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Alumni engagement

Register now for Reunion 2023

A&S Communications

The College of Arts & Sciences will welcome alumni to campus June 8-11 with a host of events for Cornell Reunion 2023, celebrating the classes of 3s and 8s.

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Roger William Photography Some of the recipients of 2023 Distinguished Awards at the Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Awards and Recognition Celebration, May 16 in G10 Biotech
Graduate student honors

Thirty-two receive awards recognizing inclusive excellence

Cornell University Graduate School

On May 16, several Arts and Sciences affiliated graduate students were among those honored for leadership and commitment to diversity, inclusion, outreach, and student engagement.

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Serge Petchenyi / Cornell University Students participate in an in-class discussion.
Active learning

CTI announces 2023 Active Learning Postdoctoral Fellowship recipients

Cornell Chronicle

These grants provide a unique opportunity for faculty who are new to active learning and want to learn more or for those who want to expand upon initial efforts in implementing these teaching strategies.

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National Cancer Institute/Unsplash Brain images
Neurobiology and Behavior

Diversity of neurons affects memory, study finds

Cornell Chronicle

Understanding this diversity could lead to better knowledge of the brain’s computational flexibility and memory capacity.

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Excellence in teaching and advising

A&S faculty honored for exemplary teaching, advising

A&S Communications

“Helping students realize their greatest potential is at the core of our mission in the College of Arts & Sciences."

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Provided Laura Chang, anthropology
Student achievement

13 Cornellians awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Awards

Einaudi Center

Six A&S students are among the thirteen from Cornell selected this year to research and teach English abroad with funding from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

Ozan Varol
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Alumni

Rocket science can be a roadmap for life, says this astrophysics alum

Cornellians

Former law professor (and proud polymath) Ozan Varol ’03 inspires audiences with lessons rooted in space exploration.

Amanda Domingues
Amanda Domingues
Science and Technology Studies

Student Spotlight: Amanda Domingues

Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral candidate in science and technology studies with a focus on the anthropology of science, Domingues studies how investigators use scientific methods and humanities theories to reconstruct the lives of past humans.

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Orinoco14/Creative Commons license 2.0 Protein crystals
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Picking up good vibrations – of proteins – at CHESS

Cornell Chronicle

A new method for analyzing protein crystals – developed by Cornell researchers and given a funky two-part name – could open up applications for new drug discovery and other areas of biotechnology and biochemistry.

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A. Flecker/Cornell University Aquaculture ponds near Iquitos, Peru, July 2022
International studies

Einaudi seed grants finding fertile soil

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty from six colleges across Cornell tackle issues ranging from the health of endangered wild dogs to the spread of misinformation through social media.

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Laura Chichisan/College of Arts and Sciences The New Frontier Grant-funded project “The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid” will consider health at the world-wide scale
New Frontier Grants

$2.5M in A&S New Frontier Grants supports bold projects

Cornell Chronicle

A&S faculty members will delve into questions ranging from quantum computing to foreign policy development and from heritage forensics to effects of climate change.

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Patrick Shanahan Eden Kebede '25 collects a soil sample in a forest outside Ithaca.
Student research

Nexus Scholars Program expands research opportunities to 101 students

A&S Communications

This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.

Olivia Breitkopf
Extraordinary Journeys

'I am most proud of my intellectual growth at Cornell'

Olivia Breitkopf

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Nadir Ali Students and faculty in Cornell’s fall 2022 Design Justice Workshop and Detroit Public School juniors enrolled in the University of Michigan Architecture Preparatory Program (ArcPrep) get a view of the Detroit skyline from Belle Isle Park.
Research collaborations

Multi-college scholars think deeply about cities

A&S Communications

Part of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Cornell students explored creative ways to understand urban landscapes during two cross-disciplinary courses this year.

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Quantum research

Cornell, Google first to detect key to quantum computing future

Cornell Chronicle

The method, realized in theory by Prof. Eun-Ah Kim and Yuri Lensky, could protect bits of quantum information by storing them nonlocally.