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Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Michael Lee

6/7/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

"As a poet with the heart of a historian, I’m interested in attending to the interrelated histories of European colonialism and industrial warfare through the lyric."

Map of North and Central America, made of flag colors — Geography and Space/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Flag map of Central America and North America

International relations

In blow to U.S. diplomacy, Mexican president skips key regional summit

6/6/2022 A&S Communications

The Summit of the Americas, taking place this week in Los Angeles, typically represents an opportunity for leaders to move their agendas forward.

Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Germán Reyes

6/6/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

A doctoral candidate in economics from Argentina, Reyes studies how test-score gaps eventually lead to income inequality.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Song Lin wins EPA Green Chemistry Challenge award

6/6/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Lin's new process uses readily available substances and inexpensive electrodes to create the large and complicated molecules widely used in the pharmaceutical industry.

Sociology

Sociology department unveils new augmented reality window

6/3/2022 A&S Communications

The AR redesign of a display in Uris Hall was a collaborative exploration involving student researchers, staff and faculty.

Barn-like building with open doors, lit within — Provided The Soil Factory, a large, unremarkable warehouse on the southern edge of Ithaca, has become a collaboration center in 2021 for students, scientists, artists, community members and everyone in between.

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Tear down academic silos: Take an ‘undisciplinary’ approach

6/2/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A new Cornell study suggests that solving societal problems such as climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers from varying disciplines could work together collaboratively.

American studies

The ‘great replacement’ theory rises again, ending in tragedy

6/2/2022 The Washington Post

History shows that ethnic and racial diversity has proved to be renewal, not replacement, writes Glenn Altschuler in Washington Post commentary.

Graduate student life

Student Spotlight: Esther Kondo Heller

6/1/2022 Cornell University Graduate School

With a research travel grant, Heller will go to Nairobi this summer to research an archive of interviews with the Taarab musician Sitara Bute.

astronaut with Spacetrain written on sky

Staff remembrances

Posthumous album brings Cornell staffer’s music to life

6/2/2022 A&S Communications

An album featuring the work of Daniel Gaibel, former information technology manager for the Language Resource Center (LRC), will debut this weekend at the Ithaca Festival.

Three people in a sunny room with yellow walls — Noël Heaney/Cornell University Student documentarians Milan Taylor, Adele Williams and Justice Hoff at Loving House.

LGBTQ studies

Student films document Cornell’s LGBTQ history

6/1/2022 Cornell Chronicle

The film projects for the introductory class, which draws students from all of Cornell’s schools and colleges, celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cornell’s LGBT Studies Program.

Two people study at a table, seen from above — Jason Koski/Cornell University Students work in the Physical Sciences Building

Undergraduate research

A Big Red Undergraduate Journal

6/1/2022 Cornell Research

Victoria Alkin gathered a team of students and supporters to create CURJ, a publication dedicated to research by Cornell undergraduates.

Person leading a singing group in a chapel — Ryan Young / Cornell University

Alumni

The University Chorus Makes Beautiful Music

5/31/2022 Cornellians

Originally known as the Women’s Glee Club, the group will celebrate its centennial at Reunion ’22.

Undergraduate research

Peering through alien atmospheres

5/27/2022 Cornell Research

Jonathan Barrientos is exploring the possibility of life on Earth-like planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets.

J Nation blowing on an instrument made out of long white pipes, with a yellow balloon attached — Provided Cornell Physics junior J Nation performing on their balloon-powered “foghorgan.”

Education Innovation

Instrument-building festival challenges, inspires

5/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Hosted by the Cornell ReSounds Project, the FutureSounds Festival featured guest builders and performers as well as newly designed instruments and compositions by Cornell students.

The three researchers are sitting around a desk and Ailong Ke is pointing to an image of the IscB molecule on the computer screen. — Provided From left to right: Chunyi Hu, Gabriel Schuler and Ailong Ke.

Nanoscience

Discovery offers starting point for better gene-editing tools

5/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

“Transposons are specialized genetic hitchhikers, integrating into and splicing out of our genomes all the time...by defining these enzymes in high resolution, we can tap into their powers.”

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