Figure 1: Pictured is the slide accompanying the award presentation.
Grants
Senior Lecturer Michelle LaVigne received a $2750 Central New York Humanities Corridor Grant for a CNY graduate student writing group. She will serve as Co-Principal Investigator with Alicia Hatcher (Assistant Professor of African American Rhetorics & Literacies, Syracuse University). Graduate students from Syracuse University and Cornell University will gather for a weekend writing retreat in fall 2023. Students will participate in goal setting, writing sessions, and share writing challenges and strategies.
Assistant Professor Andrea Stevenson Won is Principal Investigator, with co-PIs Shiri Azenkot (Cornell Tech) and Silvia Ferrari (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), on a second grant funded by the Office of Naval Research. The $1,340,213 grant, entitled “Close-Range Collaboration in Diver-Agent Teams Using Diver Nonverbal Behavior and Physiological Signals,” will fund the collaborators in identifying human divers in a variety of conditions and assessing their states of mind to identify deviations from their original behaviors in order to inform underwater autonomous vehicle behavior.
Invited Lectures
Associate Professor Brooke Duffy was the invited keynote speaker for the International Communication Associate’s Creators4Change pre-conference. Her talk, entitled “Creators, Platforms, and the New Politics for Visibility,” addressed her latest research on the fraught nature of visibility in the creator economy.
In the Media
Professor Katherine Sender was interviewed by Ayesha Rascoe of NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” The discussed the issue of companies pulling back from Pride campaigns due to backlash and threats to employees.
Publications
Senior Lecturer Lauren Chambliss, June 2023, “Pain,” The Sun Magazine. The article is a creative nonfiction exploration of pain for the “Reader’s Write” section.
Photos
Communication student Soojin Kim was honored as a Cornell Merrill Presidential Scholar. The program honors Cornell’s most outstanding graduating seniors; awardees are among the top 1% of their class. Merrill Scholars are asked to recognize a university and high school teacher as their most influential mentor. Soojin chose Senior Lecturer Lauren Chambliss and Ithaca High School teacher Joseph Exantus.
