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Awards

Leutert wins 2015 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship award for China study

Cornell Chronicle

Wendy Leutert, a doctoral candidate in the field of government and international relations, has won a 2015-16 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship. A total of 86 fellowships were awarded this year.

History

Alumnus rescues files that form Cornell's Nuremberg collection

Ezra Magazine

In the summer of 1998, Henry Korn '68 got a phone call from a young lawyer and fellow Cornellian that changed his life.

Education Innovations

Alumni launch YouTube science series to enlighten and entertain

Ezra Magazine

Scientific explanations can at times feel dull and impenetrable, a frustration shared by anyone who has sat through a high school science lecture. But a group of Cornell alumni thinks communicating the joys of science can be exciting, and they've launched a YouTube series with the conviction that science can be edgy, informative and far from boring.

Music & the Brain

Explaining music's 'chill' effect on the brain and body

A&S Communications

“Why is your music important to you? How much time do you spend listening to music per day? How many songs per day do you listen to? How important is your music to you?”

Composition

Undergrad's opera, 'La Tricot,' debuts Dec. 3

A&S Communications

Patrick Braga ’17 spent a little more than a year working on his chamber opera, “La Tricotea (Opus 25),” which will premiere Dec. 3 with 16 student vocalists and instrumentalists.“This was a project out of my own passion for composition and to convince people that opera doesn’t have to be a boring ordeal,” said Braga, who was inspired by a music history course with Professor Judith Peraino and a Glee Club selection by Assistant Professor Robert Isaacs.

"Cornell has shaped me in ways that no other institution would have been capable of."

Krystin Chiellini '17Major: Biology & SocietyHometown: Riverview, FLHow did you decide on your major? Have your plans changed since you started Cornell?

Psychology

New book puts readers on the path to wisdom

A&S Communications

Wondering how our social science research could benefit your investment strategy? Make you happier? A new book by Tom Gilovich, the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology, has the answers.

ALUMNI

Alum wins Scaglione Prize from Modern Language Association

A&S Communications

Irving Goh PhD ’12, was recently awarded the named the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary from the Modern Language Association for his book, “The Reject: Community, Politics, And Religion After The Subject.”

Chiara Formichi
ASIAN STUDIES

Book explores Sunni, Shi’a Muslims’ devotion in SE Asia

Chiara Formichi, assistant professor of Asian studies, is celebrating the release of her new book, “Shi’ism in South East Asia” (Hurst & Co./Oxford University Press; co-edited with R. Michael Feener, 2015).

Southeast Asia Program

Helping a Broadway theatre with historical consulting

A group of sleepy students tumbled out of bed early one Saturday morning in April 2015 to board a bus with me from Ithaca to New York City’s renowned Lincoln Center Theatre.