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Ken Yanagisawa/Provided The Cornell Orchestras perform in Jordan Hall during their Boston tour last January.
Music and astronomy

Concert celebrates the wonders of space March 2

A&S Communications

In a musical journey through the cosmos, the Cornell Symphony Orchestra will perform the world premiere of “Ex Terra, Ad Astra,” a new work commissioned especially for this year’s Young Person’s Concert.

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Mary Loeffelholz

Dean, School of Continuing Education
American Studies Program, Literatures in English

Black and white historic photo of Don Stanton '72, wearing a Navy uniform
Provided Don Stanton '72 as an ensign on a destroyer in 1973
Alumni

How Naval ROTC shaped my years on the Hill, and beyond

Cornellians

It wasn’t easy being in uniform during the Vietnam War era, but military service made Don Stanton '72 a better student—and a better man, he writes in a Chime In essay for Cornellians

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Jason Koski/Cornell University The Arts Quad in winter
Alumni authors

Your February 2025 reads

Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include books by A&S faculty and alumni: poetry, a kids’ book about Bali, and a short story collection.

Arthur Mintz '71
Ryan Young/Cornell University Mintz in the officials’ box at Lynah Rink
Alumni

Meet the voice of Big Red men's ice hockey (and football!)

Cornellians

For decades, Arthur Mintz ’71, a math major on the Hill who also studied computer science, has served as the PA announcer for both teams—making him a Cornell sports icon in his own right.

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Sreang Hok/Cornell University 2024 George Peter Award winner Sarah Albrecht, administrative manager of the Science and Technology Studies Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, embraces Suman Seth, the Marie Underhill Noll Professor of The History of Science and chair of the department, at the Feb. 24 award ceremony.
Staff award

Science and Technology Studies manager wins George Peter Award

Cornell Chronicle

For her skilled management and healthy sense of humor, Sarah Albrecht, administrative manager of the Science and Technology Studies Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, received the Employee Assembly’s 2024 George Peter Award for Dedicated Service.

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Laura Chichisan/College of Arts and Sciences In a world that’s growing more connected every day, economists and computer scientists need to work together. Cornell researchers have thought this way for years, and the rest of the world is catching on.
Research Collaboration and Impact

Where computer scientists and economists talk to each other

A&S Communications

In a world that’s growing more connected every day, economists and computer scientists need to work together. Cornell researchers have thought this way for years, and the rest of the world is catching on.

Iliad poster on red background
Public engagement

War, love and loyalty: The ‘Iliad’ in Ithaca on March 12-13

A&S Communications

A virtual event with translator Emily Wilson and a daylong community reading of portions of Homer’s epic poem highlight the spring Arts Unplugged event.

Fritz Breithaupt
Provided Fritz Breithaupt
Cognitive science + literary studies

University Lecture examines ‘The Narrative Brain’

Cornell Chronicle

Our minds and the ways we tell stories are closely attuned, research shows, and scholar Fritz Breithaupt will explore how that connection works during a March visit as University Lecturer.

U.S. Capital
Government

Budget plan: ‘Long and extremely divisive process’ ahead for Republicans

A&S Communications

With House Republicans narrowly pushing through a budget plan, the strain on an already strained federal workforce could get worse, says government scholar David Bateman.