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Creative writing

MFA graduate earns accolades for young adult novels

A&S Communications

The books tell the stories of teens who meet on the public courts of Oakland, Calif. and come together to form an improbably competitive basketball team.

Performing and Media Arts

Winners of playwriting contest honored Friday

A&S Communications

Winners of the Heermans-McCalmon Playwriting Contest will be showcased Friday during an event at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.Staged readings of first-place winner Molly Karr’s ‘18 screenplay “Whole Hearted” and Aleksej Aarsaether’s ‘17 play, “The Diary of an American Girl” will be presented at 4:30 p.m. in the Class of ‘56 Dance Theatre. Aarsaether also won an honorable mention in the screenwriting category.

Education Innovation

$2.7 million grant expands Arts & Sciences Active Learning Initiative

Arts & Sciences Communications

Six new projects will be launched in music, classics, economics, mathematics, physics and sociology.

Romance studies

Traverso says left must mourn defeats to move forward

A&S Communications

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of real socialism and the Cold War, but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since.

Asian studies

Asian Studies alum shares passion with Utah students

A&S Communications

The language requirement in the College of Arts & Sciences helped ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball ’05 discover a culture that’s become her life’s work.Lowey-Ball, who came to Cornell with interests in physics and cognitive science, was already fluent in French, so she decided to venture in a completely different direction to fulfill her language requirement — Indonesian.

Anthropology

Lessons we can learn from an exchange of dolls

Arts & Sciences Communications

In reaction to the current immigration ban, Hirokazu Miyazaki, professor of anthropology, writes this opinion piece in the Japan Times, telling the story of Sidney Gulick, who, frustrated with the immigration ban of 1924, decided to turn his attention to the next generation.

Environment & Sustainability

Renewable fuels alone can't stop climate change

A&S Communications

In discussions about climate change, many people seem to think the only real problem is replacing fossil fuels, and once that’s done nothing much really needs to change. “That’s not only false, it’s a really dangerous way of thinking,” said Karen Pinkus, professor of Romance studies and comparative literature in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Classics

Renowned Vatican Latinist joins classics faculty

A&S Communications

'I had the unique experience of writing (and speaking) Latin day and night for a decade,' Dan Gallagher says.

Music

CU Winds completes tour of Haiti, Dominican Republic

Cornell Chronicle

Fifty student musicians traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on a tour that was “genuinely transformative."

Rocky landscape of Mars
Astronomy

Scientists puzzled over lack of carbonate on Mars

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists can’t quite reconcile the carbon dioxide amounts on Mars today from epochs gone by.

English

A scholar's voice

Cornell Research

Atop a cabinet, leaning against a wall of Dagmawi Woubshet’s office, is an enlarged framed cover of the May 17, 1963, issue of TIME magazine. Its portrait of writer James Baldwin stares into the room. Woubshet, associate professor of English, gestures to it several times as he talks about his research.

Creative Writing

NYT reviews debut novels for A&S alums

Arts & Sciences Communications

Two Arts & Sciences alumni were honored with reviews of their debut novels in the Jan. 29 New York Times Book Review.The novels of Sana Krasikov ’01, winner of the 2009 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and Lydia Peelle ’00, author of the short story collection “Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing,” were both reviewed in the recent issue.

The Beauty of Cornell: "In the middle of nowhere, but in the middle of everything"

In this last "Cornell Love" post, junior Jendayi describes two of her favorite places on Cornell's campus - one of which is quite literally off the beaten path! By: Jendayi Brooks-Flemister '18

Physics

The fun - and merit - of collaborative physics

Cornell Research

Like all researchers, Itai Cohen, Physics, has a lot of questions. But unlike many, his questions make big, topical leaps. From fruit flies to mosh pits, from origami to cartilage—Cohen dreams of preventing stampedes in Mecca, understanding the complex neuromechanics of fruit fly flight, and making self-folding robots from a single sheet of atoms. How can all this happen in one lab? Well, the answer is: it doesn’t.

History

Campus group creates a different kind of writing community

A&S Communications

“My name’s Ishmael, what’s yours?” -- or would “Call me Ishmael” better open a narrative about whaling? Tone, diction, style: these are the kinds of questions Cornell’s Historians Are Writers! (HAW) grapple with in their meetings.