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Book cover: Performing Prowess — An open access book, “Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present” published in May. A hardcover edition will be published in Thailand later this year.

History of Art and Visual Studies

Book on Southeast Asian art dedicated to professor

6/28/2023 A&S Communications

"Performing Prowess" traces the ways cultural forces of Hindu belief have persisted in Southeast Asia.

Person sitting on a stone wall, holding a guitar near trees — Chris Kitchen Michael Poll

Klarman Fellows

Poll arranges music for guitar to resonate with past and present

6/28/2023 A&S Communications

Through historical research and instrumental innovations – like playing on a seven-string guitar – Michael Poll has developed a framework to "translate" lute and violin pieces for guitar.

Person in the driver's seat of a pickup truck, seen through the back window — Provided A scene from Austin Bunn’s new short film “Campfire.”

Faculty excellence

PMA prof’s film wins top honors at three festivals

6/27/2023 A&S Communications

“Campfire,” an original short film by Associate Professor Austin Bunn, won the Provincetown International Film Festival’s "best queer short" award, making it eligible for an Academy Award nomination.

History

British adapted Mughal systems of justice to establish rule in India

6/26/2023 A&S Communications

“Empires of Complaints” by Robert Travers won honorable mention from the Law and Society Association's James Willard Hurst Book Prize.

Graduate student research

Student spotlight: Elias Beltrán

6/20/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

Beltrán is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature from the Bronx, N.Y.

Illustration of three planets side-by-side — Carl Sagan Institute/R. Payne Artist impression showing the exoplanet LP 890-9c’s potential evolution from a hot Earth to a desiccated Venus.

Astronomy

Exoplanet may reveal secrets about the edge of habitability

6/21/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A recently discovered exoplanet may be key to solving how close a rocky planet can be to a star, and still sustain water and life.

Aerial view of the Arts Quad in the fall

Faculty excellence

A&S honors 23 faculty with endowed professorships

6/21/2023 A&S Communications

The professorships are possible because of generous gifts from alumni, parents and friends.

Illustration of an enchanting city scene: buildings outlined in glowing lights that are reflected in a pool — Provided An illustration depicting Asakusa District in Tokyo, a thriving movie theater and entertainment area in early twentieth century Japan.

Asian Studies

Japanese poets open new ways of thinking about media

6/21/2023 A&S Communications

In new research, Andrew Campana examines cinema-centered poetry in Japan from the 1910s and 1920s, discovering the ways poetry chronicles lasting human impressions left by “new” media.

Five metal balls hang from wires in a frame — Engin Akyurt/Unsplash

Mathematics

Flow proof helps mathematicians find stability in chaos

6/20/2023 Quanta

Quanta Magazine profiles math professor Kathryn Mann for her contributions to a series of new papers describing elusive dynamical systems.

Philosophy

Political philosopher Richard Miller dies at 77

6/16/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Remembered as "a remarkable scholar and teacher, a true polymath," Miller was heralded for extending traditional boundaries of philosophy to incorporate the social sciences.

Interior of a grand building with a central desk and arched opening along the sides; book shelves — Andreas Praefcke/Creative Commons license 3.0 Main Reading Room, Library of Congress (Jefferson Building), Washington, D.C.

American history

Working toward Black reproductive justice from the Library of Congress

6/15/2023 A&S Communications

Tamika Nunley is the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History this year at the Library of Congress.

Stephan's Quntet — NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI In this image of Stephan’s Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies from the James Webb Space Telescope, sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth are revealed. Sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars are being pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions. Most dramatically, Webb captures huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster.

Friends of Astronomy

‘Gas-trophysics’ symposium expands on work of two Cornell astronomers

6/15/2023 A&S Communications

“Gas-trophysics Across the Universe,” a July 15 symposium, will celebrate the work and lives of renowned Cornell astronomers Peter Gierasch and Riccardo Giovanelli.

Three people dressed as pirates pose — Patrick Shanahan The 'Software Pirates' win the group costume contest: (l-r) Chris Christensen, Savannah Relos, and Zora Blitz

Arts and Sciences staff

A&S staff appreciated with pirate-themed picnic

6/8/2023 A&S Communications

Dean Ray Jayawardhana told staff on June 7: “You are what makes this place run and what makes the College the exciting and vibrant place it is. I’m lucky to be embedded among such a dedicated, proud and spirited group of people.”

Illustration: seven human figures at the bottom, connected to pathways containing yellow and blue circles representing DNA — Zehui Chen/Chinese Academy of Science and April (Xinzhu) Wei/Cornell University An illustration showing the continued, albeit waning, influence of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans

Computational biology

Lingering effects of Neanderthal DNA found in modern humans

6/7/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A research team has developed computational genetic tools to address the genetic effects of interbreeding between humans and Neanderthals.

Two people appearing on a TV talk show, sitting at a desk with mugs in front of them — S.E. Cupp alongside Joy Behar as a co-host on “The View”

Alumni

From the Sun to CNN: Journalist and Commentator S.E. Cupp ’00

6/5/2023 Cornellians

‘I came up through academic, intellectual conservatism,’ says the popular pundit, who’s unafraid to challenge her own party.

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