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DIVERSITY

Third Posse group thriving at Cornell

12/17/2015 A&S Communications

This semester, the College of Arts & Sciences, together with the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives (OADI) welcomed the third cohort of Posse Program students to Cornell.And for the first time, OADI sponsored visits for First Year Parents Weekend, welcoming parents of this freshman group to visit their children, meet with other Posse families and explore Ithaca.

MUSIC

Yujin 'Stacy' Joo '16 wins Cornell Concerto Competition

12/16/2015 Cornell Chronicle

Pianist Yujin "Stacy" Joo '16 won the 12th annual Cornell Concerto Competition Dec. 13 for her performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26, Mvt. 1, accompanied by Blaise Bryski. A chemistry and biology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, Joo has played piano for ensembles including the orchestra, wind symphony and a cover band.

SOCIOLOGY

Scholar describes pitfalls minorities face in academia

12/14/2015 Cornell Chronicle

For scholars from underrepresented minority groups, the concept of selection in academia and professional education is inseparable from historic and contemporary realities of exclusion and marginalization.Explaining the complexities of this selection was the main theme of the Fall Diversity in Scholarship and Engagement Symposium keynote speech, delivered by sociologist Steven E. Alvarado, Dec. 7 in Warren Hall.

Spotlight on: Carl Becker House

By: Madeline Cohen '18

In Memoriam

Benedict Anderson, who wrote ‘Imagined Communities,' dies

12/15/2015 Cornell Chronicle

Benedict Anderson, a Cornell professor emeritus in government who wrote “Imagined Communities,” the book that set the pace for the academic study of nationalism, died Dec. 13 in East Java, Indonesia. He was 79.Anderson, the Aaron L. Binenkorb Emeritus Professor of International Studies, taught at Cornell from 1967 to 2002.

Sounds

Class creates online 'soundscape' of Cornell

12/15/2015 A&S Communications

Take an audio tour of the Cornell campus, thanks to this class blog.

LINGUISTICS

Linguistics grad uses social media in dialect research

12/10/2015 A&S Communications

When Martha Austen ’13 used to say she was fixin’ to eat supper, she wondered why her Cornell friends would raise their eyebrows a bit in her direction.Now, she’s made the study of sociophonetics — the study of sound and how speech varies based on different social factors — her focus as a graduate student at Ohio State University.And she’s using Twitter as a way to gain access to a mountain of data on people’s speech and dialects.

Southeast Asia Program

Helping a Broadway theatre with historical consulting

12/9/2015

A group of sleepy students tumbled out of bed early one Saturday morning in April 2015 to board a bus with me from Ithaca to New York City’s renowned Lincoln Center Theatre.

ASTRONOMY

Mission scientists offer an intimate look at Pluto

12/7/2015 A&S Communications

Hundreds of students, faculty and community members braved a foggy, rainy night Dec. 2 for a behind-the-scenes look at the New Horizons mission to Pluto, given by mission scientists Cathy Olkin and Ann Harch in the Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall.

ASIAN STUDIES

Book explores Sunni, Shi’a Muslims’ devotion in SE Asia

12/9/2015

Chiara Formichi, assistant professor of Asian studies, is celebrating the release of her new book, “Shi’ism in South East Asia” (Hurst & Co./Oxford University Press; co-edited with R. Michael Feener, 2015).

ALUMNI

Alum wins Scaglione Prize from Modern Language Association

12/8/2015 A&S Communications

Irving Goh PhD ’12, was recently awarded the named the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Literary from the Modern Language Association for his book, “The Reject: Community, Politics, And Religion After The Subject.”

Living and Learning in the Japanese Language House

As the holidays approach and we close out the semester here at Cornell, and as prospective high school seniors put the finishing touches on their college applications, we thought it would be nice to focus on the things we love most about Cornell. This first post is from sophomore Jendayi Brooks-Flemister, who writes about her experience living in the Japanese Language House on West Campus. Enjoy and happy holidays! By: Jendayi Brooks-Flemister '18

Psychology

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