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loadbang offers concerts as 2022-23 Stucky Residency for New Music ensemble

9/23/2022 Department of Music

The ensemble will collaborate with graduate composers on new works and engage with students in a variety of ways.

Chorale members standing in four rows in front of a stone building with stone archway — Provided Cornell University Chorale

Music

Chorale is back!’ says new director

9/22/2022 A&S Communications

“We welcome singers from any department of the university and from the community,” said Michael Poll, music director and Klarman Fellow.

Illustration of a blocky silver robot — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Cornell researchers installed electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size, so the tiny bots can walk autonomously without being externally controlled.

Physics

Brains on board: Smart microrobots walk autonomously

9/21/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are smaller than an ant’s head allow them to walk by themselves.

Person in blue jacket speaking in front of red, white and green flags — Wikipedia/Creative Commons license 4.0 Giorgia Meloni

European politics

Fascism expert: Italy is next in the European nationalist movement, here is why.

9/21/2022 A&S Communications

The outcome of the Italian election on Sept. 25 could have dramatic effects on the country and European Union, says professor Mabel Berezin.

Person wearing an apron, leading on a counter — Provided Adam Shelepak working at Anabel’s Grocery

Alumni

Devoting time to do the most good

9/20/2022 Alumni Affairs & Development

Financial aid didn’t just open a door to education for Adam Shelepak ’17—it afforded the possibility of service to the Cornell community, like founding the nonprofit Anabel’s Grocery.

students working on posters — Simon Wheeler

Student experiences

Milstein students greet new year with team-building events

9/19/2022 Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

What are students up to with wooden skewers, popsicle sticks, Scotch Tape and a rainbow collage of pipe-cleaners?

Archaeology

Archaeological conference expands discussion beyond colonial roots

9/19/2022 A&S Communications

'We saw this conference as a way to expand the conversation beyond Cornell.'

Creative Writing Program

Poet Solmaz Sharif considered ‘literary citizenship’ at reading event

9/19/2022 A&S Communications

Her books of poetry are “Looks” and “Customs”; part of the Fall 2022 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series for the Creative Writing Program.

Students with backpacks walk past a building with stone columns

Literatures in English

Two Doctoral Students Receive Ford Fellowships

9/16/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

Joseph Miranda, a doctoral candidate in English language and literature, received a dissertation competition fellowship.

Person at a podium, hand raised to take an oath — Philippine Presidential Museum and Library The second inauguration of President Ferdinand Marcos on December 30, 1969

Asian American Studies

Martial law anniversary marked by ‘historical revisionism’

9/16/2022 A&S Communications

This year’s anniversary of Philippine martial law is momentous, says professor Christine Bacareza Balance.

Desert land seen from above, showing a huge crater — NASA/Provided The famed Barringer Meteor Crater in the desert in northern Arizona. Two students affiliated with the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy's Tech Policy Institute will analyze public opinion on how governments should respond when asteroids and comets threaten the earth.

Graduate student research

Student team will seek public’s views on planetary defense

9/12/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The researchers will conduct public opinion surveys on how governments respond when asteroids and comets threaten cities, countries, or at the extreme, even the entire earth.

Medical professoional wearing a mask and protective gloves gives a shot to a person wearing a Cornell Big Red t-shirt — Lindsay France/Cornell University During an April 2021 clinic, Cornell community members receive COVID-19 vaccines in Bartels Hall.

Sociology

Collaboration to infuse human behavior into epidemiological models

9/13/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Six Cornell faculty members from three different colleges will work together to improve epidemiological models of infectious disease using a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.