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Jack Bryant

Visiting Associate Professor
Performing and Media Arts

… has worked professionally in both feature film and video game production. His films have screened theatrically, both … on screenwriting, film and television history, video game development, and film production at institutions like … has worked professionally in both feature film and video game production. His films have screened theatrically, both …

Ben Frahm

Visiting Assistant Professor
Performing and Media Arts

Illustration of a light bulb against a yellow, blue and red background — Caitlin Cook/Cornell University

Alumni

These alums are so inventive, they're in the hall of fame!

2/7/2025 Cornellians

Cornellians are a creative bunch—and like Ezra himself, many have used their know-how and initiative to make a difference.

Illustration of an adult holding a baby, both with speech balloons — Caitlin Cook/Cornell University

Psychology

Power of babble: Babies elicit simpler speech from adults

2/6/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech in response to babies’ babbling and early speech, supporting language development, new Cornell research finds.

Four young ice hockey players, skating — April Walker/Unsplash

Philosophy

Cornell expert: Anti-trans executive order belies unfounded moral panic

2/6/2025 Arts & Sciences Communications

Wednesday's executive order prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports discriminates not only against transgender people, but also against women, says philosophy professor Kate Manne.

promotional poster showing a blue ball marked with black cross-hatches and the words "Media Objects — The World According to Sound “Media Objects,” a podcast collaboration between Cornell media experts and sound artists The World According to Sound, begins Feb. 6.

Media Studies

Media Objects podcast releases 'sonic essays' based at Cornell

2/6/2025 A&S Communications

The series features the voices and research of 13 Cornell faculty members, more than half from A&S.

Classics

Frederick Ahl, innovative classics scholar, dies at 83

2/5/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A scholar of Greek and Roman epic and drama and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome, Ahl was a member of the Cornell faculty for more than 52 years.

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Distinguished Visiting Journalist

NBC News’ Anne Thompson named Distinguished Visiting Journalist

2/5/2025 Cornell Chronicle

… has been named the spring 2025 Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts and Sciences. … Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences. “The Distinguished Visiting Journalist program enables us to bring renowned … fuel vehicles; identity theft; and the politics of the credit card industry. She also covered the trials of Martha …

Two people on a tarmack facing a plane. They're wearing shirts with "USAID" written across the back — Sgt. Corban Lundborg/U.S. Air Force Photo USAID workers in Beira, Mozambique in 2019

Government

Dismantling of USAID will have “clear costs at home and abroad”

2/5/2025 A&S Communications

Such a retreat from current U.S. commitments dangerously disrupts protections to life and liberty, says Rachel Beatty Riedl, professor of government and director of Cornell University’s Center on Global Democracy.

History of Art and Visual Studies

Dadi leads Climate Congress symposium with Getty Foundation grant

2/4/2025 A&S Communications

The conference, in Lahore, Pakistan, featured more than thirty guest scholars, curators, artists, and other practitioners and twenty-seven emerging scholars.

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Psychology

Short and sweet: Supportive texts give partners a boost

2/3/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Supportive texts from a significant other can help people cope with stressful events in their daily lives, Cornell psychology research finds.

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History

U.S.-Canada relationship entering ‘sad chapter’

2/3/2025 A&S Communications

The U.S. president's collective actions against Canada have needlessly harmed a long-cherished and close relationship says Jon Parmenter, a professor of North American history.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Benjamin Widom, influential physical chemist, dies at 97

1/31/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Benjamin Widom, Ph.D. ’53, Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Jan. 23 in Ithaca. He was 97.

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Klarman Fellows

New Klarman Fellows to join the College of Arts and Sciences

2/4/2025 A&S Communications

Fellows will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.

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Alumni authors

Your January 2025 reads

1/30/2025 Cornellians

This month’s featured titles – most by A&S authors – include a work of nonfiction about honeybees, a kids’ picture book, and a novel set in rural Nova Scotia.