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Career experiences

Students have multiple opportunities for career exploration over break

A&S Communications

Alumni offered advice at networking sessions and students tuned in virtually to gain insights related to internships and job searches.

Creative Writing

Susan Choi, MFA ’95, wins National Book Award

“I get to lead a life centered on books and bring other people into that world.”

What Makes Us Human?

Segregated Education

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fifth season, "What Do We Know about Inequality?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about inequality. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Thursday through the fall semester.

History

Historian and medievalist Brian Tierney dies at 97

Professor Emeritus Brian Tierney, who taught medieval history at Cornell for 33 years and was recognized as a leading authority on medieval church law and political thought, died Nov. 30 in Syracuse. He was 97.Tierney taught in the Department of History from 1959 until his retirement in 1992 as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies.

Biological Sciences

Post-kidney Transplant diagnostics

Cornell Research

Jonathon Han '21 spent his summer with nephrology patients at Weill Cornell Medical Center working to improve the diagnosis of post-transplant kidney-related diagnostics. He is profiled in a recent Cornell Research story.

Psychology

Student spotlight: Rachel King

Rachel King is a doctoral student in psychology from Rockford, Illinois. After earning her undergraduate degrees from Rock Valley Community College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she chose to attend Cornell for the intellectual freedom provided by its interdisciplinary nature.

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Looking for exoplanet life in all the right spectra

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide.

Languages

Sign of the times: American Sign Language thrives on campus

Cornell Chronicle

The new ASL classes meet the College of Arts & Sciences’ three-semester world language requirement.

Drawing depiction of antibiotic resistant bacteria in film.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Physical forces affect bacteria’s toxin resistance, study finds

Cornell Chronicle

A random conversation between two Cornell researchers led to a collaboration between a chemist and an engineer.

History

History prof. discusses history of Thanksgiving meals

Time Magazine

Postdoctoral associate of History Adrienne Bitar was featured in TIME Magazine dertialing the hisotry of vegetarian opposition to serving turkey on Thanksgiving. Bitar specializes in the study of American food and health history and culture. She is the author of "Diets and the Disease of Civilization