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Student experiences

Ask our ambassadors: How I chose Cornell

4/29/2022 A&S Student Ambassador

Ethan Tong found that the Cornell experience allowed students to explore and be ever curious — there was no mold, no set ideal hobby or study method one had to adopt in order to succeed.

Community Engagement

Students, county agency raise awareness of commercial sexual exploitation of children

4/25/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Students Against the Sexual Solicitation of Youth (SASSY), together with a Tompkins County team, targeted the local lodging industry for outreach efforts.

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Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Light-infused particles go the distance in organic semiconductors

4/29/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Prof. Andrew Musser and his team have found a way to tune the speed of polaritons' energy flow, using an approach that could eventually lead to more efficient solar cells, sensors and LEDs.

Student experiences

Ask our ambassadors: How to get involved in campus clubs

4/29/2022 A&S Student Ambassador

Erir offers some advice on joining one of the many clubs on Cornell's campus.

Serge Petchenyi/Cornell University 2021-22 Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award winner Zachary Grobe

Graduate student life

Cornelia Ye award winners engage students with interdisciplinary teaching

Cornell Chronicle

Grobe, a PhD student in English language and literatures, takes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching spurred by his research focusing on documentary poetry and film.

painting depicting a sea battle — The Battle of Actium, an 1672 paiting by Lorenzo A. Castro

History of war

The long history of disinformation during war

4/28/2022 Washington Post

While we might crave information, we are right to be suspicious of the sources that provide it, Barry Strauss, professor of history and classics, writes in Washington Post commentary.

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Intercultural conversations

Story circles foster intercultural conversations, belonging

4/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Launched by the Office of Global Learning (OGL), the story circles initiative is intended to bridge the gaps in intercultural understanding between Cornell’s international and domestic populations.

Colorful planet — NASA/JPL/Provided Scientists have suggested sending an orbiter and probe to Uranus, as their top exploration priority. The voyage would conduct flybys and examine clouds, atmospheric structure, composition, the planet’s rings and moons.

Astronomy

Cornell-chaired panels advocate Uranus, Enceladus missions

4/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Professors Jonathan I. Lunine and Alexander Hayes played leadership roles in identifying U.S. national scientific priorities through 2033.

View of a city at dawn — Christoph Theisinger/Unsplash Colombo, Sri Lanka

Asian Studies

Protests in Sri Lanka unprecedented, unlikely to fade away

4/28/2022 A&S Communications

Pressure on the current government has not lessened, says Daniel Bass, manager of the South Asia Program and adjunct assistant professor of Asian studies.

Campus buildings and pink blossoms on trees

Student honors

Three students in STEM win 2022 Goldwater Scholarships

4/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

A sophomore and a two juniors have won Goldwater Scholarships, the top undergraduate award for students pursuing careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.

Jeffrey Backus, ’23 and Abhi Sarma ’24, both in the College of Arts and Sciences,

Person carries a heavy cement block around a wall — Courtesy of the artist Lin Yilin, Safely Maneuvering Across Lin He Road, 1995, performance, 90 min, Guangzhou.

Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow Nancy P. Lin interprets urban on-site art

4/27/2022 Cornell Chronicle

Focusing on Chinese contemporary art, Lin brings her fascination with urban spaces to her work as an art historian.

above-ground pipeline extends across a rugged landscape

Eurpoean economy

Russian gas threat could force European economy to reform

4/27/2022 A&S Communications

Cristina Florea provides a historical perspective on energy and economic development.

Undergraduate research

First cohort of A&S Nexus Scholars chosen for summer research positions

4/27/2022 A&S Communications

Fifty undergrads in the College of Arts & Sciences will take part in paid research projects in Ithaca this summer with faculty from throughout the College.

Illustration of a telescope in space — NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope

Astronomy research

Glowing Planets and Chemical Fingerprints

4/26/2022 Cornell Research

Nikole Lewis will be one of the first to characterize distant exoplanets using infrared data from the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope.

Student experiences

Student veteran Roland Molina continues to serve

4/26/2022 Cornell Chronicle

As a student at Cornell and president of the Cornell Undergraduate Veterans Association, Molina has dedicated himself to strengthening the veteran community on campus.

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