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Student experiences

Ask our ambassadors: My favorite memories

4/25/2023 A&S Student Ambassador

I could yell, celebrate, and parade around campus with the rest of the crowd, because, in that moment, I realized that I was one of them: I was a Cornell student.

TV screen, socked feet on a coffee table

Economics

‘Cheap thrills’: Low-cost leisure leads to less work, more play

4/24/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers found that people today work substantially less than they did generations ago because of virtually unlimited cheap entertainment increasingly at their fingertips.

two people dragging lobster traps — Anthony Lopardo Students Kevin Souhrada and Lindsay Manos drag lobster traps away from the shoreline on Cuttyhunk Island in Massachusetts.

Student experience

Students’ island clean-up trip inspires multimedia projects

4/24/2023 A&S Communications

Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.

Literature and climate change

Book goes underground to find how climate change shapes stories

4/21/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Prof. Karen Pinkus confronts the global threat of climate change by using select literary works from the 19th century.

History

Noted life of an “Atlantic Creole” focus of Becker Lectures

4/24/2023 A&S Communications

This year's Carl Becker Lectures, April 25-27, will illuminate the extraordinary life of Captain Francisco Menéndez.

Student experiences

Ask our Ambassadors: Finding Plato on the Arts Quad

4/24/2023 A&S Student Ambassador

It is within these halls, these classrooms, where I feel that I am benefitting from centuries of critical thought, deep questions and explorations into finding meaning in the human experience.

Museum display of a nude sculpture, cases of objects and a quote on the wall — Provided An exhibition focused on Pliny the Elder at Cornell’s Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Humanities

Museum exhibit illuminates Pliny’s study of art, nature

4/20/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Open now through June 11, “Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder” marks the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Roman author, natural philosopher and statesman.

an orchestra and a chorus on a stage — Cornell Department of Music’s Chorus, Glee Club, and Symphony Orchestra

Music

Mozart’s Requiem, jazz trumpeter highlight late-April concert schedule

4/19/2023 A&S Communications

Music department concerts offer a major works concert, a jazz trumpet collaboration, a hope-filled organ recital and more, April 27 – May 2.

Artful illustration featuring a bird's next filled with orange paint

Society for the Humanities

Year of ‘Repair’ ends with research conference at Society for the Humanities

4/19/2023 A&S Communications

The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.

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.”

Rural humanities

‘Out Here’ film event shines light on rural LGBTQ life

4/18/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A trio of short films showing the pleasures – and perils – of rural life for LGBTQ+ people will show April 26 as part of the Rural Humanities Initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences.

A red bordered rectangle made of felt with red hearts on it and a blank-faced brown-skinned woman with one pearl earring and long gray hair — Riche Richardson "Love Always: Timeless Toni Morrison" (2021)

Creative works

Art and community: Africana Library exhibits quilts

4/17/2023 Cornell Chronicle

“Precious Scraps” showcases quilters and fabric artists from across the country, as well as from Cornell -- including Africana Prof. Riché Richardson.

Two stacks of books, one higher than the other

Opportunities

Partnership Expands Horizons of Humanities Doctoral Career Possibilities

4/17/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

This flexible, on-campus summer internship gives students the chance to experience firsthand what is involved in becoming an acquisitions professional at a university press,

Green line winds through a background of pink — USGS/NASA Landsat8 Nile River

Climate

Strong momentum marks 2030 Project’s early fundraising results

4/17/2023 Alumni Affairs & Development

In 2022 Cornell University launched an initiative, to tackle climate change; in less than a year, donors have given more than $146 million in support.

In a natural areas, a stone bench is next to an interpretive sign — Jay Potter/Cornell University Bench honoring Hu Shih

Alumni

New Beebe Lake seating area honors Hu Shih

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In admiration of the contributions of literature and philosophy scholar Hu Shih 1914, friends and alumni of Cornell funded an outdoor seating area for quiet and contemplation.

Illustration: red sky and land, people in space suits, modular buildings — NASA/JPL/Provided Even on future cosmic outposts like Mars, depicted in this artistic rendering, humans must consider closely replicating natural conditions found on Earth, according to a new theory called Pancosmorio.

Astronomy

Humans need Earth-like ecosystem for deep-space living

4/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Carl Sagan Institute researcher Morgan Irons examined the long-term physical needs of humans living far from Earth.

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