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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.

Community outreach

Undergrads share lab know-how with high school students

A&S Communications

In her lab in the basement of Uris Hall, Lindsay Rait ’17, experiments with rats as she studies the role of the brain’s hippocampus in contextual memory. One day a week, she welcomes Lehman Alternative Community School junior Mohammed Williams into the lab, where he soaks up information about her research methods and also explores whether a career in research might be the right pathway for him.

Performing & Media Arts

Student-made films to screen at Schwartz Center

A&S Communications

From stories of budding romances to a vampire huntress out for revenge, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will screen films written and directed by students from Advanced Filmmaking (PMA 4585) and photographed by students from Cinematography (PMA 4420).The free screenings will take place at 7 p.m. May 15 in the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Awards & Honors

Einaudi Center announces first group of dissertation program awardees

Einaudi Center

Twelve Cornell graduate students have been selected for the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPDP), the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies announced.

Classics

Doctoral student receives prize for archaeological research

A&S Communications

Liana Brent, a PhD candidate in Classics, has been honored with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome for her project, “Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, Reuse, and Violation in Roman Italy.”

Entrepreneurship

A&S students win Big Idea Competition with brain trainer, finance course

A&S Communications

Big Idea finalists were chosen from a pool of 85 entries.

Government

Students take sides in International Criminal Court simulation

Einaudi Center

Role-playing game lets participants into hearts and minds of people facing conflict.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Chemistry's Coates elected to National Academy of Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Geoffrey W. Coates, the Tisch University Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, is one of 84 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced May 2.

Government

Power in World Politics

Cornell Research

For Peter J. Katzenstein, Government, the events that led to the financial crisis caused him to look again at important aspects in world politics.

Undergraduate Research

CURB enthusiasm: Undergrads show off research at forum

Cornell Chronicle

More than 80 students unveiled their scholarly work at the 32nd annual Spring Research Forum hosted April 27 by the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB).

English

English professors discuss friendship, collaborative project

Cornell Chronicle

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Dagmawi Woubshet, associate professors of English, discussed their ongoing collaborative project with the public May 3 in Klarman Hall.

Neurobiology and Behavior

Colony density, not hormones, triggers honeybee 'puberty'

A&S Communications

Honeybees, it seems, do not enter “puberty” because of chemical signals like hormones.

English

A Natural Storyteller Talks about His Art

Cornell Research

Robert R.Morgan, professor of English, spoke about how writing and storytelling took over his life.