Chris Worden: ‘I have discovered what it feels like to appreciate and enjoy learning’
Joshua Sadinsky: ‘To be able to make a real positive change in the community feels good. It’s what I’m supposed to do’
Joshua Sadinsky
German & Music & College Scholar
Fayetteville, AR
What have you accomplished as a Cornell student that you are most proud of, either inside the classroom or otherwise?
‘The Odyssey in Ithaca’ captivates audience during daylong community reading
"Our cultural treasures are to be shared with everyone," said Alexa Saylan '22.
Cornell selects eight Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows
Yunqui (Kelly) Luo has long been intrigued by the laws of nature.“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.
New class contemplates media from cross-campus perspectives
Over the course of the semester, “Thinking Media” drew on Cornell’s rich holdings in media and material culture.
Musicians ♥ Cornell
Mary McDonald ’78 discovered her voice at Cornell.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.“I had never had formal voice lessons,” she says. “One day, I asked, ‘What about these notes up here?’”
A&S honors grad students with 2019 teaching awards
The awards recognize innovative teaching, student counseling, classroom presence, preparation, administration and the development of new courses.
Undergrad humanities scholars present their research
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.”“I discovered about Japan’s experiments via a footnote while researching Nazi experiments,” she said.
Smiles, sunshine, sweets and song punctuate Commencement
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.
Student Spotlight: Piyawat Louilarpprasert
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.
Arts and Sciences faculty honored for advising, teaching
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. They were among the Arts & Sciences faculty honored at a May 25 trustee-faculty dinner recognizing university-wide teaching and advising.
Reunion 2019: a time to treasure Cornell
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.
Cornell funds projects in NYC visioning initiative
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 President’s Visioning Committee on Cornell in New York City. The awards, totaling $265,000, were announced June 6 by President Pollack.
Free events feature music, speakers, performing artists
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.
Cornell Glee Club celebrates 150 years with 300 voices
Glee Club members overflowed the Bailey Hall stage, singing from sections on either side, as well.
Collaboration showcases creativity of whale songs
Annie Lewandowski worked with Google Creative Lab on a project developing artificial intelligence to recognize patterns in humpback whale songs.
Application portal opens for new Klarman Fellowships
“We are recruiting the most promising emerging researchers from around the world."
New Cornell hub for historical keyboards opened Sept. 6
The Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards 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.
Israeli Chamber Project performs in inaugural Steven Stucky Residency concert
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.
Madrid receives American Musicological Society award
Professor of musicology and ethnomusicology Alejandro L Madrid recently received the American Musicological Society’s 2018 Philip Brett Award for his article, “Secreto a Voces: Excess, Performance, and Jotería in Juan Gabriel’s Vocality.”
New graduate fellowships boost humanities, social science scholars
The one-year fellowships allows students to focus on their research without having to teach.
Six projects receive Innovative Teaching and Learning Awards
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.
Two dozen Engaged Faculty Fellows announced
Twenty-four faculty members, representing six colleges and the Cornell University Library, have been named to the Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program.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.