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people singing in Goldwin Smith Hall
Cornell University Photo University Chorus alumni celebrate the group’s centennial at Reunion ’22.
Musical memories

The healing power of music

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Alison Torrillo French ’95 writes about her experience singing with the chorus during Reunion 2022.

Laura Niemi
Faculty awards

Laura Niemi wins Kaplan Family Fellowship

Cornell Chronicle

Niemi won for her work teaching applied moral psychology through community-engaged learning.

flowers bloom near Goldwin Smith Hal
Alumni honors

Alumni honored with writing prizes

Department of English

The Department of Literatures in English celebrates four alumni as winners of the 2022 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing.

woman husking a coconut
Provided Abigail Kraus husks a coconut during her summer experience in Hawai'i.
Student Research

Harrison College Scholars explore politics, wellness, environment in summer work

A&S Communications

From Ithaca to Hawaii to Ecuador, students in the Robert S. Harrison College Scholars Program took advantage of the summer as a time to explore their research interests.

Flag with red field and a blue rectangle with a white star
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Flag of Taiwan
International relations

With visit to Taiwan, Pelosi upsets Xi-Biden’s balancing act

A&S Communications

Government Prof. Allen Carlson comments on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

protestors with signs
Jimmy Cawley/Provided Cornell in Washington participant Jimmy Cawley photographed protestors at the U.S. Supreme Court shortly after the court decision on abortion rights was announced.
Student experiences

Interns experience a memorable Washington summer

Cornell Chronicle

Students completing internships in Washington, D.C. through the Cornell in Washington program are experiencing an in-person summer.

book cover
New media research

Book views virtual, real world through a new media artist’s eyes

A&S Communications

In a new book, Prof. Timothy Murray illuminates technological improvisation at the intersection of art and politics.

woman looking at another woman's phone
Lindsay France Marie Dorvilne, standing, helps Yanick Pierre-Louis, as her home care worker.
Alumni experiences

Overlooked, undervalued: Cornell research seeks to elevate home care workers

Cornell Chronicle

Madeline Sterling '08, an Arts & Sciences alum, is part of a team launching a research program to elevate the value of home care workers.

entomology lab
Marc Goebel/provided Students in an undergraduate entomology lab work together to establish a species-area curve
Active Learning

Study identifies 'transformative learning experiences’ of field courses

A&S Communications

While many scientists say field courses shaped their careers and benefit their students, few studies quantify their effects. Cornell researchers want to change that.

dark gray worms with pointed ends surrounded by dots of other microscopic things
Bingsen Zhang C. elegans as seen through a microscope.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Worms as a model for personalized medicine

Cornell Chronicle

“You need to figure out how to tailor biomedical recommendations to different people based on their individual metabolism."

Book cover: The Zelensky Method
International politics

‘The Zelensky Method’ unpacks Ukrainian president’s panache

A&S Communications

In an extended essay, Grant Farred focuses on actor-turned-wartime president, examining the intersection of pop culture and politics.

Austin Bunn
Faculty awards

PMA prof honored with fellowship for screenwriting work

A&S Communications

Austin Bunn, associate professor of performing and media arts, has been awarded a New York State Council for the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in screenwriting.

3-D shapes, black on top and orange red beneath, in a square of textured gray
Courtesy of T. Urban Ground-penetrating radar image of several footprints from the Utah site. Overlapping footprints of several sizes were detected, indicating an adult walking with children. The scenario was confirmed with excavation.
Archaeology

Ice Age human footprints discovered in Utah desert

Cornell Chronicle

Altogether 88 footprints were documented, including both adults and children, offering insight into family life in the time of the Pleistocene.

woman standing in front of school
Jesse Winter Stephanie Naing in front of Trinity School in New York City, where she is teaching this summer.
Summer experiences

Exploring life in front of a classroom

A&S Communications

Stephanie Naing is working with sixth and seventh graders this summer who want to gain entrance into New York City's independent schools.

student digging in the woods
Patrick Shanahan Eden Kebede '25 collects a soil sample in a forest outside Ithaca.
Nexus Scholars Program

Chasing carbon from trees to soils

A&S Communications

A group of students, including some in the Nexus Scholars Program, completed field work and analysis this summer on soil coming from a long-term forest fertilization experiment.