Cornell Farm Ops Sets Up NYS Veterans for Success Walter Palmer had been farming for nine months when he noticed his best lamb, a Cheviot-Dorset cross his wife named Italy, was acting strangely. Italy had developed a crooked neck and had begun falling. “Her back end would just give out, and I couldn’t figure out…

Cornell GPSA Hosts Ivy+ Summit Mutual respect in a trusting environment between student leaders and administrators was one of the themes at this year’s Ivy+ Graduate Student Leader’s Summit on Oct. 26-28.  The event, organized by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA), invited student leaders from 10 research institutions to Cornell for discussions about…

By Katya Hrichak Mutual respect in a trusting environment between student leaders and administrators was one of the themes at this year’s Ivy+ Graduate Student Leader’s Summit on Oct. 26-28. The event, organized by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA), invited student leaders from 10 research institutions to Cornell for discussions about improving the…

‘A Voice at the Table’: Graduate Students on Governance “Everyone had a voice at the table,” said Motasem Kalaji, a doctoral student in communications, about his first meeting as the newest representative on the General Committee. This committee, the governing and oversight body of the Graduate School, is composed of faculty, students, and deans. Although…

By Katya Hrichak “Everyone had a voice at the table,” said Motasem Kalaji, a doctoral student in communications, about his first meeting as the newest representative on the General Committee. This committee, the governing and oversight body of the Graduate School, is composed of faculty, students, and deans. Although listening to student input is not…

Graduate Students and Families Carving Pumpkins Graduate students, partners, and families gathered together to celebrate the season with pumpkin carving in the Big Red Barn Oct. 20. For more photos, please visit the Graduate School Flickr album.   ‘Be a Voice for Change,’ Sotomayor Tells Cornellians Success did not come easy to Sonia Sotomayor. She…

Six Grad Students Win Fulbright-Hays Fellowships It was late September when Cornell’s Fulbright adviser, David Holmberg, learned that six of his advisees had won Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowships from the U.S. Department of Education. This was out of just 100 fellowships awarded nationwide. Unfortunately, Holmberg also learned that the winners had three…

By Katya Hrichak New and current awardees of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) gathered at the Big Red Barn for a reception on Oct. 3. This year’s group of new NSF GRFP recipients consisted of 36 students, adding to the more than 200 NSF GRFP participants already on campus. Each year,…

Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, Shares Nobel Prize in Physics Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. ’52, whose invention of “optical tweezers” realized his own science fiction dream of being able to move objects with light, was among three physicists named by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. The announcement…

By Katya Hrichak Revised 10/10/18 Keivan Stassun, professor of physics and astronomy at Vanderbilt University, shared lessons learned from transforming admissions processes to overcome barriers to diversifying graduate fields in an Oct. 2 lecture, “Holistic Admissions: Achieving Diversity at the Ph.D. Level.” Stassun, founder of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program, cited a study from the…