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Digital Collections

Hidden Cornell treasures to be digitized

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Some hidden Cornell treasures soon will be available to scholars around the world, thanks to the Cornell University Library and the College of Arts and Sciences’ Grants Program for Digital Collections, which this year awarded four grants.

Classics

Fontaine plays Sherlock Holmes with book on rare play

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Like many good mysteries, it began with innocent curiosity. Michael Fontaine was on paternity leave and, wanting “a small project” to occupy him between baby duties, thought he’d write about “Mater-Virgo,” a 17th-century play by Lutheran pastor Joannes Burmeister, based on a work by the Roman playwright Plautus.

History

New book examines 'I' vs. 'us' in late antiquity

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To understand the past – and, often, the present – we group people together, attributing the same characteristics to individuals in a group as we do to the group as a whole, especially when it comes to religion.Éric Rebillard challenges this approach in a new book, co-edited with Jörg Rüpke, titled “Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity.”

Performance

Students stage dance, drama and comedy at the Schwartz Center

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Following last year’s successful 150 Events series, the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) will continue its new tradition of student-led theater, film and dance performances in its 2015-16 season.

"I have become tenacious in pursuit of my dreams, most of which I didn't even know I had until coming here."

Jasmine Edison '15 Major: MusicHometown: Warner Robins, GAWhy did you choose Cornell?

"The groundwork for an open and hungry mind."

… a school where I wouldn't feel pressured to fit a mold. The motto "any person, any study" doesn't feel tired, even … my freshman year. I found it comforting that Cornell, and the College of Arts & Sciences in particular, actively … team my freshman year having never played a competitive sport in high school. At first I was simply following the …

"Research instilled in me a passion for science and exploration."

Roger Michaelides '15 Majors: Physics & Science of Earth Systems Hometown: Libertyville, ILWhy did you choose Cornell?I choose Cornell because of its exceptional physics and geology programs, diverse student body and academic programs, and its world class planetary science research groups.  After growing up in the midwest, Ithaca'a local geology and natural preserves were also very appealing!

HISTORY OF ART

Unfinished ‘map’ of cultural images online

Cornell Chronicle

Aby Warburg – whose early 20th-century emphasis on the power of recurrent images was eerily prescient of contemporary thought – died before he could finish his “Mnemosyne Atlas,” consisting of large panels of collages tracing the history of art.

STUDENT LIFE

Prefreshman Summer Program preps students

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Ruby Rhoden ’17 expected her arrival at Cornell would be like landing on a new planet, with everything from the social environment to the academics substantially different from where she came from.

DIVERSITY

Cornell welcomes most diverse freshman class

Cornell Chronicle

First-year students arriving on campus this week are members of Cornell’s most racially diverse incoming freshman class since the university began keeping records on race in the early 1980s.

RESEARCH

Physics grad student describes women behind the Large Hadron Collider

Discov-HER.com

Margaret Zientek, one of nine PhD students from Cornell working at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, is featured in this story about women making their way in this male-dominated environment.“I am working on a search for dark matter particles,” she says

RESEARCH

Book on thought unites neuroscience, humanities

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A new book tackles questions of thought and meaning.

COLLEGE SCHOLARS

College Scholars study climate change, local food

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When Irene Li ’15 isn’t hunkered down surveying the latest research on the local food movement and social change, she’s in a Boston kitchen, meeting growers or dreaming up new items for her food truck and restaurant.Li, one of three sibling owners of Mei Mei Kitchen in Boston, is a College Scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences, who will return to her family business after graduating.This year’s class of College Scholars presented their final projects April 17.

Entrepreneurship

Students spend summer incubating their business ideas

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While most Cornell students headed home for the summer – off to internships, work or play – a group of entrepreneurial undergrads and graduate students are staying in Ithaca for intensive business development as part of the new Life Changing Labs (LCL) summer incubator.

Liberal Arts

Senior uses double major to find meaning in small details

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Chinelo Onyilofor ’15 has found that her studies in chemistry and art history have taught her the art of looking for small details, whether she’s finding the hidden meaning in a painting or an answer to solve a chemical synthesis.After she graduates this weekend, Onyilofor, a double major in the College of Arts and Sciences from Annapolis, Maryland, plans to travel for a year before going to graduate school to pursue a doctorate in organic chemistry.