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Graduate students

Student spotlight: Samantha Wesner

9/9/2021 Cornell University Graduate School

Samantha Wesner is a doctoral candidate in history from Dallas, Texas. After attending Harvard University as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to the field of history’s reputation as well as the library’s resources.

student looking at book — Jason Koski/Cornell University A student looks at the cover of the Cornell Daily Sun from Sept. 12, 2001, at Kroch Library.

Class experiences

Students explore 9/11 from multiple perspectives in new class

9/9/2021 A&S Communications

This fall, 20 juniors are exploring that time period in a new class, “Introduction to the Humanities: Afterlives of 9-11.”

Milstein Program Speaker Series

Best-selling science writer to talk about epidemics, life expectancy, innovation

9/9/2021 A&S Communications

New York Times best-selling science and technology writer Steven Johnson will visit campus Sept. 22 to meet with students and faculty and offer a talk to the Cornell community, “20,000 More Days: How We Doubled Global Life Expectancy in Just 100 years.”

Fellowships

New Fellowships support diverse scholars in the humanities

9/9/2021 A&S Communications

Two recent A&S doctoral graduates are new ACLS Emerging Voices Fellows and Cornell will also be hosting an ACLS post-doctoral fellow in the Department of History.

Physics

Freeze! Researchers develop new protein crystallography tool

9/3/2021 Cornell Chronicle

… Institutes of Health and by the state of New York. Susan Newman is a science communicator for the Cornell Laboratory …

Science and Technology Studies

Tech/Law Colloquium features privacy, COVID and incarceration

9/3/2021 Cornell Chronicle

The Technology and Law Colloquium – a hybrid Cornell University course and public lecture series – will return this semester with talks from 13 leading scholars who study the legal and ethical questions surrounding technology’s impact in areas like privacy, sex and gender, data collection, and policing.

Cornell Rare and Manuscript Collections A 1993 rally on Ho Plaza

Events

FGSS/LGBT programs plan yearlong anniversary celebration

9/3/2021 A&S Communications

Faculty, staff, students and alumni are planning a series of events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cornell’s women’s studies program, now Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS), as well as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activism and advocacy on campus.

2021 New Faculty

The College Welcomes New Faculty for 2021-22

A&S Communications

Despite pandemic challenges, the College of Arts & Sciences expanded its faculty with 17 new hires this year, bringing exciting new ideas into wide-ranging fields, including moral psychology, Indigenous studies, cosmology, genetics and African American literature.

Graduate students

Student spotlight: Lyrianne González

9/1/2021 Cornell University Graduate School

Lyrianne González is a doctoral student in history from Los Angeles, California. After attending California State University, Northridge as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue further study at Cornell for the opportunity to work alongside her mentors and the flexibility of the field of history.

Two mice perched on flowers and facing each other

Psychology

Lonely mice more vocal, more social after isolation

9/1/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Female mice exhibit a strong drive to socialize with other females following periods of acute isolation.

American studies

Creator of 1619 Project to give Kops Lecture

9/2/2021 A&S Communications

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, will give the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture on Sept. 9 at 5 p.m.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Scientists harness machine learning to lower solar energy cost

9/1/2021 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to use machine learning to accelerate the creation of low-cost materials for solar energy.

students on sidewalk — Provided Members of the Caribbean Students’ Association.

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Caribbean studies finds home at Einaudi Center

9/1/2021 Cornell Chronicle

In addition to changing its name, the program – celebrating its 60th year – has renewed and expanded its commitment to the study of the Caribbean cultures, places and people.

Faculty collaboration

Academic Integration efforts lead to $33M in grants

8/30/2021 Cornell Chronicle

Bringing researchers together – not only across disciplines but across the 200-plus miles separating Ithaca from New York City – is the aim of academic integration, which promotes, builds and enhances collaborative research across Cornell’s campuses.

Alumni/student connections

‘Already part of a great community’

8/30/2021 A&S Communications

Four career connections events this summer helped students meet alumni for advice as they navigate their journey.

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