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Daveed Diggs
Performing and Media Arts

Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs to visit campus for talk

Cornell Chronicle

Daveed Diggs, who won Tony and Grammy awards for his portrayal of the dual roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in “Hamilton,” will visit campus Sept. 25 for a talk as the 2024 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist.

Book cover: Positioning Women in Conflict Studies
Government

Improving women’s status promotes peace – but how?

Cornell Chronicle

Scholars and policymakers need to look at more than "gender equality" to assess women’s status and how it contributes to political violence or peace, political scientist Sabrina Karim argues in a new book.

Painting of a mountain in blues, golds and greens
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Paul Cézanne’s ‘Mont Sainte-Victoire’ paintings, such as this one created in 1902-06, were influenced by French state programs for mountain preservation, Kelly Presutti argues.
History of Art and Visual Studies

How art helped to shape modern France

Cornell Chronicle

Art historian Kelly Presutti examines the role that depictions of landscape – in paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain and maps – played in the formation of modern France in a new book.

Steve Jackson smiling, talking to three people around a high table.
Steve Jackson (center), vice provost for academic innovation, meets with members of the Center for Teaching Innovation team: (from L to R) Adara Alston, Leslie Williams, and James Whalley.
Education Innovation

Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation: teaching the way people learn

Alumni Affairs & Development

As vice provost for academic innovation, Prof. Steve Jackson has been working to ensure that teaching in university classrooms, labs, studios, and field sites is aligned with what the latest research tells us about how people learn best.

Deanne Gebell Gitner, smiling, with short black hair, a jacket and pearl necklace
Provided Deanne Gebell Gitner '66
Awards

Donor’s Annual Prize Shows Appreciation for Teaching Assistants

Cornell University Graduate School

The Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants was created to put TAs in the spotlight, celebrating and recognizing them for their contributions to education at Cornell.

Neal Zaslaw, in glasses and short-sleeved button-down shirt, looking at a musical score long enough that he is holding it in both hands.
Ryan Young/Cornell University Neal Zaslaw
Music

‘Mr. Mozart’ finishes comprehensive catalog of maestro’s work

Cornell Chronicle

The three-decade project is a fitting capstone to the 85-year-old Neal Zaslaw’s career as one of the world’s leading Mozart authorities, one who was once dubbed “Mr. Mozart” by the New York Times.

Derek Penslar
Public Engagement

Final speaker in series examining antisemitism, Islamophobia

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell’s “Antisemitism and Islamophobia Examined” series concludes this semester with a talk by Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University.

Old-looking books of different heights and colors standing in a row
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections/Cornell University Library Books by early Black writers will be featured in the library exhibit, “Black Print: African American Writing, 1773-1910."
Literatures in English

Black print history, community featured in exhibit

Cornell Chronicle

The exhibit reveals how newspapers served as a powerful vehicle for literature, culture and community-building.

Fantastilcal ilustration showing a silhouette of a human face in pink, purple and blue celestial light populated by stars
Psychology

AI succeeds in combatting conspiracy theories

Cornell Chronicle

Conversations with large language models can effectively reduce individuals’ belief in conspiracy theories, a finding that offers new insights into the psychological mechanisms behind the phenomenon as well as potential tools to fight conspiracies’ spread.

Four head shots of four writers, arranged in a square
Provided Clockwise from top left: Aisha Abdel Gawad, Andrew Boryga, Amanda Moore, and C. Michelle Lindley
Creative Writing Program

Freund Prize winners to read Sept. 26 

A&S Communications

The work of the four winning writers – Andrew Boryga, Aisha Abdel Gawad, C. Michelle Lindley and Amanda Moore – spans a wide range of forms and topics.

Britney Schmidt
Noël Heaney/Cornell University Britney Schmidt
Astronomy

Scientist Britney Schmidt wins Blavatnik Award

Cornell Chronicle

… Astronomy … Carl Sagan Institute … Scientist Britney Schmidt wins Blavatnik Award …

Person writing on a dry-erase board with a window in the background
Chris Kitchen Neil Cholli often goes to the white board in his Uris Hall office to "think things through" while analyzing data on social mobility
Economics

Klarman Fellow to study consequences of the social safety net

A&S Communications

Neil Cholli, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in economics, has received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how inequality affects economic growth and well-being in the U.S.

yello triangles with holes punched in them, all conntected, on a blue background
Provided The kirigami robot is a hexagonal tiling composed of approximately 100 silicon dioxide panels that are connected through more than 200 actuating hinges.
Physics

Microscale kirigami robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers created a robot less than 1 millimeter in size that is printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morphs into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawls.

Detail of a woven cloth showing figures dressed in red and yellow
Jason Koski/Cornell University Detail of a Burmese cloth
Language study

Language ‘Sustainability through Collaboration’ Conference at Cornell

A&S Communications

Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.

Stone building on a college campus, seen from across a green lawn
History

Cornell history scholars in residence at Institute for Advanced Study

A&S Communications

Mara Yue Du, associate professor of history; Durba Ghosh, professor of history; and Rachel Weil, professor of history are pursuing research projects at the IAS campus in Princeton, New Jersey.