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Careers

Alumni welcome students for career explorations over winter break

A&S Communications

From externships to networking events with alumni, students took advantage of the break to think about their next steps.

Entrepreneurship

Undergrad’s concussion detection device offers speedy diagnosis

A&S Communications

The device would allow coaches to make better informed decisions before returning an athlete to play.

Government

No, Trump didn't do surprisingly well among Latino voters

New York Daily News

In this NY Daily News opinion piece, Sergio Garcia-Rios, assistant professor of government and Latina/o studies, says exit polls reporting that Donald Trump received a larger share of the Latino vote than Mitt Romney did in the 2012 were wrong.

Outreach

Nine Arts and Sciences faculty chosen as 2017 Public Voices Fellows

A&S Communications

The voices shaping the important conversations of our age, from racial unrest to income inequality and sustainability, are getting a little more diverse, thanks to Cornell University's Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship Program. 

Physics

In Search of New Physics Phenomena

Cornell Research

Despite the distance, Cornell researchers are actively involved in the cutting-edge particle physics experiments taking place at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.This Cornell Research story explores the many projects and discoveries Cornell faculty are undertaking as they pursue answers to some of the universe's greatest mysteries.

Alumni

'Radical collaboration' sets its sights on cancer treatment

Cornell Chronicle

A&S alum Dr. Lewis Cantley is a leader on the project, which could dramatically shorten the timeline for new drug treatments and possibly save millions of lives.

English

Renowned local authors launch spring Zalaznick Reading Series

Department of English

The Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading features poet and writer Alice Fulton and fiction writer Helena María Viramontes.

History of Art

Alum reimagines blackness in contemporary African-American art

A&S Communications

Derek Conrad Murray’s MA ’04, PhD ’05 recently published book, Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights (2016), arose from his interest in “post-blackness,” a term that emerged in the art world in the early 2000s, and immediately became a controversial and hotly-debated topic.

Government

Op-Ed: Americans have overly dramatic view of authoritarianism

Vox

Thomas Pepinsky, associate professor of government, writes in this Vox opinion piece that Americans have a "fantastical" and "cartoonish" image of authoritarianism, while life for people living in authoritarian countries is similar to the daily life of many Americans.

Performing & media arts

The page, the screen, the stage

Cornell Research

In the short story “How to Win an Unwinnable War,” a seventh-grade boy named Sam enrolls in a summer school class called How to Win a Nuclear War. The story traces Sam’s morbid reflections spurred by the course—“He wonders what the stars will see the day the war begins, the whole planet brightening, then going gray like a dead bulb”—as he simultaneously grapples with the dissolution of his parent’s marriage.

Romance Studies

Where did the language of money come from?

Cornell Research

Everywhere we turn in modern Western society, we run into the influence of economics. Our worldview, and our very language, is colored by it. We worry that politicians can be bought and sold. We give credit to those who can afford a comfortable retirement. We debate the price of a free society as police clash with protestors.

Government

Meeting the world

Cornell Research

Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, offers a look into his world of teaching and research in international relations in this video on the Cornell Research site.

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Alumni

Alumni boost students' careers

Alumni Affairs & Development

Many alumni working for large and small companies mentor, encourage and recruit Cornell students.

Spotlight on: North Campus

This week, Ellie Schmucker '19 describes her love for North Campus, which houses all Cornell freshman. North Campus provides a unique community where first-year students live and learn together. Ellie's message to freshman and incoming Cornellians is clear: don't take your experience on North Campus for granted! By: Ellie Schmucker '19

Cornell Dining: 29 Eateries and Endless Options

This week, junior Dylan Van Duyne discusses part of the reason he loves Cornell so much: the food.