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ASTRONOMY

Mission scientists offer an intimate look at Pluto

A&S Communications

Hundreds of students, faculty and community members braved a foggy, rainy night Dec. 2 for a behind-the-scenes look at the New Horizons mission to Pluto, given by mission scientists Cathy Olkin and Ann Harch in the Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall.

LINGUISTICS

Linguistics grad uses social media in dialect research

A&S Communications

When Martha Austen ’13 used to say she was fixin’ to eat supper, she wondered why her Cornell friends would raise their eyebrows a bit in her direction.Now, she’s made the study of sociophonetics — the study of sound and how speech varies based on different social factors — her focus as a graduate student at Ohio State University.And she’s using Twitter as a way to gain access to a mountain of data on people’s speech and dialects.

Sounds

Class creates online 'soundscape' of Cornell

A&S Communications

Take an audio tour of the Cornell campus, thanks to this class blog.

In Memoriam

Benedict Anderson, who wrote ‘Imagined Communities,' dies

Cornell Chronicle

Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.Anderson, the Aaron L. Binenkorb Emeritus Professor of International Studies, taught at Cornell from 1967 to 2002.

SOCIOLOGY

Scholar describes pitfalls minorities face in academia

Cornell Chronicle

For scholars from underrepresented minority groups, the concept of selection in academia and professional education is inseparable from historic and contemporary realities of exclusion and marginalization.Explaining the complexities of this selection was the main theme of the Fall Diversity in Scholarship and Engagement Symposium keynote speech, delivered by sociologist Steven E. Alvarado, Dec. 7 in Warren Hall.

MUSIC

Yujin 'Stacy' Joo '16 wins Cornell Concerto Competition

Cornell Chronicle

Pianist Yujin "Stacy" Joo '16 won the 12th annual Cornell Concerto Competition Dec. 13 for her performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26, Mvt. 1, accompanied by Blaise Bryski. A chemistry and biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, Joo has played piano for ensembles including the orchestra, wind symphony and a cover band.

DIVERSITY

Third Posse group thriving at Cornell

A&S Communications

This semester, the College of Arts & Sciences, together with the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI) welcomed the third cohort of Posse Program students to Cornell.And for the first time, OADI sponsored visits for First Year Parents Weekend, welcoming parents of this freshman group to visit their children, meet with other Posse families and explore Ithaca.

COLLEGE SCHOLARS

College Scholars' research: circus arts to inequality

A&S Communications

Our College Scholars combine their interests in various subjects into interdisciplinary majors and research projects.

STUDY ABROAD

Two juniors receive Harry Caplan Travel Fellowships

This spring marks the 100th anniversary of Harry Caplan’s graduation from Cornell. After receiving his doctorate, Caplan, Class of 1916, M.A. ’17, Ph.D. ’21, joined the faculty and over a nearly 50-year career as a professor of classics became one of Cornell’s most beloved and inspiring teachers.

CHEMISTRY

Polymer breakthrough could revolutionize water purification

Cornell Chronicle

A team of Cornell researchers has invented a material that could revolutionize the water-purification industry.