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ADMISSIONS

Finding the right fit at Cornell

A&S Parent

As education reporters note each year, March and April are frenzied months for the parents of high school seniors.“I hear you,” is all I say when I’m with parents waiting out March. With some, I hold back, unsure about adding to the conversation.They are the tightly wound, and their talk is oddly anxious and hubristic: “Of course, they will accept her, how could they not?”

application season

"We are looking for students who would benefit from what this place has to offer.”

A&S Communications

Google “Ivy league admissions” and up will pop thousands of sites that list the GPA requirements, SAT scores and stellar list of activities a high school student needs to make their application stand out to admissions counselors. As admissions deadlines loom, these sites are getting more traffic than ever.

OUTREACH

Department outreach fuels passion for math

A&S Communications

… Mathematics … For many teenagers, math is just a necessary component of earning a high school diploma. For others, though, math is a passion, a destination in itself. Recognizing this, professors in the Department of Mathematics in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences have …

ENGLISH

Woubshet finds poetry amid loss in the early era of AIDS

Cornell Chronicle

Growing up in Ethiopia in the early 1980s and coming to the United States as a young teenager in 1989, Dagmawi Woubshet witnessed unprecedented expressions of mourning and loss in both countries in response to the AIDS crisis.

PIONEERS

Two researchers awarded Department of Defense grants

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists William Dichtel and Jiwoong Park have received Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards. The highly competitive program supports research teams working in more than one traditional science or engineering discipline to accelerate breakthroughs in basic research.This year, the DOD awarded 22 MURI grants totaling $149 million over the next five years.

CREATIVITY

Along with science, Cornellians produce science fiction, too

Cornell Chronicle

Next time you’re in a cocktail party discussion about science fiction, you’ll have a lot to brag about. The university has produced more than its share of notables in the field, including several mainstream names.

PIONEER

The College Years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a Founder of Queer Theory

A&S Communications

The advent of queer theory “caused a shock wave which has affected all intellectual disciplines,” as Didier Eribon, a leading French intellectual, once said. A look back at the undergraduate years of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, ‘71, a founder of queer theory, reveals a unique glimpse of where that shock wave first began.

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR

To hunt and eat, bats listen for signals in prey mating calls

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers find that bats listen in on katydid mating calls to locate their next meal.

RESEARCH

The Humble Pig

Mark Essig’s Lesser Beasts: A Snout to Tail History of the Humble Pig is an ambitious, free-ranging book. It draws not only on history, but also on anthropology, folklore, paleontology, archeology, sociology, contemporary food studies, and probably a dozen other disciplines to weave a compelling narrative that, while centered on the pig, explores less tangible, heavier stuff such as faith, taste, ethics, and status.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Polls produced by students reveal shifting attitudes

Cornell Chronicle

Polls produced by Cornell students reveal shifting liberal attitudes.

AFRICANA

Examining black 'transness' through contemporary media

Cornell Chronicle

For C. Riley Snorton, assistant professor of Africana studies and of feminist, gender and sexuality studies in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, winning a coveted National Endowment for the Humanities-Schomburg Center Scholar-in-Residence fellowship is the chance of a lifetime. He will examine a topic that has intrigued him since college, when he first self-identified as a transgender person – and write a book about it.

MUSIC

Graduate student Tonia Ko composes a soaring career

Cornell Chronicle

Graduate student Tonia Ko’s career as a young composer and artist has hit a new level, with several recent international honors, concert commissions and performance premieres, including a piece performed on bubble wrap.Ko, 26, was one of nine recipients of the 63rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards, held May 18 in New York City. The winners ranged in age from 14 to 26.

BIOLOGY

3-D scans of mating fruit flies uncover female biology

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have used cutting-edge X-ray technology to noninvasively image fruit flies during and after mating.

OUTREACH

Elementary school students dig archaeology

A&S Communications

Lori Khatchadourian teaches the Exploring Archaeology mini-course at the Elizabeth Anne Clune Montessori School of Ithaca.The week of June 15-19, professors Adam T. Smith, anthropology, and Lori Khatchadourian, Near Eastern studies, led a mini-course on archaeology at the Elizabeth Anne Clune Montessori School of Ithaca. Nine children ages 5-8 spent five mornings exploring aspects of archaeological research.

LINGUISTICS

Asian, European languages not so different under the hood

Cornell Chronicle

Editors and other language mavens have long recognized that sentences containing subject relative clauses – as in, “The man who called the woman is friendly” – are easier to understand than those containing object relative clauses, such as, “The man who the woman called is friendly.” And indeed, this observation is borne out in laboratory experiments with French, English, German and many other European languages.