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Michell Chresfield
Jason Koski/Cornell University Michell Chresfield is a scholar of the history of racial formation and identity-making in 20th century America. She is assistant professor of Africana studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Michell Chresfield
Jason Koski/Cornell University Michell Chresfield is a scholar of the history of racial formation and identity-making in 20th century America. She is assistant professor of Africana studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

Breaking silence: Speak up to honor MLK Jr., historian says

Cornell Chronicle
Researchers in striped orange hazard vests kneel next to a cloudy lake holding long poles in the water.
Anne Dekas The Oceans Across Space and Time research team collected brine from South Bay Salt Works during an initial field trip in 2019.
Researchers in striped orange hazard vests kneel next to a cloudy lake holding long poles in the water.
Anne Dekas The Oceans Across Space and Time research team collected brine from South Bay Salt Works during an initial field trip in 2019.
Astronomy

New research on microbes expands the known limits for life

A&S Communications
Two dark brown fish, seen from above
Margaret A. Marchaterre/Provided A male midshipman fish, left, and a female swim in shallow Northern California waters. Their midbrain plays a key role in initiating and patterning trains of sounds used in vocal communication.
Two dark brown fish, seen from above
Margaret A. Marchaterre/Provided A male midshipman fish, left, and a female swim in shallow Northern California waters. Their midbrain plays a key role in initiating and patterning trains of sounds used in vocal communication.
Neurobiology and Behavior

In chatty midshipman fish, the midbrain awakens a gift of gab

Cornell Chronicle
Satellite of the middle east region, seen from space: brown land, dark blue sea, highlights of snow, unusual for the region
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Creative Commons license 2.0 Image from a satellite showing a portion of the Middle East
Satellite of the middle east region, seen from space: brown land, dark blue sea, highlights of snow, unusual for the region
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Creative Commons license 2.0 Image from a satellite showing a portion of the Middle East
Science and Technology Studies

Maps have political power, sociologist says

A&S Communications
Black and white historic image of Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900
Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections A Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900. Image adjusted into positive from Gerow Brill's glass plate negatives kept in Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Black and white historic image of Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900
Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections A Filipino family traveling on carabao from an American concentration camp, circa 1900. Image adjusted into positive from Gerow Brill's glass plate negatives kept in Cornell University Library's Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Cornell Library

Digitized images illuminate U.S. colonial period in the Philippines

Cornell Chronicle
person taking photo of people in graduation robes
Chris Kitchen Joy Davis '22 takes a photo of Amelia Tomson ’24 and her family during an A&S graduation reception Dec. 17.
people in grad robes with their family
Chris Kitchen Amelia Tomson ’24, right, and Joy Davis ’22, left seated, talk with their families during a graduation reception Dec. 17.
Celebrating our graduates

December A&S graduates share stories of growth

A&S Communications
A gold building foregrounded by rows of stalls and many parked motorcycles
Natasha Raheja/Provided In Jodhpur, India, computer typists offer services to migrants from stalls at the kutchery, an administrative maze housing hundreds of private vendors and dozens of government offices, pictured here in October 2019.
A gold building foregrounded by rows of stalls and many parked motorcycles
Natasha Raheja/Provided In Jodhpur, India, computer typists offer services to migrants from stalls at the kutchery, an administrative maze housing hundreds of private vendors and dozens of government offices, pictured here in October 2019.
Anthropology

In India, computer typists embody ‘fuzzy’ nature of state borders

Cornell Chronicle
Four people on a stage, with instruments
Ryan Young/Cornell University Xak Bjerken performs the keys on the Moog-Rothenberg Keyboard during a concert in Barnes Hall.
Four people on a stage, with instruments
Ryan Young/Cornell University Xak Bjerken performs the keys on the Moog-Rothenberg Keyboard during a concert in Barnes Hall.
Music

Long-lost Moog synthesizer finally makes it to the stage

Cornell Chronicle
A few musician rock out on a stage lit by yellow and purple spotlights
Provided This year’s most-read Chronicle story announced the return to Cornell of Dead & Company, which included members of the Grateful Dead, for a fundraising concert on May 8, benefiting Cornell’s 2030 Project and the nonprofit MusiCares.
A few musician rock out on a stage lit by yellow and purple spotlights
Provided This year’s most-read Chronicle story announced the return to Cornell of Dead & Company, which included members of the Grateful Dead, for a fundraising concert on May 8, benefiting Cornell’s 2030 Project and the nonprofit MusiCares.
In the news, 2023

The Dead rise: Cornell '77 tribute show among top stories of 2023

Cornell Chronicle
Seven people cluster around a table holding wooden boxes of butterfly specimens
Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Students spent hours researching Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection at the Cornell Insect Collection.
Seven people cluster around a table holding wooden boxes of butterfly specimens
Patrick Shanahan for Cornell University Students spent hours researching Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection at the Cornell Insect Collection.
Literature and science

Class explores Nabokov as writer and ‘butterfly man’

Cornell Chronicle
Steven Strogatz in front of a blackboard with "small world" and an illustration on it showing a circle and interconnected lines inside
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Steven Strogatz in front of a blackboard with "small world" and an illustration on it showing a circle and interconnected lines inside
Jason Koski/Cornell University
Mathematics

For the joy of x, y, and z

Alumni Affairs & Development
Five people sitting in a row in front of an audience
Provided Jessica Chen Weiss serves as a panelist at the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival.
Five people sitting in a row in front of an audience
Provided Jessica Chen Weiss serves as a panelist at the 2023 Aspen Ideas Festival.
International studies

Exploring the complexities of the US-China relationship

Alumni Affairs & Development
woman outside the capitol building
Provided Estefania Perez '21 was part of the Posse program and Pathways Internship Program while at Cornell.
woman outside the capitol building
Provided Estefania Perez '21 was part of the Posse program and Pathways Internship Program while at Cornell.
Alumni careers

Alumna encourages undergrads to ‘be bold’

A&S Communications
student with text from projector shining on his face
Chris Kitchen Franklin Zheng '25 experimented with AI in three of his classes this semester.
student with text from projector shining on his face
Chris Kitchen Franklin Zheng '25 experimented with AI in three of his classes this semester.
Classroom innovation

Welcoming AI into the classroom

A&S Communications