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Kathy Hovis Katrina Greene '27
Student excellence

A&S student chosen for civic engagement scholarship

A&S Communications

Katrina Greene '27 will be headed to Washington, D.C. as a John Robert Lewis Scholar, an award given by the Faith and Politics Institute.

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Noël Heaney/Cornell University A trip to Taughannock Falls State Park for the past course “Gorgeous Gorges.”
Alumni

CAU Summer Courses: From wine pairings to town-gown history

Cornellians

Registration is now open for the two sessions of weeklong offerings, with the option to stay in a newly renovated Balch Hall

Schmidt Sciences
AI in science

11 new researchers become Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows

Cornell Bowers CIS

Cornell researchers interested in diverse topics ranging from peptide engineering and cellular metabolites to quantum physics and sustainable computing are among the newest cohort selected by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellows program.

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Provided The Center for Teaching Innovation will host the faculty panel "The Art of the Lab," the second installment in its annual "Art of Teaching" series, on Feb. 11.
Teaching innovation

CTI’s ‘Art of the Lab’ faculty panel to highlight creative approaches to instruction

Cornell Chronicle

CTI’s “The Art of Teaching” series returns Feb. 11 with “The Art of the Lab.” Faculty panelists will share creative instructional approaches for designing student-centered laboratory experiences.

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Africana studies

Nigeria's Tinubu 'should be commended' for accepting US counterterrorism assistance, says Cornell expert

A&S Communications

Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, shares insight into Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu's deployment of an army battalion to central Kwara state after suspected jihadist fighters killed at least 170 people on Tuesday night, hours after the United States said it had a small number of troops in the country.

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Distinguished Visiting Journalists

Three Distinguished Visiting Journalists head to campus

Cornell Chronicle

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, New York Times White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs and ProPublica investigative reporter Keri Blakinger ’14 will visit Cornell this spring.

Movie poster: Rule Breakers
Provided Movie poster: Rule Breakers
Cornell Cinema

Film about Afghan girls’ robotics club, panel set for Feb. 11

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell Cinema will present a screening of the documentary “Rule Breakers,” chronicling the founding of Afghanistan’s first all-girls robotics team, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.

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Alejandro Luengo/Unsplash Chinese flag
Scholarship

Three Cornellians named Schwarzman Scholars for study in China

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell student and two alumni have been named Schwarzman Scholars for the 2026-27 academic year and will spend it in a master’s program in global affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.

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Cornell University Rory Guilday ’25 will become the first Cornell alumna to represent the United States in women’s hockey at the Olympics.
Alumni

Four women’s hockey alumnae to play at Winter Olympics

Cornell Chronicle

Players familiar to Cornell women’s hockey fans will take the ice when the puck drops at the 2026 Winter Olympics this week in Milan, Italy.

Michael Abels
Arts Unplugged

Composer Michael Abels, famous for work on Jordan Peele films, to visit March 6-7

A&S Communications

Events include film screenings, panel discussions and a concert by the Barbara & Richard T. Silver Wind Symphony.

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Physics

Four on faculty to receive DOE early-career grants

Cornell Chronicle

Four Cornell faculty members are among 99 researchers across the U.S. who have been awarded grants by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its Office of Science Early Career Research Program.

painting by Paul Gauguin showing the artist wearing a hat with a wall and some furniture behind him. On the wall is a framed painting of a person lying on a bed
Public domain Self Portrait, 1893 by Paul Gauguin
Moral psychology

Art offers access to true self

Cornell Chronicle

Psychology researcher Jordan Wylie and colleagues found that artistic excellence, rather than moral excellence, offers greater access to one’s true self.

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Jason Koski/Cornell University Three Arts Quad buildings: Klarman Hall, Lincoln Hall and Sibley Hall
Klarman Fellows

College of Arts and Sciences announces 2026 Klarman Fellows

A&S Communications

The 12 early-career scholars will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.

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Performing and Media Arts

Bad Bunny breaks through: Cornell expert on the Grammys

A&S Communications

The first artist to win Album of the Year with a Spanish‑language album, Bad Bunny reflects the mainstreaming of Spanish language music and artistry, says professor Karen Jaime.

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Cornell University file photo
Teaching awards

Weiss and Provost awards honor outstanding faculty

Cornell Chronicle

Four faculty from A&S have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching.