News

Two people wearing headphones and recording equipment under a neon sign: Pitch your podcast here — Provided Laura and Shelby Holland at an iHeartRadio pitch event

Alumni

Siblings turn their love for dishing on media into a podcast

9/17/2025 Cornellians

Tune in to the recent grads behind Sisters Who Watch—which covers everything from reality TV to the Super Bowl and beyond: A&S graduate Shelby Holland '18 and her sister Laura Holland ’22.

Molecular biology and genetics

Emr wins the World Laureate Association Prize

9/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Emr and collaborator Wesley Sundquist are recognized for their breakthrough discoveries in the cellular mechanisms of receptor membrane protein transport and degradation.

Book cover: Unfiltered Regard for China — Provided

History

Politics gets personal for China scholar

9/17/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Historian Peidong Sun began her new book “Unfiltered Regard for China: French Perspectives from Mao to Xi” amid profound personal upheaval: An exit ban from China and a move to France.

Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures

Inaugural “Freedom Party” in downtown Ithaca centers on community connection

9/16/2025 A&S Communications

A Sept. 27 event taking inspiration from the foundations of the Harlem Renaissance will highlight collaboration, resource sharing and storytelling.

Two people leading out of windows in a wooden building — Provided As part of her Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Phoebe Dailey Wagner, M.P.S. ’24, visited Niraj Bahugunaji, whose family has lived in their home near the temple grounds of Lakha Mandal in India for more than 300 years.

Research at Risk

Research at risk: Cultural fluency and critical language expertise

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The federal government ended a program that has funded Cornell's Southeast Asia Program and South Asia Program for decades.

Colored rugs make a collage under a blue sky — Provided

International studies

Einaudi welcomes SWANA Program

9/16/2025 Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

The Einaudi Center welcomes the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program and four new program directors this fall.

Person posing in a lab — Buzz Barstow Nozomi Ando

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Nozomi Ando named to Schmidt Polymaths cohort

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Nozomi Ando, professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Schmidt Polymath, part of a global cohort of eight scientists and engineers who will each receive up to $2.5 million over five years.

Molecular biology and genetics

Surprising find reveals asymmetry in identical-looking fruit fly organs

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A new study provides an example of asymmetry, a pattern found throughout biology where a pair of organs or appendages that mirror each other have different proportions and may have different functions.

Three people in farm work boots together under palm trees — Provided With support from Cornell Atkinson, students conducted fieldwork at an experimental cattle ranch in Florida, studying how plant structures influence methane transport and how deep soil layers affect methane production.

Biology

Student summer research lays path for future scientists

9/16/2025 Cornell Chronicle

With support from Cornell Atkinson, graduate students mentored undergraduates to conduct summer research on methane mitigation, food security and climate forecasting.

Person wearing a black vest and white shirt, speaking publically — Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Morse at a ribbon-cutting event for the publication’s new offices in downtown Atlanta.

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

'I love print, but I love journalism even more': Meet Andrew Morse '96

9/15/2025 Cornellians

A conversation with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution publisher, former Daily Sun editor, and past Distinguish Visiting Journalist in A&S, whose newspaper will soon be digital-only.

Two people laughing together — Lindsay France/Cornell University Dryden (right) and Bradley at their talk, “Lives on the Run: Sports, Service, and Leadership.”

Alumni

'Thoughtful, gracious and humble': Remembering Ken Dryden '69

9/15/2025 Cornellians

The co-author of Forever Faithful reminisces about the star goalie as a player, a writer, a sports-safety activist, and a man.

hundreds of black and white portrait photos on a wall leading up to a light grey dome — Eelco Böhtlingk/Unsplash Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Israel. December 2018

Jewish Studies Program

Holocaust testimony is AI litmus test, and it fails

9/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell historian argues in a new paper that human historians are vital to capture the emotional and moral complexity behind world events.

Houses in a neighborhood, seen from above — Clark Ma/Unsplash

Sociology

Sense of place trumps tax breaks in choosing where to live

9/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

There’s no place like home — and even when state-by-state income tax disparities make it profitable to move, high-wage earners seem to agree, according to new Cornell-led research.

Grassy hill with a road leading up it: Scene from Taiwan — Sam Chang/Unsplash A road in Taiwan

Alumni

18 Cornellians receive Fulbright awards

9/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell's 2025–26 Fulbrighters, including several A&S alumni and students, will conduct research, study and teach English in Canada, France, Honduras, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Norway and Taiwan. Most will be on site by October.

The Nobel Prize as a Gold medal on black background

Events

Three Nobel Laureates to speak on campus this semester

9/12/2025 A&S Communications

This fall, the Cornell community has the chance to hear from three Nobel Laureates in one semester, two of whom are alumni: Claudia Goldin ’67, Jack Szostak, Ph.D. ’77, and Richard Thaler.

Tall display case in a museum room that's full of light — Adam T. Smith/Provided Open through Dec. 31, 'Sacred Ground' highlights findings from a four-year archaeological excavation of Ithaca’s St. James A.M.E. Zion Church conducted by Cornell faculty, students and Ithaca school children from 2021–2024.

Ithaca community engagement

‘Sacred Ground’ exhibit receives Historic Ithaca preservation award

9/11/2025 A&S Communications

Open now through Dec. 31, the exhibit highlights findings from a four-year archaeological excavation of Ithaca’s St. James A.M.E. Zion Church conducted by Cornell faculty, students and Ithaca school children from 2021–2024.

People standing in front of a big brick building with three levels of pagoda-style roofs — binaya_photography on Unsplash Patan Durbar Square, Lalitpur, Nepal

Anthropology

Nepal expert comments on violent protests in Nepal

9/10/2025 A&S Communications

Kathryn March, professor emerita of anthropology, comments on the violent protests in Nepal.

Clément Morin/© Nobel Prize Outreach Claudia Goldin '67

Economics

Nobel-winning economist to speak on ‘why women won’

9/10/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Claudia Goldin ’67, winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics, will return to campus to give the 2025 Staller Lecture on Sept. 25.

Book cover: Rural Versus Urban — Provided

Government

How rural vs urban polarization can be repaired

9/10/2025 Cornell Chronicle

In “Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide that Threatens Democracy,” Cornell government scholars Suzanne Mettler and Trevor Brown share findings from their study of data spanning five decades and all 3,143 U.S. counties plus interviews with people in several states.

A field of stars surrounding one circular and one oblong area of extreme blackness surrounded by a halo of light — SXS Lensing/Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Collaboration. A visualization from a computer simulation of two black holes similar to those of GW250124.

Physics

On 10th anniversary, LIGO verifies Hawking’s theorem

9/10/2025 A&S Communications

The LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA team has announced a black hole merger similar to its first detection; a decade’s worth of technological advances allow unprecedented tests of General Relativity to be performed.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemist Song Lin named 2025 Blavatnik National Award finalist

9/9/2025 A&S Communications

Recognized for advancing electrochemical techniques that enable efficient, sustainable synthesis of complex organic molecules, accelerating drug development, and materials innovation, Lin is a finalist in Chemical Sciences.

Glass beakers on a table, one partially filled with liquid — Photo by Hans Reniers on Unsplash

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

‘Three-tailed’ lipid helps cells survive during heart attack, stroke

9/9/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have uncovered the "three-tailed" fat molecule's surprising role in cellular survival: protecting against damage when oxygen runs out.

Flag with broad red stripe on top and broad white tripe on bottom on flagpole against a blue sky. — Photo by Mufid Majnun on Unsplash Flag of Indonesia

Government

Cornell expert: Indonesia’s Prabowo ignoring ‘needs of the people’ in cabinet shake-up

9/9/2025 A&S Communications

Professor Tom Pepinsky comments on the news that Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto has reshuffled his cabinet, removing top economic and security officials.

Literatures in English

Animals are dashing, stampeding, gliding into contemporary fiction: Book explores how

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

Elisha Cohn's second book, “Milieu: A Creaturely Theory of the Contemporary Novel,” also explores the methods authors are using to give animals a voice.

Seen from the air: Pentagon-shaped building — Touch Of Light/CC BY-SA 4.0 The Pentagon, the Headquarters of the US Department of Defense

Government

DOD rebrand ‘risks being performative’ without subsequent structural changes

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

“The proposal to rename the Department of Defense back to the Department of War carries symbolic weight but raises questions about substance," says Sarah Kreps, government scholar and former active-duty officer in the U.S. Air Force.

Anthropology

Kidney disease and climate change in Nicaragua’s sugarcane zone

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

“What is happening to the kidneys of sugarcane workers is not a result of climate change. It is climate change": Anthropologist Alex Nading documents how environmental justice activists are addressing the epidemic.

Sociology

Macron to blame for instability in French government, says Cornell scholar

9/8/2025 A&S Communications

The writing was on the wall for the no confidence vote says international populism expert Mabel Berezin.

Person holding a piece of paper and speaking into a microphone — Robert Barker/Cornell University file photo Martin Hatch in 2015

Music

Ethnomusicologist Martin Hatch, professor of music emeritus, dies at 83

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Martin F. Hatch Jr., Ph.D. ’80, professor of music emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Aug. 23 in Ithaca, New York. He was 83.

An orange-yellow sun with spheres of exoplanets silhouetted against it. — NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI) Provided The Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, depicted at the lower right, is silhouetted as it passes in front of its flaring host star in this artist’s concept of the TRAPPIST-1 system.

Astronomy

Is there water on an Earth-sized exoplanet? Study offers clues

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

TRAPPIST-1 e may have an atmosphere that could support having liquid water on the planet’s surface in the form of a global ocean or icy surface, according to new research.

Ken Dryden, in hockey uniform. — Cornell Athletics Ken Dryden ’69 was one of the greatest goalies in NHL history.

Alumni News

Hockey legend Ken Dryden ’69 dies at 78

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Ken Dryden ’69, the legendary Cornell men’s hockey goaltender who still holds the program record for career wins (76) and backstopped the Big Red to its first national championship in 1967, died of cancer Sept. 5.

Lots of students standing in a big space with bright lights overhead facing someone with a microphone. — Amanda Hatcher A crowd of students listens to alum Dan Cane '98 talk about the companies he's founded during an entrepreneurship kickoff event Sept. 4.

Economics

Entrepreneurial students flock to kickoff event

9/8/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Niko Tsavekou ’27, an economics major in the College of Arts & Sciences, won the pitch contest for Katha, a creatine-enhanced coconut water recovery drink he created with two friends.

Person in a small boat on a river, turning around and smiling — Naia Andrade/Provided Ethan Duvall, an inaugural Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellow, co-founded a nonprofit in the Ecuadorian Amazon to strengthen green economic opportunities.

Ecology and evolutionary biology

Ph.D. student’s nonprofit seeks to protect Amazonian biodiversity and culture

9/5/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Ethan Duvall, an inaugural Semlitz Family Sustainability Fellow, has launched a nonprofit aimed at protecting biodiversity and culture in the Amazon Rainforest.

Five musicians hold folk instruments in a publicity portrait — Annie Diotte/Provided Le Vent du Nord

Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series

Le Vent du Nord plays Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series Sept. 20

9/5/2025 A&S Communications

A leading force in Quebec’s progressive francophone folk movement, Le Vent du Nord will perform in the first Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series (DMCCS) on Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.

Six people in suits walk abreast up a red carpet, conversing — President of Russia//Creative Commons license 4.0 General Secretary Xi Jinping of the Chinese Communist Party and world leaders attending the 2025 China Victory Day Parade in Beijing.

History

China’s parade signals power shift, cold war parallels, says Cornell expert

9/5/2025 A&S Communications

The massive display of new military power by the Chinese this week served several purposes, says military historian David Silbey.

2025 New Faculty

The College welcomes new faculty for 2025-26

9/4/2025 A&S Communications

This year, 27 new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences, enriching 17 departments and programs.

Literatures in English

Jean Blackall, first woman tenured in English at Cornell, dies at 97

9/4/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Jean Frantz Blackall, a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94 who in 1971 became the first woman to receive tenure in what was then the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97.

Person speaking and gesturing — Provided Toni Morrison M.A. '55

Legendary alumni

Four-day event celebrates 70 years of Toni Morrison’s Cornell legacy

9/4/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A four-day event featuring films, panels, workshops, the unveiling of a mural and other activities will celebrate the 70th anniversary of her degree, life and work. “Toni Morrison: Literature and Public Life” will take place Sept. 18-21.

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Alexei A. Aravin

9/3/2025 A&S Communications

Alexei A. Aravin, Molecular Biology and Genetics

Cornell's central campus with lake beyond

A. D. White Professors at Large

Dual-campus visit highlights A.D. White Professors-at-Large lineup

9/3/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Best-selling writer and technology blogger Cory Doctorow will make the A.D. White Professor-at-Large program’s second dual-campus visit, ending his week at Cornell Tech in New York City. Four other professors will visit Cornell this fall.

Humanities and technology

Doctorow to discuss the digital world as A.D. White professor-at-large

9/3/2025 A&S Communications

Science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow will visit Cornell Sept. 11-19 as an A.D. White Professor at Large, taking part in several events on campus and in the community..

American Studies Program

In Kops Lecture, law scholar will explore ‘the Constitution in crisis’

9/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Aziz Rana, a professor of law at Boston College, will discuss the relationship between the constitutional system and current democratic backsliding.

Hundreds of white corner-shaped particles on a black background

Physics

Self-assembling magnetic microparticles mimic biological error correction

9/2/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration developed microscale magnetic particles that can mimic the ability of biomolecules to self-assemble into complex structures, while also reducing the parasitic waste that would otherwise clog up production.

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: María Angélica Bravo Núñez

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

María Angélica Bravo Núñez, Molecular Biology and Genetics

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: James Byrne

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

James Byrne, Literatures in English

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Shami Chatterjee

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Shami Chatterjee, Astronomy

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Sulagna Dasgupta

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Sulagna Dasgupta, Economics

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Jacob Dorn

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Jacob Dorn, Economics

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Patricia Ekpo

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Patricia Ekpo, History of Art and Visual Studies

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Pavel Galashin

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Pavel Galashin, Mathematics

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Manuel Olmedo Gobante

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Manuel Olmedo Gobante, Romance Studies

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Laura Tain Gutierrez

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Laura Tain Gutierrez, Romance Studies

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Jonathan “Jon" Kephart

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Jonathan “Jon" Kephart, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Marissa Lavagnino

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Marissa Lavagnino, Chemistry and Chemical Biology

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Fangfang Li

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Fangfang Li, Asian Studies

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Jordan Miller

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Jordan Miller, Near Eastern Studies

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Annie Ornelles

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Annie Ornelles, Romance Studies

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Sandeep Parmar

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Sandeep Parmar, Literatures in English

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Matt Pennell

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Matt Pennell, Computational Biology

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Talia Prussin

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Talia Prussin, History

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Igor Santos

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Igor Santos, Music

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Jeremy Schneider

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Jeremy Schneider, History

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Milena Šereikaitė

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Milena Šereikaitė, Linguistics

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Nicholas Swanson

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Nicholas Swanson, Economics

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Sarah Thompson

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Sarah Thompson, Government

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Parkorn Wangpaiboonkit, Music

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Amanda Weiss

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Amanda Weiss, Government

2025 New Faculty

New Faculty: Jordan Wylie

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Jordan Wylie, Psychology

2025: New Faculty

New Faculty: Thomas "Tal" A. Lewis

9/1/2025 A&S Communications

Thomas (Tal) A. Lewis, Religious Studies and German Studies.

Summer Experience Grants

Summer Experience Grants help students explore their futures

8/29/2025 A&S Communications

SEG funding supports students with funding for living expenses, transportation and travel.

Close up of a paving stone carved with an octopus, next to grass — Laurent Dubreuil/Provided From the Sea, digital photograph, shot in Rochester, NY

Humanities

‘Odyssea Americana’ art exhibit opens at The Soil Factory Sept. 4

8/28/2025 A&S Communications

Photography, drawing, maps, calligraphy, installations and audio recordings depict a trip by three scholar-artists in honor of Odysseus’ epic voyage, but in North America.

Near Eastern studies

New book introduces Maimonides, ‘one of civilization’s greatest minds’

8/28/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Maimonides, one of the most significant intellectual figures of the medieval period,worked as a physician, thought like a scientist, and served as a leader of the Jewish community in Cairo.

shells with a yellowed, aged museum card covered with script writing — Jason Koski/Cornell University The University acquired a collection of mollusk fossils in the 1800s.

Alumni lore

Why the Hill is home to amazing 'collections of collections'

8/27/2025 Cornellians

Our Big Red history expert recalls the McGraw Hall museum, which once housed an astounding array of objects.

Two people looking over a text on a computer

Career resources

Special career workshop focuses on outlook for 2026

8/26/2025 A&S Communications

“This year, we highly recommend that students employ a well-defined strategy of targeting companies and tailoring their resume to applications."

