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People choosing food from tables; a shopping cart full of milk and vegetables
Architecture students volunteer at the Enfield Food Distribution Center. The visit served as participatory research for their speculative design projects.
Community engagement

Community-engaged research gets boost from new grants

Cornell Chronicle

A multidisciplinary project to design a new facility and community garden for the Enfield Food Distribution Center – which has seen demand skyrocket since 2020 – is among eight teams of Cornell faculty, students and community partners to receive Engaged Research Grants from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.

Klarman Hall

Mary Gilliland

Senior Lecturer Emeritus

Five people perform a dance, creating a V formation with their bodies
Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Student dancers rehearse an ensemble piece that will be part of the "This table has been a house in the rain" performance April 25-27 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts: (from left) Isabel Padilla, doctoral candidate in performing and media arts; Irene Kim ’24; Taylor Pryor, doctoral candidate in literatures in English; Molly Hudson ’25; and Eliza Salamon ’24.
Performing and Media Arts

'A place at the table': Exploring free expression through dance

Cornell Chronicle

Student-artists will reimagine the Kiplinger Theater in a work titled “This table has been a house in the rain,” through choreography and improvisation, innovative staging and ties to other art forms.

Several soldiers cluster near a tank; a blue and yellow Ukraine flag flies nearby
Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/Creative Commons license 2.0 Anti-terrorist operation in eastern Ukraine
History

Ukraine’s mobilization bill sign of ‘desperation’ and ‘rationalization’

A&S Communications

Scholar David Silbey: “Large industrial wars like this one are as much about organization as they are about fighting, and this is a sign that Ukraine takes that lesson seriously.”

Six people in colorful, odd clothing, holding and playing musical instruments including fiddle, trumpet and saxophone
Adrian Buckmaster The Klezmatics
Music

The Klezmatics to play in Cornell Concert Series April 13

A&S Communications

The Klezmatics’ music is steeped in Eastern European Jewish tradition and spirituality, while also incorporating contemporary themes such as human rights and antifundamentalism, and eclectic musical influences — from jazz and punk to Arab, African, Latin and Balkan rhythms.

woman standing with arms crossed
Chris Kitchen Richlove Nkansah '26
Student entrepreneurs

Life as a Cornell entrepreneur: ‘I have people in my corner who inspire me’

A&S Communications

Richlove Nkansah '26 is the co-founder, with Harmony Prado ’24, of CultureCare, a digital platform for BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color) therapists to manage their practice and connect to clients.

three people working in a film set that looks like a mid-century living room. The fly space of a theater is visible above the room's walls
Simon Wheeler/Cornell University Crew members prepare to film on the set of "Remembering Colin Stall," which took over the Kiplinger Theatre stage for much of the spring 2024 semester: (l-r) Jamen Meistrich, assistant director; Indeana Underhill, director of photography; and script supervisor/on set prop master Victoria Serafini, Ph.D. candidate in Performing & Media Arts
Performing and Media Arts

Film set in Schwartz Center: A pop-up laboratory for building worlds

A&S Communications

Throughout spring 2024, a set installed on the Kiplinger Theatre stage for the short film “Remembering Colin Stall" doubled as an experimental zone for film and theater technology classes.

The side of the telescope, showing the logo with "FYST" and "CCAT" and a line drawing of a road leading up a mountain
Provided Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
Astronomy

Major new telescope structure completed in Germany

Cornell Chronicle

The newly assembled Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST), nearly the size of a five-story building, was unveiled April 4 at an event in Xanten, Germany.

US Capitol building
Student excellence

Two seniors chosen as fellows by Carnegie Endowment

A&S Communications

McKenzie Carrier ’24 and Margot Treadwell, ’24 will spend next year conducting research with the organization in Washington, D.C.

person looking through binoculars at the sky
Gillis Lowry More than 400 students rode in eight charter buses filled with Cornellians to Rochester, New York, to witness the total solar eclipse.
Student experiences

Totality awesome: 400 students travel north for rare eclipse

A&S Communications

The April 8 solar eclipse was “definitely life-changing,” said Emma Linscomb ’27, a member of Cornell’s Society of Physics Students.

Two actors in a scene from the movie "Back to the Future"
Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema offers tasty, mind-stretching Science on Screen showings

A&S Communications

Science on Screen® supports creative pairings of current, classic, cult, and documentary films with introductions by figures from the world of science, technology and medicine.

Person standing at a podium
Linda Glaser Reading a poem in Quechua
Language Resource Center

Treats and poems featured at LRC’s “Sweet Poetry” event

A&S Communications

“Any poem, any language” is the theme of the Language Resource Center’s second annual celebration of National Poetry Month, April 17

Person in military fatigues addresses others
Andrew Cutraro/Provided On April 11, 2004, Maj. Richard J. Gannon II '95 addressed Marines under his command during a memorial service for Lance Cpl. Christopher B. Wasser of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, at Camp Husaybah, Iraq, near the Syrian border. Gannon was killed days later while trying to help a wounded Marine. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Silver Star.
Cornell Veterans

5K run, remembrances to honor fallen Cornell war hero

Cornell Chronicle

On April 13, the Navy Reserve Officers' Training Corps will celebrate the legacy of U.S. Marine Maj. Richard J. Gannon II '95, nearly 20 years after he was killed in Iraq.

Illustration of a thermometer labeled "accuracy level"
Psychology

Accuracy ‘nudges’ decrease misinformation-sharing on left, right

Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration between two research teams with opposing views found that, despite claims to the contrary, simply reminding people about the concept of accuracy improves the quality of information-sharing on both sides of the political aisle.

Stephen J. Hadley '69
Stephen J. Hadley '69
US-China relations

Former national security adviser to speak on US-China relations

Cornell Chronicle

Former National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley ‘69 will explore “U.S. National Security Policymaking and the Future of U.S.-China Relations” in a fireside chat on Wednesday, April 17.