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<h3>Chris Worden</h3><h3>Music</h3><h3>Guilford, CT<br /><br /><strong>How have you changed since you first arrived at Cornell? What have you discovered about yourself?</strong></h3>
<h3>Joshua Sadinsky</h3><h3>German & Music & College Scholar</h3><h3>Fayetteville, AR</h3><p><strong>What have you accomplished as a Cornell student that you are most proud of, either inside the classroom or otherwise?</strong></p>
"Our cultural treasures are to be shared with everyone," said Alexa Saylan '22.
<p>Yunqui (Kelly) Luo has long been intrigued by the laws of nature.</p><p>“As a kid, I loved to play with tools and understand the ways in which the physical world works around us,” she said. The physics labs at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology cemented her passion for research.</p>
Over the course of the semester, “Thinking Media” drew on Cornell’s rich holdings in media and material culture.
<p>Mary McDonald ’78 discovered her voice at Cornell.</p><p>Originally a French horn player, McDonald joined the Cornell University Chorus, the women’s vocal ensemble, during her sophomore year and won an audition for free voice lessons.</p><p>“I had never had formal voice lessons,” she says. “One day, I asked, ‘What about these notes up here?’”</p>
The awards recognize innovative teaching, student counseling, classroom presence, preparation, administration and the development of new courses.
<p>Meredith Chagares ’19 began her senior thesis in history, literally, with a footnote – one that led her to do investigative work for “Anatomy of a Cover-Up: How and Why the United States Covered Up Japanese World War II Biological Warfare Experiments.”</p><p>“I discovered about Japan’s experiments via a footnote while researching Nazi experiments,” she said.</p>
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<p>As students began to line up for Cornell’s 2019 Commencement May 26, the morning skies that threatened rain gave way to rays of sunshine wriggling between the clouds. Families noshed on bagels, cream cheese and coffee in Collegetown before heading to Schoellkopf Field for the pomp and circumstance.</p>
<p><em>iyawat Louilarpprasert is a doctor of musical arts student from Bangkok, Thailand. After attending the College of Music at Mahidol University in Thailand and the Royal College of Music in London, England, he chose to pursue music composition at Cornell.</em></p>
<div>Erin York Cornwell has been awarded the 2019 Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, and Ananda Cohen-Aponte and Khena Swallow have been awarded the 2019 Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award.</div><div> </div><div>They were among the Arts & Sciences faculty honored at a May 25 trustee-faculty dinner recognizing university-wide teaching and advising.</div><div> </div>
<p>Just two weeks after classes end and students disperse for the summer, alumni and their families will return to campus for Reunion 2019. This year’s event – from Thursday, June 6, through Sunday, June 9 – is on track to set a new record for attendance, with more than 7,000 alumni and their guests registered.</p>
<p>Four collaborative, cross-disciplinary faculty projects have received funding support through the New York City Visioning initiative. The projects were selected by President Martha E. Pollack from a group of finalists recommended by the <a href="https://president.cornell.edu/initiatives/cornell-in-nyc/">President’s Visioning Committee on Cornell in New York City</a>. The awards, totaling $265,000, were announced June 6 by President Pollack.</p>
<p>The 2019 Free Summer Events Series at Cornell features a diverse lineup of local and international musicians, speakers and performers on campus every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from June 28 through Aug. 2. All events are at 7 p.m. and are open to the public.</p>
Glee Club members overflowed the Bailey Hall stage, singing from sections on either side, as well.
Annie Lewandowski worked with Google Creative Lab on a project developing artificial intelligence to recognize patterns in humpback whale songs.
“We are recruiting the most promising emerging researchers from around the world."
<p>The <a href="http://music.cornell.edu/keyboard-center">Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards</a> celebrated a new space for its instrument collection at 726 University Ave. with “New Meets Old: Collaborative Confrontations,” a festival Sept. 6-7, presented by the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>
The Cornell Department of Music’s Steven Stucky Memorial Residency for New Music begins with the Israeli Chamber Project (ICP) visiting campus as the initiative’s inaugural ensemble Sept. 16.
<p dir="ltr">Professor of musicology and ethnomusicology <a href="https://music.cornell.edu/alejandro-l-madrid">Alejandro L Madrid</a> recently received the American Musicological Society’s 2018 Philip Brett Award for his article,<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/686235"> “Secreto a Voces: Excess, Performance, and Jotería in Juan Gabriel’s Vocality.</a>”</p>
The one-year fellowships allows students to focus on their research without having to teach.
<p>This year’s Innovative Teaching and Learning Award winners will give Cornell students a host of new opportunities and experiences – from building their own musical instruments to using new software programs for imaging dynamic processes inside the human body.</p>
<p>Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the <a href="http://engaged.cornell.edu/program/faculty-fellowship/">Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program</a>.</p><p>The 2019-20 cohort, the largest in the seven-year history of the program, joins more than 50 other faculty fellows dedicated to advancing community-engaged learning at Cornell and within their respective fields.</p>
