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Writing on the theme of "Easing Back into Classes," junior Sheyla tells us about an exciting class on Beyoncé, intersectional identity, and feminism.  By Sheyla Finkner '19, Biology and Society major

Faculty excellence

Six faculty honored with Weiss teaching awards

Cornell Chronicle

Six Cornell faculty members — including four in the College of Arts & Sciences — have been recognized by the university for excellence in their teaching of undergraduate students and contributions to undergraduate education.

History of art

Exhibition, research project highlight learning from Rembrandt’s art

Cornell Chronicle

Rembrandt van Rijn’s art and artistic practice have fascinated scholars and collectors for centuries. His printmaking methods, and prints from across hiscareer, are revealed as an inspirational resource for research and teaching in a new exhibition of his etchings at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Magnetic tweezers reveal ‘hairballs’ in polymer growth

Cornell Chronicle

Conventional wisdom has said that when molecules known as monomers band together to create a polymer chain, that creation takes place steadily as the chain forms, like spaghetti out of a pasta maker. But a Cornell research collaboration shows that’s just not the case.

Faculty diversity

New provost's task force continues push for a diverse Cornell faculty

Cornell Chronicle

Provost Michael I. Kotlikoff has launched a task force to recommend new approaches to enhance and accelerate the diversity of the Cornell faculty.

Public Engagement

Engaged Cornell's Spirit Grows

Cornell Chronicle

Engaged Cornell’s spirit grows in the colleges, schools and other campus units, such as the Community Learning and Service Partnership, Cornell in Washington, the Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell Abroad, the Cornell Public Service Center, The Cornell Commitment collection of programs, the Cornell Prison Education Program, the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives, the Office of Engagement Initiatives and more.A few examples:

Academic Excursions

Students broaden their perspective of ‘Caribbean Urbanisms’ through NYC excursion

A&S Communications

From September 8-10, students taking a new Spanish literature course traveled to New York City to examine its identity as a Latinx Caribbean diasporic city.

Undergraduate Education

Cornell launches Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

A $20 million gift from the Milstein family will launch the first undergraduate program to link the Ithaca and Roosevelt Island campuses.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Top neuroscientists headline Mong neurotech symposium

A&S Communications

In his opening remarks at the second annual Cornell Neurotech Mong Family Foundation Symposium Sept. 22, Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff said: “The goals of Cornell Neurotech are vital ones, with life-changing implications, and I am grateful to Stephen Mong and the Mong Family Foundation for enabling Cornell faculty and staff to strive toward them.

Saturn's rings
Astronomy

To keep Saturn’s A ring contained, its moons stand united

Cornell Chronicle

For three decades, astronomers thought that only Saturn’s moon Janus confined the planet’s A ring – the largest and farthest of the visible rings. But after poring over NASA’s Cassini mission data, Cornell astronomers now conclude that the teamwork of seven moons keeps this ring corralled.

Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett standing together in black and white
Media studies

NPR’s “The World According to Sound” comes to Klarman Hall

A&S Communications

Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett, co-creators of the 90-second NPR radio show, “The World According to Sound,” will be on campus to offer a presentation at 7 p.m., Oct. 25 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Mathematics

Mathematician Roger H. Farrell dies at age 88

Cornell Chronicle

Roger H. Farrell, professor emeritus of mathematics, died Sept. 28 at Hospicare in Ithaca. He was 88.Farrell, who joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell as an instructor in 1959, spent his entire career at Cornell.

Chemistry

Advance in lipid imaging could impact cancer treatment

Cornell Chronicle

A cellular biology “mystery” is closer to being solved, thanks to sleuthing in the lab of Jeremy Baskin, assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

How We Love

This is an episode in the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Anthropology

For anthropologist, doll exchange is not child's play

Cornell Chronicle

Hirokazu Miyazaki doesn’t usually get his research ideas from his son. But last year, after reading a children’s book about an exchange of dolls among Japanese and American schoolchildren in the 1920s, then-10-year-old Xavier asked his father to investigate.