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Michaela Novakova: 'The Cornell community made me feel at home'

5/1/2018

Michaela NovakovaGovernmentBrno, Czech RepublicWhy did you choose Cornell?I chose Cornell because it is an incredibly welcoming environment where people with different backgrounds can thrive. I am an international student, but the Cornell community made me feel at home here, supported and unfettered in the pursuits of my academic and extracurricular passions.What Cornell memory do you treasure the most?

Astronomy

Martha Haynes tours the heavens in Phi Beta Kappa lecture

4/30/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Martha Haynes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, led an audience of students and faculty on a “journey across space and time” April 25 in Philip Lewis Hall.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Podcast explores science fiction and the human future

4/30/2018 A&S Communications

A new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series explores how science fiction can help make sense of climate change.

American Studies & History

Jelani Cobb to address questions of policing and racial justice in Krieger Lecture

4/27/2018 A&S Communications

The escalating tensions between police and the black community in the United States will be the subject of the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture, delivered by historian Jelani Cobb. The event will include a screening of Cobb’s PBS Frontline documentary “Policing the Police,” followed by a conversation with Russell Rickford, associate professor of history in the College of Arts & Sciences.

History of Art

Students curate Johnson Museum exhibit

4/27/2018 Cornell Chronicle

A new student-organized exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art surveys American artists’ use of landscape as the country expanded between the middle of the 19th and 20th centuries.

College Scholar

College Scholars explore Japanese cultural property to tech design

4/26/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The College Scholar program allows students to design their own interdisciplinary majors.

History

History grad has front row seat to D.C. drama

4/26/2018 Ezra

When Jordan Fabian ’09 walks the halls of the White House, he always has three questions in his mind, just in case President Donald Trump happens to pass him in the hallway.

English

Mukoma explores African literacy tradition in new book

4/25/2018 Cornell Chronicle

The book restores a missing foundational period to the African literary tradition.

Anthropology & Romance Studies & Latina/o Studies Program

Alumna researches the politics of infrastructure in Puerto Rico

4/25/2018 Ezra

Rosa Ficek '03 majored in anthropology and Spanish as an undergrad at Cornell.

Psychology & Sociology & English

Engaged Cornell grants fund undergrad and faculty research

4/26/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Students, faculty and community partners will study education, inequality and equity, and community health and sustainability.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Music

Jerrold Meinwald, 2014 National Medal of Science winner, dies at 91

4/25/2018 Cornell Chronicle

Jerrold Meinwald, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry Emeritus and a 2014 winner of the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for achievement in science and engineering, died April 23 in Ithaca. He was 91.

Mathematics

Strogatz, Bethe research papers named to top-50 list

4/25/2018 Cornell Chronicle

In 1893 in Franklin Hall (now Olive Tjaden Hall), the Physical Review debuted as the inaugural publication of the American Physical Society (APS). The APS is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Physical Review and has selected 50 “milestone” research papers spanning a wide range of important results. Fittingly, a few of those papers feature Cornell researchers.

Neurobiology and Behavior