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Music

Musicologist Andrew Hicks receives awards for book

A&S Communications

Andrew Hicks, associate professor of music and medieval studies, has been recognized with two awards for his recent book, “Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos,” published by Oxford University Press.

Alumni connections

Alumna takes Broadway across the country

A&S Communications

After graduating as a theater major, Dana Lerner ’14 wanted to make some connections on Broadway. So, as a budding entrepreneur, she began networking and investing in Broadway and off-Broadway shows.Those early connections and projects, which introduced her to the inner world of Broadway productions, have paid off, giving her an understanding of everything from budgets to operating agreements.

Alumni awards

Alumna animator earns festival awards for newest film

A&S Communications

Looking at an animated film by Lynn Tomlinson ’88, a viewer feels like they’re in front of an impressionist painting by Van Gogh or the Hudson River School painters, or riding the waves with fishermen in a work by Winslow Homer.Tomlinson uses colorful, clay-on-glass animation to create her stories, a process where oil-based modeling clay is spread thinly on a glass sheet and moved frame-by-frame like a moving finger painting.

Faculty excellence

Nine faculty members elected AAAS fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Nine Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.

Alumni support

Alumni gift funds new music professorship, supports wind symphony

A&S Communications

Dick Silver ’50 MD ‘53, says the professors who took the most interest in him were his music professors.

Classics

Two juniors receive Caplan Travel Fellowships

A&S Communications

Sydnie Chavez '20 and Sophia Evans '20 have each been awarded a Harry Caplan Travel Fellowship worth $5,000 to study and conduct research in Greece and Spain, respectively.

Astronomy

As InSight lands on Mars, Cornell's Banfield gets to work

Cornell Chronicle

After cruising for 205 days over 301 million miles, NASA’s InSight spacecraft – a mission designed to probe beneath the surface of Mars – landed flawlessly Nov. 26 at Elysium Planitia.

First-generation student support

Alumni provide challenge funding for Posse program

A&S Communications

"Their excitement, their enthusiasm, their freshness — it’s contagious."

Astronomy

Fabrication of powerful telescope begins

A&S Communications

Fabrication of the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-p), a powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths, has now begun, marking a major milestone in the project.

Outreach

School kid scientists propose experiments for International Space Station

Cornell Chronicle

The opportunity to send a science experiment into orbit drew dozens of children and their families to Space Night at Case Middle School in Watertown, New York, Nov. 9. Student teams from after-school programs in Jefferson County, many of whom worked with scientist advisers at Cornell, presented their proposals for experiments that could be delivered to the International Space Station next summer.