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Red brick gothic house
Sreang Hok/Cornell University. The A.D. White House
Campus architecture

The A.D. White House: Andrew’s abode is a campus gem

Cornellians

Commissioned by Cornell’s inaugural president, the villa later became an art museum—and has long hosted a humanities group.

Candle
Mathematics

Mathematician Al Schatz dies at 90

Cornell Chronicle

Alfred H. Schatz, an emeritus professor of mathematics who taught at Cornell for nearly 50 years, died at home on Oct. 11 after a long bout with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.

Jenna Barnes, dressed in jeans, open sweater and t-shirt, with long brown hair, seated and smiling.
Provided Jenna Kerner Barnes ’11
Alumni News

Alum’s Firm Sells Garments Long Seen as an Oxymoron: Comfy Bras

Cornellians

At Harper Wilde, "30 Under 30" honoree Jenna Kerner Barnes ’11 offers underclothes for customers of many shapes and sizes.

Jennifer Lory-Moran, in multi-colored stripped shirt and long blond hair, is smiling while standing next to the controls for the Cornell chimes up in McGraw Tower.
Cornellians Jennifer Courtley Lory-Moran ’96, MAT ’97
Alumni News

Bells Are Ringing for This Veteran Chimesmaster

Cornellians

The Cornell Chimes' advisor for nearly a quarter-century, Jennifer Courtley Lory-Moran ’96, MAT ’97, recently marked a carillon milestone.

four people on a minimally set stage
Jason Koski/Cornell University Professor David Feldshuh, center, leads rehearsal for his new play, “Orlando's Gift.”
Performing and Media Arts

New Feldshuh play premieres Nov. 1 at Schwartz Center

Cornell Chronicle

“Orlando’s Gift,” a new play written and directed by David Feldshuh, professor of performing and media arts, and inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel “Orlando,” will premiere Nov. 1 at the Schwartz Center.

A field of connected hexagons against a dark gray background
AlexanderAlUS/Creative Commons license 2.0 The ideal crystalline structure of graphene, a hexagonal grid
Physics

Revealing the superconducting limit of ‘magic’ material

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have identified the highest achievable superconducting temperature of graphene – 60 Kelvin. The finding is mathematically exact and is spurring new insights into the factors that fundamentally control superconductivity.

Person holding an LP in front of recording equipment in a studio
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection at the UCLA Library/Creative Commons license 4.0 Quincy Jones in his studio, 1980
Music

Jones understood all art, especially Black art, is ‘political’

A&S Communications

Music producing legend Quincy Jones understood the political aspect of art, says Cornell music scholar.

Illustration of a sign "Fake News" on an easel
Hartono Creative Studio/Unsplash
Psychology

Could ‘inoculation’ limit election misinformation?

Cornell Chronicle

A popular strategy for combating misinformation can help people distinguish truth from falsehood – when combined with reminders to focus on accuracy, Cornell-led research finds.

Four people stand with a mascot bear
Provided The grand prize winners for the Food Hackathon pose with Touchdown the Bear after the weekend.
Entrepreneurship

Food waste solution wins top prize at hackathon

Cornell Chronicle

The hackathon included more than 150 undergraduate and graduate students from almost all of Cornell’s Ithaca campus schools and colleges.

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Career Development

Polishing resumes, building confidence: The impact of peer advisors

A&S Communications

Peer advisors in A&S Career Development help students accomplish their dreams and goals.