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Alumni careers

Cornell alumna shapes future of media at NBCUniversal

12/15/2023 A&S Communications

When Ali Soong ‘16 goes to work each day at NBCUniversal, she uses various skills she acquired at Cornell.

Seven people cluster around a table holding wooden boxes of butterfly specimens — Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Students spent hours researching Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection at the Cornell Insect Collection.

Literature and science

Class explores Nabokov as writer and ‘butterfly man’

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

Writer Vladimir Nabokov spent much of his time on campus in nature and in the Cornell Insect Collection.

Government

Poverty is a political choice, Michener tells NYS Senate

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

On Dec. 12, Jamila Michener offered expert testimony during a New York State Senate committee hearing focused on the causes and effects of poverty in the state’s small and midsized cities.

A few musician rock out on a stage lit by yellow and purple spotlights — Provided This year’s most-read Chronicle story announced the return to Cornell of Dead & Company, which included members of the Grateful Dead, for a fundraising concert on May 8, benefiting Cornell’s 2030 Project and the nonprofit MusiCares.

In the news, 2023

The Dead rise: Cornell '77 tribute show among top stories of 2023

12/14/2023 Cornell Chronicle

When Dead & Company came to Cornell in May for a benefit concert commemorating the Grateful Dead’s famed “Cornell ’77” show, it drew thousands to Barton Hall. The March announcement of the show was the most-viewed Chronicle story of 2023.

A gold building foregrounded by rows of stalls and many parked motorcycles — Natasha Raheja/Provided In Jodhpur, India, computer typists offer services to migrants from stalls at the kutchery, an administrative maze housing hundreds of private vendors and dozens of government offices, pictured here in October 2019.

Anthropology

In India, computer typists embody ‘fuzzy’ nature of state borders

12/15/2023 Cornell Chronicle

State borders are taken for granted as fixed, hard lines, but Natasha Raheja argues that crossing spaces are, in reality, expansive and indistinct.

Several dozen people crowd together, looking up at the camera — Roger William Photography 2023 Dean’s Scholars

Graduate student honors

Nearly 70 students recognized at pinning ceremony

12/15/2023 Cornell University Graduate School

Dean’s Scholars are selected for their demonstrated commitment to academic excellence and advancing aspects of diversity, access, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the academy and other communities.

Book cover: Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery

Comparative literature

Tracing Indian Ocean slavery through Iranian cinema

12/18/2023 Cornell Chronicle

In a new book, Professor Parisa Vaziri explores how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of Indian Ocean slavery.

people in grad robes with their family — Chris Kitchen Amelia Tomson ’24, right, and Joy Davis ’22, left seated, talk with their families during a graduation reception Dec. 17.

Celebrating our graduates

December A&S graduates share stories of growth

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

The College hosted a new pre-graduation reception in the Groos Family Atrium of Klarman Hall for December graduates and their families.

Literatures in English

Animals, disasters, love: Book traces nonhuman voices in literature

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Laura Brown's research looks beyond “the singular, autonomous, rational, human protagonist" to find that many other-than-human presences appear in literature – with a lot to say to readers.

Two arms with hands joined. A tree is in the background — Dương Hữu/Unsplash

Sociology

LGBTQ Catholics in a state of ‘conditional belonging’

12/19/2023 A&S Communications

Sociologist Landon Schnabel says the blessing of same-sex couples is an important and complex step for the Catholic Church.

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