Nestled within the walls of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University's newest EEG Lab is a cutting-edge facility dedicated to unraveling the complexities of human cognition. EEG, or electroencephalography, is a noninvasive technique that measures the brain's electrical activity, providing valuable insights into neural processes. “This new space is so special because it’s available to…
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Hyrum Edwards
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Arts & Sciences Communications
As a Cornell student, Jenna Zitomer ‘18 pursued her love of politics as a Near Eastern studies major and international relations minor, but also found a passion for social impact and advocacy work.Today, she serves as director of research and innovation at the Voter Participation Center (VPC), a non-partisan organization that works to increase voter registration and turnout rates among…
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Cornell history alumna Katie Engelhart ’09 has won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her article, “The Mother Who Changed: A Story of Dementia,” published in the New York Times Magazine.
Katie Engelhart ’09 has won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for her article, “The Mother Who Changed: A Story of Dementia,” published in the New York Times Magazine. Her citation for the $15,000 award says it was bestowed “for her fair-minded portrait of a family’s legal and emotional struggles during a matriarch’s progressive dementia that sensitively probes the mystery of a person’s…
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Researchers and community members gather ceratophyllum demersum from a water access point in northern Senegal.
With pulses of sound through tiny speakers, Cornell physics researchers have clarified the basic nature of a new superconductor. Since it was found to be a superconductor about five years ago, uranium ditelluride has created a lot of buzz in the quantum materials community – and a lot of confusion, with more than a dozen theories about the true nature of its superconducting properties…
For the first time in university history, Cornell students have won Student Music Awards from DownBeat Magazine, one of the world’s premiere jazz publications. A collection of nine students from the After Six ensemble won the award for outstanding performance in the blues/pop/rock category: Kobby Adu ‘24, Turner Aldrich ‘26, Austin Burgett ‘25, Luke Ellis ‘24, Kaleb Kavuma ‘25, Noëlle Romero…
Russia announced it will conduct exercises simulating the use of nuclear battlefield weapons in response to statements made by French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron, suggesting the potential for increased engagement in Ukraine.David Silbey is an associate professor of history at Cornell University specializing in military history, defense policy and…
This year’s Mayfest, May 17-21, features five “fabulous concerts,” say artistic directors Xak Bjerken and Miri Yampolsky, by “fan favorite” guest musicians playing music from Bach to Britten to Hildegard von Bingen – and the world premiere of a composition by Christopher Stark DMA ‘13. Tickets can be purchased in-person or online; all concerts will be held on the Cornell campus and the…
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From left, seniors Jesse Kapstad ‘24, Aja'nae Hall-Callaway ‘24 and Abhyuday Atal ’24 have wildly different interests, but all took advantage of numerous opportunities at Cornell.
The journey from high school to college and then through college amid Covid was anything but smooth for the Class of 2024. But thanks to persistence, tenacity and help from advisors and faculty, they’re thrilled to be headed off to various adventures. Three members of the Arts & Sciences graduating class sat down with us to talk about their journeys and offer some advice for incoming students…
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Amanda Hernandez ’21 suited up for pom as a senior
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab for the original images/Brian May/Claudia Manzoni for stereo processing of the images
A pair of stereoscopic images of the asteroid Dinkinesh and Selam created with data collected by the L’LORRI camera on NASA's Lucy spacecraft in the minutes around closest approach on Nov. 1, 2023.
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Molly Sheridan
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College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
In 2001, artists Keith and Mendi Obadike put Keith's "Blackness" up for auction on eBay. While the company shut the audacious proposal down after several days, the work (part of their early black.net.art actions) was virally discussed and widely covered by the press.Since those groundbreaking days creating pieces for an online audience, Keith, now a professor in the Department of…
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Historical photo of the A. D. White House
Fifty years ago, Cornell’s Society for the Humanities moved into the Andrew Dickson White House, home of Cornell’s first president. To honor the anniversary, the Society has produced a booklet chronicling the history of the A.D. White House as president’s home, art museum and locus for the humanities at Cornell: “The Andrew Dickson White House: Home of the Society for the Humanities since 1973.”…
A papyrus village survey from the second century B.C.E., included in the new book “Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt,” gives a snapshot of an ancient Egyptian household: A woman named Tharetis who managed a shrine to the goddess Isis lived with her 70-year-old husband and their adult son, a priest. “We know nothing else about this family, but the description is…
Paul Jensen ’85 had a successful career in public relations, but when he left his job at a big agency four years ago, he was longing to get back to something he loved and missed: his music.Today, Jensen spends half his workdays running his independent PR consultancy, PJPR, and the other half dedicated to songwriting, recording and performing. He released his first solo album, “Journey Back Home,”…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Meagan Sundstrom is a doctoral candidate in physics from Walpole, Massachusetts. She earned her B.S. in mathematics-physics from the University of Connecticut and now studies the role of gender in physics education under the guidance of Natasha Holmes at Cornell.What is your area of research and why is it important?I am in the field of physics education research. I use social network…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Kelly Richmond is a doctoral candidate in performing and media arts from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She earned her B.A. in English drama and theatre and psychology at McGill University and now studies the role of live performance in responding to the climate crisis under the guidance of Sara Warner at Cornell.What is your area of research and why is it important?My research considers the role of…
