interest in infectious diseases and past experience with the World Health Organization (WHO), Dalton Price ’20 thought it was completely obvious that he would sign up to help in any way he could during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Science & Technology Studies

Hilgartner to study global COVID-19 policies with NSF grant

Cornell Chronicle

The project aims to shed light on the relationship between expertise, trust and policymaking during the crisis.

Rays of Hope

Student team designs smart mask that monitors vital signs

Cornell Chronicle

In February, Longsha Liu ’21 was well aware that COVID-19 was coursing through China and around the world. His mother had been giving him regular updates about the virus’s spread in China, where most of his immediate family live – including his 77-year old grandmother, who continued to practice as a physician.

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.