Mayfest, Cornell's international chamber music festival, is May 17-21, features five fabulous concerts by fan favorite guest musicians. Tickets are on sale now; all performances are on the Cornell campus.
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Congratulations to music professor Paul Merrill and mathematics professor Ravi Ramakrishna! They are among the four Cornell faculty members to receive Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards for distinguished contributions to advising undergraduates.

Etiquette about Ozempic, weight loss and diet are still evolving: Cornell American Studies scholar Adrienne Bitar and philosophy professor Kate Manne comment on awkward celebrity exchanges about the drug – who's on it? Who's not? – in The New York Times
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Fifty years ago, Cornell's Cornell 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 building.

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With the rollout of her new album, 'Cowboy Carter,' Beyoncé 'has mainstreamed country as a genre, and mainstreamed its aesthetics,' Africana Studies at Cornell professor Riché Richardson tells The New York Times

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Americans 50 years ago had the same complaints about immigrants—that they reshape cities and don't assimilate—as they do today, professor María Cristina García tells Axios in a reality check of current perceptions CornellHistory Latina/o Studies at Cornell University Cornell American Studies
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Russia announces nuclear exercises: 'Putin is reminding people that Russia has nuclear weapons,' says CornellHistory prof David silbey. 'Think of it as cocking a gun in an old western—you’re not using it yet, but everyone’s aware that you’ve got it.'
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Heading off soon to various adventures, three members of the A&S class of 2024 talked about their journeys and offered advice for incoming students about taking advantage of the resources at Cornell.

'Cornell is the place where you find that calling.”

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Congratulations to A&S professors Steven Strogatz (mathematics) and Peter T. Wolczanski (@CornellChem), elected this week to The National Academy of Sciences!
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Cornell faculty and husband-and-wife creative team Mendi (CornellPMA) and Keith Obadike (@CornellAAP) have worked together for decades across music, text, and visual art to explore complex histories and social tensions. The work is always a conversation.
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Not widely known during his lifetime, Franz Kafka has become the most iconic writer in German over the past 100 years. Join the Institute of German Cultural Studies at Cornell for a workshop on the Digital Kafka project May 4, 9 am in the AD White House.
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A&S students Daniel Obaseki ’24, and Ram Orfanel '25 argued on opposing teams during the debate, 'Is a policy of absolute freedom of speech, without exceptions, the best policy?' on April 10, the finale of a four-debate sequence led by Cornell ILR School
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A&S alum Paul Jensen ’85 dedicates half his workdays to songwriting and performing. He released his first solo album in February. “During COVID I reflected on what I really cared about and it was more music, more independence and more happiness in my life”
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“Baby” asteroid: A Cornell University-led research team derived the age of Selam, a “moonlet” orbiting the asteroid Dinkinesh in the main asteroid belt, based only on the pair’s dynamics. It is relatively new — just 2-3 million years old. A&A journal news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/0…

Join us tomorrow at 5 PM for a night of poetry and fiction by our undergraduates!

At the end of his spring campus visit as Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in A&S, NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik ’91 talked about his experience and offered reflections on the university’s Freedom of Expression theme year. The interview:
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The fact that a scout honeybee’s shimmy had convinced scores of others to check out a house meant that it was “clearly on the list of serious possibilities,” said Neurobio & Behavior professor Thomas Seeley, lending his bee expertise to The New York Times
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School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson, W.E.B. DuBois Professor in the Humanities, has been shortlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize!

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“The remains of ancient daily life have an extraordinary power to impact our imagination and engage our empathy for people in the past,' says classics professor Caitie Barrett. An archaeologist who investigates everyday life, she's co-edited a new book.
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In a new Heritage Forensics course, 20 students are exploring how technology is reshaping cultural preservation. The course was developed by Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity faculty fellow Adam T. Smith (@CornellAnthro) and Cornell University Near Eastern Studies professor Lori Khatchadourian
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