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Alumni profiles

Alum: Postwar Cornell was a competitive training ground

A&S Communications

Richard W. "Dick" Pogue's '50 freshman class wasn't like most classes that enter Cornell together. In 1946, 75 percent of the first-year students were veterans returning from service in World War II. Another 10 percent were women, and the other 15 percent were "greenhorn high school boys" like Pogue.

Student experience

2016 grad headed to Cambodia to help curb labor trafficking

A&S Communications

Maggie Wong ‘16 signed up for Chinese classes when she came to Cornell so that she could more effectively communicate with her grandparents.Four years later, she’s using some of the classes she took in Asian studies and her language-learning abilities as she heads to a year-long internship with an international non-profit in Cambodia.

Student research

Doctoral students present work at Stockholm conference

A&S Communications

From left, government faculty members Gustavo Flores-Macias and Sarah Kreps with graduate students Colin Chia, Minqi Chai & Caitlin Mastroe.Six doctoral students from the Department of Government presented papers and met fellow PhD students and faculty interested in issues of global security during a workshop May 23-25 in Sweden.

New Century for the Humanities

Scholars explore Constitution's history in May 26 panel

Cornell Chronicle

Two of the country’s foremost constitutional scholars – Michael Klarman and Michael Dorf – offered their thoughts on the history of the U.S. Constitution at a panel during the May 26 Klarman Hall dedication.Interim President Hunter Rawlings, Cornell president emeritus and professor emeritus of classics, opened the panel he moderated with reflections on James Madison, America’s “greatest scholar-president.”

Faculty

Top faculty advisers, TAs honored at dinner

Cornell Chronicle

College of Arts and Sciences faculty member Sarah Murray received the Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, and Linda Nicholson received the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award in the College of Arts and Sciences at a May 28 trustee-faculty dinner which recognized universitywide teaching and advising and newly tenured faculty.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Infectious disease experts join forces, host global meeting

Cornell Chronicle

In recent years, Cornell has amassed an impressive stable of experts in an emerging field for modern times: The ecology and evolution of infectious disease.

Music

Tonia Ko wins BMI Student Composer Award

Doctoral student Tonia Ko was one of nine classical composers to win a Student Composer Award May 16 from Broadcast Music, Inc.  The awards are given to composers age 15-27 who are recognized for their superior musical compositional abilities. The students are awarded scholarship grants, which help them with their musical education.

Romance Studies

Conference in Spain on work of Edmundo Paz Soldán

Arts & Sciences Communications

A conference on the writing of Bolivian author Edmundo Paz-Soldán, professor of Spanish literature in the Department of Romance Studies, was held at the University of Seville, Spain, on May 25. The conference explored Paz-Soldán’s “narrative path,” and featured speakers from Spain, France, Bolivia and Belgium.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Beyond milkweed: Monarchs face habitat, nectar threats

Cornell Chronicle

In the face of scientific dogma that faults the population decline of monarch butterflies on a lack of milkweed, herbicides and genetically modified crops, a new Cornell study casts wider blame: sparse autumnal nectar sources, weather and habitat fragmentation.

Awards and Honors

Four on faculty receive Carpenter advising awards

Cornell Chronicle

Deputy Provost John Siliciano presented Cornell faculty members Sahara Byrne, (Kit-Yee) Daisy Fan, María Cristina García and James P. Lassoie with 2016 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards May 28 at a trustee-faculty dinner.

Humanities & Arts

Faculty reflect on life-changing works at Klarman dedication

Cornell Chronicle

“Me, my partner and [Flaubert’s] ‘Sentimental Education’ were on vacation in the south of France. And it wasn’t pretty,” said literary theorist Paul Fleming during the May 26 “Transformative Humanities: Faculty Reflections on Life-Changing Creative Works” panel celebrating the dedication of Klarman Hall.

Sustainability

New cross-college Environment and Sustainability major being explored

Arts & Sciences Communications

The new major would allow students to explore the social, ethical, and public policy dimensions of environmental issues.

Student honors

A&S Merrill scholars honor teachers

Cornell Chronicle

Jason Lefkovitz invited his high school history teacher, David Miles, to join him at the 28th annual Merrill Presidential Scholars Convocation luncheon.He also invited Ronald Ehrenberg, the Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, as each of the 33 Merrill scholars was asked to bring to the event two teachers who have made a great impact on their lives, academic and otherwise. Nine of the scholars are Arts & Sciences students.

Celebrating the Humanities

Klarman Hall feted as 'place of community, intersection'

Cornell Chronicle

"The space itself is a perfect expression of our commitment to the humanities," says Dean Gretchen Ritter '83.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Vikram Gadagkar MS ’10, PhD ‘13, receives Simons Fellowship

Arts & Sciences Communications

Vikram Gadagkar MS ’10, PhD ‘13 was recently awarded a prestigious three-year, $234,150 Simons Foundation fellowship with the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB). SCGB seeks to expand understanding of the role of internal brain processes in the arc from sensation to action, thereby discovering the nature, role and mechanisms of the neural activity that produces cognition.