Cartoon illustraiton of four little white robots looking at little blue laptop computers — Mohamed Nohassi/Unsplash

Government and technology

xAI lawsuit: Popularity alone doesn't constitute illegal exclusion

8/26/2025 A&S Communications

Government scholar Sarah Kreps comments on xAI's suit of Apple and OpenAI in U.S. federal court.

purple spheres representing bacteria — CDC/Unsplash

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Bioengineered bacteria could lead to therapeutic antibody drugs

8/26/2025 Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell-led collaboration devised a potentially low-cost method for producing antibodies for therapeutic treatments: bioengineered bacteria with an overlooked enzyme that can help monoclonal antibodies boost their immune defenses.

Yellow probiscus descends into a clear dish to deposit during the 3D printing process, where it self-assembles before being heat-treated into a crystalline superconductor. — Wiesner Group/Provided A copolymer-inorganic nanoparticle ink is deposited during the 3D printing process, where it self-assembles before being heat-treated into a crystalline superconductor.

Physics

3D-printed superconductor achieves record performance

8/26/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Nearly a decade after they first demonstrated that soft materials could guide the formation of superconductors, Cornell researchers have achieved a one-step, 3D printing method that produces superconductors with record properties.

Distinguished Visiting Journalist

Former NYT editor named Distinguished Visiting Journalist

8/25/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Sam Tanenhaus is the former editor-in-chief of both the New York Times’ Book Review and the Week in Review and was a Times writer at large.

two women dancing — Courtesy of Sony Picture Classics. Still from Saving Face (2004, dir. Alice Wu).

Cornell Cinema

Horror, comedy, musicals and Jane Austen: Cornell Cinema’s fall 2025 season

8/22/2025 A&S Communications

This fall’s slate of films at Cornell Cinema offers many options for connection and inspiration.

Person standing with a dog on the bank of a river — Provided Hosted by Mat Zucker ’92, The Cidiot chronicles the joys of country living—and helps other city folk make the leap

Alumni

Podcast embraces an urban-rural archetype: The 'Cidiot'

8/22/2025 Cornellians

Hosted by Mat Zucker ’92, the show chronicles the joys of country living—and helps other city folk make the leap

Family of five on and in front of a couch — Provided With husband Decker and their three children.

Alumni

Alum’s company nourishes babies’ brains through science-backed play

8/22/2025 Cornellians

With Lovevery, Jessica Crolick Rolph ’97, MBA ’04, has tapped a global market for early childhood learning and enrichment

Several people in Army fatigues and red helmets run, strapped together — Jason Koski/Cornell University Cornell’s Tri-Service Brigade has 33 new Army cadets – the most since 1992.

Student life

Strength in numbers: ROTC welcomes largest class in decades

8/21/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Proactive outreach and Cornell’s tradition of supporting military service have helped grow the number of cadets and midshipmen joining the Tri-Service Brigade this year.

Undergraduate Research

2025 Nexus Scholars talk about academic growth, transformation

8/21/2025 A&S Communications

Ten students who participated in this summer's Nexus Scholars Program share their stories..

Person standing behind a table covered with artifacts — Rachel Foster/Provided Allison Rittershaus at the Anthropology Collaboratory in the basement of Olin Library

Cornell University Library

Olin Library to hold reopening celebration Aug. 27

8/20/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The celebration also features a welcome speech at 12:15 p.m. by Elaine L. Westbrooks, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, and open houses for the new Anthropology Collaboratory and Library Map Collection.

Classics

Book details Jews’ two-century fight against Roman Empire

8/19/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Barry Strauss ’74 shines a light on the resilience the Jews of Judea showed in their rebellion against the Romans.

Africana Studies & Literatures in English

In new book, Farred breaks down his long-time sports fandoms

8/18/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Grant Farred, a professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, chronicles his love for both a distant and a local sports team in “A Sports Odyssey: My Ithaca Journal,” published July 25 by Temple University Press.

Astronomy

Carl Sagan Medal awarded to astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger

8/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

The award recognizes and honors outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the public.

Anthropology

Mountains embodied: understanding head shaping in ancient Andes

8/15/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Matthew Velasco argues that the reduction of head shape to a marker of ethnic identity has been a colonial invention.

