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Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Oona Cullen

9/24/2024 Cornell University Graduate School

Oona Cullen, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature with minors in feminist, gender, and sexuality studies and media studies, studies questions of embodiment, narrative, and form as they relate to experiences of race and gender.

Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Susannah Sharpless

9/24/2024 Cornell University Graduate School

Susannah Sharpless, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature, studies 19th century American literature with a focus on women writers and the sea.

Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Cameron Tardif

9/24/2024 Cornell University Graduate School

Cameron Tardif, a doctoral candidate in history studies sport as a space of race and power in 20th-century United States and Canada.

Students in front of Screen that says Cornell World Languages Day

Language Resource Center

World Languages Days opened to public this year

9/24/2024 A&S Communications

First-year World Languages Day is open to the public which brings a day filled with various activities.

Chris Kitchen Klarman Fellow Romina Wainberg

Klarman Fellows

Writing against productivity in Latin American fiction

9/25/2024 A&S Communications

Klarman Fellow Romina Wainberg is writing a book that explores how early Latin American novelists depicted the act of writing in their fiction, with a particular focus on fictional representations of the writing process.

Illustration of a brain against a purple and blue background — Milad Fakurian/Unsplash

Neurobiology and Behavior

Psychedelics excite cells in hippocampus to reduce anxiety

9/24/2024 Cornell Chronicle

A classic psychedelic was found to activate a cell type in the brain of mice and rats that silences other neighboring neurons, providing insight into how such drugs reduce anxiety.

A few solders in camoflauge in a field — Defense Visual Information Distribution Service Ukrainian soldiers, training in Sept. 2024

International relations

Freeing Ukraine to hit targets deep in Russia likely won’t change tide of war

9/24/2024 A&S Communications

Cornell expert: “The center of gravity of this conflict is still in the east of Ukraine and Ukrainian disadvantages aren’t really going to be fixed by deep strikes inside of Russia."

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Postdoc spotlight: Alexandra Easley

9/23/2024 Cornell University Graduate School

Alexandra Easley is a postdoc in the department of chemistry and chemical biology; her research focuses on new approaches to carbon dioxide capture.

Five people standing in a line under a tree — Simon Wheeler for Cornell University The five 2024 Postdoc Achievement Award recipients, left to right: Jonathan Sogin, Ph.D. ’23; Andrew Orkney; Alexandra Easley; Reum Scott, Ph.D. ’19; and Sabrina Axster.

Graduate student honors

Five postdocs honored with achievement awards

9/23/2024 Cornell University Graduate School

The Postdoc Achievement Awards recognize individuals who have made contributions to community and show commitment to promoting inclusion at Cornell and in society.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Vaccine pioneer to give Racker Lecture Oct. 3

9/23/2024 A&S Communications

Peter Kim ’79 will explore how vaccines work and provide an overview of some of the most influential vaccines in history.

Government

Election forecasting topic of eCornell keynote address

9/23/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Peter Enns, professor in the Department of Government, will offer insights on the art and science of political forecasting and what his current forecast tells us about the 2024 election in an eCornell keynote address, Oct 1 at 2:30 p.m.

Five people wearing black pose against a blue and black background. They look forboding. — Lenny Gonzalez Splinter Reeds

Music

Splinter Reeds on campus as Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble

9/23/2024 A&S Communications

The West Coast's first reed quintet will come to campus Sept. 30 – Oct. 4 as the new Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble, hosted by the Department of Music.