philosophy
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Domingo to Papua New Guinea on a Fulbright
Cornell College senior Chad Louise Garo Domingo has accepted a highly competitive Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to teach English in Papua New Guinea.
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My job gave me a community
Kachana Myrville ’24 writes about their job as career assistant student manager has given them skills and a community.
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Rob Poggenklass ’03: Empowering the oppressed
Rob Poggenklass ’03 has always had an ambition to serve others, and now the attorney turned from civil rights to advocacy.
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Last Word: Hope
Essay by Deborah Prespare ’98 on the treatment of women around the world and how hesitating to challenge our beliefs allows seeds of extremism take root.
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Students host refugee simulation for SYS
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Megan Altman’s Second Year Seminar (SYS) class was featured in a news article by The (Cedar Rapids) Gazette.
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All-American Sanjuanita “Sam” Martinez ’16
All-American Sanjuanita “Sam” Martinez ’16 is a defense attorney with the Public Defender’s Office and coaches cross country and track in Mason City, Iowa.
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Last Word: How should we evaluate our beliefs?
Cornell College Professor of Philosophy Jim White writes about how we should evaluate our beliefs.
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John Gilliland ’89, a problem-solver scoring big career wins
John Gilliland ’89 packed ambition and a detailed life plan in his suitcase when he arrived at Cornell College as a first-year student. It didn’t matter to him what major he graduated with, just that he prepared himself to be ready for law school. Little did he know what would come his way and how […]
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Alexander Nelson ’21 accomplishments stack up to KC library position
Hometown: Stillwater, Minnesota B.A. in philosophy and Spanish Questions and answers have been edited for clarity and length. What are your short and long-term plans after Cornell? I will be working at the Kansas City Public Library immediately after graduation, and in the long term, I plan to go to graduate school or law school. […]
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Michael Hofmann ’93: Learning, applying, moving on
Denver attorney Michael Hofmann ’93 gained an unusual skill studying One Course At A Time: The ability to move quickly from one challenge to the next.
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Parker offers advice for pursuing State Department careers
Christine Parker ՚96 found herself early in the first year of her career at the U.S. Department of State in Lima, Peru, being helicoptered to an airliner crash site in the Amazon to support American citizens who had been aboard. One of her colleagues was sent to the hospital to assist American survivors and another […]
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Schwiesow authors global warming research journal submission
Senior Mara Schwiesow tackles a challenge that no other student has tackled with a professor who has been researching global warming for 20 years.
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How Harper Reed ’01 applied tech to COVID-19
When the pandemic hit, software engineer Harper Reed ’01 had to abandon his plan of starting a company and spent the next eight months on COVID-19 response.
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A small college with big data
Behind the scenes, a student-faculty research team is sifting through extensive amounts of COVID-19 data to provide insight to campus leaders.
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Cornell’s own research informs COVID-19 testing, protocols
Faced with a pandemic, 10 Cornell College students and faculty are applying their research skills to keep the campus community as safe as possible.
Domingo to Papua New Guinea on a Fulbright 
My job gave me a community 
Rob Poggenklass ’03: Empowering the oppressed 
Last Word: Hope 
Students host refugee simulation for SYS 
All-American Sanjuanita “Sam” Martinez ’16 
Last Word: How should we evaluate our beliefs? 
John Gilliland ’89, a problem-solver scoring big career wins 
Alexander Nelson ’21 accomplishments stack up to KC library position 
Michael Hofmann ’93: Learning, applying, moving on 
Parker offers advice for pursuing State Department careers 
Schwiesow authors global warming research journal submission 
How Harper Reed ’01 applied tech to COVID-19 
A small college with big data 
Cornell’s own research informs COVID-19 testing, protocols