A crowd raises their hands with excitement as a band plays on a stage (barely in the image) and confetti rains down from above — Lindsay France/Cornell University The Flaming Lips play Barton in 2010

Alumni

From Springsteen to the Stones: Your Big Red concert memories

8/15/2025 Cornellians

We asked you to recall the musicians you saw on the Hill—and like a great rock show, your responses blew our minds

Person sitting in tall grass on a hilside, reading a book — Jason Koski/Cornell University Reading on Libe Slope

Alumni

Your August 2025 Reads

8/15/2025 Cornellians

This month’s featured titles include the latest from a top mystery writer, a Marvel omnibus, and a look at challenges to democracy – many by A&S faculty and alumni.

close-up of pillls of sevreal sizes and colors, spilling out of a bottle — pina messina/Unsplash

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Creating safe medicinal molecules with sustainable electrochemistry

8/14/2025 A&S Communications

Song Lin and collaborators use electrochemistry to selectively synthesize chiral compounds – important in pharmaceuticals.

Science and Technology Studies

Margaret Rossiter, historian of women in science, dies at 81

8/14/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Margaret Rossiter, the Marie Underhill Noll Emerita Professor of the History of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and known worldwide for her studies of the history of women in science, died Aug. 3. She was 81.

White spark of light against a blue-black background — Casey Horner/Unsplash

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Light-powered, reusable: Sustainable catalyst drives challenging reactions

8/13/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemistry researchers have designed a light-powered, reusable catalyst that’s pre-charged by electricity and capable of driving challenging reactions, with applications including drug development and environmental clean-up.

Historic black and white photo of three people in evening coats standing around a machine — Rare and Manuscript Collections George Moler 1875 (at far right) and other faculty with the dynamo during Sibley College’s 60th anniversary in 1931.

Alumni

How Cornell became home to the world’s first outdoor electric lights

8/13/2025 Cornellians

In the 19th century, a pioneering ‘dynamo’ not only lit up the campus—it sparked advances in engineering research on the Hill

Graduate student works

Censorship from the other side of the aisle: New book considers publishing trends

8/12/2025 A&S Communications

A book from Adam Szetela Ph.D. ’25 explores a new version of self-censorship in the publishing world.

Several people standing in rows between two red columns in front of a building — Provided Members of the project team that gathered at Astera Institute on June 24, 2025. Nozomi Ando is front row, second from the right; Stephen Meisburger is back row, third from the left.

Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Philanthropic support accelerates infrastructure for the future of structural biology

8/12/2025 A&S Communications

A new $5 million initiative, funded by the Astera Institute with experimental work conducted at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, aims to make diffuse scattering accessible to the public and the broader scientific community.

Person sitting casually back to back with a statue of a seated human figure carved from black stone — Jason Koski/Cornell University Michael Fontaine, professor of classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, edited and translated “How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In.”

Classics

Listen to the ancients: Don’t cave to peer pressure, improper requests

8/12/2025 Cornell Chronicle

“How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In,” edited and translated by professor Michael Fontaine, brings together a pair of works by Plutarch and Prudentius that show how people can overcome pressures that encourage them to act against their own best interests.

Neurobiology and Behavior

Neurobiology professor named Pew Scholar

8/12/2025 Cornell Chronicle

Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz, assistant professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a biomedical sciences grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts.

Illustration of a free-standing microphone surrounded by yellow lines and a red circle — Ashley Osburn/Cornell University

Alumni

Tune in: Alumni-hosted podcasts offer something for everyone

8/8/2025 Cornellians

Your fellow Cornellians can keep you entertained and informed—with shows on topics from science to sports and beyond.

Person wearing black-rimmed eyeglasses — Ashley Osburn/Cornell University Nirbhay Narang ’25

Alumni

Undergrad's startup lets you 'hear' through its eyeglasses

8/8/2025 Cornellians

The company makes a smart accessory that uses AI speech-to-text technology to project subtitles viewable only to the wearer.

Abstract illustration featuring solar panels, smoke, water, and chart flows, primarily monochrome with yellow, blue, and red accents — Laura Chichisan

Broad Impact Feature

Cornell chemists tackle climate change

8/7/2025 A&S Communications

Innovative and far-reaching discoveries such as better electric batteries, carbon capture technologies, renewable plastics and improvements in solar cells are just a few of their research areas.