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Hannah Mitchell
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Arts & Sciences Communications
“Consider supporting those institutions that have made a positive difference in your lives,” Robert Harrison ‘76 said during a visit to campus last month, where he had the chance to speak to members of the Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program. “In my case, that has been, at the top of the list, Cornell and the Rhodes Scholarship.” Harrison’s Cornell visit offered a chance for him…
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Hannah Mitchell
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Arts & Sciences Communications
A new course this semester, ANTHR 3200 Heritage Forensics, explores how the latest technologies are reshaping cultural preservation. The work the 20 students in the class are doing is so relevant, the U.S. State Department has expressed interest in their work. The course was co-developed by this year’s Milstein Faculty Fellow in the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity in…
On May 1, a public event organized by trans Cornellians will address issues and harms facing the community from a trans perspective. “Dispelling the Trans Specter: A Politics and Philosophy of Solidarity,” will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in 132 Goldwin Smith. The event is free and the public is invited.A reception will follow the event, featuring a trans-positive book giveaway from Buffalo…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Katherine Ally Zaslavsky is a doctoral candidate in sociology from Endwell, New York. They earned their B.A. from SUNY Geneseo and now study the value of representation under the guidance of Landon Schnabel and Filiz Garip at Cornell.What is your area of research and why is it important?I study the value of representation. When people think of representation, they usually think of democracy: a…
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Jason Ludwig is a doctoral candidate in science and technology studies from Brooklyn, New York. He earned a B.A. in history and M.S. in science, technology, and society at Drexel University and now studies the role of computing in reshaping politics of racial equality under the guidance of Sara Pritchard at Cornell.What is your area of research and why is it important?My dissertation, “Automating…
As media correspondent for NPR, David Folkenflik ’91 has to respond to breaking news regardless of what else he’s doing, and that necessity didn’t change just because he was on campus as this year's Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist for the College of Arts and Sciences. But despite managing two major stories he still made it to every stop on a packed schedule that included meetings with…
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Valzhyna Mort, center, discusses the risks writers take to speak out in many countries, with Suzanne Nossel, left, and David Folkenflik ’91.
Narges Mohammedi, a journalist and women’s rights activist, smuggled her Nobel Peace Prize speech out of an Iranian jail so her 15-year-old twins, whom she has not seen for 10 years, could give it for her.
Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America, a nonprofit whose goal is to raise awareness for the protection of free expression, was at the December 2023 award ceremony in Oslo to witness…
Pietro (Piero) Pucci, an influential classical scholar who spent more than 50 years in the Department of Classics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) while maintaining a place among leading intellectuals in Europe, died in Paris on April 7. He was 96.
Remembered as “one of the last of a generation” of classical philologists, Pucci brought fresh insight to ancient texts,…
Chris Kitchen
Wenbo Tang studies memory to help develop therapies for memory-related diseases, and also to improve AI systems
Memories are more than mental records of events, according to neuroscientist Wenbo Tang; for humans, a sense of self is wrapped up in the memories our brains hold–or let go of.
“When a human being loses their memories, it’s not just as simple as losing a record of their life. More importantly, I think, we lose a sense of who we are,” said Tang, a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in neurobiology and…
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Cornell’s 2024 Bouchet Society inductees
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Katya Hrichak
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Cornell University Graduate School
Eight Cornell doctoral candidates, including five connected to A&S, and two postdocs have been inducted into the Cornell chapter of the Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
The Bouchet Society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate. Its network of scholars exemplifies academic and personal…
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Rachel Beatty Riedl, left, the Einaudi Center’s director and John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Brooks School, and Colleen Barry, Brooks School dean.
New on the Summer Session roster this year is the online course GOVT 3796 Freedom taught by Dr. Ella Street, which runs June 3-21, 2024. The three-credit class, open to both undergraduates and adults though Summer Session and high school students through Precollege Studies, will examine one of the most difficult questions in political theory: What does it mean to be free? Students will…
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Students in James Spinazzola's conducting class attend a extended reality (XR) orientation to learn how the immersive technology can help give students a sense of what it feels like to conduct an ensemble in real time.
Sarah Kreps has been analyzing the military since her days as an active duty officer in the U.S. Air Force, so when the History Channel went looking for experts for their new series, “The Proof Is Out There: Military Mysteries,” she was a natural fit.
Kreps, the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences, adjunct professor of law, and the…
Chris Kitchen
Sebastian Young, left, and Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano, stand in the Guadalupe Maravilla exhibit at the Johnson Museum.
At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.
Their common themes? Migration, activism and healing.
The exhibit, “Guadalupe Maravilla: Armonía de la Esfera” (Harmony of the Sphere) opened in…
In honor of Math and Statistics Awareness Month, we’re looking back on luminaries from the last century-plus whose excellence helped establish Cornell University as a leader in mathematical and statistical discovery.
Walter Willcox, Professor of Economics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 1891 – 1931
Walter Willcox was the first professor of statistics in the…
