Students on the Arts Quad in fall
Extraordinary Journeys: The Class of 2020

Preparation for a life well lived

Six people lined up, all wearing variations of red and black clothing
Rachel Philipson/Alumni Affairs and Development Top: Award winners (from left) Charles Stoppard ’82, BS ’83; Beth Anderson ’80; Nancy Sverdlik ’79; Terri Denison ’84; Ellen Perlmutter ’74; and Linda Jarschauer Johnson ’60, MS ’63.
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Alumni

Meet the 2026 Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award winners

Cornellians
A man in combat fatigues faces a semicircle of others dressed the same as he gives remarks.
Jason Koski/Cornell University Following the Cornell Veterans Celebration on Nov. 9 in Statler Hall, Air Force ROTC cadet Marco Martini ’27, far right, and fellow students thanked members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 377 for their service and donation of a bronze plaque expressing “deep appreciation” to Cornell ROTC’s Tri-Service Brigade. The plaque will be installed in Barton Hall.
An 'everlasting ROTC
History

An ‘everlasting bond’: Vietnam veterans thank Cornell’s future service members

Cornell Chronicle
Four people on a stage in arm chairs
Provided Graduate students Zander Lynch, Subash Bhandari, Joy Yuri Kim, and David Tompkins share the stage for a question-and-answer session after their individual presentations.
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Graduate student research

Graduate students demystify research

Cornell University Graduate School
Artist's illustration of the Pandora spacecraft with an exoplanet and two stars in the background
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab Artist’s concept of NASA’s Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from exoplanets’ atmospheres – worlds beyond our solar system – and their stars.
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Astronomy

Cornell astronomy researcher to head planetary science workforce survey

A&S Communications
Provost Kavita Bala, with shoulder-length gray hair and a striped shirt, talking with a woman while a man and a woman talk in the background, all dressed in business casual attire
Simon Wheeler, Cornell University Cornell Provost Kavita Bala speaking with Kalaniyot Sabbatical Scholar Naomi Havron at the Kalaniyot reception Oct. 19. In the background, Kalaniyot Fellow Eden Eran Nagar speaks with Fellow Shachar Yerushalmi.
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Global Collaboration

New program enhances Cornell-Israel academic collaboration

A&S Communications
Illustration of a planet with a haze of atmosphere around it, bulging on the left side
Engine House and Hannah Wakeford/Provided The shape of WASP-17b’s atmosphere mapped using transmission strings. The planet has a broad banded jet around the equator with vast wind speeds which transport material and heat from the permanently irradiated dayside to the permanently shadowed nightside.
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Astronomy

Pulling strings: New method maps exoplanet’s true shape

Cornell Chronicle
A squar chip held between blue-gloved fingers by researcher Zhiyuan Zhang
Xi Jin/Provided Cornell physics researcher Zhiyuan Zhang holds a chip containing an array of the devices he developed to create microscopic bubbles on demand, when and where they are needed.
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Physics

Tiny platform creates and directs microbubbles on demand

Cornell Chronicle