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Creative Writing Program

Sigrid Nunez reading Nov. 7 concludes fall 2024 Zalaznick series

A&S Communications

“Sigrid Nunez’s novels meditate on life and the world with unfussy clarity and lightness. Today she is one of the most profound living American writers."

People with backpacks and jeans stand in front of a table, set outdoors, that's labeled "Cornell VOTES"
Jason Koski/Cornell University Students from the Cornell Policy Group, a nonpartisan student organization, help others register to vote on Ho Plaza.
Student life

Students look to cast their votes with enthusiasm – and nuance

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell students are preparing to vote, many for the first time, by engaging with ideas and conversing across differences.

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Faculty awards

University celebrates top faculty for outstanding teaching, mentoring

Cornell Chronicle

Eleven teaching faculty from across the university have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching, Interim President Michael I. Kotlikoff announced Oct. 22.

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Elizaveta Zabelina David Yearsley plays the Cornell Baroque Organ
Music

Handel’s greatest hits, reimagined for organ

Cornell Chronicle

David Yearsley, the Herbert Gussman Professor of Music, has configured some of George Frideric Handel’s greatest works into pieces for solo organ in his new album.

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Office of the Secretary of Defense The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK), also, North Korea, People's Army guards
International relations

North Korean troop deployment aimed at cementing alliance with Russia

A&S Communications

Cornell military expert says North Korea sending troops to Russia for for eventual deployment in Ukraine, if true, amounts to more of a political statement, than a military one.

Satellite images
Provided Satellite images used by the Caucasus Heritage Watch to discover the destruction of heritage sites.
Archaeology & Anthropology

Archaeology conference focuses on cultural erasure

A&S Communications

“Unearthing Unseeing: Archaeology, Heritage, and Forensics in the Shadow of State Violence” will highlight new approaches to cultural remains caught up in contemporary conflicts and past trauma.

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Photo by Sara Kurig on Unsplash
Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Art + tech exhibit looking for student work

A&S Communications

Submissions are due Oct. 31 and should combine art and technology in any way: video games, fashion, sculpture, graphic design, virtual reality, AI collaborations, performance, music, etc.

Goldwin Smith Stairs
Winter session

Winter Session 2025 registration is now open

Cornell Chronicle

Online Winter Session classes run January 2–18, 2025, including course offerings from economics and archaeology in A&S.

US Capitol building
Government & History

Belnick presidential forum focuses on election and democracy’s future

A&S Communications

Scheduled for Oct. 30 at 5 p.m. in Ives Hall, Room 305, the event is free and open to the public and a livestream is available.

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Provided Fall 2024 cohort of eLab
Entrepreneurship

eLab Welcomes 24 student startup teams to fall cohort

Entrepreneurship at Cornell

Twenty-four student teams, including several A&S students, have been selected for the Fall 2024 cohort of eLab, Cornell’s student startup accelerator.

Peter Lepage, wearing a black vest, stands in front of a large group of people assembled to talk about physics and honor his work
Csaba Csaki Attendees of LePageFest, Oct. 14-15, 2024
Physics

Two-day ‘LepageFest’ honors physicist and former dean of A&S

A&S Communications

The conference focused on the current status and future of heavy quark physics while highlighting the science Lepage has done throughout his career.

two people looking at sheet music that's sitting on a piano
Rulan Chao Pian Collection at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Chao discussing music with his daughter Rulan Chao Pian
Music & Asian studies

Events celebrate Chinese composer who also transformed language

A&S Communications

Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.

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Film students

Short films from PMA course selected for festivals

Department of Performing & Media Arts

Three short documentaries produced in a Rural Humanities Seminar, taught by PMA Associate Professor Austin Bunn, are headed to film festivals this fall.

Elijah Sheridan
Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Elijah Sheridan

Cornell University Graduate School

Elijah Sheridan, a doctoral student in physics from Lansing, Michigan, studies string theory under the guidance of Liam McAllister at Cornell.

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Government

Brooks students enjoy immersive experience at national conventions

Cornell Chronicle

This summer a group of seven Cornell students traveled with the Brooks School Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) director, former Congressman Steve Israel, and senior associate director, Erin King Sweeney, to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to get an inside look at these major political events.