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Performing and media arts

PMA presents event with John Cameron Mitchell

Department of Performing & Media Arts

Mitchell is best known as the writer/director/star of the rock musical and film “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”

Max Bohun ’25
Provided Max Bohun ’25 pitches AI teaching assistant GradeWiz, a startup he co-founded with Aman Garg ’25, last March at the 2024 eLab Student Startup Showcase at San Francisco’s Autodesk Gallery
Computer science

Student startup pilots AI grading assistant, joins Y Combinator

Cornell Chronicle

GradeWiz, an artificial-intelligence teaching assistant founded by Cornell undergraduates Max Bohun ’25 and Aman Garg ’25, has been accepted into startup accelerator Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 Batch.

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Rachel Philipson Cheryl Einhorn visits with students as they brainstorm solutions during her talk.
Alumni visits

Students gain decision-making insight from alumna Cheryl Einhorn

A&S Communications

“If you’re outside of your comfort zone, then you’re on the right track."

U.S. Capital
Government

Budget plan: ‘Long and extremely divisive process’ ahead for Republicans

A&S Communications

With House Republicans narrowly pushing through a budget plan, the strain on an already strained federal workforce could get worse, says government scholar David Bateman.

Fritz Breithaupt
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Cognitive science + literary studies

University Lecture examines ‘The Narrative Brain’

Cornell Chronicle

Our minds and the ways we tell stories are closely attuned, research shows, and scholar Fritz Breithaupt will explore how that connection works during a March visit as University Lecturer.

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Public engagement

War, love and loyalty: The ‘Iliad’ in Ithaca on March 12-13

A&S Communications

An event with translator Emily Wilson and a daylong community reading of portions of Homer’s epic poem highlighted the Arts Unplugged event.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University 2024 George Peter Award winner Sarah Albrecht, administrative manager of the Science and Technology Studies Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, embraces Suman Seth, the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of The History of Science and chair of the department, at the Feb. 24 award ceremony.
Staff award

Science and Technology Studies manager wins George Peter Award

Cornell Chronicle

For her skilled management and healthy sense of humor, Sarah Albrecht, administrative manager of the Science and Technology Studies Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, received the Employee Assembly’s 2024 George Peter Award for Dedicated Service.

Arthur Mintz '71
Ryan Young/Cornell University Mintz in the officials’ box at Lynah Rink
Alumni

Meet the voice of Big Red men's ice hockey (and football!)

Cornellians

For decades, Arthur Mintz ’71, a math major on the Hill who also studied computer science, has served as the PA announcer for both teams—making him a Cornell sports icon in his own right.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University The Arts Quad in winter
Alumni authors

Your February 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include books by A&S faculty and alumni: poetry, a kids’ book about Bali, and a short story collection.

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Provided Don Stanton '72 as an ensign on a destroyer in 1973
Alumni

How Naval ROTC shaped my years on the Hill, and beyond

Cornellians

It wasn’t easy being in uniform during the Vietnam War era, but military service made Don Stanton '72 a better student—and a better man, he writes in a Chime In essay for Cornellians

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Mary Loeffelholz

Dean, School of Continuing Education
American Studies Program, Literatures in English

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Ken Yanagisawa/Provided The Cornell Orchestras perform in Jordan Hall during their Boston tour last January.
Music and astronomy

Concert celebrates the wonders of space March 2

A&S Communications

In a musical journey through the cosmos, the Cornell Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of “Ex Terra, Ad Astra,” a new work commissioned especially for this year’s Young Person’s Concert.

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eCornell Behind the scenes of a live session on sustainable lifestyles, with producer Chris Wofford (left) and econ professor Michèle Belot.
Alumni

Gain knowledge from Big Red experts—without leaving home

Cornellians

The University’s online learning platform, eCornell, offers a dizzying variety of content; here’s a sampling, from AI to wines to real estate.

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Ukraine

After three years of war in Ukraine, Cornell experts assess endgame

A&S Communications

On he third anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Cornell University experts discuss sanctions and the state of US and European support for Ukraine.

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Research

Roundtable to consider ‘Science Under Siege’

Cornell Chronicle

The Feb. 28 event will provide a forum for scientists, social scientists and humanities scholars to discuss challenges to research support in response to recent major changes to federal funding.