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In Memoriam

Renowned biochemist David B. Wilson dies at 77

Cornell Chronicle

David B. Wilson, professor of molecular biology and genetics and a world leader in the field of enzymology, died April 29. He was 77.

Woman gathering food
Anthropology

Anthropologist explores toxicity and healing in East Africa

A&S Communications

For the past four years, Stacey Langwick has worked with producers of therapeutic foods and herbal medicines in Tanzania.

Philosophy

A political philosopher speaks

Cornell Research

The research of Richard W. Miller, professor of philosophy and director of the Program on Ethics & Public Life, is explored in this recent Cornell Research story.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

SIRT6's ability to suppress cancer cell growth is explained

Cornell Chronicle

The group found that preventing a certain type of reaction slows cell division and, therefore, cancer cell proliferation.

Global Cornell

Bringing the world to campus

Global Cornell

This year’s Cornell Model United Nations Conference brought more than 800 high school students to campus in April. The conference, which is organized annually by the Cornell International Affairs Society, included high school delegates who hailed from across the United States and from around the world.

Diversity awards

Student, staff, faculty diversity honored with OADI awards

Cornell Chronicle

As a first-generation college graduate and a woman of color, Cornell trustee Laura Wilkinson, J.D. ’85, MBA ’86 – former deputy assistant director of the Federal Trade Commission, now an antitrust lawyer and partner in private practice – had little difficulty writing her keynote speech for the fourth annual Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ (OADI) Honors Awards Ceremony May 5.

Music

10th annual Mayfest features music, wine, yoga, poetry

Under the artistic direction of pianists Miri Yampolsky and Xak Bjerken, Cornell University’s Department of Music celebrates the 10th anniversary of Mayfest, its annual springtime festival of chamber music, May 19-23.

Jewish studies

Jewish studies' lecturer Sampson is an NYC hero

A&S Communications

Elissa Sampson, visiting scholar and lecturer in the Jewish Studies Program, will be honored May 18 with a Lower East Side Community Hero Award as part of the Lower East Side History Month celebration in New York City. The award recognizes community members “whose contributions have been deeply meaningful and yet are often the ‘unsung’ heroes of the neighborhood,” according to the award announcement.

Psychology

In brain evolution, size matters -- most of the time

Cornell Chronicle

The findings uncover a principle that may also help explain human evolution.

Astronomy

Preserving our 'pale blue dot' is focus of first Sagan lecture

Cornell Chronicle

Lord Martin Rees, who has probed deep into the cosmos, studied gamma-ray bursts and galactic formations, spoke May 8 at Cornell’s David L. Call Alumni Auditorium on issues closer to home: the preservation of our “pale blue dot.”

Archaeology

Archaeologists discover elaborate 'cosmopolitan' paintings of ancient Egypt

An article in the International Business Times features research by Caitlin Barrett, associate professor of classics, about paintings depicting the Nile River in the garden of a large ancient villa in Pompeii.Barrett says that the paintings could hold secrets on how the early Roman Empire was influenced by ancient Egypt.

Alumni

Alum has starred in off-Broadway’s Perfect Crime for three straight decades,

Cornell Alumni Magazine

This Cornell Alumni Magazine story highlihts the three-decade run of alum Catherine Russell in "The Perfect Crime."

Students walking on city street
Africana Studies

Class gathers oral histories of Caribbean residents in Brooklyn

Cornell Chronicle

The oral history project and field trip were supported by an Engaged Opportunity Grant.

Chemistry

Yimon Aye awarded young investigator cancer research prize

Cornell Chronicle

Yimon Aye, a Howard Milstein faculty fellow and assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences with a secondary appointment at Weill Cornell Medicine, is one of six winners of this year’s Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research, which supports New York-based scientists exploring innovative avenues in the fight against cancer.

Student leaders

Meet Olivia Corn ’19, leader of CU’s College Republicans

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Photo by Lisa Banlaki FrankA&S student Olivia Corn, leader of the Cornell Republicans, is profiled in this Cornell Alumni Magazine story as she heads the organization at a monumental time in U.S. politics.