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Anna Esaki-Smith
Anna Esaki-Smith
Alumni

What my winding career path taught me about college

Cornellians

Asian Studies alum Anna Esaki-Smith ’83, who struggled with what to do after graduation is author of 'Make College Your Superpower: It’s Not Where You Go, It’s What You Know'

hundreds of workers wearing red caps bend over long tables, rolling cigarettes
Marina Welker/Provided Workers hand roll kretek in a "living factory" at House of Sampoerna, a kretek museum in the East Javanese port city of Surabaya. Kretek museums present the history of the commodity in a nostalgic and flattering light and frame kretek manufacturers as benevolent patrons.
Anthropology

Why kretek – ‘no ordinary cigarette’ – thrives in Indonesia

Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, anthropologist Marina Welker examines the staggering success of clove-laced tobacco cigarettes called “kretek” in Indonesia, the world’s second-largest cigarette market.

Several people walk past a building with a red and white banner that says "Welcome to Cornell." There are red balloons
Class of 2028

Admitted Class of 2028 personifies Cornell’s founding principles

Cornell Chronicle

The 5,139 admitted students will bring with them a variety of lived experiences that will enrich the vitality and innovation of Cornell’s intellectual community.

Ligia Coelho, with wire glasses and t-shirt, smiling at the camera next to her lab bench with dials and beakers and wires connecting them
Provided Lígia Fonseca Coelho
Astronomy

Two Cornell scientists chosen for 51 Pegasi b Fellowships

A&S Communications

The three-year postdoctoral fellowship, granted to Lígia Fonseca Coelho and Zach Ulibarri, provides recipients with resources, freedom, and flexibility to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy.

Nora Brown
Alumni

Alumni spotlight: Nora Brown, Ph.D. ’23

Cornell University Graduate School

Nora Brown, Ph.D. ’23, is an alumna of the genetics, genomics, and development doctoral program at Cornell, during which she was co-advised by Mariana Wolfner and Andrew Clark. She is now a postdoc at MIT.

person standing in front of bookshelves
Provided Morris
Classics

Townsend lecturer explores Anatolian origins of European literature

A&S Communications

Morris’ research involves the interaction of Greece with its Eastern neighbors, in art, literature, religion and culture.

women in front of US Capitol building
Provided Henley Schulz ‘22 spent the summer in Washington D.C., working in the office of U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio.
Summer Experience Grants

Summer Experience Grant applications now open

A&S Communications

The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.

three people talking
Jesse Winter David Folkenflik '91, spoke with Cornell faculty members Mabel Berezin, center, and Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, right, during a March 26 event in New York City.
Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Panel explores rise of nationalism across the globe

A&S Communications

Cornell faculty and alumni took part in a wide-ranging discussion focused on nationalism around the world during a March 26 New York City event featuring NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik ’91, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Circles of purple on a pink background with light green colored blobs and lines swirling around
Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Kozikode/Dr. Roshan Nasimudeen Keratinocytes in spinous layer of epidermis.
Mathematics

Statistical machine learning can find unknown factors behind disease

Cornell Chronicle

The study builds on a foundation of theoretical work conducted by co-authors including Marten Wegkamp, professor of mathematics.

Squares with different geometric patterns in a stack with circles showing the same patterns in the four corners of the image
Nancy Wang ’24 and DALL-E3/College of Human Ecology Nancy Wang ’24 used the AI DALL-E3 and the prompt “create a schematic of one layer of flexible battery, one layer of woven conductive thread, and one layer of textile” to create this image.
Artificial Intelligence

‘A completely different game’: Faculty, students harness AI in the classroom

Cornell Chronicle

“This is a tool that students are using already, and it’s probably not going away,” said doctoral candidate Amelia C. Arsenault, M.A. ’23, a teaching assistant in the government department.

A long line of two-story rowhouses, all one color except for one red brick house.
Preservation Maryland Rowhomes on Pennington Avenue in Curtis Bay, Baltimore.
Anthropology

Cornell Expert: Why bridge collapse recovery is ‘time to listen’ to Baltimore residents impacted by coal shipping

A&S Communications

Anthropologist Chloe Ahmann comments on environmental justice in in the wake of the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

kid working with art materials to make a butterfly
Chris Kitchen Members of the Ithaca Community visited campus for the March 15 event, creating butterflies under the guidance of entomologist/artist/Cornell doctoral student Annika Salzberg.
Arts Unplugged

Nabokov celebrated for crossing arts/science boundaries

A&S Communications

An avid lepidopterist since childhood, Nabokov was known to spend most of his free time on campus in the Cornell University Insect Collection.

Theda Skocpol
Theda Skocpol
Democracy

A.D. White professor addresses threats to democracy

A&S Communications

Theda Skocpol, Harvard scholar and A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell, will present the public lecture “Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy – Roots and Responses” on April 9.

Antonio Fernandez Ruiz
Neurobiology and Behavior

Mind Prize awarded to neuroscientist Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz

A&S Communications

The prize aims to “change the paradigm of neuroscience research by creating a community of next-frontier thinkers who can uncover a deeper understanding of the brain and cognition.”

Shiqi Lin
Chris Kitchen Shiqi Lin next to a poster in her office depicting 25 years of covers from the Chinese culture magazine Neweekly, which reflect China's social changes during the past quarter century.
Klarman Fellows

Klarman Fellow: Digital media connects people in a polarized world

A&S Communications

Situated at the intersection of media and politics, Shiqi Lin's research explores how critical media culture can push open new spaces for social participation and how new forms of media can bring people together, particularly at times of crisis and radical change.