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Classics

Three juniors awarded Caplan Travel Fellowships

A&S Communications

Julia Fritsch ’25, Cristina Kiefaber ’25, and Ashley Koca ‘25 have been selected as the 2024 Harry Caplan Travel Fellows, supported by the Department of Classics.

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Sarah J. Thornington/Provided One recent Engaged Opportunity Grant project will support shore clean-up efforts in Massachusetts.
Community engagement

New grants support student involvement in community projects

Cornell Chronicle

An A&S-led project to clean up Cape Cod Bay is among the latest round of Engaged Opportunity Grants.

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Molecular biology and genetics

Babies use their immune system differently but efficiently

Cornell Chronicle

Scientists have long believed that a newborn’s immune system was an immature version of an adult’s, but new research shows that newborns’ T cells – white blood cells that protect from disease – outperform those of adults at fighting off numerous infections.

Lenka Zdeborová
Lenka Zdeborová
Physics

Spring 2024 Bethe Lecture bridges physics and computer science

A&S Communications

During three events March 13-15, Lenka Zdeborová will explore how principles from statistical physics provide insights into challenging computational problems.

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Abigail Younger Members of "The Freshmen," the grand challenge winners at the hackathon, stand with judges, deans and mentors.
Computer science

Freshmen win top prize at digital ag hackathon

Cornell Chronicle

More than 120 students took part in the Digital Agriculture Hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture and Entrepreneurship at Cornell.

Valzhyna Mort
Tanya Kapitonava/Provided Valzhyna Mort, associate professor of Literatures in English.
Creative Writing Program

Faculty poet Valzhyna Mort reads her poem, “In the Woods of Language, She Collects Beautiful Sticks”

Alumni Affairs & Development

"I wrote this poem when I couldn't write a different poem," Mort says. "And this inability to write made me feel homeless in language and in poetry."

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law and at Columbia Law School, delivers the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture in Sage Chapel.
MLK Lecture

MLK lecture: Encourage democracy, fight suppression

Cornell Chronicle

Kimberlé Crenshaw ’81, a legal scholar, reflected on the ways Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s influence shaped her personal, academic and professional journey.

J. Robert Lennon
Lindsay France/Cornell University Writer J. Robert Lennon, the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, has previously played around with genre elements – from mazy, existential mysteries to dystopian satire – but his new novel, “Hard Girls,” is his first straight-up thriller.
Literatures in English

Lennon chases down literary thrills in new series

Cornell Chronicle

J. Robert Lennon’s “weird hike through the wilderness” of publishing has led him to a new and unexpected place: writing his first thriller, “Hard Girls,” published Feb. 20 by Mulholland Books.

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Early-career awards

Four early-career faculty win 2024 Sloan Research awards

Cornell Chronicle

Assistant professors Anna Y.Q. Ho, Chao-Ming Jian, Rene Kizilcec and Karan Mehta are among 126 early-career researchers who have won 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Classics

Book brings elusive Greek technical writer into focus

A&S Communications

Hero of Alexandria's writings on things like pneumatics, pure geometry and catapults have influenced many others through the ages and his principles touch early modern inventions including the player piano and the fire engine.

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Africana Studies

How much do you know about Africana Studies on the Hill?

Cornellians

During Black History Month, test your knowledge of Cornell’s ground-breaking program with 10 trivia questions!

statue of Chairman Mao
Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Statue of Mao
Asian studies

Speaker series focuses on China’s communist past and present

A&S Communications

A series of four lectures — two in the spring and two in the fall of 2024 — will focus on “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China."

colorful burst of light: purple, yellow, orange
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/Univ. of Ariz. A superdense neutron star is spewing out a blizzard of extremely high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula.
Astronomy

Cornell astronomers on newly approved UVEX NASA mission

Cornell Chronicle

The space telescope, targeted to launch in 2030, has Cornell astronomers Anna Y. Q. Ho and Shrinivas R. Kulkarni on the mission team.

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Music

A musical bridge: Cornell Wind Symphony makes transformative journey to Cuba

A&S Communications

Cornell musicians traveled to Cuba for a tour in collaboration with the National Concert Band of Cuba.

Jake Turner
Ryan Young/Cornell University Jake Turner, NASA Hubble/Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and part of the Carl Sagan Institute, is a science adviser on a radio telescope made of four antennas that each extend to eight feet long and are packed into an eight-inch canister for launch.
Astronomy

Earth to be exhibit A for lunar exoplanet research

Cornell Chronicle

With the help of a Cornell astronomy researcher, the first radio telescope ever to land on the moon will lay the foundation for detecting habitable planets in our solar system by observing Earth as if it’s an exoplanet.