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Cornell alumna shapes future of media at NBCUniversal

12/15/2023 A&S Communications

When Ali Soong ‘16 goes to work each day at NBCUniversal, she uses various skills she acquired at Cornell.

A gold building foregrounded by rows of stalls and many parked motorcycles — Natasha Raheja/Provided In Jodhpur, India, computer typists offer services to migrants from stalls at the kutchery, an administrative maze housing hundreds of private vendors and dozens of government offices, pictured here in October 2019.

Anthropology

In India, computer typists embody ‘fuzzy’ nature of state borders

12/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

State borders are taken for granted as fixed, hard lines, but Natasha Raheja argues that crossing spaces are, in reality, expansive and indistinct.

A few musician rock out on a stage lit by yellow and purple spotlights — Provided This year’s most-read Chronicle story announced the return to Cornell of Dead & Company, which included members of the Grateful Dead, for a fundraising concert on May 8, benefiting Cornell’s 2030 Project and the nonprofit MusiCares.

In the news, 2023

The Dead rise: Cornell '77 tribute show among top stories of 2023

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

When Dead & Company came to Cornell in May for a benefit concert commemorating the Grateful Dead’s famed “Cornell ’77” show, it drew thousands to Barton Hall. The March announcement of the show was the most-viewed Chronicle story of 2023.

Government

Poverty is a political choice, Michener tells NYS Senate

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

On Dec. 12, Jamila Michener offered expert testimony during a New York State Senate committee hearing focused on the causes and effects of poverty in the state’s small and midsized cities.

Seven people cluster around a table holding wooden boxes of butterfly specimens — Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Students spent hours researching Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection at the Cornell Insect Collection.

Literature and science

Class explores Nabokov as writer and ‘butterfly man’

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Writer Vladimir Nabokov spent much of his time on campus in nature and in the Cornell Insect Collection.

person adjusting an experimental set up — Chris Kitchen With new tools he develops, Li detects interacting electrons in specialized two-dimensional (2D) materials

Physics

Klarman Fellow: Studying electron interactions with ultrafast lasers and more

12/14/2023 A&S Communications

New experimental tools developed by Hongyuan Li give insight into an exponentially complicated world.

Four people on a stage, with instruments — Ryan Young/Cornell University Xak Bjerken performs the keys on the Moog-Rothenberg Keyboard during a concert in Barnes Hall.

Music

Long-lost Moog synthesizer finally makes it to the stage

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The rebuilt and rewired instrument, designed by theorist David Rothenberg and built by renowned synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog Ph.D. ’65, is now a part of Cornell’s instrument collection.

students looking at a display — Chris Kitchen Students view some of the exhibits at the Cultura y Poder event in Rockefeller Hall.

Curriculum

Undergraduates celebrate Latinx history through Rockefeller Hall exhibition

12/13/2023 A&S Communications

The collaborative mixed media projects, showcased online and in Rockefeller Hall, explore how culture strengthens and uplifts communities.

Physics

DOE funds new research to advance computer chip technology

12/13/2023 A&S Communications

Cornell researchers are part of a project to enable sustainable hardware for AI and quantum computing, one of 11 projects selected by DOE to receive a total of $73 million.

Steven Strogatz in front of a blackboard with "small world" and an illustration on it showing a circle and interconnected lines inside — Jason Koski/Cornell University

Mathematics

For the joy of x, y, and z

12/13/2023 Alumni Affairs & Development

With Professor Strogatz helping to lead the charge, the Math 101 initiative will attempt to decrease disparities, democratize the subject and better prepare young people to solve math problems.

Five people sitting in a row in front of an audience — Provided Jessica Chen Weiss serves as a panelist at the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival.

International studies

Exploring the complexities of the US-China relationship

12/12/2023 Alumni Affairs & Development

As part of the Cornell University 2023 Stewardship Report, this story highlights how donor philanthropy is supporting faculty and their pursuit of new knowledge and solutions that do the greatest good for people and communities all around the world.

Doorway to a building, painted in bright blue and yellow with sunflowers

International studies

Without aid, Ukraine’s ability to continue fighting ‘deeply in question’

12/12/2023 A&S Communications

Historian David Silbey gives perspective to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy scheduled meeting with President Biden ahead of a joint news conference.