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Music

Doctoral student honored with Carnegie Hall commission

Arts & Sciences Communications

Charles Peck is one of only four classical composers chosen to create a piece for the New York Youth Symphony's First Music Program.

Student Awards

Four in Class of 2017 win Barry Goldwater Scholarships

Cornell Chronicle

A&S student Shivansh Chawla from the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology is researching the biochemistry underpinning diseases.

Research Breakthrough

Cornell-Swiss study reveals a 'sirtuin' way to a healthy heart

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers, working in collaboration with scientists in Switzerland, have identified a strong connection between a protein, SIRT5, and healthy heart function. 

Sean Cosgrove
Engaged Research Grants

Engaged Cornell graduate grants fund 4 A&S graduate students

Cornell Chronicle

Ten Cornell doctoral students will work with community partners in New York state and around the world on individual research projects supported by Engaged Cornell. The first Engaged Graduate Student Grants were announced by Vice Provost Judith Appleton.

Philosophy of Food

Philosophy prof. edits book on ethical eating

A&S Communications

“Everyone is talking about food. Chefs and food critics have become celebrities. To state that food production and consumption are increasingly in the public eye is to understate the point,” writes Andrew Chignell, associate professor of philosophy, and his two co-editors in the introduction of “Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating” (2016, Routledge).

Alumni in Film

PCCW symposium features women in the arts

Ezra Update

The President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) held a symposium centered on the arts, in Ithaca, March 4 to 6, and offered free events for the public.

Shoah Archive

Alumni key to building Shoah archive and bringing access to Cornell

Ezra Update

When Douglas Greenberg, M.A. '71, Ph.D. '74, was analyzing 6,000 court cases for his dissertation on crime and law enforcement in 18th-century New York City, computers were not in widespread use. But he realized technology could make his research more efficient.

Cornell University: A Home Away From Home

We've made it to April! While it's currently snowing here in Ithaca, we're sure spring is just around the corner, as is National College Decision Day (on May 1st).

Psychology

New book reintegrates the science of language

Arts & Sciences Communications

Is language innate? How did we get language? While researchers continue to debate, a new book offers a revolutionary, unifying framework for understanding the processing, acquisition and evolution of language. The book, “Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing” by Cornell Professor of Psychology Morten H.

Biology

Wild honeybees offer clues on preventing colony collapse

Cornell Chronicle

Over the past decades, millions of managed colonies of honeybees have died from varroa mites that transmit deadly viruses, yet wild colonies survive.Cornell researchers describe – in the March 11 issue of the journal PLoS One –experiments that help reveal how wild colonies endure mites and pathogens.

Alumni

Audio of Konvitz' American Ideals lectures now online

Cornell Chronicle

The legendary Cornell Professor Milton Konvitz, Ph.D. ’33, encouraged students to explore the origins of ideals embedded in the U.S. Constitution to understand civil rights and civil liberties.He referenced principles of intellectual history in such lectures as “The Hebrew Bible,” “Antigone” and “Revolution” in his “American Ideals” course, first offered in 1947.

Performing & Media Arts

Playwright Vogel returns to campus for Ph.D.

The Department of Performing and Media Arts will welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Paula Vogel to campus April 12-13 for a conversation and concert reading of her most recent play, “Indecent.”

Classics

Mortua lingua discipulorum auxilio reviviscit*

Cornell Chronicle

A new Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAC) class allows students to earn course credit while learning to converse in Latin.

Sciences & Mathematics

Three faculty win Simons Awards

Arts & Sciences Communications

Three Cornell faculty have been awarded Simons Fellowships in Theoretical Physics for their research. Eun-Ah Kim, associate professor of physics, Dong Lai, professor of astronomy and Maxim Perelstein, professor of physics were honored with the 2016 award from the foundation, which supports scientific research related to mathematics and physical sciences, life sciences and autism, as well as education and outreach efforts.

English

Robert Morgan publishes new novel, poetry collection

Cornell Chronicle

English Prof. Robert Morgan's new book tells the story of a runaway slave and his journey to freedom, which involves a city dear to our hearts.