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Molecular Biology & Genetics

Fetal T cells are first responders to infection in adults

6/14/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have discovered there is a division of labor among immune cells that fight invading pathogens in the body.The study, published June 14 in the journal Cell, finds for the first time that fetal immune cells are present in adults and have specialized roles during infection. In fact, the first immune cells made in early life are fast-acting first responders to microbes in adulthood.

Alumni support

Scholarships provide lasting impact

6/14/2018 Alumni Affairs & Development

The scholarships created early last year as part of the recently completed endowed scholarship challenge are already benefiting several students. For two of them, in particular, the scholarships came at crucial times.

Summer experiences

A&S student spends summer researching criminal justice abuses

6/19/2018 A&S Communications

After studying the criminal justice system and hearing the experiences of incarcerated family and friends, Benjamin Finegan ‘19, a government major, decided to spend his summer interning at The Urban Justice Center for the Corrections Accountability project (CAP) in New York City.

Interdisciplinary studies

‘Collaboratory’ shares ideas on food, healing, justice

6/15/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The wrap-up session for the inaugural meeting of the Ecological Learning Collaboratory was not your typical academic exercise.In a sunlit room at Carl Becker House, 16 people danced to songs in Swahili (from Tanzania), Tumbuka (from Malawi), and Tamil (from southern India). As each song ended, the group erupted in shouts and raucous laughter.

Psychology

Left, right and center: mapping emotion in the brain

6/18/2018 Cornell Chronicle

According to a radical new model of emotion in the brain, a current treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population.

Performing & Media Arts

Beth Milles directs ‘Fast Blood’ in Civic Ensemble summer festival

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Photo: Godfrey L. Simmons Jr. and Judy Tate

Alumni

Alumna combines artistic side, technology skills for television career

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Jennifer Kahn '08 is a senior designer for the USA Network.

Performing & Media Arts

Summer research project explores black masculinity in theatre

6/21/2018 A&S Communications

Allen Porterie ‘20 is spending the summer at the University of Notre Dame, where he is exploring the performance of black masculinity in theatre. Porterie, an English major with a minor in theatre, is studying how actors and directors frame the black masculine body on stage. Porterie began this work last summer at Louisiana State University's Pre-Doctoral Scholars Institute with Angeletta Gourdine, an associate professor of English.

Classics

Ancient Latin puns revealed in new edited volume

6/25/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Frontispiece of “Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature,” created by Lucy Plowe B.F.A. '20 Legal capriciousness, or hog soup? The Latin “ius verrinum” could mean either, as the new volume “Quasi Labor Intus: Ambiguity in Latin Literature” explains.

College Leadership

Ray Jayawardhana named dean of Arts and Sciences

6/26/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Distinguished astrophysicist, renowned science writer and accomplished academic leader named the 22nd dean of Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.

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