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Climate

Brooks School to host author Abrahm Lustgarten ‘95 for lecture on climate migration

10/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell alumnus, and ProPublica climate reporter, Abrahm Lustgarten is author of “On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America."

Mathematics

Mathematician and redistricting expert joins Brooks School as radical collaboration hire

10/9/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Moon Duchin is a mathematician and public policy expert who has advised numerous U.S. states on redistricting and whose lab has been at the forefront of an emerging discipline that merges data science and elections.

Arts Unplugged

Celebration of Carl Sagan’s 90th birthday being held Nov. 9

10/9/2024 A&S Communications

On what would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday, Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute will celebrate his legacy in an interdisciplinary day of science, music and more as part of the College of Arts & Sciences’ Arts Unplugged series.

Media Studies

Firesign Theatre made lowbrow, high-concept media critique

10/8/2024 Cornell Chronicle

In his new book, Prof. Jeremy Braddock explores the history of the Firesign Theatre, which used multitrack audio and avant-garde collage to put a countercultural spin on the comedy album in the 1960s and ’70s.

Alumni

John Hopfield, Ph.D. ’58, wins Nobel Prize in physics

10/8/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto were honored for their work in training artificial neural networks.

Student research

Empowering research and building community: A Rawlings Scholar’s journey

10/8/2024 A&S Communications

Rawlings Presidential Research Program Scholar Tejal Nair is working on research that connects math and computer science with technology in areas such as healthcare.

Humanities

A&S announces membership in MLA Strategic Partnership Network

10/8/2024 A&S Communications

“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.

Creative Writing Program

Poet and sportswriter Rowan Ricardo Phillips to read Oct. 17

10/7/2024 A&S Communications

“Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a renowned sportswriter, and has written extensively on baseball, soccer, and tennis. He is, however, first and foremost a poet of the highest order, full of formal sophistication, lyrical possibility, and musical syncopation."

man talking to two students — Chris Kitchen Weiner talked with students during a reception (which included pizza) after the talk.

Alumni experiences

A slice of wisdom from Russell Weiner ‘90

10/7/2024 A&S Communications

Russell Weiner ’90, CEO of Domino’s, shared career and life advice during a Sept. 20 talk on campus.

Alumni authors

Author alum wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

10/4/2024 Cornellians

Ling Ma, MFA ’16, has earned raves for her fiction; a Cornell Tech prof also received one of the coveted fellowships.

Two people on a stage, sitting in arm chairs, holding microphones — Simon Wheeler for Cornell University Actor Daveed Diggs, left, speaks with Samantha Sheppard, chair and associate professor of performing and media arts, Sept. 25 at the Schwartz Center.

Performing and Media Arts

‘Hamilton’ star Daveed Diggs speaks on campus to sold-out crowd

10/4/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Tony- and Grammy-award winner Daveed Diggs advises aspiring artists to “stop sweating the timeline” on their creative projects.

Creative Writing Program

Novelist Ling Ma, MFA ’16, among 2024 MacArthur recipients

10/3/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Novelist Ling Ma, MFA ’16, and Nicola Dell, associate professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, have been awarded 2024 “genius grants.”

Economics

World at a Turning Point interview

10/3/2024 Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

UNDP's Dr. Pedro Conceição speaks with the Einaudi Center during the Oct. 3–5 CRADLE conference on the state of the global economy.

Three people stand near a red production poster outside a theater — Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz PMA professor Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz (center) and NAKA Dance Theater co-founders José Ome Navarrete Mazatl (left) and Debby Kajiyama will team up again this month to create a new work at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography in Florida. They are pictured here at Ithaca’s Kitchen Theatre during a spring 2024 collaboration