Bruce Lewenstein, professor of science communication in both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed Cornell’s 13th university ombudsman.
Izabelle Kwan ’24 founded Big Red Heads Magazine to help increase inclusion and connection on Cornell’s campus. The project earned Kwan the 2022 Maribel Garcia Community Spirit Award.
In her new book, “The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida,” assistant professor Karen Jaime ’97 highlights the important contributions made by queer and transgender artists of color at the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Keri Blakinger ’14, who served 21 months behind bars after her 2010 arrest for drug possession, now covers criminal justice issues as a journalist and recently published a book recounting her experiences, “Corrections in Ink.”
Michael Fontaine’s lively new translation of Cicero’s ancient text on humor, “How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor,” amuses as well as instructs – as Cicero no doubt intended.
A monumental calligraphy scroll on display in the Bartels Gallery in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, by Tong Yang-Tze, one of Taiwan’s foremost calligraphers, can be viewed online.
Alistair Hayden brings his West Coast experience in wildfires and earthquakes to help New York communities maintain health and become more disaster resilient in the face of climate change.
“Media Objects,” a media studies conference originally scheduled for March 2020 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, has been reconfigured into a virtual event, with the first panel scheduled for Oct. 23.
New nanophotonic tweezers developed by Cornell researchers can stretch and unzip DNA molecules as well as disrupt and map protein-DNA interactions, paving the way for commercial availability.