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Roberto Sierra
Music

Sierra wins Latin Grammy for guitar sonata

Cornell Chronicle

Composer Roberto Sierra won for “Music from Cuba and Spain, Sierra: Sonata para Guitarra.”

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Student awards

Two juniors receive Caplan Travel Fellowships

A&S Communications

Garrett Emmons '23 and Hannah Master '23 won fellowships worth $5,000 to study and conduct research in Italy and Israel, respectively.

Pregnant woman in tight red dress with hands on stomach.
Image by Pexels from Pixabay
Sociology

Declining birth rate reflects difficulty of combining work and child rearing

A&S Communications

Prof. Vida Maralani comments on the declining birthrate in the U.S.

Wynton Marsalis leading a class of students
Jason Koski/Cornell University Students in the class Elements of Music (Music 1101) listen to A.D. White Professor-in-Large Wynton Marsalis (left) Nov. 2 in Lincoln Hall.
A.D. White Professor-At-Large

Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’

A&S Communications

Wynton Marsalis visited campus Nov. 1-6 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

A border wall painted different colors blocking a section of beach with the ocean visible.
Photo by Barbara Zandoval on Unsplash Tijuana border wall.
Government

Migration treaty violations, trade central to U.S.-Mexico-Canada summit

A&S Communications

Prof. Gustavo Flores-Macías comments on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada summit on Nov. 18, 2021.

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Chris Kitchen Molly O'Toole
Distinguished Visiting Journalist Program

Humanizing the immigration issue

A&S Communications

Molly O’Toole '09, this semester's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist Fellow, shared career advice, political insights and anecdotes from her work and life during two recent talks.

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Society for the Humanities

Prof. to speak on Black print culture and democracy

Society for the Humanities

At this year’s Invitational Lecture for the Society for the Humanities, “Defining Democracy: How Black Print Culture Shaped America, Then and Now,” associate professor of literatures in English Derrick Spires will counter the racist notion that little to no Black print culture existed before the Civil War.

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Social sciences

Center for Social Sciences awards fall ’21 grants

Cornell Chronicle

Ten Arts & Sciences faculty and numerous graduate students won awards from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences.

old photos of a woman and young boy
Stephan Loewentheil Photograph Collection, #8043. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library A photo of a young boy and a woman from the Loewentheil Collection
Student research

Library immersions deepen student research

Cornell Chronicle

A doctoral student researching Black life in the U.S. after the abolition of slavery, Victoria Baugh was fascinated by the hundreds of studio portraits in the Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photography at Cornell University Library.

Tamika Nunley
History

Prof. Tamika Nunley's book wins multiple prizes

A&S Communications

Professor Tamika Nunley's book, “At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.," has now won two awards.

Dark-skinned person cupping hands under a stream of water.
Photo by mrjn Photography on Unsplash
Africana Studies

Infrastructure bill comes amid all-time high distrust of water

A&S Communications

Africana Prof. Jerel Ezell comments on Pres. Biden's infrastructure bill.

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Distinguished Visiting Journalists

Journalists to discuss role of reporting in immigration debate

A&S Communications

Three Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters and authors will be on campus Dec. 1 for an event that will also be livestreamed on eCornell. Register now!

Lisette Lorenz
Science & Technology Studies

Student spotlight: Lissette Lorenz

Cornell University Graduate School

Lissette Lorenz is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Miami, Florida.

two women looking at papers
Provided Soledad Chango speaking with students at the International Fair on Sept. 1.
Language

Quechua language instruction returns to Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

The Quechua language returned to Cornell’s curriculum this fall after a 15-year hiatus, thanks to a group of students who organized to bring it back and an instructor who traveled to Ithaca from her home in the Andean highlands of Ecuador.

Siyu Huang holding a battery
Provided Siyu Huang, MS ’11, PhD ’13, MBA ’14, founder and CEO of Factorial Energy, with Factorial’s 40-amp-hour solid-state battery cell
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Electric uprising: Factorial Energy—new lightning, new bottles

SC Johnson College of Business

Factorial Energy has unveiled a 40-amp-hour solid-state battery cell for electric vehicles.