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Innovative curriculum

Student opinion pieces encourage action on climate change

1/3/2024 A&S Communications

Students in Prof. Caroline Levine’s Communicating Climate Change class wrote opinion pieces spurring readers to take action related to climate.

Black and white historic image of Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900 — Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections A Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900. Image adjusted into positive from Gerow Brill's glass plate negatives kept in Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections.

Cornell Library

Digitized images illuminate U.S. colonial period in the Philippines

1/3/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Idyllic images of the Philippines taken by a Cornell alumnus in 1902 illuminate the tumultuous U.S. annexation of the archipelago in the aftermath of the Philippine-American War, according to a Ph.D. student in history.

Jillian Goldfarb

Associate Professor, Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies (CIAMS)

Satellite of the middle east region, seen from space: brown land, dark blue sea, highlights of snow, unusual for the region — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Creative Commons license 2.0 Image from a satellite showing a portion of the Middle East

Science and Technology Studies

Maps have political power, sociologist says

1/4/2024 A&S Communications

A new paper examines the politics at play in the maps published in 2020 as part of a peace plan proposed by the Trump Administration.

Two dark brown fish, seen from above — Margaret A. Marchaterre/Provided A male midshipman fish, left, and a female swim in shallow Northern California waters. Their midbrain plays a key role in initiating and patterning trains of sounds used in vocal communication.

Neurobiology and Behavior

In chatty midshipman fish, the midbrain awakens a gift of gab

1/4/2024 Cornell Chronicle

The midbrain in these fish may serve as a useful model for how mammals and other vertebrates, including humans, control vocal expressions.

Elaborate, painted building (St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow) — Ivan Shilov/Unsplash

International relations

The west would harm itself with rash seizures of frozen Russian assets

1/4/2024 Financial Times

A watertight legal basis for confiscations is lacking because the US and its allies are not openly at war with Moscow, argues historian Nicholas Mulder in an op-ed.

Alumni achievement

A&S grad wins Marshall Scholarship

1/5/2024 A&S Communications

The award allows Andrew Lorenzen ’22 to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

A dense forest; trees covered with gree leaves — Frank Vassen/Creative Commons license 2.0 Białowieża forest in Poland

Comparative literature

Pinkham wins British Journalism Award for feature on migrants

1/8/2024 A&S Communications

Pinkham’s winning story follows migrants from Syria “wandering in a cold, wet purgatory” on the Polish border of the European Union.

Philosophy

‘Fatphobia’ a form of oppression, says philosopher Kate Manne

1/9/2024 Cornell Chronicle

In her new book, “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia,” Prof. Kate Manne draws on personal experience as well as scientific research.

Researchers in striped orange hazard vests kneel next to a cloudy lake holding long poles in the water. — Anne Dekas The Oceans Across Space and Time research team collected brine from South Bay Salt Works during an initial field trip in 2019.

Astronomy

New research on microbes expands the known limits for life

1/11/2024 A&S Communications

The research shows how changes in salinity may affect life in aquatic habitats on Earth and widens the possibilities for where life may be found throughout our solar system.