Your July 2025 reads
This month’s featured titles include a look at the world’s first advice column, self-help for parents, and a scholarly book on Venezuela.
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A&S honors 13 faculty with endowed professorships
The professorships are made possible because of gifts from alumni, parents and friends.
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Colanzi wins Zinklar Award for short fiction
Liliana Colanzi’s award is the first Zinklar Prize to honor Spanish language fiction.
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Savely Senderovich, scholar of Russian literature, dies at 89
A mainstay of the Department of Russian Literature from 1977 until his retirement after the department closed in 2010, Senderovich oversaw the establishment of a comprehensive graduate program in Russian literature, expanding Cornell’s graduate offerings in the field.
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From posters to precedent, humanities scholars showcase their research
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
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'Professors encouraged me to explore new academic interests'
Kaila Hall is majoring in government & French.
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'I’ve realized that activism takes many forms'
Parker Piccolo Hill is majoring in English and Italian.
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