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movie poster: The Man Who Saved the Internet with a Sunflower
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Alumni

Indie drama depicts Cornellian couple's role in web history

Cornellians

Set in the 1980s, The Man Who Saved the Internet with a Sunflower chronicles two ’69 classmates in Silicon Valley

A city at midday with a tower
Jalitha Hewage/Unsplash Colombo, Sri Lanka
Anthropology and Asian studies

Cornell expert reflects on Sri Lanka election

A&S Communications

Scholar Daniel Bass comments on this week's presidential election in Sri Lanka, the first since a 2022 economic meltdown that forced the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Cornell's central campus with lake beyond
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Cornell, partners to make upstate NY a regional engine for better batteries

Cornell Chronicle

With funding from the National Science Foundation, Cornell and a group of institutional partners have created the Upstate New York Energy Storage Engine to advance energy storage technology and boost large-capacity battery manufacturing in the region.

the Jupiter moon Io
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Nearly 400 active volcanoes punctuate the Jupiter moon Io. Using flyby data from NASA’s Juno mission that examines the volcanoes, doctoral student Madeline Pettine led a group of Cornell astronomers to study a fundamental process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating.
Astronomy

Volcanoes may help reveal interior heat on Jupiter moon

Cornell Chronicle

By examining Jupiter’s moon Io – the most volcanically active place in the solar system – Cornell astronomers can study a vital process in planetary formation and evolution: tidal heating.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Peter Lepage, professor emeritus of physics in the College of Arts & Sciences, stepped down as the Active Learning Initiative's director on June 1, 2024.
Active Learning Initiative

Active Learning Initiative welcomes new director, says goodbye to longtime leader

Cornell Chronicle

In June 2024, longtime Active Learning Initiative director Peter Lepage handed the initiative's reins to incoming director, Timothy Riley, professor of mathematics.

Daveed Diggs
Performing and Media Arts

Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs to visit campus for talk

Cornell Chronicle

Daveed Diggs, who won Tony and Grammy awards for his portrayal of the dual roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in “Hamilton,” will visit campus Sept. 25 for a talk as the 2024 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist.

Book cover: Positioning Women in Conflict Studies
Government

Improving women’s status promotes peace – but how?

Cornell Chronicle

Scholars and policymakers need to look at more than "gender equality" to assess women’s status and how it contributes to political violence or peace, political scientist Sabrina Karim argues in a new book.

Painting of a mountain in blues, golds and greens
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Paul Cézanne’s ‘Mont Sainte-Victoire’ paintings, such as this one created in 1902-06, were influenced by French state programs for mountain preservation, Kelly Presutti argues.
History of Art and Visual Studies

How art helped to shape modern France

Cornell Chronicle

Art historian Kelly Presutti examines the role that depictions of landscape – in paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain and maps – played in the formation of modern France in a new book.

Steve Jackson smiling, talking to three people around a high table.
Steve Jackson (center), vice provost for academic innovation, meets with members of the Center for Teaching Innovation team: (from L to R) Adara Alston, Leslie Williams, and James Whalley.
Education Innovation

Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation: teaching the way people learn

Alumni Affairs & Development

As vice provost for academic innovation, Prof. Steve Jackson has been working to ensure that teaching in university classrooms, labs, studios, and field sites is aligned with what the latest research tells us about how people learn best.

Deanne Gebell Gitner, smiling, with short black hair, a jacket and pearl necklace
Provided Deanne Gebell Gitner '66
Awards

Donor’s Annual Prize Shows Appreciation for Teaching Assistants

Cornell University Graduate School

The Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants was created to put TAs in the spotlight, celebrating and recognizing them for their contributions to education at Cornell.

Neal Zaslaw, in glasses and short-sleeved button-down shirt, looking at a musical score long enough that he is holding it in both hands.
Ryan Young/Cornell University Neal Zaslaw
Music

‘Mr. Mozart’ finishes comprehensive catalog of maestro’s work

Cornell Chronicle

The three-decade project is a fitting capstone to the 85-year-old Neal Zaslaw’s career as one of the world’s leading Mozart authorities, one who was once dubbed “Mr. Mozart” by the New York Times.

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Mary Danisi

HSP Postdoctoral Associate
Classics, History of Art and Visual Studies, Society for the Humanities

Derek Penslar
Public Engagement

Final speaker in series examining antisemitism, Islamophobia

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined” series concludes this semester with a talk by Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University.

Old-looking books of different heights and colors standing in a row
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Library Books by early Black writers will be featured in the library exhibit, “Black Print: African American Writing, 1773-1910."
Literatures in English

Black print history, community featured in exhibit

Cornell Chronicle

The exhibit reveals how newspapers served as a powerful vehicle for literature, culture and community-building.

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Psychology

AI succeeds in combatting conspiracy theories

Cornell Chronicle

Conversations with large language models can effectively reduce individuals’ belief in conspiracy theories, a finding that offers new insights into the psychological mechanisms behind the phenomenon as well as potential tools to fight conspiracies’ spread.