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An artist's drawing of a head with a clock and cogs inside, with a fly buzzing past.
Changfan Lin
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

New research sheds light on how circadian rhythms work

Cornell Chronicle

… Chemistry and Chemical Biology … New research from a … in protein levels is established. Blue light changes the chemistry and structure of Cryptochrome’s flavin cofactor, …

Colorful tropical garden in the Caribbean
Daniela Paola Alchapar/Unsplash Colorful tropical garden in the Caribbean
Comparative Literature

Recent alumna awarded Bernheimer Prize

A&S Communications

Hannah Cole, Ph.D. '20, has been awarded this year’s Bernheimer Prize for her dissertation, “A Thorny Way of Thinking: Botanical Afterlives of Caribbean Plantation Slavery.”

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Provided Behind the scenes of “We Love We Self Up Here.” Cornell students Austin Lillywhite (left) and Afifa Ltifi (slightly visible besides) with filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam.
Comparative Literature

Film co-produced by Natalie Melas wins award

A&S Communications

The Award for Film and Video from the Society of Architectural Historians has been given to the film “We Love We Self Up Here.”

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Student experiences

Ask our ambassadors: My favorite memories

A&S Student Ambassador

I could yell, celebrate, and parade around campus with the rest of the crowd, because, in that moment, I realized that I was one of them: I was a Cornell student.

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Economics

‘Cheap thrills’: Low-cost leisure leads to less work, more play

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers found that people today work substantially less than they did generations ago because of virtually unlimited cheap entertainment increasingly at their fingertips.

two people dragging lobster traps
Anthony Lopardo Students Kevin Souhrada and Lindsay Manos drag lobster traps away from the shoreline on Cuttyhunk Island in Massachusetts.
Student experience

Students’ island clean-up trip inspires multimedia projects

A&S Communications

Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.

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Literature and climate change

Book goes underground to find how climate change shapes stories

Cornell Chronicle

Prof. Karen Pinkus confronts the global threat of climate change by using select literary works from the 19th century.

Jane Landers
Provided Jane Landers
History

Noted life of an “Atlantic Creole” focus of Becker Lectures

A&S Communications

This year's Carl Becker Lectures, April 25-27, will illuminate the extraordinary life of Captain Francisco Menéndez.

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Student experiences

Ask our Ambassadors: Finding Plato on the Arts Quad

A&S Student Ambassador

It is within these halls, these classrooms, where I feel that I am benefitting from centuries of critical thought, deep questions and explorations into finding meaning in the human experience.

Museum display of a nude sculpture, cases of objects and a quote on the wall
Provided An exhibition focused on Pliny the Elder at Cornell’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Humanities

Museum exhibit illuminates Pliny’s study of art, nature

Cornell Chronicle

… metals, earths, precious gems. He writes about marble sculpture, bronze sculpture, pigments used for painting, terra-cotta, jewelry …

an orchestra and a chorus on a stage
Cornell Department of Music’s Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra
Music

Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule

A&S Communications

Music department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.

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Society for the Humanities

Year of ‘Repair’ ends with research conference at Society for the Humanities

A&S Communications

The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.

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Provided A scene from Austin Bunn’s new short film “Campfire.”
Rural humanities

‘Out Here’ film event shines light on rural LGBTQ life

Cornell Chronicle

A trio of short films showing the pleasures – and perils – of rural life for LGBTQ+ people will show April 26 as part of the Rural Humanities Initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences.

A red bordered rectangle made of felt with red hearts on it and a blank-faced brown-skinned woman with one pearl earring and long gray hair
Riche Richardson "Love Always: Timeless Toni Morrison" (2021)
Creative works

Art and community: Africana Library exhibits quilts

Cornell Chronicle

“Precious Scraps” showcases quilters and fabric artists from across the country, as well as from Cornell -- including Africana Prof. Riché Richardson.

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Opportunities

Partnership Expands Horizons of Humanities Doctoral Career Possibilities

Cornell University Graduate School

This flexible, on-campus summer internship gives students the chance to experience firsthand what is involved in becoming an acquisitions professional at a university press,