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Award winners holding framed certificates smiling at the camera with other people next to them also smiling — Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University From left, Steven Jackson, vice provost for academic innovation; Derina Samuel, Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) associate director; Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching award winners Judith Tauber and Amanda Domingues; and Rob Vanderlan, CTI executive director.

Awards

CTI announces winners of the Cornelia Ye Award for excellence in graduate teaching

6/29/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Doctoral candidates Judith Tauber and Amanda Almeida Domingues are the 2023-2024 recipients of the Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Surprise - French Flag — Latrach Med Jamil/Unsplash

Sociology

Populism Expert: Macron miscalculated badly

7/1/2024 A&S Communications

Prof. Mabel Berezin, an expert on international populism, comments on the results of Macron’s calling snap elections.

Seth Sanders

Ronald G. Ehrenberg Professor of Economics, The Donald C. Opatrny ’74 Chair
Economics

Faculty excellence

A&S honors 10 faculty with endowed professorships

7/1/2024 A&S Communications

With these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 76.

Lyu Zhou

Visiting Lecturer
Philosophy

woman speaking to a group of students — Jesse Winter Amy Mulderry ‘96, interim president of CarelonRx, part of Elevance Health, hosted the event this year at Elevance’s office space in Manhattan.

Career Services

Alums share career advice during NYC event

6/28/2024 A&S Communications

Students at a June Career Connections event networked with 15 alumni from A&S with various careers in the finance industry.

Recording studio for Earth to EZRZ album

Music

Restored Moog synthesizer featured on new album

6/28/2024 A&S Communications

A new album of music — played on several innovative new instruments created and restored at Cornell, including a Moog synthesizer —will debut June 28 from the band EZRA, which includes a Cornell faculty member.

Ancient ship underbody, just a skeleton of wood — Kyrenia Ship Excavations/Provided The Kyrenia was the first major Greek Hellenistic-period ship to be found with a largely intact hull. It was excavated and reassembled for scientific study.

Archaeology

Almonds, pottery and wood help date famed Kyrenia shipwreck

6/26/2024 Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory identified the likeliest timeline of the Hellenistic-era ship's sinking as between 296-271 BCE, with a strong probability it occurred between 286-272 BCE.

Thumbs down icon seen through a screen of water droplets, all of which reflect the icon as a thumbs up — Barefoot Communications/Unsplash

Social media

Cornell expert on SCOTUS ruling in social media dispute

6/26/2024 A&S Communications

The Supreme Court has sided with the Biden administration over how far the federal government can go to combat controversial social media posts; associate professor of psychology Gordon Pennycook, who studies misinformation, comments.

A UN blue peacekeeper's helmet in the foreground; facing a crowd of people — US Marine Corps/ Public Domain A UN peacekeeper in Haiti

Government

Kenyan police bring 'spotty' track record to Haiti

6/26/2024 A&S Communications

The U.N.-backed mission, led by Kenya, must have full understanding of the local context before engaging in any political or police action, says Sabrina Karim, assistant professor of government.

Person juggling four orange clubs under a dark overhang — Jason Koski/Cornell University After taking up juggling at age 10, Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse won the World Juggling Federation’s junior title at 12 – two years before becoming the youngest to win its advanced overall championship.

Mathematics

Going for Paris gold, math scholar aids juggling’s Olympic bid

6/25/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Doctoral student Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse could be crowned the world’s best juggler in a June 30 competition that aims to help build a case for juggling as an Olympic sport.

Person wearing a red virtual reality headset and gesturing with her arms

Music

Teaching conducting in extended reality

6/21/2024 Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation

A virtual reality setting can enable conducting students to engage with gestures in low stakes environment.

Philosophy

The cascading effect of a 19th-century professorship

6/21/2024 Alumni Affairs & Development

Many generations of Sage professors have established a lasting legacy in Cornell’s history and have deeply influenced the study of philosophy and psychology worldwide.

screen showing game-style text that says "Gaming in the 1980s"

Cornell game collection

Building and cataloging a world of games at Cornell

6/21/2024 A&S Communications

Cornell scholars are developing a collection of games, both digital and analog, in the Cornell Library, and connecting that to teaching across disciplines and courses.